Patrick Boyd Tobin, class of Summer 1955 passed away on Sunday, March 14, 2021, at home, in Julesburg Colorado, under Hospice, due to Diabetes. 

He was born in Glendale, California, on November 7, 1937. The son of Alice Katherine (Boyd) and Edward Raymond Tobin. 

The family moved to Long Beach, California during the early years of World War II, as his Father worked at Douglas Aircraft assembling the Norton bomb sites. 

After the war, the family moved to Burbank to a home on San Jose. By this time Pat had two younger brothers—Michael and Dennis.

Pat attended school at Bellermine through the tenth grade. He then went to Burbank High School for eleventh and twelfth grades. While there he joined the marching band and played the snare drum. He enjoyed following the football team to their home and away games.

Upon graduation he attended Glendale College. He joined the marching band and attended the football games as well as the home Basket Ball games. Also, while at Glendale College he met his future wife, Heather Seapy, while attending a meeting of Beta Kappa.

During this time He worked for The Burbank Daily Review in the Advertising Department. He transferred to San Fernando Valley State College, which later became Cal State Northridge. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting.  Two weeks later, he and Heather were married on June 25 at St. Robert’s. 

Pat went to work at Thrifty Drug Store in Burbank as an Assistant Manager and later was transferred to their West Van Nuys store. While at the Burbank store his first son, Ronald Charles, was born. Then son, Steven John came along after he transferred to the Van Nuys store. He was shot at during a holdup of the store. Time to find a different occupation. 

He was hired  as a Bodily Injury claims representative by Farmers Insurance Group. Then came the first Watts riots and due to his accounting background, he was promoted to Fire Claims Representative. The National Guard walked him to and from the markets that Pat had to inspect. 

He then went into management as Claims Office Supervisor working in Montebello and Long Beach at the traffic circle. He started his Scouting while in Long Beach; he became a Cubmaster. Then Assistant Scoutmaster. 

He became a Professional Liability Claims (Medical Malpractice) Representative for Farmers Truck Insurance Division. During this time, His Scouting continued. He enjoyed Hiking and Backpacking. He even led a few Treks at Philmont, a National Scouting Reservation in New Mexico. 

While living in Lakewood, Pat enrolled his, Ron in Cub Scouts. Almost immediately there were openings for parental leadership in the Pack. Heather became a Den Mother and Pat, the 

Cubmaster. The family moved to the City of Orange and all five of them were involved in Scouting. Pat started a Troop, and all three sons became involved.

While in Orange County Council he was awarded the Bronze Pelican, (for Catholic Scouting), District Award of Merit, Saint George, (for Catholic Scouting) and the Silver Beaver.  

In 1995, he moved to Glendale, Arizona as he was needed there for his job. He eventually retired and his health started declining. While in AZ, he was diagnosed with Diabetes. 

Summer of 2019 Pat and Heather moved to Julesburg, Colorado. This is where he passed away.

Michael Sean Mattor Sept. 5, 1963-May 27, 1993

Michael Sean Mattor died of AIDS on Thursday, May 27 at the San Francisco Zen Center Hospice. He was 29 years old. Michael was born in Syosset, Long Island, New York, and moved with his family to southern California where he attended high school and college. 

Michael relocated in 1987 to San Francisco. In the years he lived here he struggled to find happiness and acceptance in his life, and to avoid his wife. He was able to do both. Michael has had, and is still having, a profound effect on the people around him. His relentless humor and high spirits will haunt his friends forever. 

Michael’s generosity and love was greatly appreciated and is greatly missed. His dying wish was that everyone would be happier, relax and enjoy life more. That’s what his survivors are striving for. Contributions may be made in Michael’s name to the

San Francisco Zen Center Hospice, 273 Page Street, SF, CA 94102. 

Bay Area Reporter, Volume 23, Number 29, 22 July 1993

Terrence Kent Brock, BHS 1963

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Terrence Kent Brock was the son of Kenneth Chaplin Brock (1913-1975) and Edna Cavanaugh (1913-2012).

Ken and Edna owned and operated a company that manufactured test benches for the aerospace industry. They lived at 439 Andover Drive in Burbank, California, for many years. Upon retirement, they built a beautiful new home at 2768 Sierra Vista Way in Bishop, California, moving there to pursue various outdoor activities until their deaths

In youth Terry especially enjoyed the games of croquet and badminton, and also various board games. He collected stamps, particularly those of Bavaria.

