Rocky Marciano also..........right?
Newton, IA Rocky Marciano Killed In Plane Crash, Aug 1969
Posted November 26th, 2007 by
Stu Beitler
<!--paging_filter-->MARCIANO KILLED IN CRASH.
2 IOWANS ALSO DIE IN PLANE.
Newton -- Rocky Marciano, retired undefeated heavyweight champion, died Sunday night when a light plane crashed in a pasture near here. He would have been 46 today.
The retired knockout king was flying from Chicago to Des Moines, with two companions who also were killed when the plane plunged through a low overcast, struck a tree and smashed to earth on a farm near this central Iowa town.
Birthday Party.
Friends said he had been en route to a birthday party for his at a Des Moines steak house.