March 6, 1930 - December 25, 1971
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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