Terry graduated from Burbank High School, Burbank, California, in 1963. Terry is survived by his older sister Gayle Montgomery, the wife of John Montgomery.

Terrence K. Brock (Terry) died of a heart attack on January 9th. He was an Air Force veteran during the Vietnam era and a highly intelligent software engineer who worked on significant projects such as the Hubble Telescope during his career. He was a generous man, helping those he wanted to get a leg up in life.

In lieu of flowers, gifts, or cards his loving family asks that anyone who wants to please donate in his name to your local food bank or to the Wounded Warrior Project. Because of the pandemic there will not be a memorial at this time. His ashes will be spread as he wished at a future date.

Published in Albuquerque Journal on Jan. 15, 2021.

My best friend, Janelle Gonzalez, class of 1991, passed away January 14, 2021 from an aneurysm. She suffered a cardiac aneurysm while in the hospital for an unknown illness. 

She is survived by both of her parents, Nick and Loyda, by her only child, Alana and her fiancé Eddie. 

She is greatly missed.  No other details at this time.

Posted on Facebook By Yvette Renee

He was born on Aug. 20, 1952, to James E. Crain and Adeline C. Crain in Gallup. He graduated from Burbank High School in Burbank, California, in 1971.

Mr. Crain is survived by his mother Adeline C. Crain of Milan and his brother Bill Crain of Milan. He was preceded in death by his father James E. Crain; his grandparents E.J. and Anna Gerard and Albert and Mertyl Crain; his uncle Robert Gerard and his aunts Anna Marie Farley and Catherine Turk.

A Rosary was recited on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Grants. A Funeral Mass was conducted on Thursday, Nov. 10, at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church with Fr. Matthew Keller as celebrant. Burial followed at Grants Memorial Park.

Pallbearers were Barry Taylor, Kenneth Bezy, Craig Morgan, Danny Rael, Joe Gallegos and Pat Page.

Compassion Mortuary of Grants was in charge of arrangements.

Published in The Independent, Gallup, New Mexico, November 2005

Wife Of Marine Now In Alaska Is Found Slain

Published in The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California, January 3, 1968

OCEANSIDE - The young wife of a Marine was found strangled early today, her body stuffed under a bed in her apartment.

The victim was Mrs. Marsha Lorena Tucker, 20, whose husband, Cpl. D.R. Tucker, is stationed in Adak, Alaska, said Deputy Coroner Richard Ewens. 

The body was discovered about 3 a.m. by Mrs. Tucker's roommate, Mrs. Linda Kroum, who told police she last saw her about 7 p.m. Tuesday. The roommate's husband also is a Marine stationed out of state.

Mrs. Tucker, auburn-haired, 5-foot-6 and 130 pounds, was found with a black wool belt knotted around her throat. She was clothed in capri pants, a white sweater blouse and a long-sleeved sweater. Ewens said there was no evidence that she had been sexually assaulted. Her purse, containing about $26, was nearby. Mrs. Tucker's car was missing.

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The Los Angeles Times, January 4, 1968

SOUTHLAND

The body of an attractive brunette was discovered in an apartment she had shared during the holidays with a girl friend. Mrs. Marsha Tucker, 20, the wife of a marine stationed in Alaska, had a black sash knotted around her neck when she was discovered by Mrs. Linda Kroum, 20, in their Oceanside apartment. Mrs. Tucker lived at 1747 N. Lincoln, Burbank.

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The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, CA, January 4, 1968

Police Question Marines In Death

OCEANSIDE - Police are questioning a number of Camp Pendleton Marines about the slaying of a young woman whose body was found under the bed in a friend's apartment. The victim, Mrs. Marsha Tucker, 20, was found yesterday by Mrs. Linda Kroum when she returned to her apartment from an outing. No arrests have been made.

The coroner's office tentatively listed the cause of death as suffocation due to strangulation. Police said a wool belt was knotted around Mrs. Tucker's throat. The victim, who had lived in Burbank, apparently had been visiting, Mrs. Kroum over the holidays.

Officers said Mrs. Tucker's car, which had been missing, was found inside the Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Mrs. Tucker's husband, Lance Cpl. Dennis R. Tucker, is a Marine stationed at Adak, Alaska.

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Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1968

Obituary

TUCKER, Marsha L., beloved wife of Dennis R. Tucker, daughter of Mrs. Bertha R. Bailey and John Bailey, sister of Christopher G. Bailey. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills. Forest Lawn Mortuary.

