07.27.2025 East Bay Times Tributes

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LaVern Alameida November10,1929April7,2025

Residentof Hayward Holy SepulchreCemetery

Sel

fie Avalos

February8,1935- April23,2025

Residentof Newark

Jose Blason

November6,1939June 15,2025

Residentof Albany &ElCerrito Sunset View Mortuary

Katherine Bruzzone

May2,1932- March21,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek Hull’sWalnut Creek Chapel

Robert James Canning

September17,1936February 21,2025 Residentof Walnut Creek

Sylvia Elaine Coburn

February 28,1943March21,2025 Residentof Danville

Jason Avers Appel December2,1930 -May23,2025 Residentof Concord

Stephen Michael Avalos M.D. June 8,1958 -April 29,2025 Residentof Clovis

Stewart Bowers InLovingMemory ResidentofOrinda

Harriett J Burt

April3,1940 -May6,2025 Residentof Martinez

David M Cantal April6,1957 -April 20,2025 Residentof SanLeandro

Robert Lee Colores 1945 -2025 Residentof SanRamon

Richard Armstrong June 24,1959 -January 27,2025 ResidentofOakley

Vanessa Herold Arnaud InLovingMemory ResidentofGraniteBay

Gladys Ashby March17,1937 -June 2,2025 Residentof Brentwood

Richard Oliver Austin In Loving Memory Resident of Alameda

Anthony Avanzino InLovingMemory Residentof Alameda AlamedaFuneraland Cremation Services

John James Brodbeck(Jack) May11,1932 -April 10,2025 Residentof Danville Graham-Hitch Mortuary

James Richard Butts

June 8,1966 -February21,2025 Residentof Alameda

Josephine Cantrell October1,1935 -April 6,2025 Residentof Brentwood

Delight Bullard Comphel June 2,1934 -April 17,2019 InLovingMemory

Gloria F. Batchelor-Salas September13,1938 -May31,2025 Residentof Antioch

Donald H. Bell InLoving Memory Residentof Kings Beach

Eileen Phyllis Birdsong 1932 -2025 Residentof Danville

Harold Francis Brown May17,1954 -April 17,2025 ResidentofLivermore

Robert Byers InLovingMemory Residentof SanLeandro Chapel of theChimes

William (Bill) Alfred Bruckner,Jr. InLovingMemory Residentof Pleasanton Neptune Society

Leanna Bruschini November12,1951 -June 6,2025 Residentof Walnut Creek Holy SepulchreCemetery& FuneralCenter

Karen Dee Carlson-Olson August29,1945 -March18,2025 Residentof Albany

Patrick Connolly InLovingMemory ******

Robert Calder 1952 -2025 Residentof Bellingham, WA

Christine Margaret (Murphy)Cavanaugh October23,1930 -April 24,2025 Residentof Alameda AlamedaFuneraland CremationServices

Anne Corrigan InLovingMemory Residentof Walnut Creek

James “Jim” Canaday March5,1948 -May5,2025 ResidentofFairfield

Charles (Chuck) Clare InLovingMemory ******

Richard Anthony Cosca 1934 -2025

Residentof Pleasanton Graham-Hitch Mortuary

Ruby Lorene Crittenden

March4,1929 -May22,2025

Residentof Pinole

Stephen Lance DeMaria

June 14,1940- March25,2025

ResidentofLafayette

John (Jack) Joseph Dyer

June 9,1953 -June 10,2025

Residentof SanLuisObispo

Murray “Mac” Fernandez December7,1951 -May21,2025

Residentof Hayward

Clarence Martin Fraga

April16,1929 -May19,2025

Residentof Concord

Denise M. Gaebe (nee: Lyman)

