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4A | THEPRESS.NET COMMUNITY JULY 4, 2008
Community stunned by double tragedy
by Rick Lemyre
Staff Writer
A shocked and saddened community
this week mourned the deaths of two young
couples and began efforts to help care for
the seven orphans left behind.
Erik Nunn, his wife, Tanya, and their
friends and neighbors Craig and Michele
Wilson, died in a plane crash Saturday as
they were returning from an anniversary
celebration in Las Vegas. The Federal Aviation
Administration said the four-passenger
Piper Cherokee Nunn was piloting clipped
power lines and crashed in fl ames about 20
miles west of the Las Vegas airport they
had just left. There were no survivors in the
crash, the cause of which is under investigation.
Nunn, 37, was the Oakley Planning
Commission chair and a candidate for the
District V seat on the County Board of Supervisors.
Wilson, 36, was a BART police
offi cer.
The Nunns leave behind four children,
ages 4 to 9; the Wilsons leave three children
between 3 and 14. Grandparents and other
family members are now caring for the children.
“This is a great loss for our community;
a huge, huge tragedy,” said Oakley City
Councilman Brad Nix. “All of us at the city
are casting about for what we can do, especially
for the children.”
A pair of accounts, the Nunn Children
Reverse Mortgage
Trust Fund and the Wilson Children Trust
Fund, have been set up at Oakley’s Bank
of the West, 2195 Main St. in Oakley. The
phone number is 925-625-2211. And the
BART Police Offi cers Association in Oakland
has established The Children of Craig
Wilson Trust Fund. Call 510-464-7182 for
information.
Community members arrived in
droves to offer condolences this week at
the couples’ homes – they lived just a few
houses apart. Nunn was remembered as
a leader, a man of integrity and a man of
God. He was the pastor of New Lifeline
Ministries Church in Oakley, members of
which helped look after the children and
did chores at the Nunn house this week.
Around town, the fl ag fl ew at half-staff at
Oakley City Hall, while black ribbons were
placed on Nunn’s campaign signs.
BART offi cers were also wearing black
ribbons this week in honor of Wilson.
BART Police Chief Gary Gee issued a statement
that said “This is a tremendous loss to
the BART police family. Offi cer Wilson was
a bright, dedicated and promising member
of the force. Our heartfelt sympathies go
out to his family in their time of grief.
Curtis Faletti coached the Wilsons’
oldest daughter in soccer.
“It’s a very tragic thing. They were
such a close-knit family, and the mom (Mrs.
Wilson) played on my wife’s softball team,
so we got to know them that way, too. The
kids were always at the games watching
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their mom play. As a parent, (Mr. Wilson)
was always there on the sidelines to see his
daughter play. It’s very sad.”
Oakley City Councilmember Kevin
Romick said a resolution would be introduced
at the next council meeting to rename
Dewey Park to Nunn-Wilson Park. Honor
guards and other special observances were
being planned for upcoming city meetings,
as well as for the city’s anniversary celebration
this weekend.
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Craig and Michele Wilson of Oakley, left, and Erik and Tanya Nunn, right,
were killed in a single-engine plane crash last weekend near Las Vegas,
leaving behind a total of seven children.
what will become of the District V election.
Nunn fi nished as the second of fi ve candidates
in the June primary, as was set to face
incumbent Federal Glover in November.
It’s possible that the third-place fi nisher,
Antioch school board member Gary Agopian,
will take Nunn’s place on the ballot.
Services for the Wilsons were to be
held Thursday; services for the Nunns were
pending at press time.
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