Jimmie Wedell's funeral procession
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Mourners escorted Wedell's body to the airport, from where it would be flown to New Orleans and eventually to West Columbia, Texas, to be laid to rest.
Image Courtesy of the Wedell-Williams Memorial Foundation and the Louisiana State Museum
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End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
Jimmie Wedell would never enter the MacRobertson Race from England to Australia. The Gypsy Moth in which he was giving a lesson crashed just outside of Patterson on June 24, 1934. Wedell died…