PALO ALTO, Calif. - Graveside services for Mr. Charles Calvert Bruker, Jr., of Palo Alto, Calif., will be conducted Friday, August 3, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at Westover Memorial Park, Augusta Georgia with Dr. Jacob Malone officiating. Mr. Bruker was a native of Augusta. His parents who preceded him in death were Ethel R. Bell of Walhalla, S.C. and Charles C. Bruker, Sr. of Augusta, Ga. He is survived by his only child, Patricia D. Bruker of Los Angeles, Eugene N. Bruker, his only sibling, of Augusta. He is also survived by first cousins, W. Cason Bruker and Marjorie D. Davis of Augusta and Parma, Ohio, respectively; nieces, Bonnie Jo Bruker and Kerry A. Bruker of Augusta, Stephanie Wolfe of Fernandina, Fla.; nephews, Glynn S. Bruker and Calvert L. Bruker of Augusta.
Charles' passion was piloting aircraft. He learned to fly in his early teens at the Augusta School of Aviation when it was opened in 1940 by Buster Boshears at the Shultz Hill Airport in North Augusta, soloing at age 16 in 1942. He Received his U.S. Navy Wings in 1945. He taught flying at the Memphis and San Diego Naval Stations and in Mississippi for the USAF. He joined Hewlett-Packard aircraft diagnostic section in 1953 and was a corporate pilot until retiring in 1993 in Palo Alto. His Naval Reserve duties allowed him to fly many patrol missions in the Pacific Islands, as at Iwo Jima.
© Willow Glenn Funeral Home, San Jose, Calif - 2007
Charles' passion was piloting aircraft. He learned to fly in his early teens at the Augusta School of Aviation when it was opened in 1940 by Buster Boshears at the Shultz Hill Airport in North Augusta, soloing at age 16 in 1942. He Received his U.S. Navy Wings in 1945. He taught flying at the Memphis and San Diego Naval Stations and in Mississippi for the USAF. He joined Hewlett-Packard aircraft diagnostic section in 1953 and was a corporate pilot until retiring in 1993 in Palo Alto. His Naval Reserve duties allowed him to fly many patrol missions in the Pacific Islands, as at Iwo Jima.
© Willow Glenn Funeral Home, San Jose, Calif - 2007
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Graveside services for Mr. Charles Calvert Bruker, Jr., of Palo Alto, Calif., will be conducted Friday, August 3, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at Westover Memorial Park, Augusta Georgia with Dr. Jacob Malone officiating. Mr. Bruker was a native of Augusta. His parents who preceded him in death were Ethel R. Bell of Walhalla, S.C. and Charles C. Bruker, Sr. of Augusta, Ga. He is survived by his only child, Patricia D. Bruker of Los Angeles, Eugene N. Bruker, his only sibling, of Augusta. He is also survived by first cousins, W. Cason Bruker and Marjorie D. Davis of Augusta and Parma, Ohio, respectively; nieces, Bonnie Jo Bruker and Kerry A. Bruker of Augusta, Stephanie Wolfe of Fernandina, Fla.; nephews, Glynn S. Bruker and Calvert L. Bruker of Augusta.
Charles' passion was piloting aircraft. He learned to fly in his early teens at the Augusta School of Aviation when it was opened in 1940 by Buster Boshears at the Shultz Hill Airport in North Augusta, soloing at age 16 in 1942. He Received his U.S. Navy Wings in 1945. He taught flying at the Memphis and San Diego Naval Stations and in Mississippi for the USAF. He joined Hewlett-Packard aircraft diagnostic section in 1953 and was a corporate pilot until retiring in 1993 in Palo Alto. His Naval Reserve duties allowed him to fly many patrol missions in the Pacific Islands, as at Iwo Jima.
© Willow Glenn Funeral Home, San Jose, Calif - 2007
Charles' passion was piloting aircraft. He learned to fly in his early teens at the Augusta School of Aviation when it was opened in 1940 by Buster Boshears at the Shultz Hill Airport in North Augusta, soloing at age 16 in 1942. He Received his U.S. Navy Wings in 1945. He taught flying at the Memphis and San Diego Naval Stations and in Mississippi for the USAF. He joined Hewlett-Packard aircraft diagnostic section in 1953 and was a corporate pilot until retiring in 1993 in Palo Alto. His Naval Reserve duties allowed him to fly many patrol missions in the Pacific Islands, as at Iwo Jima.
© Willow Glenn Funeral Home, San Jose, Calif - 2007
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