Feb. 22, 1909 – May 14, 2015 Mary Alice Ayling passed away on Thursday, May 14 at the age of 106. Mary was born at home on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 1909 to Melvin and Alice Gulick. She went to Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles and graduated in 1929. After […]
Nov. 5, 1932 – April 14, 2015 Stephen John Pehar was born in the home of his parents high on Alpine Street, overlooking downtown Los Angeles (right below the famous Chavez Ravene). Steve’s father, Stojan, arrived in the United States in 1910 at the age of 18. His mother, Anna (Anka Burica), followed in 1922 […]
Nov. 2, 1941-March 22, 2015 JoAnn Barbara Houston nee Ferona died March 22 at the age of 73. JoAnn was born Nov. 2, 1941 to Arthur and Albina Ferona in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The family moved to Glendale in 1951 where JoAnn attended Holy Family grade school, Roosevelt Junior High School and graduated from Glendale High […]
Dorothy “Dot” Clark, age 92, of Amarillo, Texas died March 23. Memorial services were held at Polk Street United Methodist Church on Friday, March 27 at 2 p.m. Private burial was at Llano Cemetery that morning by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors. Dorothy was born April 2, 1922, in Lexington, Kentucky to Herbert S. Chase and […]
May 29, 1922 – March 15, 2015 Marion Frances Gustavsen (Gussy) [McDonald], 92, of Sunland passed away on March 15 in the Verdugo Vista Healthcare Center in La Crescenta. Burial service will be held at the Winton Cemetery (7651 W. Almond Ave., Winton, California) on March 28 at 11 a.m. Marion was born on May […]
Florence Cannella, aged 86, passed away on March 13. Florence was born on Jan. 11, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, the 10th child of Phillip and Grace Palazzola. At the age of 2 her large Italian family traveled by car across the United States and settled in San Pedro. There she spent her childhood by the […]
June 25, 1928 – March 2, 2015 Francisco “Paco” Soldevilla passed on March 2 after a brief illness at the age of 86. He lived in Glendale for the last 29 years. He had just moved with his wife to Lake Oswego, Oregon to live with his son and his wife. He was a Renaissance […]
July 6, 1938 – Feb. 26, 2015 It is with sadness the family of Jerry Taylor announces his passing on Feb. 26 at his home in La Crescenta. Jerry was born in Lyons, Kansas on July 6, 1938. He graduated from Lyons High School in 1956 and Sterling College in 1963. After driving a cattle […]
October 31, 1929 – January 24, 2015 David S. Mason of La Crescenta, California, died peacefully at his home on January 24, 2015. He was born in Torrance, California, the son of late Thomas Francis and Eva Gay Mason, youngest of 3 children. David graduated from John Marshall High School located in Los Angeles […]
1928 – 2015 Born in Montrose in 1928, Richard George Hingston passed away Jan. 17 in La Crescenta. He loved Crescenta Valley and never moved from it. “Where else can you live in the mountains and be 30 minutes from the beach and desert?” he’d ask. During WWII he was a student at Glendale High […]