Deputy Sheriff Ray Delton Bockman

Ray Delton Bockman

Deputy Sheriff Ray Bockman, Sergeant Marvin Kline, and Pilot Douglas Moonen were killed in an aircraft accident while on a training mission at 9:45 am.

They were practicing looking for drowning victims on the Kern River when the Cessna 206 hit a high-tension power line and tree before it crashed in Hart Memorial Park, six miles north of Bakersfield.

Deputy Bockman had served with the Kern County Sheriff's Department for 11 years. He was survived by his wife, daughter, and two sons.