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Redlands Daily Facts, Redlands, California, February 24, 1968

Man found strangled - Marine Held in death

Oceanside, CA - A Marine from Camp Pendleton today stood accused of strangling a 65 year old widower with a lamp cord and stealing the victim's car. Raymond D. Ledford,17, of Seattle, Washington reportedly fled on foot when police approached him early Thursday to offer assistance after a car he was driving stalled at an Oceanside intersection.

Police arrested Ledford after a short chase, and found the auto was registered to Frank R. Mason, a retired Navy man, from Elsinore, California. Ten hours later Mason was found dead in a motel room here.

Ledford also is being questioned about two other murders by strangulation that occurred in Oceanside during the last two months. He has been charged only with the Mason killing. Victim's in the other cases were: Mrs. Marsha L. Tucker, 20, wife of a Marine from Burbank, California, found strangled Jan 3 with bathrobe cord in the apartment of a girl friend.

Mrs. Lois Winters,74, strangled with a woman's stocking in her home. The home was partially destroyed by fire. Detectives say that despite the similarity of the crimes, it is doubtful they were committed by the same person.

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OPD to reopen unsolved murders - Marsha Tucker slaying nearly three decades old

Karen Smith, North County Times

OCEANSIDE - For nearly 30 years, the unsolved murder of 20-year-old Marsha Tucker has mystified police and haunted her family. No one was ever brought to justice for killing the Oceanside wife of a Camp Pendleton Marine inside her apartment in 1968.

Now, nearly three decades later, Tucker's only brother, Chris Bailey, hopes to find some resolution after years of heartache. The Tucker case is one of a handful of unsolved murders dating back at least 20 years that Oceanside detectives plan to reinvestigate this year, along with their current caseload.

Police this time will possibly use DNA technology that wasn't around in the late 1960s to try to identify, and perhaps catch, the killer. The technique matches a suspect's genetic makeup with blood, hair, saliva, semen or human tissue left at a crime scene. DNA evidence has been used to convict murderers - and prove suspects innocent - since its introduction in California criminal trials in 1989.

Last year, San Diego police made arrests in two high-profile, unsolved murder cases - the 1992 slaying of 15-year-old Santee cheerleader Christin Gray and the killing of 9-year-old Amanda Gaeke in North Park - with the aid of DNA evidence.

Recently, San Diego County Sheriff's Department detectives, who work full-time on old unsolved homicides, brought two people to justice in two cases that were solved with DNA evidence, homicide Lt. Jerry Lispcomb said. Those cases are currently being prosecuted.

Since Tucker's death, technology has greatly improved criminal investigations. Thirty years ago police didn't keep criminal's fingerprints on nationwide or statewide computer data banks as they do today. Fingerprint matching was done manually by the FBI. And evidence collection was limited to what the naked eye could see. Today, hair follicles and human fluids can be tested for DNA information which can be matched to a suspect.

Investigative techniques have also greatly improved. The voice-stress analyzer device is used to gauge whether someone is lying by studying variations in voice patterns. It helps weed out suspects, although it's not admissible in court. Unlike a polygraph, which must be hooked up directly to a person, the analyzer can be used without the suspect's knowledge. Before these scientific advancements were available, homicide cases were rarely solved as time passed and leads grew cold.

Tucker found strangled

On Jan 2, 1968, Marsha Lorena Tucker was found strangled and stuffed under the bed of her Oceanside Apartment. The gruesome discovery was made by her roommate, Linda Kroum, who shared the one-bedroom apartment at 1102 S. Tait St. with her. Tucker had been married for one year to Sgt. Dennis Tucker, a Camp Pendleton Marine who had been stationed in Alaska for several months. He was away when Tucker was killed.

The evening of the murder, Kroum told police she went to the drive-in with her date, Marine Sgt. Robert Leitzke. The couple asked Tucker to go , but she declined. They left around 6 p.m., returning shortly after midnight. When Kroum went to sleep around 2:30 a.m. in the apartment's only bed, an electric blanket covering it became stuck. She pulled on it and saw Tucker's body under the bed.  Kroum called police.

Hours later, Tucker's 1968 VW Beetle was found on Camp Pendleton in a parking lot behind the barracks, near the Provost Marshal's Office. Investigators believed the car was taken after she was killed. Tucker had dated several Marines while her husband was away and had been seeing one person for several weeks, detectives have said.

The investigation focused on several Marines who lived in the barracks. At least seven were questioned and given lie detector tests, newspaper reports at the time show. But no arrests were ever made.

