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628 Culbertson Drive

628 Culbertson has dark red mingled brick with a high pitched English-style roof. The principal projected wing has stucco half-timbering over a bay window on the ground floor. The entrance is a Tudor-arched cut stone surrounded door. There is a carved stone medallion over the door.

George S. Combs 1932-1934
Ernest A. Liebman 1935-1971

Mr. and Mrs. Combs were the relatives of Winnie Mae Fain. Winnie Mae is the person for whom the plane which carried Wiley Post and Will Rogers to their death in Alaska was named.

Mr. Liebman was owner and president of the Liebman Ice Company in Oklahoma City.

As a wealthy Oklahoma City oilman, Leslie Fain's company (Fain-Hall Oil Company) financed Wiley Post's global flights. Post flew around the world twice and broke altitude records in the process, and named his famous plane after Fain's wife, Winnie Mae. The plane, bearing Post and the nationally famous Oklahoman Will Rogers, crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935 on a flight to the Orient.