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Memorial service scheduled for Spokane missionaries

By: Tracy Simmons

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June 14, 2012

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The Ericksons, of Spokane, died in Zambia this weekend/Contributed photo

A memorial service for Jay and Katrina Erickson will be held Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Hillyard Baptist Church, 2121 E. Wabash.

The Spokane coupled died June 2 while serving as missionaries in Zambia. Jay Erickson, a 2010 Moody Aviation graduate, was piloting a small aircraft when it hit power lines and crashed into the Zambezi River. He and his wife were the only ones on board.

Their two young children, Marina and Coral, have been brought back to the United States.

Do you have any memories of the Erickson's that you'd like to share?

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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