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Delbert was a worker in a sawmill in Johnson, Vermont.
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In Minneapolis, David was a salesclerk for various retail stores, as well as working in sales for area manufacturing companies.
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David was a bank clerk in Minneapolis.
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Edwin was a dairy farmer in Johnson, Vermont. He and Caroline had no children.
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A lengthy Obituary appeared in the 18 December 1999 edition of the "Daytona Beach News-Journal."
We reproduce it here (with thanks to Charles Riend, who has included a considerable amount of information about Kimball in his database, "Mansfields of Allegany Maryland," online at www.rootsweb.com):
MASTER PILOT AND INVENTOR KIMBALL SCRIBNER, 82
Retired Capt. Kimball J. Scribner, a master and chief pilot for Pan Amerocan World Airways before his retirement in 1977, died Thursday at his North Atlantic Avenue home. He was 82. Scribner, a native of Piedmont, W. Va., grew up in Washington, D.C., as the son of Bourdon Scribner, a government chemist and inventor who developed the paper stock used to print currency. His passion for aviation develooped at an early age; at age 16, he completed both his first solo flight and parachute jump, a skill he used to finance his college education. An accident at the 1938 Cleveland Air Races, in which he parachuted onto a parked car breaking both the windshield and his ribs, resulted in his development of the first parachute model that could be steered, dubbed the "Eagle Parachute."
A 1939 graduate of the University of Maryland, he earned his certification as a nuclear radiation safety officer at the University of Virginia and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University [ERAU].
A skilled acrobatic pilot who was trained to fly by celestial navigation, he was a veteran of both the Navy and Air Force. He qualified to fly gliders, jets, boat planes and other aircraft, including the PB2Y3-R Coronado, the largest four-engine flying boat the Navy permitted civilain Pan Am pilots to fly during World War II.
Continuing the family tradition of invention and exploration, Scribner was active in the research and development of such aviation-related sciences as navigational systems and air tubulence research. A significant achievement was the invention of a technique that allowed a parachute to be cloed during a high-altitude drop and reopened before landfall, which facilitated the deployment of military troops behind enemy lines with little or no detection.
In 1982, he was awarded Medaille en Vermial by the French government for his contributions to the field.
Having set numerous flight and parachute records, including the title of World Acrobatic Champion in 1947, his career with Pan Am led to further precedents. He was the first pilot to fly a Boeing Stratocaster to South America; the first American pilot to fly 707 transport planes into Moscow and Johnanesburg, South Africa; and the first to land international 747 commercial flights into Orlando and Daytona Beach airports.
His career encompassed teaching positions at the Congressional School of Aeronautics, National and George Washington universities in addition to ERAU campuses in Miami and Daytona Beach. The trustee of several institutions including ERAU, where he was awarded the title Trustee Emeritus, he also served as a special adviser to the Commmunity Commonwealth and Speakers Bureau at Daytona Beach Community College in the 1980s under former school president Dr. Charles Polk.
His memberships included the Explorers Club; National Soaring Society; Aviation Space Writers Association; Wings Club; Sigma Chi Fraternity, and the Floroda Aviation Advisory Council. A prolific writer and publisher, he produced numerous papers, movies and books, including "The Golden Age of Aviation" and "Adventures in Aviation," which contained a foreword written by Barry Goldwater.
A popular lecturer and public speaker, he was well known for his colorful and entertaining slide presentations that detailed his many adventures and misadventures in the field of flight.
His contributions to ERAU were summed up by Jeffrey Ledewitz, vice president of Student Life: "I was deeply saddened to learn of Capt. Kim Scribner's death. Kim was a role model and inspiration to thousands of Embry-Riddle students who shared his passion for aviation. For years he would pack the Student Center as he shared his experiences as a professional pilot at Pan Am through a slide presentation of his aviation exploits. Students were in awe of Kim and looked forward to following in his footsteps. He will be missed by all of us. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends."
Survivors include two daughters, Colleen Balestrieri, Ocala, and Susan Scribner, Long Beach, Calif.; a brother, Bourdon, Annapolis, Md.; his longtime companion, Vera Aylesworth, Daytona Beach; and two grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to the Capt. Kimball J. Scribner Scholarship Fund in care of Robert Rockett, Department of Development, ERAU, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach 32114. A memorial service is planned for 3 p.m. Sunday at the school's University Chapel, with a reception to follow in the Student Center. Haigh-Black, Ormaond Beach, is in charge.