“I hoped I was dreaming,” the elder Hartman told News Center 7’s Andy Sedlak on Wednesday night.
Lloyd and Judy Hartman talked about their son, a Tecumseh High School graduate who leaves a wife and two children.
They hope their son is remembered as a spiritual man whose faith and family were very important.
“He liked to sing his hymns,” mother Hartman said. “He wasn’t too thrilled with the more contemporary music, he’s older. He likes the traditional music.”
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A New Carlisle native who graduated from Wright State University is among six people killed when a plane crashed in Maryland on Monday.
David A. Hartman Ph.D., who earned his bachelor’s degree from WSU some 30 years ago, was a passenger on the Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100 twin-engine jet when it crashed, according to media reports.
He was 52.
Two other people on the plane, including the pilot, died. Three people on the ground were also killed when the aircraft crashed. Those victims are a 36-year-old woman and her sons — ages 3 and 1-month — according to media reports.
Hartman, who also earned advanced degrees from the Ohio State University, was a resident of the Raleigh-Durham, N.C.-area at the time of his death. He was vice president of clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and nonclinical development at Nuventra Inc., a Durham-based clinical pharmacology consulting firm.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of David and will miss him both personally and professionally,” Geoffrey Banks, Ph.D., Nuventra’s CEO, said in a press release. “On behalf of all us at Nuventra, our thoughts and prayers are with David’s family as well as others affected by this terrible tragedy.”
Hartman was a traditionalist who was shy and compassionate, said his pastor, the Rev. Duane Beck of Raleigh Mennonite Church.
“He had a deep compassion for people, and had significant feelings, particularly people who were hurting,” Beck said in a phone interview. “He also really enjoyed music, particularly the traditional Mennonite style of music.”