Kessler, Dorothy Matilda (Dot)

1924 - 1991  (66 years)

• Name	Kessler, Dorothy Matilda (Dot)
  Born	7 Sep 1924	Effingham County, Georgia, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	20 Feb 1991	Magallanes y de la Antarctica Chilena, Chile
  Buried	Arlington Memorial Park - Sandy Springs, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
  	Findagrave.com Memorial #68266696
  Person ID	I6984	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Kessler, Andrew Whitfield,   b. 23 Nov 1879, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 4 Jul 1941, Effingham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Helmly, Annie Matilda,   b. 26 Sep 1885, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 27 Dec 1968, Effingham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Family ID	F2901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Day, Lon Lee Jr.,   b. 18 Feb 1929, Springfield, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 25 Nov 2008, Duluth, Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Married	3 Sep 1949	St. Paul's Lutheran Church - Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
  Children	1. Day, Lon Lee III   2. Day, Don A   3. Day, Nancy G
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F2912	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Obituary   Mrs. Annie M. Kessler announces the engagement of her daughter, Dorothy, to Lon L. Day, Jr. , son of Rev. and Mrs. Lon L. Day of Macon, formerly of Savannah. The bride-elect is a graduate of Rincon High School and Ryons Business College and is the daughter of Mrs. Kessler and the late Andrew W. Kessler of Rincon. Mr. Day is a graduate of Lanier High School for Boys in Macon and attended Georgia Military College and Augusta Junior College. He is at present assistant manager of F. W. Woolworth Company in Savannah. The wedding will take place September 3, 1949 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Savannah News, Aug 7, 1949 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day, Dorothy Matilda "Dot" Kessler [Mrs Lon L]:Atlanta, GA; 02/24/1991, Section C, Page 8, Column 1. ------------------------- SANTIAGO, Chile — Passengers clung to the wings and tail of a chartered jetliner in icy waters after it skidded off the runway of a remote Chilean island, killing 20 people, authorities and witnesses said Thursday. The small four-engine jetliner of the Chilean airline LAN was trying to land Wednesday at Puerto Williams on Navarino island when it overshot the runway and crashed into the Beagle Channel, 1,500 miles south of Santiago, airline officials said.   The plane sank within minutes, witnesses said, and some passengers froze to death after they jumped into the icy waters of the channel, which separates Chile from Argentina near Cape Horn. The 65 passengers, mostly Americans, were on their way to an Antarctic cruise organized by a Seattle-based tour company. Seven crew members also were on the plane, and all survived. LAN issued a list Thursday of those who died, and it included 17 Americans, a Canadian, an Italian and an Israeli. The U.S. victims were listed as Hudegared Auguston, 56, and Elaine Ash, 74, of Los Angeles; William Bennett, 71, of Ventura, Calif.; Ann Crammond, 65, and Dorothy Day, 65, of Atlanta; Thomas Fath, 51, of Cincinnati, and Raymond Johnson, 72, and May Johnson, 71, of Chicago. Also, Pearl Kamber, 73, of Silver Springs, Md.; Gavin Lally, 78, of Dallas; Carol Sargent, 63, and Robert Sargent, 63, of Connecticut; John Smith, 77, of Birmingham, Ala.; Elizabeth Stone, 48, of Georgia; Lynn Vanaken, 58, of Miami, and John Wilson, 76, and Kathleen Wilson, 69, of New Orleans. An initial inquiry provided no clues to the cause of the crash of the plane, a British Aerospace 146, said Chilean air force Cmdr. Hernan Baharhona, who is heading the investigation. "After 10 minutes, all you could see was the tail," wrote Maria Cristina del Pino, a correspondent for the Santiago daily El Mercurio. "The aircraft started to sink while the passengers emerged, many of them clinging to the wings, awaiting to be rescued." Another reporter said passengers froze to death when they tried to swim 150 yards to a beach. Wife of Lon Lee Day, Jr. -----------------   Dorothy Day died in Puerto Williams, Chile when the jet she was in skidded off the runway into icy waters near Cape Horn.