Flores, William Ray
Coast Guard Seaman apprentice

William Ray Flores, age 18, from Carlsbad, New Mexico, Eddy county.

Service era: Cold War

Date of death: Monday, January 28, 1980
Death details: Among the 23 who died when the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with a tanker near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in Florida.
Cemetery: Benbrook, Texas

Source: United State Coast Guard, Tampa Bay Times (1980), findagrave.com