The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic-Eastbay Victims

From: Oakland Tribune, 15 October 1918, Page 2, Column 4

EASTBAY MEN ARE INFLUENZA VICTIMS

In Lieutenant Edwin McLaren Busser, M. L. Frandy and Reginald Ellis, pneumonia following Spanish influenza has claimed its toll of Eastbay city men in military service, according to telegrams received by their families.

Lieutenant Busser, son of S. E. Busser, a member of the general staff of the Santa Fe railroad and brother of Mrs. H. W. Whitworth, president of Oakland center, California League, died yesterday at Camp Meade, Maryland. He was attached to the Sixty-third Infanty. Lieutenant Busser was a member of the class of 1920, University of California, and a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Occidental Lodge of San Francisco. He was stationed at the Presidio before receiving orders to report at Camp Meade on August 12. Burial will take place in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D. C.

Frandy was a member of the class of 1918, University of California. He was a big "C" track man and a member of the Sigma Phi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi engineering society. His parents reside in Grass Valley. Frandy died at Camp Humphrey.

Mrs. E. D. Ellis, 1437 First avenue, was en route to visit her son at Kelly Field, Tex. when word of his death was sent to Oakland. He is 29 years old and enlisted with the quartermasters' department shortly after the declaration of war. His father was formerly a councilman in Alameda. The body will be brought to California for interment.