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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Joe Holley / The Bulletin
July 26, 2009
WASHINGTON — Bobby Wilks, the first African-American Coast Guard aviator and the first African-American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain, died July 13 at Emeritus at Lake Ridge, an assisted-living community in Woodbridge, Va., of complications from Parkinson’s....
