Thank you, all of you, for your kind words! I really didn’t think after so many years anyone would even notice this post. If anyone would like to, Dad’s memorial site has a spot for condolences and memories of Dad to be posted and shared with friends and family. It can be found at
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/colleyville-tx/jewell-seitz-8798654
Blue skies to you all!
Sincere condolences your father led an inspiring life, I hope some of us are still flying in our 80’s.
@Cubby2Daddy, thanks for letting us know, my sincere condolences. One day all of us will fly West. RIP.
Thank you for thinking of us who were interested in your father’s flying and his pretty J-5.
UPDATE: My father, Maury Seitz, took his final flight this morning at 4AM, Texas local time. He was 90 years old. He will be sorely missed by all who knew and loved him and his stories.
Hi! I’m Maury’s youngest daughter. He’s still alive & well in Grapevine, Texas. He sold the Cub several years ago after getting in and out if the cockpit and maintenance costs became somewhat problematic.
He’d love to hear from you! His email is [email protected]. Just put “Cubby’s Friend” in the Subject line!
Good post Flyer, some people, and some planes should just never have to get old…
Thank you, Silvaire. I was just going to send an eMail to TX to find out …
Back then, on the same trip, I met this old pilot who was building a GEE BEE in his little hangar at his grass strip. We would go visit him and all his friends were hoping that he would ever FINISH the plane and kill himself in it … Some years later he died, … before the first flight.
Cruising around the net would indicate that Maury no longer owns the J-5, but was alive and giving talks about his history with the plane a couple of years ago. He posted elsewhere that he was still flying in 2010, at 81, and in the final stages of re-restoring the J-5 at that time. Planes like that live forever and apparently their owners don’t do too badly either . Neat.
Very interesting, thank you. The young Bob Hoover flew aerobatics a lot in the J-3 Cub. That’s how he learned about energy management!
