DEAN HEAD 1956 - 1984 STATION AGENT RIW GRI I was scanning thru the obituaries and see that you need more info on Ron Eckles He died  Sept 6 th 1993. he had throat cancer. He worked in GRI  with me until it closed. Also another one of our agents died that worked in GRI, his name was Dean Head. Dean died March 23 1998.  He started out in RIW and then moved to Grand Island in 1959. He retired in Oct of 1984 when Frontier left Grand Island. -Tom Blanchard (8/31/99) In all the years of the Frontier News I don't believe anyone has ever written anything on The Air Fairs that were held at cites to show appreciation. We held such a Fair at Grand Island, NE just prior to our starting regular flights. We would give free rides over the city for 15-20 minutes then back for another load. This was held in June or July 1959. (GRI service started 7/1/59) It was our first chance to work a actual flight and brush up on the new weight and balance , this was a CV-340 no less. Capt. Ed O'Neal and Capt. "Ev" Aden were the pilots for all the flights. Frontier Officials were in town for the day to meet the City fathers. Elton Snoke the Supt, of stations was there, the one I can remember. After all the flights we were invited down to the Yancey Hotel for a meal and a welcome to the City. We were just finishing up when an announcement came over the speaker that a hailstorm had went thru the airport, with lots of damage. So out to the airport we went. Our new CV-340 was pretty well beat up, Most of the windows on the terminal side were all broken, plus all the inspections ports on the tail were beat in, plus a lot of other damage, Aircraft was out of service for some time. The windows on the west side of the terminal were all broke - the glass and hailstones were almost a foot deep in front of the ticket counter, water 2-3 inches deep in all our offices. Every phone had someone on it calling Denver to advise of the storm. One of them had Mr. Snoke on it setting on a stool barefoot with blood dripping off his toe as he had taken his shoes off and had waded into the glass and hailstones. A couple of band aids fixed him up ok. Later that evening the aircraft was put in a hanger as another storm had been in the forecast. GRI manager was Menth Dexter along with agents Dean Head, Paul Kreitmann, Tom Blanchard and myself. That was our welcome to Grand Island, NE I believe that same aircraft was also in the accident at Grand Island (SN73130 on 12/21/62). -Arnie Hadler (7/24/04) D. F. HEAD GRI station agent DOB 5/15/21 DOH 8/18/56 per the Feb 1960 FL Roster. -Jake Lamkins (9/28/14) FLacebook - FL Club GRI station agent Dean Head's memorial webpage has been upgraded. http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Dean_Head.html Several items added but still need a photo and obituary for Dean. -Jake Lamkins (9/29/14)