Monuments
Victims of the El Salvador Civil War Monument
Victims of the El Salvador Civil War Additional Monument
Eric David Funderburg was born in Medford, OR. He went to Kindergarten at Lone Pine Elementary there, then grades 1-3 at Richardson Elem. in Central Point, OR. He then moved with his family to Yreka, CA, where he graduated from high school in 1988. After a year at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, he joined the Army and trained as a helicopter pilot at Fort Rucker, AL. He was assigned to Honduras/El Salvador, where he died on February 25, 1991, at age 21, when the helicopter he was co-piloting crashed into Lake Ilopango in El Salvador after a tail rotor failure. WO1 Funderburg is now buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, USA.
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