Tucker grew up in Burbank

Chris Bailey was 19 when his only sibling was murdered. Marsha was 13 months older than Chris, though he acted like the older brother because he was protective of her. They grew up in Burbank with their father, John, a retired Marine-turned-mechanic, who ruled the home with a stern hand, Their mother, Bertha, worked as a government administrator and was always there for her children.

Marsha and Chris were close, even as teen-agers. They hung around together, shared the same friends and the same taste in music, and they often escorted each other to school dances. Bailey described his sister as an average student, an avid swimmer and a friend to everyone.

"It's bothered me from day one, only now it's gotten to the point of starting to rack my nerves." Chris Bailey brother of Marsha Tucker

"My sister was a good person. She had a good outlook," Bailey said. "She had a lot of trust  and faith in people. That was her biggest downfall. She was too trusting. I felt that need to be around just to keep an eye on her, even in the shadows."

In the mid-'60s, their parents divorced. Marsha graduated from Burbank High School in 1966 and moved to Lee Vining, a small town east of Yosemite National Park, to live with her father. She worked briefly as a secretary and waitress before meeting her husband through her friend, Linda Kroum, and moving to Oceanside.

Today, Bailey, 48, is a building inspector in Los Angeles. He has two grown children from his first marriage and has been married to his second wife for 15 years. Bailey and his parents have endured years of pain not knowing who killed Marsha. One of the most difficult times for Marsha's mother is on Jan. 2, the anniversary of her daughter's death. Bailey's father died in 1988.

Three years ago, Bailey started thinking about finding his sister's killer. At the time, he was resuming a relationship with his grown daughter after a period of estrangement. Bailey hadn't seen his 24-year-old daughter Marsha - named after his sister - for several years. Reconnecting with her also meant coming to terms with a ghost from his past.

Bailey started hearing the message that his sister's killer must be found on visits to Marsha's gravesite at Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles, he said. There, he would sit for hours and think "way down deep within myself," and ask his sister for guidance.

But talking about his sister's death, even decades later, wasn't easy. More than a year passed before Bailey confided to his mother that he needed to get this resolved. "She said, 'You're going to do what you're going to do. But I don't want to be involved.' She's hurt too much already."

Stalled investigation

In the days and weeks that followed the murder, Marsha's mother stayed in contact with detectives, who soon found themselves with a stalled investigation. That frustrated Bailey then, and it gnaws at him today. "Everything with the case was dead end," he said. Eventually the family's contact with police faded.

For Bailey, watching his mother suffer the enormous pain of losing her daughter and coping with his own emotional anguish was difficult. Bailey left Burbank and moved around quite a bit, landing in different California cities, working as a mechanic and auto shop owner. Eventually he went to college and got into the building-inspection field.

In the early 1990s he moved to San Antonio before returning to Burbank last fall. A year ago, Bailey contacted Oceanside police through his friend John Conners, a San Antonio attorney, asking about the status of his sister's murder case.

Police wrote back, giving the basic facts. Then in August, Conners sent a follow-up letter, saying if the department wasn't going to reexamine the case the family was considering hiring a private investigator. They also asked for copies of documents in the police file. A month later, police responded saying they could release the documents if there wasn't an ongoing investigation.

"Coincidentally, they said they just instituted a plan where they were going back to old, unsolved cases," and they were starting with the Tucker case, Conners said "I think it's great. If nothing else, at least the family will know everything possible was done."

"The thought occurred to me that maybe we could do something about this case, :OpD Investigations Division Capt. Mike Shirley said. "If there's something we can do that's cost-effective and within our ability to do, we'll consider it."

Bailey didn't take the OPD seriously at first. With the first investigation 29 years old, he felt detectives could have done more to solve the crime. But he's hopeful with DNA technology, investigators this time around have a strong possibility of solving the case.

Re-examining Tucker case

Investigators will re-examine the forensic evidence from the Tucker case to see if DNA testing is appropriate, said OPD Detective Chris McDonough, who's assigned to the case. If DNA tests are done, the cost is $2000 to $2500 for a typical case. Once the evidence is processed, the DNA information is placed in the state Department of Justice data bank.

McDonough has started to locate possible witnesses in the case, many of whom live outside California. However, it's questionable whether the department will send detectives out of state to interview these people, OPD Sgt. Mike Goldsmith said. Without that old-fashioned police method of hitting the streets, the new science alone can't solve the cases, law enforcement officials said.

