George Neal Brown
Dec 8, 2017
George Neal Brown was the only son of George Brown and Emma Brown of San Diego, CA and was born July 16, 1932. His father was the first African American to become a member of the Electrician's Union in San Diego and his mother was a teacher who prided herself on her amazing rose garden. George Neal Brown graduated from...
Pauline May Silver
Dec 7, 2017
Pauline Silver was born Pauline May Meade on November 19, 1920 in Wilmette, Ill. to Moses Meade and Martha Susanna (Ott) Meade. Pauline began working at age 12 as a mother's helper and housekeeper for a doctor's family in Mansfield, Ohio. She put herself through Business College and went to work in the office of a tire company before meeting...
John Owen Cloughley
Dec 6, 2017
John Cloughley, 64, a long time resident of San Diego, California, passed away December 6, 2017, after a short battle with esophageal cancer. When John came home after long day from fishing I will ask him how many fishes did he catch. He always answered: "I have good news and bad news, the good news, we caught many fishes, the...
Delbert Arnold Workman
Dec 3, 2017
Delbert Arnold Workman, age 78, died at home in San Diego, CA, on Sunday, December 3, 2017. He was born on May 27, 1939 in Chehalis, Washington and grew up in a small logging town in Riffe, WA. He had a simple upbringing with a strict religious beginning, but was very proud of the way he was raised and stayed...
Frank Martin Jodzio
Dec 2, 2017
Frank M. Jodzio entered life on December 20, 1943 in Dearborn, Michigan to his parents Theodore Joseph Jodzio and Helen Mary Jodzio. He passed away peacefully on December 2, 2017 surrounded by his wife and children. Frank is survived by his wife of 27 years, Victoria; his sons Scott (Rebecca) and their two children Jeremiah and Savannah; Derek (Irina); and...
Peter Nicholas Kamaris
Nov 30, 2017
Peter Nicholas Kamaris, 66, was born June 20, 1951 in Chicago and passed on November 30, 2017 at his daughter's home in San Diego. He is survived by his son, Keith (Jenn), daughter, Kristin (Yiga) Miyashiro, loving twin brother, Perry (Amelia); mother of his children, Joyce (Jerry); five grandchildren; Aidan, Landon, Sophia, Kaito, and Takashi; his beloved golden retriever, Gia;...
Mary Perry Crist
Nov 25, 2017
Born as Mary Lilly Perry to Hugh Bennett Perry and Genevieve Horrell in Longmont, Colorado. Mary grew up on a farm with one brother William Perry till the farm was lost in the great depression. They moved to the city where she finished her high school education. She came to San Diego before the war started in 1941. She worked...
Marjorie Ann Ferrante
Nov 19, 2017
Daughter of Theresa and Ralph Nixon. Marjorie Ann Nixon was born in Oregon, Missouri on November 16, 1926. She had an older sister, Betty Jane (Nixon) Hudson and brother, Nelson Nixon. Her father called her "Mugs" and she was a "Marjorette" in high school. During WWII, she and Betty lived together and worked at the Quaker Oats plant in St....
Charles Franklin Gorder
Nov 19, 2017
Long-time San Diego resident Charles Franklin Gorder, Sr., passed away at age 92 on November 19, 2017. Known to all by his nickname "Chuck" he was a dedicated family man, a faithful Christian, a proud Navy veteran, and a practicing lawyer for over 50 years. Chuck was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1925. While he was in high school,...
Mary Helen Rud
Nov 14, 2017
Loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother and wife of Alexander Rud (Retired USN). Mary passed away at the age of 90 on Tuesday November 14, 2017. She was born on March 22nd 1927 in Barberton Ohio, she spent the most of her life in San Diego California. Mary joined the United States Marine Corps Women's Battalion in April 1944, after being...
Jose Javier Marcial
Nov 13, 2017
Jose Javier Marcial, son of Carmen and Francisco Marcial, was born October 4, 1947 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. He passed away peacefully on Monday, November 13, at 5:55 pm surrounded by his family. Jose is survived by his wife, Ofelia Marcial; his son Jose (Amy) and their two sons Jake and Trevor; daughter Jazmin Rodriguez (Frank) and their three...
Jane Mcgraw Cogan
Nov 13, 2017
Mary Jane (McGraw) Cogan ("Jane"), born December 26, 1930 in Kansas City, MO, passed away on November 13, 2017 in San Diego, CA. She is survived by her twin brother, John V. (Jack) McGraw, Jr, and sister-in-law, Joan (Davey) McGraw of Rancho Mirage, CA; her son, Dennis Cogan and daughter-in-law Joan (Sullivan) Cogan, grandson Michael (21), granddaughter Rylin (18) of...
James Keith Chier
Nov 12, 2017
James Keith Chier, M.D. (Jim) passed away November 12, 2017 after traumatic brain injury complications. Jim was born the second of three children in Los Angeles on November 11, 1940, to Reuben Donald Chier, M.D. and Florence Friedman Chier. His family included older brother Richard and younger sister Susan. Jim is survived by his loving wife Debra J. Coleman, his...
Robert Henry Miller
Nov 11, 2017
If there is one word that is synonymous with Robert Henry Miller Jr. it is family. September 28, 1941 was not just the beginning of his life, it was the beginning of an entire generation of remarkable human beings whose roots were planted in Fort Wayne, Indiana. "Bob" came into this world and almost immediately assumed a fatherly role by...
Gabriel Naim Baccash
Nov 6, 2017
Gabriel Naim Baccash,100 years old. Born in Aleppo, Syria July 2, 1917 to Mary Maroon Baccash. He attended 3 years of High School in Cario, Egypt with the Jesuit Brothers and spent the last year of High School in New Jersey. He joined the Army Air Corp (USAF) and was an Aircraft Mechanic. He served for 28 years. During the...
Margaret Jean Leary
Nov 6, 2017
Margaret Jean Leary, 69, of Spring Valley, CA, was born August 25, 1948, and died November 6, 2017, after a long illness. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Lt. Col. Steven E. Leary, USAF (Ret); her sister, Molly Latham; her five children, Kent Leary, Alice Dailey, Vangie Leary, Paul Leary, and Joyce Leary; three grandchildren, Mahlia Blakeboro,...
Eloise Marie Maloney
Nov 3, 2017
Eloise Maloney passed away at home in La Mesa, California on November 3, 2017. She was the widow of Colonel Emmons Maloney. They shared 67 years of marriage together. Born on November 12, 1921, in Wisconsin, Eloise was the daughter of Ernest & Alice. She joined the Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES/Navy) in 1943 and was stationed in...
I. Irving Refkin
Nov 2, 2017
Irv Refkin, an impromptu but daring spy who served the United States and Britain as a saboteur, assassin and courier behind enemy lines in Europe during World War II, died on Thursday at his home in San Diego. He was 96. His death was confirmed by a friend, Vera Davis. Dispatched from England, Mr. Refkin, a scrappy 5-foot-6 Wisconsin native,...
George Thomas Hanchett
Nov 1, 2017
George Thomas Hanchett was born May 10, 1934, in Friendship, New York. He was the middle child with two sisters, Virgina and Amelia. George grew up in Olean, New York, and graduated from Olean High School in 1952. He worked at the local grocery, store while in high school. During his senior year his family picked up and moved to...
Jeffrey Edward Frank
Oct 28, 2017
Jeff Frank passed away peacefully with his wife by his side on October 28th after a 20-month battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 54. A native San Diegan, Jeff lived in the area most of his life, except for six years of his early childhood when his family lived in Tempe, Arizona. Jeff was the youngest of seven kids born...
