View a eulogy for Wilho Richard Heikkinen, USMA '48, who passed away on September 24, 1957.
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Wilho Richard Heikkinen
West Point, 1948
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Mary Heikkinen Williams on February 28, 2014:
| Wilho Heikkinen was my uncle -- my dad, Edwin's brother. He was the 9th child of 11 of Finnish parents, Jacob and Kaisa Emilia (Riikonen) Heikkinen. He was born in Ramsay, Michigan on November 21, 1925. He was married to Roberta Grace. He had 4 children -- Lee, Paula, Phillip, and Laura. He was killed in a military plane crash on September 24, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio when coming in for a landing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. |
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