* Edna Gardner Whyte; Aviation Pioneer, Friend of Earhart

Edna Gardner Whyte, 89, an aviation pioneer and contemporary of flying legend Amelia Earhart. Mrs. Whyte received her pilot’s license in 1928 and spent the next 60 years as a pilot and teacher. She also was a friend of Earhart and ate dinner with the famed aviator the night before her fateful round-the-world flight began in 1937. The plane disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean during the final portion of the trip. Mrs. Whyte was the first woman to be elected an honorary member of the Daedalians, a worldwide fraternity of military pilots. In Dallas on Feb. 15.