No developments in missing plane No developments in missing plane (October 22, 2004)

Family not seeking donations
by Teresa C. Brown

The family of missing Pleasanton man Lloyd Koenig is not seeking search donations, as reported in the Weekly last week. Koenig, 69, is one of a party of five who was reported missing Sept. 20 during a fishing trip in Alaska.

Koenig's son Dan Koenig said he, his mother and his siblings are not asking for donations. That request was issued Oct. 6 by Lloyd Koenig's sister, Pat Flesuras of Vacaville.

Koenig and four other men, Jim Murphy of Sequim, Wash.; twin brothers Joe Murphy of Bremerton, Wash., and Jerry Balmer of Auburn, Calif.; and pilot Eric Johnson of Sitka, were en route to a lodge outside Sitka.

The entire group as well as their floatplane is still listed as missing and nothing further has developed in the case, said Petty Officer Tom McKenzie of the 17th Coast Guard in Alaska on Wednesday morning.

The group was reported missing when they did not arrive at their destination. The Coast Guard searched for 10 days from Sitka to Baranof Warm Spring Bay, including deploying the Coast Guard cutter Maple and its crew to search in the Peril Strait, before suspending the search Sept. 29. Some private searches continued.

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