Wilson F. Hoyt

Returning to his base after a 48-hour leave at his home, Seaman Wilson F. Hoyt, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Hoyt of Meadville, was killed Sunday when a navy torpedo bomber plunged in to a stone wall near Honesdale, in northwestern PA.

The former Meadville High School track star and two other naval air servicemen were killed, while the plane's pilot escaped with a fractured ankle.

Hoyt was a polevaulter on the Meadville High School track team before his graduation in 1948, worked in a carpentry shop at the Quonset Point Naval Air Base.

Enlisting for one year's service last February, Hoyt took his boot training at Great Lakes, IL, and had been stationed at Quonset Point since he completed that.

A member of Stone Methodist Church, he is survived by his parents, his sister, Mrs. Emerick; a brother, Eugene of Pittsburgh and a step-grandmother, Mrs. Della McBride.

Services were held at Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Cochranton Cemetery.