February 13,1967 -May15,2025

Residentof Concord

Residentof Carmel

Lori Jeanne Curotto (nee Ahrens) September12,1958 -March31,2025

Rosary (Roe) MarieDieter October3,1924 -June 13,2025 ResidentofFremont

Helen E. Dygert September5,1924 -May 2, 2025 ResidentofLafayette Neptune Society

Robert “Fritz” Ferreira September15,1933April29,2025

Residentof Danville Graham-Hitch Mortuary

Elizabeth Walz Fraga July 15,1937 -March3,2025

Residentof Concord

Barbara Ann Gallagher April26,1956 -January 19,2025

ResidentofOrinda

Residentof Walnut Creek

Helen Elizabeth Davis 1937 -2025

Virginia Dodson March2,1935 -May30,2025

Residentof Antioch

Faye Sydney Edwards In LovingMemory Residentof Murphy’s

Stephen R. Fisher 1943 -2025 Residentof Pacheco

Miriam Elfriede Frazier

July 9,1934 -April 4,2025

ResidentofFremont Chapel of theRoses

Barbara John Gallagher

May5,1921 -April 1,2025

ResidentofOrinda

Virginia Grace Dean May21, 1935 -May 18, 2025 ResidentofLivermore

Sharon M. Dejesus December30,1941June 14,2025

Residentof Brentwood

Pamela Audrey Della December2,1927 -May24,2025

Residentof Martinez/Walnut Creek

Fernando Aunecita Dongallo November8,1954 -June10,2025

Residentof BayPoint Ouimet Bros.Chapel

Katherine Tolbert Dreher InLovingMemory Residentof Berkeley

Susan Ann Dutro InLovingMemory ResidentofLivermore

Joyanne Allison Elkinton-Walker November19,1927 -October21,2024 Residentof Orinda

Hugh Morrow Ellison InLovingMemory Residentof Concord

John Favalora InLovingMemory Residentof Martinez PittsburgFuneralChapel

ResidentofFremont Holy SepulchreCemetery& FuneralCenter

Joan Celeste Fishman December16,1935 -April 22,2025

Joan Esther Fredenberg(Hobbs) December1,1935 -May19,2025

Residentof Chico

Ruth S. Galvin

November21,1919March25,2025

Residentof Hayward

Dianne Lynn Forde April1,1956 -May16,2025

Residentof Danville Hull’sWalnut Creek Chapel

Charles Anthony Freitas 1934 -2025

Residentof Walnut Creek

Kenneth Paul Fowler July 24,1931 -April 11,2025

Residentof Antioch Holy Cross Cemetery

Kathryn Paulus Gabe April15,1948 -March25,2025

Residentof Concord Queen of HeavenCemetery& FuneralCenter

James “Jim” Geanekos December20,1930 -June 13,2025

Residentof SanLeandro AlamedaFuneral andCremation Services

Tommy Lee Gibbany

January 7,1946 -June 5,2025

Residentof Union City

Henry GonzalesJr. September23,1959June 7,2025

Residentof Antioch PittsburgFuneralChapel

Monika Ann Harris

August13,1973- May10,2025

Residentof Pleasanton Graham-Hitch Mortuary

Dorothy Jean (Kostelecky) Hoornaert

September7,1932 -April 22,2025 Residentof PleasantHill

Stephen L. Jesse InLovingMemory Residentof Danville Jess CSpencer Mortuary

Jennifer Jansky Kendall InLovingMemory ResidentofFremont Berge, Pappas, SmithChapel

Laura Kooy

ResidentofFremont

E. Hope Goodale April12,1941 -May4,2025

Residentof Berkeley

Henry “Hank” Edward Goularte April19,1929 -April 29,2025 ResidentofFairfield St JosephCemeteryandFuneralCenter

Albert A. Groat,DDS April7,1933 -April 5,2025

ResidentofFremont Chapel of theRoses

Andrea Jean Gronley July 25,1944 -May2,2025

Residentof Pleasanton

William (Bill) Hammett May19,1950 -March18,2025 InLovingMemory

Charles Martin Hartwig August30,1941February,8 2025 ResidentofLivermore

Sarah N. Van Hosen March6,1932 -April 20,2025 In LovingMemory

Steve Ernest Johnson November16,1935November21,2024 Residentof Concord

Margaret Zimmerman Kingery October31,1929 -April 5,2025 ResidentofFremont

July 6,1962 -March26,2025

Janet Glick Kotlier September13,1939October17,2024 Residentof El Sobrante

Gayle Yaeko Hayashi InLoving Memory Resident of UnionCity Sunset View Mortuary

Nancy Marie VanHuffel September7,1942 -May6,2025

ResidentofOakland

Nancy Henderson September21,1938October6,2024 InLovingMemory

Nancy Mary Hughes December27,1941January 18,2025

ResidentofOakland

Shirley Hoffe 14-Apr-25 ResidentofOrinda

Kathleen “Trink” Hoffman September20,1962 -April 10,2025 Residentof Tracy

Jerome Nye (Jerry)Johnson September15,1930 -April 18,2025 Residentof Orinda

Rosemary Kirby 1927 -2025 Residentof El Cerrito St JosephCemeteryand FuneralCenter

