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GREENSBORO — The funeral for a former Greensboro resident and her family killed in a plane crash in New Jersey last week will be held Friday in Greensboro.

Corinne Buckalew, who grew up in Greensboro, died with her husband, Jeff, who was piloting the plane, and their children Jackson and Meriwether.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (click here to read their obituaries and view an online guest book).

The family will receive visitors afterward in the Haywood Duke Room.

Jeff Buckalew, 45, who grew up in Winston-Salem, was an investment banker in New York.

Corinne Buckalew, 45, graduated from Page High School in Greensboro and had taught school in Charlottesville, Va., before returning to Greensboro to complete her masters at UNCG.

Her parents, Robert H. and Ruth H. Stickley, still live in Greensboro.

The Buckalews married in 1995.

Jackson, 10, attended St. Davids School in New York. Jackson also attended St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville, where he was a member of the school's lacrosse and basketball teams.

Meriwether, 6, attended Sacred Heart School in New York. She had also attended St. Anne's Belfield-School.

Meanwhile, a preliminary report released Monday draws no conclusions about what caused the Dec. 20 crash. A final report could take a year or more to complete.

The single-engine turboprop crashed about 15 minutes after takeoff from Teterboro Airport and was headed to Georgia.

The report describes how pilot Jeffrey Buckalew radioed to air traffic controllers that he was experiencing icing and requested to climb to a higher altitude. The plane peaked at 17,900 feet before descending.

The plane crashed in a wooded median on Interstate 287 in Morris County.

Rakesh Chawla, 36, a business colleague, was also killed.