Obituaries
Margery Holt
Aug 20, 2009
MARGERY ANN HOLT, 75, of El Macero, California passed away Thursday, August 20, 2009 at her home. She had been an area resident for 39 years. Our mother was born December 20, 1933 in Denver Colorado to Elizabeth and Wayne Ofstad. Margery was an only child and quickly learned the benefit of being born into an Italian Family. Educated in...
Lottie Schellhorn
Aug 20, 2009
Surrounded by her family, Lottie Pearl Schellhorn passed away August 20, 2009 at the age of 83. Born November 27, 1925 in Eureka Springs, AR to Zona and William Scates, she lived the majority of her life in the Dixon and Davis area of Northern California with her wonderful husband, William Schellhorn. They had three children. Pearl will be remembered...
Mary Stein
Aug 19, 2009
Mary Ellen Stein of Woodland CA, formerly of El Macero, CA passed away Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at her home. She had been an area resident for 45 years. Mary was born February 3, 1920 in Providence Rhode Island to Annie and Frederick Waldraff. She had lifelong love of reading and fine arts Mary instilled that love in her children...
Madeline Williams
Aug 16, 2009
Longtime Davis resident Patricia 'Pat' Williams, a mental health leader in Yolo County who established Pine Tree Gardens residential group home in Davis and Safe Harbor Crisis House in Woodland, and co-founded the Yolo Community Care Continuum, died of pneumonia Aug. 16 at North Sacramento Kaiser Hospital. She was 86. Among many accolades, Williams and her husband, Bill, received the...
Howard Ross
Aug 12, 2009
Howard I. Ross died on Aug. 12, 2009, of cardiac arrest. He was 97. He was preceded in death by his wife, Edith, who died in 2005. Born in 1911, in Ipswich, Mass., to Herbert and Bessie Ross, he was the oldest of six children. In his teen years he worked at Myopia Hunt Club in Wenham, Mass., training and...
Stacey Hernandez
Aug 7, 2009
Stacey Marie Speegle-Hernandez died on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 from the H1N1 "swine flu" virus. She was 30. Ms. Speegle-Hernandez is survived by her daughters Jasmine Hernandez of Madison, and Brianna Hernandez in Winters; son Humberto (Ricky) Hernandez of Madison; parents Tamara and Charles Brooks of Esparto, and Joseph and Beth Speegle of Winters; sister Nichole Cruz and husband Joseph...
Myrtle Kidder
Aug 2, 2009
Myrtle Oma Kidder, age 95, passed away on August 2, 2009 in Woodland, California. She was born on July 11, 1914 in Suisan, California to Edward and Ruby Hopkins Walther. She married Glenn C. Kidder on July 14, 1935 in Fairfield, California; he preceded her in death on September 18, 1989. Mrs. Kidder moved to Winters in 1941 from Fairfield....
Guillermo Lopez
Aug 1, 2009
Dr. Guillermo Lpez of El Macero died peacefully in his sleep on August 1, 2009. He was born in Ajo, Arizona, the second of four children. He left home at the age of fourteen and traveled to Los Angeles, California, in search of work. At sixteen, being homeless, he joined the Navy during World War II and became a Medical...
Ellen Beede
Jul 31, 2009
July 23, 1924 - July 31, 2009 | | August 29, 2009 23:30 The long, purposeful and loving earthly life of Ellen Valkyrie Beede has come peacefully to an end in Davis, her home for more than half a century. She was surrounded by the love of her family and closest friends, many of whom visited her in her last...
Anthony Hance
Jul 31, 2009
Anthony James Hance passed away peacefully on July 31, 2009, in Davis, California. Jim Hance and his family were Davis residents for 41 years, after moving from Mountain View in 1968. Born August 19, 1932, in Bournemouth, England, Jim Hance was a dedicated and gifted scholar, and was the first in his family to attend college. As a schoolboy, he...
Cecilie Taylor
Jul 31, 2009
CECILIE McLEAN TAYLOR passed away July 31, 2009 at home in Fremont, California of ovarian cancer at age 47. Cecilie was born in Pasadena CA, and grew up in Arcadia and Orinda CA. She worked for 20 years in San Francisco for her fathers company, George Lithograph Printing. Survived by her father J. Curtiss Taylor (T.J.) of San Francisco, formerly...
Robert Wion
Jul 30, 2009
Robert (Bob) Charles Wion, age 61 passed away on July 30, 2009 due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He was born on November 13, 1947 in Redding, California to Robert D. and Evelyn Lois (Spray) Wion. Robert was an avid hunter and fisherman and was a law enforcement officer for over 20 years, he was retired from...
Merle Nicholson
Jul 28, 2009
Merle Bernice Nicholson, 98, of Davis passed away Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at Sierra Health Care. She had been an area resident for 70 years. She was born August 15, 1910 to Olive and Warren Tarr. Graveside services will be held Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. at Vacaville Elmira Cemetery, 522 Elmira Road.
Anthony McKinney
Jul 13, 2009
Beloved son, brother and uncle, Tony passed away at age 50. He was born in Marysville, CA and was a resident of Davis for many years. Tony was preceded in death by his father, Tomie A. McKinney. He is survived by his mother, Myrna McKinney and sisters Gina (Jim) Towne and Suzanne (Jack) Lutchansky. Also survived by loving nieces Holly...
Barbara Lindholtz
Jul 7, 2009
Barbara L. Lindholtz died Tuesday evening, July 7, one month and two days before her eighty-fifth birthday. She was born at home on August 9, 1924 to Ethan and Adele Wilson, just a block off San Fernando Road in Los Angeles. She graduated from Eagle Rock High School in February, 1942. She was active in the Girls Athletic Association in...
Antoinette Dietrich
Jun 27, 2009
Antoinette Lee L. Dietrich, 99, of Davis, passed away June 27, 2009 at her home. She had been an area resident for over 55 years. Lee was born February 12, 1910 in Penryn, California to Matilda and John Lalla. Lee was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Dietrich in August 2008. Graveside services will be held Monday, July 6,...
Tommy Flynn
Jun 25, 2009
Tommy Flynn died of heart failure in Kaiser Hospital in Sacramento after a brief illness. He was born in the Great Lakes Naval Hospital in Illinois to Ann Cameron and Richard Thomas Flynn and spent his early, pre-high school years in Augsburg, Germany, and in Allen Park, Detroit. His father, until he retired, was a full-time U.S. Army Command sergeant...
Kevin Whitehead
Jun 24, 2009
Kevin Scott Whitehead of Dixon passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2009. He was born April 1, 1961 in Omaha , Nebraska, but was raised in Davis . Kevin is survived by his best friend & wife, Pamela, his daughter, Kaley, his parents Ron and Jean Whitehead, his sister Rhonda Webber, brother-in-law Michael and nephew Matthew, his aunt, Rita Mt. Joy,...
Mozelle Nance
Jun 16, 2009
Nettie Mozelle (Estes) Nance passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at her Winters residence. She was 86. Born on August 13, 1922 in Hughes, Oklahoma, to Jesse and Minnie Davidson, she grew up in eastern Oklahoma. In 1940, she married Edward Estes, and they moved to Winters and pastored the Assembly of God church for 16 years where...
George Sawai
May 23, 2009
George Atsushi Sawai, 87, passed away peacefully on May 23, 2009 in Davis, CA after a brief illness. He was born on August 4, 1921, in Oakland, CA. George worked as a sales representative for 25 years for the Nichimen Corporation until his retirement in 1989. George was interned at the Topaz Relocation Camp in Utah during World War II....
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