Robert J. Kragen 2-Jun-25 ResidentofLincoln

Samuel Johnston 1941 -2025 Residentof Alamo Neptune Society

Waldemar Klier InLovingMemory Residentof Castro Valley

Anthony “Paul” Kraintz November6,1952 -April 27,2025 InLovingMemory

Judith Ann Hungerford December13,1946 -March29,2025 Residentof Alameda Holy SepulchreCemetery &FuneralCenter

Robert E Jornlin December27,1924January10,2025 Residentof Walnut Creek

Shirley Kolin 1947 -2025 Residentof Walnut Creek

Barbara J Kuhns 1931 -2025

Residentof Castro Valley

Donald Francis Ingle February 11,1941April26,2025 FormerResidentof Concord

Marvin Kay March10,1926 -May4,2025 ResidentofLafayette SinaiMemorialChapel

Bonnie Koojoolian InLovingMemory Residentof Moraga

Ryan Bally Lance 1997 -2025 ResidentofLivermore

Glenn Anthony Lane 1933 -2025 In LovingMemory

Tessa Lepper (nee Morelli) March25,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek

Ruth Lyle InLovingMemory

Residentof Concord

Richard Lesley Larsen October2,1931 -April 10,2025

ResidentofOakland

Youzhong Li July 8,1926 -May13,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek OakParkHills Chapel

Jean Macy InLovingMemory

Gladys Laston August11,1924March23,2025 ResidentofLafayette

Samuel L. Liles November17,1944March24,2025

ResidentofOakland& Vacaville

Harold V. Lauth Jr. January 10,1933 -June 22,2025

ResidentofOakland

Mary Lawrence August15,1921 -June 11,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek Hull’sWalnut CreekChapel

William Joseph Leonard InLovingMemory Residentof Roseville

Residentof Marin

Dennis Malone October31,1945 -March20,2025

Residentof Concord Diablo ValleyCremation& FuneralServices

Residentof El Cerrito Sunset View Mortuary

Gerald Sisler Martin 1927 -2025

Michael McClendon

Joe J. Martinez

November27,1942March20,2025 Residentof Dublin,CA

Hollis Matson 1940 -2025 ResidentofOakland TridentSociety

InLovingMemory ResidentofFremont &San Jose

Jean-Marie Moran McDonnell October26,1937 -February24, 2025

ResidentofOrinda Queen of HeavenCemetery &Funeral Center FD1959

Leo Francis McGoffJr. February 16,1930 -June 10, 2025

Residentof Brentwood BrentwoodFuneralHome

Richard Peter Metsiou

In Loving Memory Residentof Antioch

Brian Molyneaux InLovingMemory Residentof Sacramento

Marjorie Anna Mott

March13,1926 -April 1,2025

ResidentofFremont Berge, Pappas, SmithChapel

Carmen Starr Liston May8,1933 -April 22,2025

Jeanine Manson November4,1947April13,2025

Residentof Danville

Robert “Bob” Londagin InLoving Memory Resident ofLivermore

Gary Lozano November9,1977December26,2024 Residentof MountainView

Antonio MattosJr. January 30,1936 -June 21,2025 ResidentofFremont Berge, Pappas, SmithChapel

William Howard “Bill” McNabb September3,1931 -April 16,2025 Residentof Hercules

Doraetta Mozon InLovingMemory Residentof SanLeandro

Gloria Marangoni March1,1932 -May4,2025

Residentof Martinez

James Frederick Martin June 3,1928-March15,2025

Residentof Concord

Marie I. McCarthy May23,1929 -April 20,2025 Residentof SanLorenzo Grissom’sChapeland Mortuary

