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Clarence Leonard Mcdaniel

Clarence Leonard Mcdaniel

Dec 15, 2017

Clarence L. McDaniel, Captain, United States Navy, Ret. Mac was born on November 26, 1928, in Goodland, Kansas, where he lived until age three. Age 3 to 9: Lived on a farm 17.5 miles NE of Goodland, KS. Farm chores included picking cherries, shelling peas and digging potatoes, and herding milk cows from the pasture. Age 5: Attended 1st grade...

Lyall Grant Young

Lyall Grant Young

Dec 11, 2017

Lyall G., retired from San Diego City Schools as a Crawford HS Guidance Counselor in 1981, passed on peacefully at home of natural causes at 4:30AM on December 11th, 2017. Lyall was born in Renton, Washington, and graduated from the University of Washington in 1952. He and his first wife Alice were married 57 years until her passing, raising two...

Kimberly Ann Abell

Kimberly Ann Abell

Dec 11, 2017

Kimberly Ann Abell August 12, 1954 – December 11, 2017 Kimberly Ann Abell was born on August 12, 1954 in San Diego, CA and raised there by her parents, Herb and Connie Abell. She attended Holy Trinity Catholic Elementary School, Granite Hills High School and San Diego State University where she earned her Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education and...

Jay Roger Hanson

Jay Roger Hanson

Dec 9, 2017

Jay was born in Coronado, California, the youngest of three children to Capt. Kenneth Earl Hanson (US Navy) and Olive Rebecca "Stevie" Steeves. He passed away at his home in San Diego, California. Jay graduated from Point Loma High School in 1966 and then earned his Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley in 1971. Jay was known for his...

Charles Everett Southwick

Charles Everett Southwick

Dec 9, 2017

SAN DIEGO Charles Southwick passed away on December 9th, 2017 from complications resulting from cancer. He passed quietly and peacefully in his sleep. He was born in Fairbanks Alaska and settled in Seattle Washington in 1944 where he attended Renton Junior-Senior High School and then the University of Washington where he lettered in track. He completed the National Aviation Cadet...

George Neal Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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