Everybody Has a Story: Pilot keeps his cool during icy flight

My cousin Ed, an avid private pilot, and his wife were living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s while I was living in the Sacramento Valley. When my great-grandfather died in early 1973, it was decided that Ed, his wife, my sister and I would fly together in a Cessna 182 from San Jose to Mojave to attend the funeral.