On Sunday July 6th 2014, Doug Symiczek, Jacob Griffiths and Kyle Parton passed away in a tragic plane accident. 
 
 
 
 Doug Symiczek, 49, left behind his wife Kim, and two daughters, Amanda and Breanna. 
 
 Jacob Griffiths, 32, left behind his wife Amanda and their unborn child. 
 
 Kyle Parton, 29, left behind his wife Breanna, their 3 year old son, Ryder and their unborn baby girl. (Update** Trulee Ann Skyler Parton was born on July 13th 2014 at 6:01PM) 
 
 
 
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 See news articles here: 
 
 http://www.pe.com/articles/symiczek-697245-griffiths-dennison.html 
 
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2693498/Father-49-dies-small-plane-crash-two-sons-law-widowing-wife-two-pregnant-daughters.html 
 
 http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/pregnant-sisters-mother-widowed-plane-crash-article-1.1868301#bmb=1 
 
 
 
 Memorial service: 
 
 http://abc7.com/news/memorial-to-be-held-for-plane-crash-victims/180590/ 
 
 
 
 
 
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 https://www.mythirtyone.com/michellesparks ||||| Jacob T. Griffiths was splitting wood for his father, Scott Griffiths, when he was 12. 
 
 Twenty years later, he was CEO of his father’s Stanton-based company, Great Scott Tree Service, and the two became business partners working side by side for 16 years, with Jacob stepping up during the economic downturn. 
 
 “The business is doing better than it’s ever been,” said his stepmother, Susan Griffiths. 
 
 Jacob, 32, of Costa Mesa died Sunday morning in a plane crash near Lake Elsinore with his brother-in-law Kyle Parton, 29, and father-in-law Doug Symiczek, the plane’s experienced pilot, both from Menifee. 
 
 It was supposed to be a quick flight from French Valley to Corona Airport and back for breakfast at Symiczek’s favorite cafe. 
 
 Witnesses said that the 1967 Piper PA28 they were in abruptly made a sharp turn, clipped some trees and crashed into the mountains above Lake Elsinore shortly after 9 a.m. Family members said initial reports suggested the plane’s single engine failed. 
 
 Days before the crash, Jacob had sent his father, Scott, a photo of himself, newly born and in his father's arms at the hospital. His wife, Amanda, is due in January. 
 
 “He was so excited about their baby,” said Susan Griffiths on Monday inside their Irvine home, which was filled with friends fetching food and helping in any way they could. 
 
 Before he left for Sunday's flight, Susan said, “He kissed (Amanda’s) belly and said ‘I love you’ and I'll see you in a little while.” Jacob and Amanda had taken announcement photos on Saturday. 
 
 Jacob grew up in Orange County, where he graduated from Garden Grove High School. The middle of three boys, with a younger sister, “he was the ringleader,” Susan said. He later moved to Irvine before buying a house in Costa Mesa a few years ago where he lived with his wife and bulldog, Rocko. 
 
 Scott described his son as a social chameleon who could befriend anyone and everyone, no matter their age. 
 
 The Griffiths family long frequented Mariners Church in Irvine, leading their own Mexico ministry building houses on weekends in the country and raising funds to sponsor children there. Jacob was Scott’s lead builder. 
 
 “He was a young man of noble character,” Mariners Church pastor Eric Heard said of Jacob, adding that he was just one of those guys you wanted to be around. 
 
 “These are just good people,” he said. 
 
 Doing ministry work in Uganda, Jacob met a boy he sponsored and taught him how to play baseball, Scott said. 
 
 “He was the connector,” Scott said, the glue that unified the family and the in-laws and rallied them all together for vacations. They were planning one to Hawaii in August at Jacob's suggestion to celebrate Doug and Kim Symiczek's 30th wedding anniversary at the end of this month. 
 
 Scott last saw his son Thursday at the office before Jacob left to an Angels game. 
 
 “We did the ‘high five, see ya later’,” Scott said. 
 
 He called later to tell his dad that he was in the perfect spot for some serious Jumbotron time. So Scott Griffiths and Jacob’s sister watched the game from their living room, taking photos every time Jacob appeared on screen. 
 
 Jacob is survived by his wife, Amanda, father and stepmother Scott and Susan Griffiths, mother Sheri Griffiths and siblings Jeremiah, Jordan and Christine Griffiths. 
 
 The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made through Mariners Church in Irvine to help Kim Symiczek and her daughters, Breanna Parton and Amanda Griffiths. 
 
 Another family member has set up a fund through a Chase bank account. Donations can be given at any branch to the Symiczek, Griffiths and Parton Memorial Fund. The account number is 3025577627. 
 
 Staff writer David Downey contributed to this report. 
 
