Services set Downstate for family killed in Kentucky plane crash

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NASHVILLE, Ill. — Services are set for three southern Illinois family members and another relative killed in a Kentucky plane crash that a 7-year-old girl survived.

Forty-eight-year-old Marty Gutzler, 46-year-old wife Kimberly Gutzler and their 9-year-old daughter Piper Gutzler died at the scene of the crash of the small plane on Friday. A 14-year-old cousin of Piper’s, Sierra Wilder, also was killed.

The Gutzlers’ other daughter, Sailor Gutzler, crawled from the wreckage and managed to walk roughly a mile while injured and barefoot to a home, telling the resident of the crash.

Campagna Funeral Home in the Gutzlers’ hometown of Nashville, Illinois, says private funeral services for the Gutzlers will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Nashville.

Wilder’s services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Campagna Funeral Home.

Kimberly and Marty Gutzler | via Facebook

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