Wilbur Karsten, Bill Strathman, Frank Wegner - boot camp
This is the only picture I have of Bill and I have no military information.
The picture came from Wilbur Karsten's family/military scrapbook. He also had the only military pictures I have of Frank Wegner.
This is why people need to come forward with their scrapbooks so I can look for pictures of other Manning people who are not actual family members.
They may have the only pictures I'll ever find for many Manning people.
BORN December 13, 1929
DIED June 15, 1960
SERVICES AT Sunnyside Memorial Chapel Saturday, June 18, 1960, 10:30 a.m.
Officiating Rev. Robert Forsyth
MUSIC
ORGANIST Esther Scott
VOCALIST Frank League
INTERMENT Sunnyside Memorial Park, Long Beach, California (now known as Forest Lawn Memorial Park in 2020)
ARRANGEMENTS BY Wilmington Funeral Home 702 Broad Avenue, Wilmington E.J. Brower, Director
Word has been received here of the death of Billy Lee
Strathman, 31, Long Beach, California, on June 15, 1960. He was killed when a
car in which he was riding skidded into the path of a freight train at Wilmington, California.
He died at Seaside Hospital less than an hour after the accident.
A fire department crew removed him from the wreckage.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Clara (Petersen) Strathman, and two sisters,
Donarae (Mrs. Leroy) Kienast and Lavonne Joyce (Mrs.
Jasper) Richards, all of Long Beach.
He was preceded in death by his father, Lee, formerly of Manning, and a
brother, Gene, killed during World War II.
Others injured in the accident were Patricia J. Irvine, 39, Santa Ana, California,
and David Bastian, 26, stationed with the Coast Guard at Terminal Island.