The funeral service for Leon E. Crane, 69, of rural Mansfield, SD, will be 2:00pm, Monday, August 28, 2023, at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, with Pastor Brett Bierman officiating. The family encourages ...

NONFICTION: Readers will shiver along with Leon Crane as he struggles to hang on in the Alaskan wilderness with only his Boy Scout knife, 40 matches and a parachute. First Lt. Leon Crane's very bad ...

FAIRBANKS — U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Lt. Leon Crane survived the ultimate cold weather experience when his plane crash-landed in the middle of Alaska’s subarctic wilderness near the headwaters of the ...