Norbert Dean Lalley
July 15, 1931 – April 21, 2018 Funeral Mass for Norbert Dean Lalley will held on Wednesday, May 2 at 10 a.m. at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 2411 Montrose Ave. in Montrose. Funeral Directors: www.CrippenMortuary.com
Rita Basta, BVM (James Celeste)
March 2, 1942 – April 18, 2018 Rita Basta, BVM (James Celeste) died Wednesday, April 18 in Pasadena. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, April 28 at 10 a.m. at Holy Redeemer Church, 2411 Montrose Ave. in Montrose. Burial is in Mount Carmel cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa. She was born in St. […]
James V. Gallagher
April 7, 1933 – April 11, 2018 James V. Gallagher, 85, passed away peacefully on April 11 at his home in Orange County after a fall in March. He is survived by Linda, his wife of 32 years. He was a longtime Crescenta Valley resident. Jim was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 7, […]
Ronald Allen Cooper
April 1,1932 – April 12, 2018 Ron was born in Crystal Falls, Michigan and moved to Glendale in 1936 with his brother and his parents, Frank and Ann. He attended Marshall Elementary, Wilson Jr. High, and Glendale High School. Ron went on to attend Occidental College and majored in political science. While at Oxy, Ron […]
Robert Bruce Carpenter
Feb. 6, 1938 – March 30, 2018 Robert Bruce Carpenter passed away on March 30 at Verdugo Hills Hospital after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was born Feb. 6, 1939 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Robert and Isabelle Carpenter. Robert graduated from Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut and attended the University of […]
Laura Glenn
Jan. 17, 1922 – April 17, 2018 Laura Glenn of La Crescenta passed away on April 17 after a fall one year earlier that left her bedridden. She was born Jan. 17, 1922 in Axtell, Utah to William and Emma Duffin. She was a beloved and loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great great-grandmother, sister, cousin aunt […]
Celia Rueda De Leon
Sept. 7, 1931 – April 3, 2018 Celia Rueda De Leon, devoted wife, extraordinary mother, and treasured grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully on April 3 surrounded by her family. She was 86 years of age. Celia was born in Mexico to Ramon and Ignacia Aguilar. She married her high school sweetheart, Manuel Rueda De […]
Lori Marlett
1961 – 2018 Lori Marlett passed away recently after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer. After her diagnosis and emergency surgery in early 2017, she continued to live her life with the same enthusiasm and passion she always had enjoying and bringing joy to every minute of every day. She believed in living life […]
Etta Lee (Leach) Flaherty
May 29, 1921 – March 19, 2018 Etta Lee Flaherty, wife of John Flaherty and daughter of Earnest F. and Sadie Leach, passed away last month in Orange, California. She was 96. Etta was born in Oil City, Oklahoma and moved to Montrose in the early 1920s with her parents. Her father and uncle (Grey) […]
David Wacker
Feb. 23, 1960 – March 28, 2018 David Wacker was born in Santa Monica and moved to La Crescenta with his family at age 4, destined to become a life long resident of that community. The foothills were a perfect place for an inquisitive boy to grow up. Climbing the check dams and finding tadpoles […]