Soto, William "Bill"

March 6, 1930 - December 25, 1971


Tribune Driver Bill Soto
Soto Dies in Crash CONCORD – William Soto, a Tribune circulation driver, was killed Saturday when his truck, laden with Christmas Day newspapers, ran off Kirker Pass Road and down a steep ravine, the California Highway Patrol reported.  Soto, 41, of 2686 74th Ave., Oakland, 'had been traveling south at the foot of Kirker Pass Road near C l a y t o n Road, a mile northeast of here, sometime between 6 am. and 8 a.m., the CHP said.
There was no immediate indication why the truck left the road. The accident apparently was not discovered for some time, and it took until 1:10p.m. to remove the wreckage and the victim.
Mr. Soto, a native of Berkeley  and a graduate of Fremont  High School in Oakland, was a Tribune circulation employee for over 18 years—on the loading docks, as a truck driver, as a district adviser for more than 2 years, and again as a driver for the past  two years.
He was a member of the board of directors o baseball's Babe Ruth League of Metropolitan Oakland, a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Benedict's Catholic Church in Oakland, and a member of Local 96 of the Teamsters Union. Surviving are his wife, Florence; a son, David; two daughters, Lori and Katfay; his mother, Mrs. Leonora Soto of Oakland; a sister, Mrs. Eleanor Cappa of Union City; and six brothers, Herbert of Oakland, Joseph of Castro Valley, Manuel of San Leandro, Arthur of Hayward, Arnold of San Lorenzo and Raymond of Union City. 
Arthur Soto was "a-former middleweight boxer.  Funeral arrangements, to be handled by the Charles P. Bannon Mortuary of Oakland 

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