6 Thursday, January 23, 2014
Coastal View News • Carpinteria, California
Obituaries
Eugene A. “Tony” Burns 4/25/1931 – 1/11/2014
In Loving Memory of Dianne
1945 - 2003
With her we spent happy days
Eugene A. “Tony” Burns was born in San Diego, Calif., April 25, 1931, and grew up in Chula Vista, Calif. He was a third generation native Californian and his family had a number of school teachers and principals. Tony played trumpet and piano, loved musical plays, popular music and was an enthusiastic dancer. Tony and his wife Kay met at Pomona College where they participated in scholastic activities, sports and music. He was a chemistry major, and upon graduation he and his wife moved to Cambridge, Mass., where Tony obtained a PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry from MIT. While in Massachusetts, Tony and Kay traveled up and down the eastern seaboard, and back and forth to California, crossing the country by different routes to visit many states. Over the years, they also traveled to Europe, Hawaii, Canada, and spent many summers on Balboa Island. Upon receiving his doctorate from MIT, Tony was employed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked on development of rocket fuels for Sputnik and other successful rocket launchings. His other career choices were Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. and Thompson Ramo Woolridge (TRW) in Redondo Beach, Calif. He established the Chemistry Laboratory at S-Cubed in Del Mar, Calif. Many of Tony’s proposals to the Environmental Protection Agency for research have been accepted. Tony also has many patents for inventions relating to his field. Tony and Kay were married 62 years and had three children; Karen Burns, Kristy Michel and Kevin Burns (deceased) and four grandchildren; Dustin Michel, Derrick Michel, Anthony Burns and Raymond Oakes. In 1998, after retirement, Tony and Kay moved to Carpinteria where they remodeled the Cadwell family home on Montvalmar Ranch (the original home is over 100 years old and was constructed by Kay’s ancestors and avocado growers the Cadwells). Tony was 82 years old when he passed away peacefully, painlessly and quickly in this home on Jan. 11, 2014. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. at the Carpinteria Cemetery with a reception at Montvalmar Ranch immediately following. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.
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Roger Douglas Fryer 1946 - 2014
Roger Douglas Fryer passed away on Jan. 2 in San Jose, Calif. after a brief illness. San Jose was his home for the past 35 years. He is survived by his son, Thomas Rank Fryer of Petershausen, Germany and daughter, Serena L. Fryer of San Jose. Other surviving family members include his parents Alan and Tommye Rita Fryer from Goleta, and his siblings Linda Fryer Lopez, Alan Fryer, Patricia Fryer Kelley, Margaret Fryer Kempf, Joyce Fryer and Thomas Fryer. Roger was born in Portland, Ore. in 1946. However, he was raised in Carpinteria, where he attended Aliso School and graduated from Carpinteria High School in 1965. As a young boy, Roger was interested in cars, beginning with putting together car models that eventually led him to restoring old cars. His pride and joy was a 1955 Chevy sedan. Roger joined the U.S. Army in July of 1966 and received an honorable discharge in February 1968. He served in Germany and Vietnam and received the National Defense Service Medal, and Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals. In 1977, Roger moved to San Jose and worked as a QA mechanical inspector for the biomedical, defense/aerospace and high tech industries, retiring in 2012. A memorial service will be held at the Carpinteria Cemetery on Saturday, Jan. 25 at 11 a.m.
Previously published obituaries may be read online at coastalview.com
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Fred Gowland
Santa Barbara artist Fred Gowland, 73, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 16 after a brief illness. Fred not only painted unique and colorful canvases, he lived an artist’s life in his conversation, travels or at his delightful home in Summerland. When you walked in the door you were not in a house, but part of a living, exuberant canvas. Fred’s home was filled with indigenous art from his world travels, vibrant paintings, fabrics, birds hanging from ceilings, giant Balinese bunnies on the terrace, coral and shells and gifts from the sea. Some he painted, some were left intact the way nature intended them to be. Fred loved nature and it was evident in all parts of his world and art. Even his car was filled with sand, old shells and bits of driftwood. Fred traveled the world, both alone and with his longtime companion, the late artist Jack Baker. Fred would absorb the world, save it to his visual memory card and then return home and paint his version of it—thus sharing the world with others through his canvases. Bali, India, New Guinea all appeared in brilliant tableaus that he created whimsically each day in his studio. He had a way of making the most mundane seem magical and the magical seem totally normal. It was a great gift and one he was willing to share with others. He mentored and encouraged young artists. This was part of his giving, engaging nature. His last shows were in Hong Kong and Singapore where they could not get enough of his imaginative, yet quasirealistic images and vivid colors. Fred was born and raised in Redlands, Calif. and moved to Santa Barbara in the mid-1970s. He called Carpinteria and Summerland his home until his passing. Fred loved walking on the beach, bringing home shells and rocks and debris the sea tosses up and deposits on the shore. He would take them home, paint them and turn them into mementos that he would then give to his friends. Those of us who knew him have those colorful bits of his imagination to remember him. Fred Gowland will be greatly missed by many. At his request, no services will be held. Memorial contributions in Fred’s name may be made to a favorite charity.
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