Philadelphia Airport declines memorial upgrade for stewardess in Hang on and Fly

Former Philadelphia Daily News columnist, Stu Bykofsky, has written about the small and rather insignificant memorial at the Philadelphia Airport fire station for stewardess-flight attendant, Mary Frances (Frankie) Housley. Stu's columns have advocated a larger and more prominent position for the memorial.
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Mary Frances (Frankie) Housley

A heroic figure in Hang on and Fly

  I wrote about "Frankie" Housley in Hang on and Fly. She was just one of the heroic stewardess/flight attendant figures of the most tragic of years in American commercial passenger aviation history.  She posthumously received the Carnegie Medal for Heroism.
​  Frankie's story begins in Chapter 15 of Hang on and Fly.
  Update: In 2017, led by Chris Hammond and the Fountain City, Tennessee Central High School Alumni Association, the Mary Frances Housley Memorial Bridge in Fountain City was dedicated. The bridge is a short distance from Frankie's high school.

 Hammond and other local residents of Fountain City, Jacksonville, and Knoxville are searching for a missing eight-foot by six-foot oil painting completed in the 1950s that depicts Housley with outstretched arms to save passengers.