"It's absolutely necessary, " San Diego Police Department Sgt. Jim Munsterman said. He oversees SDPD's special Homicide Evidence Assessment Team (HEAT), which works solely on old, unsolved murders. So far they've solved 18 cases out of about 100 reviewed. 

Before the unit was formed in 1995, officials asked the country's largest police departments for advice on solving old murders. "Everybody said in order to be successful, you have to be ready to travel, "Munsterman said. "You have to be ready to face that expense. Even though we didn't have an extra budget for that, there was a commitment.  That was something we were just going to have to do."

NOTE: There were no other news clippings and I believe Marsha Bailey Tucker murder is still unsolved to this day. Her brother Christopher G. Bailey graduated with me from Burbank High School, 1967.

William C. Brinkworth, age 79, Homosassa, FL passed away October 16, 2021 at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville. Mr. Brinkworth was born in Burbank, California on October 30, 1941 to the late George E. and Hilda Louise (Olbert) Brinkworth and came to Florida in 2009 from University Place, Washington. 

He was a retired Sales Representative for food processing machines and served our country in the U.S. Army. 

Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 33 years, Theresa Hyatt-Brinkworth; 1 son, Eric (Jen) Brinkworth of Washington State; 2 step sons: Dustin Hyatt of Ocala and Chas (Lela) Hyatt of Washington State; 1 daughter, Valerie (Ron) Zolman of Lecanto, FL; 1 brother, Robert ( Gail) Brinkworth; 7 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. 

He was preceded in death by his twin brother, George (Beth) Brinkworth. A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date. Cremation arrangements with Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home With Crematory.

Published Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home With Crematory, Inverness, Florida, October 2021

Wayne Gordon McCreith, 52, died April 14, 2005, of natural causes at the Lake District Long-Term Care Facility in Lakeview.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the Lakeview Ministries Church with the Reverends Mike and Donna Newcombe officiating. Inurnment will be at Lakeview I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Desert Rose Funeral Chapel, Lakeview, is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. McCreith was born January 13, 1953, in Saskatchewan, Canada, to Gordon and Delores McCreith. He was raised in Burbank, California, where he graduated from high school. When he was 17 years old, he had brain surgery for brain cancer.

He was trained to be a plumber and electrician and worked mostly in hardware stores, completing his career with Lumberman's in Lakeview. He married Sandra Robinson in 1978, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1988. He then married Deborah Sipp in Lakeview on June 20, 1998.

Mr. McCreith was an accomplished pianist and an active member of Lakeview Ministries Church, including involvement with the Worship Team. He had an extensive collection of key chains.

Among his survivors are his wife Deborah McCreith of Lakeview; daughter, Chantal McCreith of Ventura, California; brothers and sisters-in-law Gary and Joanne McCreith of Lakeview and Randy and Joanie McCreith of Newport; brother Brad McCreith of San Marcos, California; mother Delores McCreith of San Marcos; stepchildren John Forga and Travis Sipp of Lakeview; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his father and a sister, Catherine.

Memorial donations may be made to American Cancer Society, 2350 Oakmont Way, No. 200, Eugene, OR, 97401-6108, or the charity of the donor's choice.

Published in the Albany Democrat-Herald, Albany, Oregon, Wednesday, August 29, 2001 

Diana DeAngelis, April 17, 1950 - August 23, 2001

Diana Lynn DeAngelis, 51, of Jefferson died Thursday at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene.

She was born in Prescott, Arizona, the daughter of Robert and Margaret Zeleznok DeAngelis. She grew up in the New York/New Jersey area and in Burbank, California, where she graduated from Burbank High School in 1968.

Ms. DeAngelis moved to Oregon in the late 1970's, living in the Salem area and in Jefferson. She worked for the Albany General Hospital Foundation. A member of the Russian Orthodox religion, Ms. DeAngelis belonged to the St. Anne Orthodox Church in Albany.

Surviving are daughter, Teri Lynn Durham of Boulder, Colorado; father Robert DeAngelis of Riverside, California; sister Linda Clemente of Covina, California.

A memorial service will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at St. Anne Orthodox Church, 2309 N.W. Scenic Drive, Albany. Ms. DeAngelis funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the church. The Rev. Stephen Soot will officiate.

A private burial service will be at Jefferson Cemetery. Fisher Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Stephen was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He loved his family dearly and will be truly missed. 

