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 .jpg) Kenneth Glenn Gentner was born January 21, 1947 to parents Virgil C and Oma Lee Gentner. The family moved from Arizona to Las Vegas about 1954, where Kenneth graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1965.
Immediately after graduation he attended pilot training in California, and was hired by Alamo Airways in Las Vegas. His first flight was a private charter from Las Vegas to Denver on July 11, 1966. The twin-engine plane crashed in Colorado's Rocky Mountains; all three aboard were killed.
He was survived by his parents and one older brother, Virgil Richard Gentner, and sister-in-law Louise (Mirabelli) Gentner. He is interred at Bunker Brothers Memory Gardens in Las Vegas.
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Joseph Woodruff
Kenny and I were good friends in HS. We played tackle football at Maryland Pkwy Circle Park and went deer hunting on several occasions. We were both box boys at the Safeway grocery store on Charleston. One time we tried to sneak some Coors beer on one of our hunting trips but Kenny's old man searched Kenny's Canary yellow 56' Chevy before we left town and took the beer away.
Kenny always wanted to be a pilot and immediately after graduation from HS he enrolled in a flight training school in the bay area of CA. After he graduated and obtained his pilot's license he got a job with a small airline company. On his very first trip as a co-pilot, the plane crashed in bad weather in the Rocky Mountains while flying between Las Vegas and Denver. I believe the year was 1966 or 1967.