| Since the exact death date was not given, the date of the newspaper article was used. Published in Pilot-Tribune, May 25, 1981
This article was published in both the Pilot-Tribune and the Ft. Calhoun Chronicle.
STANLEY MENZE KILLED AT FORT RUCKER
Funeral services were scheduled for Saturday in Omaha, for Chief Warrant Officer Stanley R. Menze, who was killed Monday when the helicopter he and three students were in, hit the tops of trees and crashed on the Fort Rucker grounds at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Menze of Fort Calhoun. All four occupants of the helicopter were killed.
Chief Warrant Officer Menze was an instructor pilot at Fort Rucker. He had received the Army’s Broken Wing Award in February after safely landing another helicopter when an emergency developed during a night training flight with three students.
Menze, 38, a graduate of North High School and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is survived by his wife, Jeannine; sons, Russell, Roger and Ryan, all of Fort Rucker; parents; and brothers, Richard of Omaha and Jay of Elkhorn, Nebraska.
Interment was to be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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