{"id":391914,"date":"2026-01-06T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391914\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:50:07","slug":"nascar-legend-greg-biffles-daughter-14-laid-to-rest-in-heartbreaking-funeral-after-her-death-in-plane-crash-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391914\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR legend Greg Biffle’s daughter, 14, laid to rest in heartbreaking funeral after her death in plane crash tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

EMMA BIFFLE, the 14-year-old daughter of NASCAR legend Greg Biffle, has been laid to rest nearly three weeks on from her tragic passing. <\/p>\n

Emma was one of seven killed in a devastating plane crash<\/a> on December 18, which included her father, brother and stepmother. <\/p>\n

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Greg Biffle and his daughter Emma pictured with US vice-president JD VanceCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Emma Biffle was laid to rest on January 3 at the Cain Center in Cornelius, North CarolinaCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Friends, family and much of the NASCAR world came to mourn her tragic passingCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Her memorial service was held<\/a> at the Cain Center in Cornelius, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Emma\u2019s mother Nicole wrote a gut-wrenching letter<\/a> which she was too devastated to read out herself at the funeral. <\/p>\n

It spoke of how she will always agonize over letting Emma fly that day despite the teen not feeling well. <\/p>\n

Nicole also heartbreakingly revealed how she had bought tickets to Italy the night before the crash as a Christmas present for her daughter. <\/p>\n

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Friends, family and much of the NASCAR<\/a> world turned out in force to mourn Emma on Sunday, January 3. <\/p>\n

Emma\u2019s obituary written last month described her as \u201can amazing light in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was fun, outgoing, funny, caring, and above all, a pure soul full of love. She was a good friend to all and always cared how others felt.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe will be deeply missed by the many people who loved her but mostly by her mom, who shared a profoundly intense bond with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The obituary also mentioned her \u2018deep love for animals\u2019 and suggested that any donations to honor her memory could be made to local animal shelters. <\/p>\n

A public memorial service to her NASCAR legend father Greg Biffle<\/a> will be held at Charlotte\u2019s Bojangles Coliseum on January 16.<\/p>\n

Greg, Emma, Greg\u2019s wife Cristina, their five-year-old son Ryder as well as Dennis Dutton, his son Jack, and Craig Wadsworth all tragically passed away in the plane crash<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Due to undisclosed reasons, with the NTSB and FAA investigation still ongoing, the business jet circled back minutes after takeoff<\/a> at Statesville regional airport but did not make the landing.<\/p>\n

Former NASCAR driver and close friend of Biffle, Kenny Wallace, shared his theory<\/a> on why the Cessna C550 crashed. <\/p>\n

He believes, while stressing it was only his theory, the airplane\u2019s flaps may have been down, which created intense drag after the plane potentially lost a motor.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dennis Dutton\u2019s former neighbour, Jonathan Donoghue, told the US Sun<\/a>, \u201cAll I know is that there was a large, loud pop, like something broke on the plane at takeoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

A joint funeral was held on Friday for Dennis, a 67-year-old former commercial jet pilot and Air Force veteran, and his 20-year-old son, Jack, a junior in Auburn University\u2019s flight program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wadsworth, another friend of Biffle, was described by his roommate Benito Howell as someone who \u2018loved everybody\u2019.<\/p>\n

Howell said, \u201cHe didn\u2019t know how to say no. He loved everybody. He always tried to help everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMMA BIFFLE, the 14-year-old daughter of NASCAR legend Greg Biffle, has been laid to rest nearly three weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,5782,109195,634,155774,82],"class_list":["post-391914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-children-parenting-and-family-life","tag-nascar","tag-plane-crashes-and-air-disasters","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}