Grandparents from Illinois die in plane crash while traveling to celebrate Thanksgiving
Joseph and Patty Kreher, of Freeburg, Illinois, died on Saturday in a plane crash while traveling for Thanksgiving. Their small, twin-engine Piper PA-30 aircraft crashed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at around 11:15 a.m. The couple had taken off from the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, made a stop in London, Kentucky, and then crashed near an airport in Winston-Salem.