[Editor's Note : John Heil died when Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashed 37 miles west-southwest of Miami Florida. The Wikipedia article can be found here. There are also several articles about the crash and other victims of the crash. The following is an excerpt from The Daily Chronicle (Centralia-Chehalis, WA) Feb 13, 1963 - pg 1.]

Also aboard the Boeing 720 when it plunged into the Everglades were two Seattle men, John C. Heil and George Enloe.

Heil, 38, a factory sales and service representative, was the father of six children.

"We had been at a company convention in Hollywood, Fla.," his widow told newsmen after hearing of his death. "I returned home last night. We were supposed to come home together, but the convention lasted longer than we expected it to."