{"id":6191,"date":"2012-07-03T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2012-07-07T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T01:02:21","slug":"sk-larry-becker-w5veo-june-28-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=6191","title":{"rendered":"SK – Larry Becker W5VEO – June 28, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Larry Becker W5VEO<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Larry Becker W5VEO, a well known & active member of Kendall Amateur Radio Socity (KARS), was hit and killed Thursday night (6\/28\/2012)\u00a0while riding his bicycle on the access road of Interstate 10 in Kendall County.\u00a0 Larry was 69 years old, a ham operator\u00a0& a dermatologist with offices in Boerne and San Antonio.He had last been spotted riding his bicycle along the IH-10 access road less than an hour before the accident by another KARS member, who said Larry had been wearing his trademark bright yellow jersey and a helmet. It was dry and still daylight at the time Larry was hit by the truck.<\/p>\n

Around 7:15 p.m. on 06\/28\/2012, Dr. Larry Becker was struck by an unknown vehicle that fled the scene in the 39000 block of west-bound Interstate 10, a relative confirmed. A Department of Public Safety official said the impact of the crash threw Becker into a ditch and left his bike, a carbon fiber racing-style bicycle, in pieces. Officers at the scene said Becker had died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

His wife, Dorothy made public pleas via the news media for information about the hit & run accident, asking for any witnesses or the person driving the vehicle to step forward.\u00a0 The Kendall County Crime Stoppers put a hefty reward out for info leading the arrest & conviction of the guilty person or persons.<\/p>\n

On Monday, July 2nd, after the word went out today about a $25,000 reward going out by Kendall County Crime Stoppers for info\/\/capture of the person who ran down, killed, and hit&run Doc Larry W5VEO Becker, Col MedicalCorps US Army, at 7pm last Thurs late-afternoon — the perp decided to turn himself in.\u00a0 Hams from KARS had been scouting out the area, looking for pickup trucks or other vehicles with a missing radio antenna (AM\/FM was found on the scene) and damage to the right front \/ side of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Richard reports the following details:<\/p>\n

1.)\u00a0 There will be a viewing at David Vaughn’s Funeral Home, here in Boerne, 319 East San Antonio St., on Monday 9 July from 6-8pm. 2.)\u00a0 The Funeral Service at 10:30am on Tue 10 July at First Baptist Church is still the same.\u00a0 There will be a lunch at the church afterwards. 3.)\u00a0\u00a0 But, Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery has made room to receive Larry with Military Honors at 2:30pm on Tuesday 10 July 2012.<\/p>\n

Our thanks to Richard McDaniel K4RMC & other KARS members for keeping us informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Larry Becker W5VEO, a well known & active member of Kendall Amateur Radio Socity (KARS), was hit and killed Thursday night (6\/28\/2012)\u00a0while riding his bicycle on the access road of Interstate 10 in Kendall County.\u00a0 Larry was 69 years old, a ham operator\u00a0& a dermatologist with offices in Boerne and San Antonio.He had last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,147],"tags":[696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}