Adrian Francis Mendes March5,1929 -April 20,2025

Resident of Walnut Creek Hull’sWalnut Creek Chapel

Richard D. Muenchow August4,1957 -April 6,2025 Residentof Albany,OR

Victoria E. McCleland In Loving Memory ResidentofBerkeley JessC. Spencer Mortuary

Nanette Mercurio July 7,1934 -June 23,2025 Residentof Pittsburg

Mary L. Munsell May25,1927- June 14,2025 In LovingMemory

Ben Narasaki

InLovingMemory

ResidentofElCerrito

Robert Pacioni 1939- 2025

Residentof Brentwood

Jacqueline A. O’Connell July 4,1927 -January 16,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek

Esther Lily Small Pancho 1925 -2025 ResidentofOakland

Michal Jamison Offutt April25,1943 -March19,2025

Residentof El Cerrito

Betty Pankey InLovingMemory Residentof Pittsburg

Mary Ogden InLovingMemory Residentof Walnut Creek

George Nicholas PantellJr. InLovingMemory Residentof Antioch Higgins Chapel

Greg Okerman August2,1946 -March17,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek

Patrick Michael O’Shea March11,1937 -April 29,2025

Residentof Concord Ouimet Bros.Chapel

James Edwin Parrish 1934 -2025

ResidentofLincoln

Katherine Elizabeth RawsonPaxson InLovingMemory Residentof Berkeley Sunset View Mortuary

Kit (Roslyn) Van Pelt 9-May-25

Residentof PleasantHill

Dorothy Joan Penquite InLovingMemory Residentof Pinole

Residentof Oakland

Madeline Petri January10,1932 -May12,2025

Faye Rodrigues 1931- 2025 Residentof SanLeandro

Cresenciana Santiago Salonga May5,1945 -March13,2025 Residentof Martinez

Lori Hattrick Primasing May14,1962 -April 10,2025

Residentof Sunset,SC

Dennis Quick March5,1944 -April 3,2025 Residentof SanRamon OakParkHills Chapel

Mardell Reeves July 19,1934 -March29, 2025 Residentof Concord

Phillip David Rodwell In Loving Memory Resident of Walnut Creek

Donald Rohren InLovingMemory Residentof Pleasanton

David Roller InLovingMemory ResidentofFortMyers, FL

Shirley Jane(nee Vierra) DusenburyScanlon 1927 -2025

Residentof SanLeandro Santos-RobinsonFuneralHome

Marc Jerome Schirato

August19, 1950 -April 6,2025 Residentof Walnut Creek

Robert John Schwarz, Jr. November18,1939 -March24,2025 Residentof Newark Berge, Pappas, SmithChapel

Stephen E. Parks, Sr. May25,1940 -April 11,2025 Residentof Bozeman, MT

Magdalena Perez 1930 -2025

Residentof Antioch Higgins Chapel

Reinhold Josef Reichmann InLovingMemory Residentof Walnut Creek

Ronald Parriott February23,1942 -April 25, 2025

ResidentofOrinda

Jane H. Peterson March17,1923 -May1,2025 Residentof Clayton

Barb Reynolds October26,1962 -April 2,2025 Resident of Richmond

Albert John DellaRosa April4,1933 -June 14,2025 Residentof EaglePoint,OR

Milton Scott InLovingMemory Residentof Bandon

Kay Vinson Ruhland 1934 -2025 InLoving Memory

Dewey Jackson “Jack” VanScyoc In LovingMemory Residentof Walnut Creek/Brentwood

Laurence Seidenfeld

March8,1943 -April 1,2025

Residentof Martinez

SinaiMemorialChapel

Georgine Shunk

InLovingMemory

Residentof Antioch Higgins Chapel

Sheridan (Dan) Smith In LovingMemory

Residentof Walnut Creek

Danielle Marie Storm 1967 -2024

Residentof Concord

Marjorie Lillian Thurlow InLovingMemory Residentof Concord

Germaine “Geri” Julia Trumm March13,1929 -April 26,2025 Residentof Concord

Albert Joseph Selfa 1934 -2025

Residentof Walnut Creek

Velma Barbara Sena November26,1933May15,2025

Residentof Walnut Creek Hull’sWalnut Creek Chapel

Pamela Shangler June 16,1944 -March15,2025

Resident of Pittsboro, NC

Marilyn Thibodeaux Sharps InLovingMemory

Residentof Brentwood

Roger Short 1953 -2025

Residentof Concord

Robert Sieben February19,1937 -May17,2025 ResidentofOaklandHills

Helen Annette Silva April2,1939 -June 25,2025 Residentof Walnut Creek Berge, Pappas, SmithChapel

