Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
Moomaw Services Scheduled
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Funeral services have been set for 1:30 p.m. today for Kenneth R. Moomaw, a 23-year old Tarleton student killed in a parachute accident near Valley Mills Friday.
Services will be held in the chapel of Stephenville Funeral Home with burial at West End Cemetery. R.O.T.C. cadets James Kindel, Mike Robinson, Perry Bennett, Hugh Bryan, Mack Alford, and J. D. Matlock will act as pallbearers.
Eight cadets will man a rifle team to fire a salute at graveside.
Moomaw, senior physical education major at TSC, was in the second round of jumps for the day. He was the second of eight members of a recently formed skydiving club from Stephenville to dive from the twin-engine plane above the small airport.
Witnesses said Moomaw jumped from the plane about 5:30 p.m. Friday from an altitude of 3,000 feet. His main parachute became a "streamer," according to witnesses and his auxilliary chute became entangled with the snarled main parachute.
Moomaw's body landed in a field near the airport. He was pronounced (dead on arrival at a Waco Hospital. McLennan County Justice of the Peace Joe Johnson returned a ruling of accidental death.
Moomaw graduated from Belton High School in 1967 and was due to graduate from Tarleton in August. He worked for Stephenville public schools its a bus driver. Before moving to Belton six years ago, Moomaw lived in Fort Meade. Md.
Survivors include his wife, Tonya, currently a TSC student: his parents, George C. Moomaw, a retired Army sergeant-major working at Da Nang, South Vietnam, and Mrs. Veronica Moomaw of Morgan's Point near Belton; a sister Mrs. Juanita Kelly of Killeen; and three brothers. Kevin and Dennis Moomaw, both of Morgan's Point, and Ronald Moomaw, also a Tarleton student.
[Article printed in the Wednesday, February 23, 1972 issue of the Tarleton State College newspaper, Stephenville, TX]
FANNON, TONYA A who was 19 (born ABT 1951) married 25 JUL 1970 in ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named KENNETH R MOOMAW who was 21 (born ABT 1949).