HAL S. DARR OBITUARIES HAL S. DARR, PIONEER IN AVIATION, DIES Hal S. Darr, who died Tuesday, was an aviation industry pioneer and Executive Committee Chairman for Frontier Airlines Inc., Denver, Colo. Mr. Darr, 61, of 3001 Normandy, Evanston, died of a heart attack in the Lake Shore Club. He was President of Darr Aero Tech Inc., a Tucson (Ariz.) aviation school, and the Darr Equipment Co. of Dallas, Tex. He was also a founder of the Forest Park (Ill.) National Bank. Services will be held Saturday in Storm Lake, Iowa where his mother, Mrs. Margaret P. Darr, resides. Surviving, besides his mother, are his widow, Louise; two daughters, Mrs. Janet Engstrom and Mrs. Mary Wagner, both of Dallas, and six grandchildren. -Chicago Daily News June 23, 1955 Sent by Ken Schultz (3/30/00) Hal S. Darr, 61 Tucson businessman and president of Darr Aero Tech, Inc.. died of a heart attack Tuesday while attending a business meeting in Chicago. Mr. Darr's interests were wide and varied. In addition to his duties as civilian head of Darr Aero Tech, Inc., he was also board chairman of Frontier airline with headquarters in Denver, and, president of the Darr Equipment company in Dallas. Born in Algona, Iowa, he Joined the U. S. Air Force in World War I and after receiving flight training at Kelly field, taught aerial gunnery and pursuit on Florida fields until his discharge in 1919. He then entered business, forming a company to distribute airplane parts. In 1929 he "took an airport job at Glenville, Ill. In. 1935 he organized the Curtis Aviation company. During World War II, Mr. Darr built several flying schools for the government in Georgia and Florida and in 1951 constructed a school for England's Royal Air Force flyers in Oklahoma. Mr. Darr will be buried at Storm Lake, Iowa, where he was reared and educated. Mrs. Louise Darr left Tucson yesterday to attend the funeral. Besides his widow, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Robert H. Engstrom and Mrs. Joseph E. Wagner, both of Dallas; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Darr, of Storm Lake; three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Varner and Mrs. Ralph Whelan, both of Storm Lake, and Mrs. Charles Strohmeir, Los Angeles, and six grandchildren. -Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona 23 Jun 1955, Thu • Page 11