Peter Simmons InLovingMemory ResidentofOceanside

James “Jim” R. Slattery April2,1945 -May22,2025 Residentof PleasantHill

Robert Michael Slattery

February 23,1948 -May28,2025

Residentof Danville Graham-Hitch Mortuary

Catherine Drolet Spicer December20,1936March25,2025 Residentof Diablo

Don Surath 1945 -2025 Residentof SanFrancisco SinaiMemorialChapel

Richard (Dick) A.Stan January 6,1936February 22,2025

Residentof SanRamon Graham-Hitch Mortuary

Mary Jo Swenson May15,2025 ResidentofLincoln

William (Bill) EmersonStiles 1959 -2025 Residentof PleasantHill Grissom’sChapeland Mortuary

Esemea Bianca Tabacco InLovingMemory ResidentofOakland

Dennis Stokes InLovingMemory Residentof Walnut Creek

Charles Stone InLovingMemory Residentof Pinole Sunset View Mortuary

Fred Tomlinson October4,1960 -June 5,2025 Residentof SanJose TridentSociety

Nancy Turner InLovingMemory Residentof Walnut Creek

Doug Toovey 1956 -2025 Residentof TwainHarte

Virgil Valentine InLovingMemory Residentof PleasantHill OakParkHills Chapel

Dr Owen Towery InLovingMemory ResidentofOrinda

Walter Dixon Vaughn,Jr. July 2,1934 -June 7,2025 Residentof Moraga

Judith Lynn Tannahill January 31,1945 -April 22,2025 Residentof Albany Sunset View Mortuary

The Rev. Dr. FranToy August9,1934December28,2024 ResidentofOakland Neptune Society

Reta Gail Thrush December12,1930May16,2025 Residentof Newark Chapel of theChimes

Susan Tripaldi June 25,1946 -April 23, 2025

Residentof Alamo Graham-HitchMortuary

John Vella April21,1950 -April 1,2025 Residentof Danville

Rose “Silva” Viani September26,1925May15,2025 InLoving Memory

Arletta Wade

July 1,1937- January 28,2025

Residentof Alameda, CA AlamedaFuneraland Cremation Services

Patricia Kay (Pat) Williams InLoving Memory ResidentofLivermore

Sharon Ann Yunker 1931 -2025

InLovingMemory

Queen of Heaven Cemetery& FuneralCenterFD1959

Mary Lou Wainwright InLovingMemory Residentof Kensington

Frances Grayce Willson July 9,1940 -May12,2025 ResidentofLafayette Sunset View Mortuary

Joseph Thomas Zamora September1,1921 -June 9,2025 Residentof Antioch

Ilona Walsh May22,1948 -June 3,2025

Residentof Castro Valley Jess CSpencer Mortuary

Ronald L. Wilson November15,1936April8,2025 InLovingMemory

Gwendolyn C. Watson November18,1936 -May2,2025

Residentof PleasantHill Queen of Heaven Cemetery& FuneralCenterFD1959

Joan Irene Kochman Weil June 19,1944 -June 1,2025 Residentof Moraga SinaiMemorialChapel

Barbara Jean

Albright Wildman January 10,1928 -May16,2025 Residentof Alameda

Andrew Paul Wolfe April29,1925 -March10,2025 Residentof Walnut Creek

Michael Carleton Wood September1,1952April10, 2025 Residentof Mill Valley

Dr.Jimmie Yamaguchi July 12,1937 -May12,2025

ResidentofFremont Berge,

Joan Zelko April2,1941 -April 19,2025

Residentof Martinez Graham-Hitch Mortuary

Alfonso Zulueta November29,1947March21,2025 Residentof Concord

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