TRENTON, Mo. (AP) - A St. Louis-area psychiatrist and his son were killed when their small plane went down in northern Missouri earlier this week.
Philip Joseph LeFevre III, 82, of Glendale, and Philip Joseph LeFevre IV, 47, of Sunset Hills, died when the single-engine Cessna plane they were flying crashed Monday in Grundy County, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The plane went off radar Monday afternoon but the wreckage was not found until Tuesday in a secluded area outside the town of Galt, Grundy County Sheriff Rodney Herring said. The men’s bodies were found inside the plane.
They were flying from Moberly to Kirksville before going far off the flight path, Herring said. Authorities have not determined what caused the crash.
The elder LeFevre was in private practice for more than 42 years before becoming a professor at the St. Louis University School of Medicine and a practitioner with the SLUCare Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, according to his obituary.
His son was the president and CEO of Lending Partners LLC since 2014, and founded three companies, according to his professional biography.
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