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Crash that killed popular actress revisited; includes tale of Benician’s brush with death

March 23, 2014 by Donna Beth Weilenman 2 Comments

Author interviewed Mary Anna Johnson Savoie after finding 2011 Herald story A former Benician who escaped death when she was bumped from the flight that crashed and killed actress Carole Lombard has been included in a newly released book about that fatal crash. Mary Anna Johnson Savoie, a 1936 Benicia High School graduate who died […]

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