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GUNILLA AT AIRLINE CELEBRATION



NOVEMBER 26, 2005
Wonderful photos on the IAB crew web! I have a 
correction on the photos (below!) from David 
Stone / JD´son. n photo no 2 to the right of 
the one of JD and Don in the cockpit, JD is to 
the left, the two of us and Larry Swartz to 
the right, BUT that is not Larry, it´s Will 
Rogers. He flew co-pilot with IAB, maybe captain 
after I quit.

Later he flew captain for Larry Grew's crewing 
company in Fort Lauderdale. He was the captain 
of a DC-8 accident during landing in Suriname. 
The passengers were a soccer team and it all 
happened during a bad weather landing. Co-pilot 
was Charlie Rose, Pan Am and it was 1985 or 
-86 while I was with Pan Am.
One of the unknowns in the group photo is 
Brownie, Charlie Brown and the pilot outside 
the LUX office is Emmet Hayes. These are 
still the J.D.(David) Stone pictures I am 
referring to.

I am busy teaching initial f/a training 
classes and recurrent ones at the Delta Atlanta 
training center for World Airways.
A lot of trees are now forever gone from Miami 
Lakes where the Wilma hurricane did a lot 
of damage. Whatever tree did not fall, lost 
the majority of foilage and branches, and is 
a fall like feeling as all leaves have fallen 
and we will see what returns in a few weeks 
in our normally permanent summerlike community.
I had my two little grand boys Keiran and 
Aidan with me during the hurricane. 

It puts a spin on your imagination when a 4 
and 5 year old is with no power at your home 
for an extended time period. We had picnics 
on the floor at the dining room glass doors, 
the only ones with no storm shutters and 
some daylight. 

Candle light and food on the grill was exciting, 
heat and mosquitos were not. It all went well 
and I am one more experience richer for 
having managed.
Best from Gunilla, Florida


JD and Don in the cockpit

JD, Anna Eriksson,
Gun Vidal and
Will? in front
of a Russian aircraft


Captain J D Stone surrounded by
cabin strongforce!
Betty Frieders Kunziger, Mia McCreery
Topping and Gunilla on the left,
Gudrun Johansson Federico and
Margie Ave Torres on the right side.
Photo courtesy David Stone

Tex Davis, Bill McDonald, Gunilla,
JD Stone and Gus Bacon.
Photo courtesy David Stone


Marian Hessink, Tex Davis, Vernica
Ferguson, Gunilla and Will Rogers,
who are the others?!


Gunilla and Captain J D Stone
Photo courtesy David Stone

Gunilla and Carin Bergquist Skoglund

A wonderful evening in Miami
at the Ray Anthony Show in 1968!

In the front founder of
Executive Jet and co-founder of
International Air Bahama,
Dick Lassiter with wife Helene (Falk),
Gudrun Johansson and Ray Anthony,
Betty Frieders, Gunilla Kay
Kuylenstierna,
Gun Vidal and Gunilla Hammar

Gunilla and Carin Bergquist Skoglund again!
Photo courtesy David Stone


Inauguration flight from
Nassau International Airport Bahamas
to Findel Airport Luxembourg on July 20, 1968.

On photo from left to right:
  • Nassau Station Manager Nick Mennon
  • Major Norman Ricketts
  • Helene Lassiter-Brownson
  • Elisabeth Gustavsson Gyllman
  • Airport Official
  • Nettie Miller
  • Captain John "Jake" Jacobs
  • Gunilla Kuylenstierna (Kay) Crawford
  • Findel Airport Official
  • Anna Eriksson
  • Sylvia King and
  • Anette Englund Martins



  • Gunilla in a hot spot!
    Gunilla and Bob´s grandson Kieran,
    Kimberley and Tab´s son!

    Gunilla having fun at a convention!

    Reunion participants at
    Air Bahama Luxembourg
    reunion of July 2000
    at Leo Antognoli´s
    Hotel Italia!







    Graduations at Aer Lingus, Dublin, Ireland, 1968
    - photo taken across the road from training classes location
    close to Dublin Airport.

    Air Bahama Chief Hostess Nettie Miller and Aer Lingus Training
    Class Supervisor Marian McCreery not present in photo.


    Left to right Sophia vantHof - van den Heuvel, Daisy Leenart,
    Helen Falk Brownson, Thelma Otto, Anna Eriksson, Gunilla Kaye
    (Kuylenstierna) Crawford, Elisabeth Gustavsson Gyllman, Anette
    Englund Martins, Gun Vidal, Nicole Krettels Burnett, Claudine
    Hastert Ferron, Liliane Steinmetz, Gudrun Johansson Federico,
    Eva Thelning Marco, Lucy Timmermann Justiliano, Mia McCreery
    Topping, Sylvia King, Carin Bergquist Skoglund,
    Lena Granquist Wright, Betty (Marie-Berthe) Frieders Kuntziger,
    Viveca Hanngren, Gunilla Hammar Safstrom and
    Anneke Hoffmann Placide.
    Present residency
  • Nettie Miller lives in San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Marian McCreery IN MEMORIAM - Dublin, Ireland
  • Sophia vantHof - van den Heuvel, Limbricht, Holland
  • Daisy Leenart,unknown residence
  • Helen Falk Brownson, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
  • Thelma Otto - IN MEMORIAM - Amsterdam, Holland
  • Anna Eriksson, Sigtuna, Sweden
  • Gunilla Kaye (Kuylenstierna) Crawford, Florida, USA
  • Elisabeth Gustavsson Gyllman, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Anette Englund Martins, Sundsvall, Sweden
  • Gun Vidal, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Nicole Krettels Burnett, United Kingdom
  • Claudine Hastert Ferron, Luxembourg
  • Liliane Steinmetz - IN MEMORIAM - Luxembourg
  • Gudrun Johansson Federico, Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
  • Eva Thelning Marco, Florida, UK
  • Lucy Timmermann Justiliano, Florida, USA
  • Mia McCreery Topping, Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Sylvia King, Los Angeles, USA
  • Carin Bergquist Skoglund, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Lena Granquist Wright, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Betty Marie-Berthe Frieders Kuntziger, Paris, France
  • Viveca Hanngren - IN MEMORIAM - Stockholm, Sweden
  • Gunilla Hammar Safstrom, Bjursas, Dalecarlia, Sweden
  • Anneke Hoffmann Placide, Holland


  • Same class as above - Newly recruited airline
     hostesses to be arrive in Dublin, Ireland, 1968 - 
    photo shot in front of Dublin International Airport 
    Departure Building.

    Top left to right Gunilla Kuylenstierna - Kaye - Crawford, Eva Thelning Marco, Anneke Hoffmann Placide, Viveca Hanngren, Anna Eriksson, Gudrun Johansson Federico, Nicole Krettels Burnett, Anette Englund Martins, Elisabeth Gustavsson Gyllman, unknown from Sweden? and Daisy Leenart. Middle row left to right Sophia vantHof - van den Heuvel, Helene Falk Brownson, Gunilla Hammar Safstrom, Sylvia King, Liliane Steinmetz, Conny surname, Betty Marie Berthe Frieders Kuntziger, Claudine Hastert Ferron. Front row from left to right Margie Ave Torres, Gun Vidal, Thelma Otto, Carin Bergquist Skoglund, Lucy Timmermann Justiliano and Mabel Desmet.