Stephen was born on November 16, 1947 in Burbank California to Gene and June Forrest. He graduated from Burbank High school in 1966. He was inducted into the United States Navy 1968. He was an electricians mate on the USS Independence where he proudly served 4 years and received an honorable discharge. Stephen retired from the City of Burbank after 25 years. He then continued on his fathers business as a Real Estate broker at Forrest Realty in Burbank.

Stephen was an avid outdoors man and golfer. He loved fly fishing and belonged to the Pasadena Casting Club & the Saltwater Fly Rodders. He loved spending his days on the river fishing with his brother, sons and grandson. He was also a life long San Francisco Giants fan and spent many years coaching his grandson and other youth at Encino Little League. All who knew him appreciated his love and knowledge of the game and his passion to teach.

Stephen is survived his ex-wife Jacqueline Forrest, wife Mary Forrest, three children: Steve, Mathew & Dawnmarie (Layne), 2 stepchildren, Ryan and Shannon, four Grandchildren, four great grandchildren, his mother June, brother Mike, sister Carolyn (Charlie) and three nephews.

Stephen was preceded in death by his father Gene, Uncle Grant, & grandsons Gregory & Brantley.

There will be a graveside service on August 4th and a memorial service to celebrate his life on August 5, 2017 at 2 pm at the Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church. 438 E Harvard. Rd. Burbank California.

Published in The Signal, Santa Clarita, California, Sunday, April 23, 2000, Page 3, Col. 5/6

Virginia Faye Shadwick, Recreational Services Leader for Parks and Recreation 

Virginia "Gini" Faye Shadwick, 52, died April 14 in Van Nuys following a long battle with cancer. She was born on April 16, 1947, in Evanston, Illinois, and resided in Santa Clarita and Pinion Hills. 

Gini was very active in the Santa Clarita Community. In 1990 Gini began to volunteer at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center. While tere she ran the Docent Training Program, the Student Naturalists, and Junior Rangers, she also took part in Outreach Programs, which brought wild animals to schools and other organizations. She hosted field trips, birthday parties, nature hikes, and organized the annual Reptile Fair.

Gini left Placerita Canyon in 1999 to serve as a Recreational Services Leader at Hart Park in Newhall. While at Hart Park, Gini started the birthday party program and the annual Easter Eggs-travaganza. In 1992, Gini was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award from Los Angeles County.

Gini is survived by her son, Jon; daughters, Carol Coffman, Trisha Comstock and Jeri Nesmith; grandchildren, Carly, BJ, Derek, Crystal, Melissa and Jessica; sister, Carole Hodges; mother, Cora Johnston; and her partner, Owen Shadwick; as well as the many beloved friends that she called family.

A celebration of Gini's life will be held at Hart Hall in Newhall at Hart Park on Friday at 9 a.m. Gini requested that no black be worn.

Jewish Journal

October 1st 2014

Debra Susan Zeid died Sept. 7 at 61. Survived by husband Mark; son Evan Louis; brothers Phillip Lubow, Larry (Sylvia) Lubow, Michael (Teddy) Lubow. Mount Sinai

No other details at this time.

Kevin Scott Highfield, BHS 1981

Local News in Brief: Sunland Gas Station Argument Leaves 1 Dead, Another Injured

Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1988 

An argument at a Sunland gas station erupted into gunfire that left one man dead and another critically injured, Los Angeles police said Thursday.

Kevin Scott Highfield, 24, of Tujunga was killed about 10 p.m. Wednesday after the driver of one car apparently insulted someone in another car at the station at Foothill Boulevard and Sherman Grove Avenue, police said.

Detective Al Ferrand said six youths got out of the vehicles and began arguing. Two men in a pickup truck joined in the squabble but did not get out of their vehicle, he said. The argument turned into a fistfight among the youths, Ferrand said.

“It had started out over trivial circumstances,” he said. “It looks like somebody just flipped the finger at somebody else. It escalated to the point that one of the participants in the fight armed himself with a handgun.”

The youth with the gun fired into the pickup, hitting both men inside, Ferrand said.

Highfield, a passenger in the truck, jumped out and started running but collapsed and died near the gas station. His wounded companion, Gregory Boots, 26, also of Tujunga, attempted to drive away but crashed into a car on Foothill Boulevard, police said. He later was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center, where he was in critical condition.

After the shooting, the youths in the two cars sped away. Ferrand said that none had been identified, and police were looking for witnesses.

Ferrand said it was unclear whether the people from the three vehicles knew each other. He said Boots’ injuries had prevented detectives from talking to him.

Received this from his wife Cindy.