 Contact the writer: 949-864-6371 or kpierceall@ocregister.com ||||| A memorial is scheduled to be held for the three men killed in a small plane crash in the Lake Elsinore area earlier this month.Kyle Parton, 29, Jacob Griffiths, 32, and Doug Symiczek, 49, were killed after their plane's wings broke off, clipped a tree and crashed, Cal Fire officials said.The memorial for all three is scheduled to be held on July 19 at 2 p.m. at Hans Christensen Middle School, 27625 Sherman Road, in Menifee.Symiczek leaves behind a wife and two daughters. Griffiths leaves behind a pregnant wife. Parton leaves behind a pregnant wife and 3-year-old son.Those interested in making donations to help in funeral costs and supporting the families can do so at this link: http://www.gofundme.com/dougjacobkyle ||||| LAKE ELSINORE: Officials investigating fatal plane crash Share Pin It 1 of 2 More Galleries Emergency officials investigate a plane that crashed and killed three people off the Ortega Highway above Lake Elsinore on Sunday morning, July 6, 2014. FRANK BELLINO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Related article » 
 
 It was supposed to be a quick Sunday morning flight from French Valley to Corona Airport for breakfast at Doug Symiczek’s favorite cafe. Then he and his two sons-in-law were to return to southwest Riverside County and get a boat from Symiczek’s Menifee home, family members said. 
 
 “He had just put a new motor in his boat and they were going to take it out to Lake Elsinore,” said Bob Dennison, Symiczek’s brother-in-law. 
 
 But Symiczek, 49, the pilot, and passengers Kyle Parton, 29, of Menifee, and Jacob Griffiths, 32, of Costa Mesa, never made it back to French Valley Airport. 
 
 Witnesses said that the 1967 Piper PA28 they were in abruptly made a sharp turn, clipped some trees and crashed into the mountains above Lake Elsinore in a fiery explosion shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday. 
 
 Beckie Dennison, Symiczek’s sister-in-law, said initial reports suggest the plane’s sputtering single engine was failing. 
 
 “(Doug) knew what was going on, and that he needed to land right away,” she said an interview Monday in Menifee. “If he hadn’t hit the tree, they would have landed safely. It’s such a freak accident.” 
 
 The National Transportation Safety Board sent an investigator to the crash site Monday to investigate. 
 
 NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said the agency was “trying to get a sense of the history of the flight” in the hopes of determining what went wrong. 
 
 “They’re racing against the daylight hours to gather as much data as they can,” Weiss said by telephone. 
 
 Weiss said a preliminary report will be released in a week to 10 days, but it likely will be a year before the cause is determined. (UPDATE: Preliminary report released) 
 
 Bob and Beckie Dennison, who live in La Quinta, said Symiczek had hired a firm to rebuild the engine and the plane was recently cleared for flight. They said he had been flying since 1990 and had owned the plane since 1991, and that many times they had flown with him. 
 
 Beckie Dennison said the accident couldn’t have come at a worse time. Kyle Parton and his wife Breanna Parton were expecting a baby girl. Sunday was Breanna’s due date. It also came in the month that Doug and Kim Symiczek were to mark their 30th wedding anniversary. There was talk of celebrating in Hawaii. 
 
 “They were the most amazing men – all of them,” said Doug’s wife, Kim. “My husband was the best pilot ever.” 
 
 Kyle Parton leaves behind not only his pregnant wife but also a 3-year-old son, Ryder. Meanwhile, Jacob Griffiths’ wife, Amanda, is three months along with her first child. 
 
 Jacob Griffiths grew up in Orange County, graduating from Garden Grove High School. He later moved to Irvine where his father and stepmother – Scott and Susan Griffiths – live, and most recently lived in Costa Mesa. 
 
 The Griffiths family frequented Mariners Church in Irvine long before pastor Eric Heard arrived 15 years ago. 
 
 “He was a young man of noble character,” Heard said of Jacob, who was involved in the church’s outreach ministry. 
 
 “These are just good people,” he said. 
 
 Contact the writer: ddowney@pe.com or kpierceall@ocregister.com
– In a time meant for rejoicing—with a 30th wedding anniversary and the births of two babies on the horizon—three women, now widows, are left to pick up the pieces after a freak accident claimed their husbands' lives. Doug Symiczek had planned to take his two sons-in-law, Kyle Parton and Jacob Griffiths, on a quick morning flight to a cafe near California's Corona Airport and then head back to Lake Elsinore to go boating. But their plane, a 1967 Piper PA28 that Symiczek has owned for more than two decades, turned sharply, hit a tree, and crashed into the mountains above the lake, according to witnesses. All three men died in the July 6 crash, reports the Press-Enterprise. "(Doug) knew what was going on, and that he needed to land right away," one relative said of what has initially been pegged as a single-engine failure. "If he hadn’t hit the tree, they would have landed safely. It’s such a freak accident." Authorities say an initial report will be released soon, but that it could take a year to determine the cause of the crash. Symiczek and his wife Kim were about to celebrate their 30-year wedding anniversary, while Parton and his wife Breanna were expecting a baby girl that very day; Griffiths' wife Amanda is three months along with their first child. Griffiths' stepmother tells the OC Register that the couple had taken baby announcement photos the day before the crash. "He kissed (Amanda's) belly and said 'I love you' and I'll see you in a little while," before leaving, she says. The men's memorial is scheduled for Saturday, reports ABC 7. Friends of the family have started a GoFundMe campaign here. (Another plane crash, one from decades ago, is back in the news.)