Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Neta Snook Southern" in English language version.
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via NewspaperArchive.com Student and teacher became good friends, good enough to discuss a certain Bill Southern. Amelia warned Neta has the nesting instinct. Are you ready to give up your career? Because you will. He is the kind who will insist on being just as Amelia had foretold Neta Snook sold her plane in 1922 and married Bill Southern. When she learned she was to have a child she promised herself "if this baby is born healthy I will give up flying", it was and she did. Neta still lives in the beautiful Adobe home she and Bill Southern built by themselves in Los Gatos Calif. Here she receives visitors who are curious about the old days of aviation and until recently filled many speaking engagements.
via NewspaperArchive.com Aviator Neta Southern 95 taught Amelia Earhart to fly ... a Pioneer Pilot Neta Snook Southern 95, who included such famous aviation figures as Amelia Earhart, Donald Douglas and Glenn Curtiss among her friends died Saturday at her Los Gatos home. Mrs. Southern, a famed As the woman who taught Earhart to fly but worthy of a page in history in her own rights, was hospitalized in June with a heart problem and had been in poor health. "As far as I know she was the oldest living lady Pilot" said her son Curtiss Southern. Born in Mount Carroll IL, Neta Snook moved with her family to Ames Iowa. She enrolled in a flying school in which the students built their plane. Each got a little time in the air before the plane crashed said her son named for air plane builder Glenn Curtiss. In 1917, Glenn Curtiss was running an aviation school in Newport News VA. Mrs. Southern determined to fly, dropped out of Iowa state University and enrolled in the school.
March 27, 1991, Section D, Page 23
