Eric Botkin died Dec. 27 at the age of 41 at his home in Temecula. He had worked for the Riverside Fire Department for more than 10 years before retiring on Oct. 30, 2008, said Division Chief John Martinez in a news release.
Botkin was diagnosed in October 2007 with a glioblastoma multiforme, a form of brain cancer. Martinez said the cancer was “occupational related.”
Access to Lime will be limited from Mission Inn Avenue to 14th Street between 7 and 9:30 a.m., and then at 9:30 a.m. Lime will be closed between 10th and 14th streets. The street will reopen about 1 p.m.
The funeral will be at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church at Lime and 12th Street.
Botkin is survived by his wife, Hallie, and his son, Hunter, 10.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to the Eric Botkin Memorial Fund, which will assist the families of firefighters suffering hardships due to a firefighter’s injury or illness.
Mail donations to the fund in care of Riverside City Firefighters Association, P.O. Box 7817, Riverside, CA 92513-7817. Make checks payable to RCFA, and note on the memo line Eric Botkin Memorial Fund.
—Steven Barrie / Press Enterprise
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