Morris Maxey Titterington (July 20, 1891 – July 11, 1928) was a pioneering aviator, and engineer.

Biography

Titterington was born in

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, the son of George Titterington. Titterington graduated from Bliss Electrical School in 1913. In 1914 he graduated from the

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. In 1918 he was working for the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation and was living in

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. He was included in the 1925 edition of Who's Who in American Aviation. Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough founded the

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in 1919. Titterington designed the Earth inductor compass in 1924. In 1928 he took off in a

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, headed across the

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mountains and crashed to his death during bad weather after being struck by lightning.

Bernice Gamble Andrews

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/ref> She was the beneficiary of his insurance policy, and she was the daughter of George A. Gamble of

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. She was previously married to Fred Andrews and had a son: Fred Andrews, Jr. She had worked in

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as Patricia Perry.

Biography

Bernice Gamble Andrews

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