The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic-Millerberg Funeral

From: Oakland Tribune, 10 October 1918, Page 5, Column 2

MILITARY HONORS TO BE GIVEN AT FUNERAL

The funeral of Private W. E. Millerberg, U. S. N. will take place on Saturday afternoon from the parlors of the Grant D. Miller Company at Twenty-fourth avenue and East Fourteenth street with full military honors. Millerberg died on Friday at the League Island Hospital in Philadelphia of Spanish influenza. He was ill three weeks. The body is being brought to Oakland. Millerberg enlisted in the Marine Corps a year ago, and was recently ordered to Philadelphia. He is the son of Mrs. E. H. Lane, 738 East Sixteenth street and brother of Miss Alpha Millerberg. He was 23 years old. Formerly he lived in Salt Lake City where he was a member of Aerie No. 67, Fraternal Order of Eagles.