Kobli, Stephen Michael
Army Recruit

Stephen Michael Kobli, age 19, from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Northampton county.

Parents: Joseph J. and Grace (Kocsis) Kobli Jr.

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Notre Dame High

Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 77 killed in Richmond, Virginia when the engines aboard their plane failed and it crashed into marshland. The crew and passengers died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The flight was enroute from Baltimore to Columbia, South Carolina. He was half-brother of another recruit on the plane, Joseph J. Champion

Source: Associated Press (1961), New York Daily News (1961), Allentown Morning Call (1961)