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Memorial Service For Missing Flier To Be Held Tonight In Tampa

Photo from Robert B. Boos

Zachary Schlitt, 28, of West Palm Beach, was on the plane, according to the Coast Guard. Schlitt is seen here with his mother, Pandora, at the Ironman World Championship 70.3 Clearwater on Nov. 8.

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Published: December 4, 2008

Updated: 12/04/2008 10:32 am

A memorial service will be held in Tampa tonight for Zachary Schlitt, who was onboard a plane that disappeared Sunday over the Gulf of Mexico.

The service will be held at 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tampa.

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office has continued its search today for Schlitt and the other person on the plane, Darien Peckham of Tampa. The Coast Guard called off its search Tuesday.

The men were aboard a 45-year-old Beech 35 Debonair aircraft when it crashed at 6:45 p.m. Sunday about 20 miles southwest of Yankeetown, according to the Coast Guard. The plane was headed to Vandenberg Airport east of Tampa.

Schlitt, 28, works for Boos Development Group's Palm Beach Gardens office.

Peckham, 35, is a nuclear medicine technologist who started his career at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa.

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