Friday, July 11, 1997
Air Force officer from Stamford dies overseas
By JOHN STARBUCK
Staff Writer
STAMFORD - A 1968 Stamford High School graduate who had been
in the U.S. Air Force for nearly 20 years was among three people
killed Monday in an automobile accident in Saudi Arabia.
Lt. Col. Karen Prichard Budian, 46, whose mother, Reba F. Prichard,
lives in Stamford, had been stationed at National Air Intelligence
Center with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
"What happened was that they were traveling in a government-owned
Suburban and (it) blew a tire," said Staff Sgt. John Hancock,
public affairs official with the Air Force Personnel Center at
Randolph AFB in San Antonio.
The vehicle, which then overturned several times, had left
Eskan Village in Riyadh and was enroute to Prince Sultan Air Base
in Al Kharj. The accident also hospitalized three other people.
Budian, assigned to temporary duty with Joint Task Force Southwest
Asia, was the daughter of the late Robert A. Prichard.
She was born in Paris, Texas, and moved to Stamford in 1958.
She graduated with a degree in foreign language from East Texas
State University in Commerce in 1972 and enlisted in the Air Force
in October, 1977. She was a Baptist.
She is survived by her husband, Gerolf Budian; a son; her mother;
and a brother, Robert A. Prichard Jr. of California.
Kinney Funeral Home in Stamford will be handling arrangements.
Others killed in the accident were home stationed at Sheppard
AFB in Wichita Falls and Davis-Monthan AFB near Phoenix, Ariz.
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