Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Erb William C 430625 p2
Nephew of Local People Lost in Action; Flight Officer William C. Erb, nephew of Miss W. C. and E. M. Erb of Loquot
Avenue, was reported lost in action in the Southwest Pacific on June 14th, according to word received by his mother, Mrs
Ruth Erb of Los Angeles. He was 22 years of age. Graduating from Mather Field last June, he flew to Australia last
January and has been stationed in that area ever since, a recent letter stating that he had just returned from a 7000-mile
flight. His father, the late Paul C. Erb, resided here on the Erb ranch from 1913 to 1915, and the lost flyer and his brother,
Paul, Jr., spent a couple of summers here on the ranch several years ago. Paul, Jr., is now stationed at Kirtland Field at
Albuquerque, New Mexico.