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Bertha Dale Cofer Horchem (1899 - 1924)

Bertha Dale Cofer Horchem was the wife of Cyle Horchem, both were American aviators and stunt flyers. She killed at San Antonio, Tues. March 2, 1924, when a wing of her plane crumpled as she went into a loop at 1,200 feet and fell. On July 5, 1923 at Lambert-St. Louis Field, St. Louis she made an official world's altitude record for women, attaining the height of 16,300 feet. She took her husband and two other passengers to St. Louis in her plane in the "On-to-St. Louis" race at the following air meet. She was 24 at her death.