Doug Collard passed away Oct. 28, 2021 at the age of 75. He had suffered from Parkinson's Disease & Lewy Body Dementia for the past 3+ yrs. He passed with his family and an angel of a care giver, Craig, around him.

Doug came to the United States at the age of 5 with his family from Canada and settled in Burbank, CA.  He graduated from Burbank High School in 1964 and joined the U.S. Marines in August 1965. He did 2 tours in Vietnam between 1966 and 1968, but before first tour, he married his high school sweetheart, Cindy on December 7, 1965. He graduated from CSUN with a BS degree in Anthropology. In 1978, he started his career with the phone company, transferred to Humboldt County in 1994 and retired in 2005. Doug then got his Real Estate License and enjoyed doing that for about three years, when he qualified for 100% disabled veteran and retired completely.

He leaves behind his high school sweetheart, Cindy, his children Bernie (wife Suzie), Jaime  (husband Randy), Jessica, & Douglas (significant other Meghan), sister-in-laws Cathy (Shorty) & Dolly Sue, sister Debbie (friend Art) and 2 nieces (Tita & Stef) as well as 3 nephews (Joey, Jason, & Travis), 4 grandchildren (Kayla, Brieanna, Mason, & Mackenzie) & 8 great grandchildren.

Doug requested no service & we will honor his wishes.

Lucy's sister Cecelia Zappala Miconi posted this on Facebook, that her sister Lucy Zappala who graduated from Burbank High School in the class of 1963 passed away October 27, 2021 in Flagstaff, Arizona. 

She did not give Lucy's married name but said Lucy's husband Tom had passed away a couple of weeks earlier. Both had Covid with underlying conditions. No other details at this time. May she rest in peace.

September 26, 1949 ~ May 17, 2020 (age 70)

David Clift LeSueur was born on September 26, 1949 and raised in Burbank, California. He was John and Dolores LeSueur’s first of four children: David, Stephen, Diana (Bartlett), and Jeff. As a boy, David’s next younger brother Steve aspired to be David’s rival. Instead he became David’s closest life-long friend, after David’s wife Mary. All their lives, Steve and David enjoyed disagreeing about baseball and politics.

David met Mary in December 1970. He had recently returned from serving a mission in Belgium and France for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His friends told her-because he wouldn't have-that he was a high school All-American basketball player, that he entered Brigham Young University as one of a handful of students honored with the school's top academic distinction, the David O. McKay scholarship, and that he was student body president in high school (because everyone else withdrew their names after his friends nominated him). She tried to convince him to marry her and gave up. Then he tried to convince her. It worked. They married on September 3, 1971.

David earned a B.S. in Mathematics. As David later often told his children, he could have played professional baseball. He chose to become an actuary instead. He then did what even Nobel laureate Milton Friedman could not do: he passed all the actuarial exams. On his first try.

He and Mary have four children. David is the kind of father who attended all of his children's games and competitions, played piano with his children on his lap, and wrote treasure hunt clues for their Easter eggs. Stephanie (Price) inherited his athleticism and mathematical excellence. He taught Carl to shoot free throws and to love The Beatles and The Beach Boys. John has David's gentle kindness. Amanda (Berns) learned to make the violin sing in duet with David’s piano. (She also did David the favor of marrying a man who has an opinion on the integrity of the designated hitter rule.) David taught his children that setbacks and heartbreaks are temporary, and the future always holds greater joy and more success than any present disappointment.

So fate had it that he would suffer from multiple sclerosis for the last twenty years of his life. But he took it on one day at a time. He could no longer play basketball, so he played tennis. When he could no longer play tennis, he played more piano. When he could no longer play piano, he typed out witty articles with humility, hope, and gratitude as a subtext. When he couldn't type, he dictated. When that became too tiring, he told jokes to his grandchildren. When telling jokes became too tiring he laughed at their jokes and smiled at their cute antics. He made it through those many years only with the determination of Mary, constantly at his side. Thanks to her devoted care he lived to meet fourteen of his grandchildren.

Now his challenges - punctuated with these joys - have come to an end. He succumbed to the effects of MS on May 17, 2020. His family expects he now reaps the promise of surpassing joy, gorging on his mother's peanut butter cookies, swapping commentary with his dad on any available sports reruns, and looking forward to the day he will be reunited with Mary and the rest of those he loves.

