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Lynn Rippelmeyer started out as a flight attendant in 1972. A few years later, she was part of a record-breaking all-female crew and became the first woman to pilot a 747.
On April 5th, Walter Raymond Smusz, beloved husband, father, papa, and friend, died at the age of 71. Born in Steubenville, Ohio on August 14, 1951, to Stanley and Alice