Claude Edward Donica
1906 – 1955

Claude Donica of Miami, Oklahoma is shown here in a car that he raced on dirt racetracks across Kansas and Oklahoma in the mid-1920s.  He gave up racing c1930 although he did drive stock cars a few times shortly before his death.  Claude was a miner by trade and died at Farmington, New Mexico after being critically injured in an airplane crash near Red Rock, Arizona and a uranium mine that he owned an interest in.  He is buried in the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery on North Main Street in Miami, Oklahoma - Claude Donica collection

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