Adele Ferguson - Alaska plane crash brings memories of Joe Murphy

THEY FORGOT someone in the news stories that listed prominent persons who died in plane crashes in Alaska following the loss of former Sen. Ted Stevens Aug. 9.

Remember Joe Murphy?

Joe, state Democratic party chair from 1978 to 1981, was aboard a float plane that disappeared Sept. 20, 2004, in Alaska, with five people on board, including Joe, who was from Bremerton, and his twin brother, Jim, from Sequim. No sign of the plane was ever found and having flown over Alaska I am aware of the vast stretches of dense forest and many bodies of water into which it might have vanished.

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