Pados, Steven Paul
Army Recruit

Steven Paul Pados, age 22, from Wayne, New Jersey, Passaic county.

Parents: Stephen Pados and Elizabeth R. Soveges

Service era: Vietnam

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.
Cemetery: Calvary in Paterson, New Jersey

Source: Associated Press (1961), Virginia death certificate