WAYNE JOHNSTON 1963 - 1964 ACCOUNTANT, PAYROLL MANAGER DEN I am the now grown up son of Wayne Johnston. He was head of the Payroll department when he died in December 1964. I understand everyone got paid late that week. Mr. Dymond actually attended his funeral according to the guest book along with many other executives. I'm currently in Longmont, CO and cleaning out Grandma's house. My father was living with his parents when he died - he'd recently divorced my Mom. My Grandmother never tossed anything. -Larry Johnston (3/30/09) This whole thing set me in motion and I've been digging around again all night, against my better judgement. This house is like a Time Machine, albeit a bit (OK a LOT disorganized). A few odds and ends I have just rediscovered tonight: •A discount card (unused) from Aurora Auto Electric identifying my Father as an employee and entitled to benefits offered by the Sunliner Club •A discount card from the Embers Supper Club (6000 E. Colfax) identifying my Father as an employee of FAL and automatically making him a member of the Embers Supper Club •My Father's League Membership Club from the AAA Bowling Center as a member of the FAL Flyers League •My Father's Employee ID Card (#1060) and signed by Shaffer (?) and his Employee Number (#4702). It says it must be surrendered immediately upon termination of employment. •A 1964-1965 membership card from the American Bowling Congress with the Frontier Flyers league of Denver listed on it. •A Sunliner Club membership card #282 signed by Al Olinger. •A FAL wallet calendar from 1964 'Serving 61 Cities in 11 States' and on the reverse 'Serving 8 National Parks and 40 National Monuments' -Larry Johnston (3/30/09) My Father's career, like his life, was pretty short. He started in January, 1963 and died in December, 1964. He was just 26 when he died. Evidently he started as just an accountant but moved up pretty quickly. I spent the afternoon getting a few things together and mailing them off to you. •A copy of the Newspaper article/obit, I think it was from the Denver Post. •A photocopy of his employee ID. •A portrait style photograph of him. I think it was the last formal photo of him as it is the only one I've got in color. •A sympathy card signed by his co-workers. Many of the names match up with the names you sent me that go along with that 1963 photo. •A couple of other odds and ends you might like to see. One of the most interesting is a Bowling League Scorecard from early December, 1964 that must not have gotten turned in at the office. All the bowlers listed were Frontier employees (my father's team lost that night, which must be why the slip never got turned in). The car wreck happened on a Saturday night. The story is he wanted to spend the night at a friend's in Denver instead of at his parents (where he was living) because he wanted to get into the office on Sunday Morning to get payroll started. At least that's what I've been told (I was only 18 months old at the time, not 19 months as the obit states). Has anyone ever seen that ashtray/lighter combo? The ashtray is personalized with his name, it reads 'The Wayne L. Johnstons'. My father never did smoke, so I'm guessing it was a Christmas thing from 1963? -Larry Johnston (4/1/09) Some memorabilia I just located...like I said, I'm still digging... I found a ticket folder from 1963 with a NR tag attached to it. With Trip Pass 994 coupon stubs! I've heard about this trip...it happened before me. Evidently in January 1963...my Mom was 5 months pregnant...the crazy idea was to take a non-rev trip from Denver to Phoenix. Both my Grandparents and my Parents evidently took this trip (I've only got the stubs from my Grandparents). A long weekend free trip. They left on Friday, Jan. 18 and returned on Sunday Jan. 20. My Mom STILL remembers the trip...she said it was the Ultimate in the Milk Can Limited... the plane stopped EVERYWHERE. Denver to Pueblo to Alamosa to Durango to Farmington to Winslow to Flagstaff to Prescott and finally to Phoenix. Those were the days! How things have changed! The copy inside the ticket folder reads: 'ON-TIME SERVICE...Passengers are requested to check in at the ticket office 20 minutes before flight departure time. Your cooperation will help Frontier Airlines maintain on-time service for all passengers throughout its entire system.' -Larry Johnston (4/1/09) I have never seen an ashtray like the one in the photo you sent. That should be a prized possession and memento since it has your dad's name on it. I have seen the cocktail glasses on ebay but never in person. They had to come from the Frontier employee club because our inflight service then used plastic/paper cups. That turquoise crescent in the logo only lasted 1960-64 then it was changed to a tan color like on the flight bags. The change was in conjunction with Frontier converting their Convair 340s (like in your photo) to turbo-prop CV580s beginning in 1964. For sure some of our flights made a lot of stops. That's why we were called a local service airline. We once had a flight from Billings to El Paso that made 18 stops! -Jake Lamkins (4/1/09) December 1964 S M Tu W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?1964 Wayne's sympathy card was mailed Dec 8, 1964 so the accident happened Fri, Dec 4 and he died Sun Dec 6. -Jake Lamkins (4/5/09) I hope some of the folks on the Bowling Scorecard are still around, somewhere. I am going to try and attend the FAL picnic on June 20 of this year in Aurora and would like to take my boxes of stuff). -Larry Johnston (4/5/09) Posted at the FL Club: New memorial webpage WAYNE JOHNSTON 1963 - 1964 ACCOUNTANT, PAYROLL MANAGER DEN http://FAL-1. tripod.com/ Wayne_Johnston. html Wayne died in an auto accident on 12/6/64, age 26 years, 3 months - the 6th youngest on the FL deceased list. Wayne's son Larry who was 18 months old when Wayne died has found a treasure trove of FL memorabilia in his grandmother' s house. -Jake Lamkins (4/6/09)