Obituaries
Robert W. Medearis
Sep 16, 2024
Robert W. (Bob) Medearis, husband, father, real estate developer, and entrepreneur passed away on September 16, 2024.
Bob was born the third of three brothers in Kansas City, Kansas on May 18, 1932, to physician Dr. Donald N. Medearis and Gladys Sandford Medearis. Growing up in Kansas City, Bob was an avid tennis player and basketball player.
Bob headed west to play...
James G. Fadel
Sep 11, 2024
James (Jim) G. Fadel passed away on September 11, 2024, after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Jim was born on July 4, 1948, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and grew up in Ohio.
He went on to earn three degrees, with a PhD from Cornell University. After several post-docs, he secured a faculty position at UC Davis Department of Animal Science...
Mike Hoffman
Sep 6, 2024
Myron "Mike" Hoffman was born in Chicago on November 15, 1930, and went to Hyde Park High School on the south side of the city. After high school he went to MIT as a freshman in 1947. He got his BS, MS and PhD at MIT and in 1955 he became an Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at MIT. In...
Audrey Cooley Fowler
Aug 30, 2024
Audrey Cooley FowlerAugust 24, 1929 - August 30, 2024Audrey Cooley Fowler passed away peacefully on August 30, 2024. Audrey was born on August 24, 1929 at Logan, Cache, Utah. Her parents, Marcus Robert Cooley, Jr. and Marvel Griffin lived in Newton, Utah, a small farming community. Since her older brothers served in the military during World War II, Audrey and...
John Michael Thornton
Aug 25, 2024
John Michael Thornton, age 21, passed away at home in the arms of his loved ones on August 25, 2024 from Sanfilippo Syndrome, also known as MPS IIIA.
John was born in Livingston, New Jersey on December 9, 2002 and moved to Davis, California in June 2003. John hit the ground running. He attended pre-school in Davis with teacher Deedra Seibert....
Chris Erba
Aug 8, 2024
Chris Erba, beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away peacefully in Davis, California on August 8, 2024, at the age of 89. Chris is survived by her three children and five step children, as well as sixteen grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Erba, who passed away in 2013.
Chris was born on March...
Ann Christine Thompson
Aug 4, 2024
Ann Christine Thompson, 73, of Davis, California passed away on Sunday August 04, 2024.
She was born January 18, 1951 in Bakersfield, California, the daughter of Anton and Marie (Struempf) Poettgen. She grew up in Wasco, California with her sister and brother. She graduated from Mount Saint Mary’s College with a bachelor’s of science in psychology. While in college she met...
Hanni Zweifel
Jul 30, 2024
We say goodbye to Hanni Zweifel, a resident of Davis since 1963, who passed away on July 30, 2024 at the age of 94. She was born in Horgen, Switzerland and grew up on a family farm with her four siblings in the German-speaking region of northern Switzerland. After graduating from high school, she spent a year in the French-speaking...
Deborah Lee Mayhew
Jul 28, 2024
Deborah Lee "Debbie" Mayhew, aged 67, passed away peacefully at her home in Davis, CA, on July 28, 2024, after a courageous 13-year battle with early onset frontotemporal dementia. Born on March 19, 1957, in Hawaii, United States, Debbie was a celebrated musician, educator, and writer.
Debbie's early life was steeped in the arts, surrounded by books and music which fueled...
Albert Lee Allen
Jul 18, 2024
Albert Lee Allen died of Pancreatic Cancer in his home with his family close by his side on Thursday, July 18, 2024. He had recently moved to Davis, CA, with his wife Sharon (Chambers) Allen to be closer to family, however his home will forever be tied to the Palmyra Iowa area. His life of service to his faith, family,...
Pius John Kamber, Sr.
Jul 16, 2024
We said goodbye to our beloved patriarch Pius John Kamber Sr., born Aug. 14, 1924, passed July 16, 2024, in his home of 65 years in Davis. We celebrate his very nearly 100 years of life remembering him and his legacy with love and many fond memories.
Pius was born to Herman and Marie Kamber in Solothurn, Switzerland, and was the...
Mary Martha Hewes Tupper
Jul 14, 2024
Mary Martha Hewes born October 30th, 1921; died peacefully July 14th, 2024. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she grew up there, and in San Diego and Colorado. She attended San Diego State, joined the Alpha Phi Sorority and met the love of her life, C. John Tupper. She worked at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation for money for school, supporting the WWar II...
Peter Linz
Jul 11, 2024
Peter Linz, emeritus professor of math and computer science at UC Davis, and founder of Logos Books in Davis, passed away at his home there on Thursday, July 11, 2024.
He was born in Apatin, Yugoslavia (Serbia), a city founded by Austrian immigrants, on July 19, 1936. Peter immigrated with his family in 1952 to Montréal, Canada, where he finished high...
Robin Affrim
Jul 7, 2024
Robin Affrime, age 72, passed away on July 7th, 2024. Robin was a loving Wife, Sister, Mother and Grandmother, who in her professional career was extremely devoted to service and activism. Robin traveled the world and was a better person for it, she loved sharing in great meals, laughter and storytelling with her friends and family. Robin was full of...
Bridget Murray Taylor Huntington
Jul 2, 2024
Bridget was born on 20 September 1924 to Pauline S. and Frank H. Taylor of Kemmerer, Wyoming. After growing up in that small ranching and mining town, she graduated from UC Berkeley in 1946 with a degree in English. Bridget then taught briefly at a one-room school back in Wyoming, returned to California, married her husband Gordon L. Huntington in...
Charlotte J. Lucero
Jul 1, 2024
Charlotte Joyce Apodaca Lucero passed on to higher ground on July 1, 2024. The fifth of eight children, she was born to Joe and Charlotte Apodaca on March 3, 1943, in Woodland California. She moved to Davis, CA in 1966, where she lived for almost 60 years. She and her husband Rudy, who passed in March of 1993, raised four...
Kathy T. Robertson
Jun 24, 2024
Katherine Taylor Robertson, 73, passed away on June 24, 2024, in Davis, California from complications arising from a pulmonary infection.
Kathy was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico on November 15, 1950, to Ted and Caro Taylor.
She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Scripps College in Claremont, California where she met David Robertson. They married on June 5, 1972, one...
Maria Adelaida Montenegro
Jun 18, 2024
Maria Adelaida Montenegro, 83, affectionately known as “La Weda” passed away on June 18, 2024 in Sacramento, California.
Maria was born to Julio and Pillar Pena on December 15, 1940, in Reynosa Tamaulipas, Mexico. Maria immigrated to Winters with her former husband, Jesus and their two oldest children in the early 1960’s. She was preceded in death by her parents, four...
Richard A. Cooper
Jun 16, 2024
Richard Alexander Cooper, a Davis resident since 1982, died Sunday, June 16, 2024 after a brief illness. Born January 27, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia, he was the son of Richard Nathan and Sarah Spivey Cooper. He is survived by his wife Janice, his son Justin, grandchildren Ian and Helen, and sister Carol. Richard was a graduate of Duke University and...
Henry G. Timm
Jun 12, 2024
Henry Timm passed away peacefully at the age of 73 on June 12, 2024. Born to Herman and Eileen Timm, Henry was the eldest of 7 children. When Henry was 4 years old his family moved from Ithaca, NY, to Davis, CA. His family’s New York roots sparked his love for the NY Yankees. In 1967, between his junior and...
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