05-Nov-1999 Friday
Memorial services are scheduled or being planned for seven victims
of
EgyptAir Flight 990 who had San Diego ties.
Betty and David Van
Buskirk, Barbara and Jerry Freeman, Robert and Mary
Rice and
Gavin Stearns were among the 217 passengers who were killed
when
their Egypt-bound jetliner plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday.
A memorial service for Mr. and Mrs. Rice is scheduled at 4 p.m. tomorrow
at
Fletcher Hills Presbyterian Church in El Cajon, which the retired
couple
attended.
Mr. Stearns, who graduated from Hilltop High School
in Chula Vista, will be
formally remembered at a gathering of family and
friends next month in Los
Altos in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived
and worked as a
computer specialist.
Mr. Stearns is survived by his
mother, Charlotte Stanley, and stepfather,
Ron Stanley, of Chula Vista; his
sister, Lisa, of Norway; and a cousin,
Carole Fuller of Washington state.
Memorial services were being planned for Mr. and Mrs. Van Buskirk and
Mr.
and Mrs. Freeman, longtime friends who were traveling together on
the
flight.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Buskirk are survived by their daughter,
Lisa Van Buskirk;
and three grandchildren. A memorial service is being
planned for sometime
next weekend, Lisa Van Buskirk said.
Mr. and
Mrs. Freeman are survived by children from separate marriages. A
memorial for
them is being planned.
Mrs. Rice, a retired nurse who was active with
the local Alzheimer's
Association, is survived by her children from her first
marriage, Gaia
Layser of Oregon, Richard Layser of Virginia and Terri
Rabinowicz of
Colorado.
Her first husband was a Navy pilot who died
in a plane crash during
training exercises in Europe in the 1960s, Gaia
Layser said.
Mr. Rice, a retired General Dynamics engineer, is survived
by Robin Purdie
of the Sacramento area and Diana Rich of Maryland,
stepchildren from his
first marriage.
The couple loved to travel and
participate in race-walking events around
the world. They were planning to
visit Spain next year.