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CAPTAIN ERICK "SCORTCH" SCHMIDT © The Enid News and Eagle
Enid, Garfield Co., OK
Feb. 5, 2011Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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A memorial service for Capt. Eric “Scorch” Schmidt will be 6 p.m. Monday at Enid Mennonite Brethren Church, with the Rev. Garvie Schmidt officiating. Arrangements are by Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
Enid residents may be able to see something out of the ordinary Monday if they look to the skies. An Air Force B-52 bomber will make a flyover for the funeral of Capt. Eric “Scorch” Schmidt, who is being buried at Enid Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. The flyover will be between 3:50 and 4 p.m. The bomber is from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB in North Dakota.
Schmidt attended pilot training at Vance Air Force Base, graduating with Class 07-01, and died Tuesday of cancer.
Schmidt was born Dec. 14, 1974, in Sleepy Eye, Minn. He joined the Air Force and was an AC-130 aerial gunner for six years. He attended the University of Tennessee, graduating in 2003 with an industrial engineering degree. Commissioned through ROTC, he began pilot training at Whiting Field near Pensacola, Fla., and finished at Vance.
While stationed at Vance, he married Laura Ediger, of Enid, on Sept. 22, 2007. He was stationed at Minot from September 2007 through September 2009 as part of the 23rd Bomb Squadron flying B-52s. In September 2009, they moved to Barksdale AFB, La., and he joined the 96th Bomb Squadron. He then served with the 2nd Operations Support Squadron.
He is survived by his wife, Laura, and son Landon, who was born Oct. 11, 2010.
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