Memorial services and dedication of a park bench will be held at a future date that allows for gatherings. Friends and family who so desire are asked to share memories in written or video form by sending them to lesueurmemories@gmail.com or posting to the David C. LeSueur Memorial Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/547373392637877/

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June 5, 1932 - October 29, 2021

Resident of Santa Cruz

At 89 years, Herbert Greenfield can be said to have lived a long and largely satisfying life. He was born in Los Angeles in 1932 to Herbert Taylor Greenfield and Margery Combs Greenfield. He graduated from Burbank High School and attended Glendale College where he earned his Associate Degree in Aircraft Mechanics. After a two year stint in the Army, where his aircraft training advanced him to crew chief on an airplane, he attended Cal Poly's engineering program and took a job at Lockheed Burbank and then at Jet Propulsion in Pasadena.

In 1960 he married a school teacher from Michigan and at her urging they left Southern California for Los Gatos in the Bay Area where Nancy found a position teaching English at Los Gatos High School and where Herb transferred to Lockheed Sunnyvale. For the next 30+ years he continued his association with Lockheed, capping his engineering career by working on the Hubble Space Telescope from conception to launch.

The following year he and Nancy retired, with the luxury of time to pursue hobbies, including Herb's antique clock collecting and restoration, and cycling the scenic by-ways of three counties with his bicycle club. They also found time to travel, from early camping trips in the Sierras to their small condo on Lake Michigan in later years. They couldn't have asked for a better retirement or better friends to enjoy it with.

Nancy will miss Herbert every day for the rest of her life. Alas, a particularly virulent form of pneumonia took him away from her, but she will be forever grateful for those 61 years together.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to one of the following: Hospice of Santa Cruz County or Pacific Angels Home Care, 9058 Soquel Drive Suite B, Aptos, CA 95003.

Published by Santa Cruz Sentinel on Nov. 21, 2021.

1956-2021

Sent by her sister, Pamela Gordon Ryan. 

“If you should ever leave me 

Though life would still go on, believe me 

The world could show nothing to me 

So what good would living do me 

God only knows what I'd be without you” 

The matriarch of the Hartrum family, Debra Lynn Hartrum, took her last breath in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 12th, 2021. She passed on to the next world peacefully, surrounded by her loving family while listening to her favorite album, Pet Sounds, with Sloop John B. bringing her home to rest. 

Debbie is survived by her best friend and husband Kerry Hartrum, sons Kris, Dustin, Adam, and Jameson Hartrum, grandsons Max and Woody Hartrum, sisters Pam Ryan, Sondra Cooper-Gullion, and Lynda Zivalich, and father Frank Cooper. She has fourteen nieces and nephews. Preceding her in death is her mother, Frances Cruise and her brothers Charles “Chip” Gordon and Frank Cooper Jr. 

Debbie was born September 9, 1956, in Würzburg, Germany to Frank Cooper and Francis Bowers. She lived in Lima, Ohio until her family moved to Los Angeles, California. As a child, Debbie was a dancer, gymnast, and beauty queen. After graduating from Burbank High in 1974, she worked as a model and then as a flight attendant for PSA. 

She met her husband Kerry in a production of Grease at The Manatee Players in Bradenton, Florida in 1980. Kerry was Danny Zuko and Debbie was Cha Cha, the best dancer at St. Bernadette’s. The two fell in love and were quickly married on a beach at Anna Maria Island. After moving the family to Ohio, Debbie attended The College of Wooster, obtaining her BA in Religious Studies. She also received a Master's in Theology from Princeton University and a Master’s in Museum Studies from John Hopkins University. She was a lifelong academic and a voracious reader. She loved film, especially Gone with The Wind, West Side Story, White Christmas, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, and The Godfather. 

To say that Debbie’s life was dedicated to her family is an understatement. Everything else was insignificant by comparison. Her family’s well-being was her every waking thought. She raised and educated her four sons, and unofficially adopted many of their friends over the years. She built a meaningful cultural hub at her Marion Street Home in Shelby, North Carolina. For decades, she maintained an intimate meeting place full of food, friends, parties, and the sounds of Frank Sinatra & The Beach Boys. 

She was well-known for her Italian dinners which were passed on to her by her mother Frances through her Italian-American heritage. Vodka rigatoni, spicy meatballs with raisins, stuffed shells, and endless Christmas cookies filled the bellies of many through the years. Debbie loved to argue. If she didn’t like something, she told you. She was headstrong and outspoken and a powerful, rebellious woman. She didn’t have a poker face and she was as gullible as they come. Kerry’s jokes drove her up the wall, but you could tell she secretly liked them.