January 12, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
A family of three killed after hitting a tree and crashing into a Lyon Township home will be laid to rest this week.
60-year-old pilot David S. Compo, his 55-year-old wife Michele and their 18-year-old son Dawson were killed January 2nd when the single-engine Piper PA-24 crashed into a home on Dakota Drive in the Orchards of Lyon subdivision â about a half mile from their final destination. The five occupants of the home were able to safely escape. The Compo family had been returning from a short holiday trip to Canton, Georgia. David Compo, the former president of the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan, was reported to be an experienced, licensed pilot.
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They also said a scholarship fund has been created in his name.
The funeral for David S. Compo; his wife, Michele, 55, and their son, Dawson, 18, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Northville, according to the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan. The church is at 133 Orchard Drive off West Main between Beck and Sheldon.
Compo, 60, a past president of the association, was piloting the private plane that appeared to clip a tree and crashed into a home in the 57000 block of Dakota Drive near Pontiac Trail and Grand River in Lyon Township.