An area native – who was killed Monday morning in a Texas plane crash – will be buried following memorial services in Sumner County this weekend.
Rick Goodrum, 47, of Flower Mound, Texas, was killed when a plane he was a passenger in crashed near Hebron High School in Carrollton.
Funeral services will be held at the First Christian Church in Wellington on Saturday at 2 p.m. Interment will follow the service at the Osborne Cemetery in Mayfield.
Goodrum is the son of Richard and the late Rose Goodrum of Mayfield.
He was in the backseat of the plane and headed to Houston with two others for a job-related trip. The pilot and another passenger in the plane survived the crash but remain hospitalized.
The plane – a Cirrus SR22 aircraft – was equipped with a parachute to aid in the event of a crash, however the canopy had not fully opened at the time of the incident, according to media reports.
Just after takeoff from Addison Airport, the pilot of the plane reported engine trouble. The plane attempted to land unsuccessfully once before crashing on second approach.
Goodrum was a 1983 graduate of Wellington High School.