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In Los Angeles, Kass met and married his wife, Wallie, and they had two sons, Larry and Jonathon. Ybarra was struck by Carpenter’s confidence and gregariousness. "A group of ministers would walk the strip and talk with young people, and my dad brought a few of them to our house to tell their parents [by phone] that they were safe.". After a 2012 surgical procedure left him using a wheelchair, Daviau moved into a facility run by the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills, where he spent his final days after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Day or night, “she hardly ever left his side,” Vincenza said. She was 62. Scroggs, who became her agent in 1997, practically adopted Bennett as a member of his family, often inviting her to his house in Burbank for dinner. As a single mother, she worked full time after the family moved from New York to San Diego in 1998. Today, Thomas serves as the first female mayor of the borough of Penns Grove in New Jersey. “I am beyond blessed,” Seyferth said. In the classroom, Appelbaum would have called it releasing the psychology of expectations. He wore his mask during errands. Lee, 48, died Feb. 7, a week after he tested positive for COVID-19. Besides fish, he was known for his pork riblets in red salsa. After retiring from teaching, she volunteered as a court-appointed special advocate for the foster care system, and was a docent at the Skirball Cultural Center. They were enough to fill a book, although she hardly sat still long enough to write one. On a typical Friday night, Angelo Chavez could be found with his brother Daniel at the Foothill Lounge, a San Jose sports bar where Chavez would do his best to convince his brother to buy tickets to an Oakland Raiders game or even a concert. “Anything we were involved in,” Sandra said. The first employee infected in an outbreak at a dementia care facility in West Los Angeles, Bruner-Ringo called and texted colleagues that subsequently fell ill, encouraging them daily to keep a good attitude and reassuring them that they were all going to be OK. “Brittany was our cheerleader,” one recalled. He twirled her in dance halls across the city. Not once did I ever hear her complain that she had work the next day or she was making sacrifices. “And if you worked with him, you pretty much became a friend for life.”. There’s an old family film of Walt Disney showing around Evers’ oldest child, Blaise, as the buildings went up. “It didn’t happen that way.”. “My mom, at 105, was perfectly healthy,” Dearborn said. Friends and relatives prefer to focus on her remarkable life, not her death. He had 82 wonderful years. "She was very topical. Herbert J. “Buzz” Evers loved to laugh. His wife, Margie, had washed his pajamas in anticipation of his return home, and Meppen had ordered all the ingredients to make his favorite pasta: a savory dish with a homemade low-salt marinara sauce mixed with sautéed vegetables and ground chicken. With Regalado’s help, his family said, he began to turn a corner. And, of course, he and Mary Anne never stopped dancing. It wasn’t until Pantages was in her 90s that she stopped driving and traveling and decided to move into a senior living home. Marin loved being on the road and taking in the scenery. “He took initiative. Upon his return to the States, White attended Compton College and USC, becoming a lifelong Trojan fan. From there he moved to Los Angeles, where he landed his first teaching job at Cal State L.A. in 1964. He still got to do everything anybody should want to do,” Kelly said. But when the lockdown began, they couldn’t visit him any longer and suddenly were unable to reach him by phone. '", “As I come to terms with this,” Mark says of his father’s death, “I have him in my head saying that constantly.”. The kids loved to come over and play games. Dukes had long promised Savannah that he would give her away on her wedding day. Sandra described him as a “big provider.”. “We’d go to lunch and eat like pigs — and he’d go home that evening and right away ask, ‘What’s for dinner, Florence?’” Engel said, referring to Chiu’s wife, who died in 2011. Birmingham Athletic Director Rick Prizant remembers when Cohen’s doctor told him to give up coaching baseball because it was too much pressure, so he was told to take over coaching the tennis team. But as they approached their 15th wedding anniversary, the couple wanted to do it again “the right way,” with a church wedding and Emelina’s father walking her down the aisle. Kelley and several of her friends from the trip have been donating plasma and participating in statistical and medical studies since recovering from the virus. She had been diagnosed with dementia, but still remembered her relatives and details about her family, and she seemed to be happy there, Jaime said. “He always said mail time was the worst if you didn’t get a letter,” Alexandre said. For a while in the early 1970s, the quartet was a house band at the Whisky A Go Go and issued an album for ABC-Dunhill Records. Harris had a happy childhood of surfing, skiing and outdoor adventures, and he graduated from Loyola High School. His wife, Melody Young, died of cancer in May 2019. He spent five years in prison and two years at a communist reeducation camp, and turned down numerous opportunities to escape. In 1957, she married Frank Carvalho Jr. and had three children. Castro-Olega and her twin sister, Rosalie, both dedicated their lives to nursing. He is survived by his wife Hernandez, and their nine children: Juanita Leos-Fullerton, Mario Leos Jr., Amelia Leos-Cepeida, Aurora Leos, Maria Luz Leos-Pacheco, Lydia Leos, Elizabeth Leos-Kasper, Jaime Leos, Javier Leos. “His hands meant so much to him because that’s what made him a carpenter,” she said. When they came back, all three tested positive for COVID-19. He was credited with contributing to a greater understanding of how chlamydia affects the body and can impact newborns’ health, and last year was nominated for a Lasker Award, which recognizes advances in understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of diseases. His family tried to keep him in isolation as his symptoms worsened. A manager at the pharmacy where Ye worked, who asked not to be identified, described him as likable and outgoing. I’m proud to say she was my mom.”. Her vital signs were so strong that doctors discussed taking her off the ventilator, but the virus ultimately proved too strong. Eliahu Pietruszka escaped from Poland at the beginning of the second world war thinking his entire family had perished. “People would sometimes ask, ‘Wait, is he serious?’” his daughter, Sandra, remembered. She learned English, earned her Certified Nursing Assistant and CPR certificates. Allen Daviau was born in New Orleans on June 14, 1942, before relocating to Los Angeles with his family. When he made it back home on the weekends, he would spend time with his family and occasionally take Grace to the movies. Although the family is scattered across the country from California to New York, they remain tight knit. He was 88. They would watch the San Francisco Giants; she enjoyed Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval and the amiable former manager, Dusty Baker. “If she was a part of something, you just knew it was going to be fun and joyous and just full of love,” Breed said. Primary among White’s passions was restoring vintage cars, a love that dated to his purchase of a 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe shortly after he was married. “Jim was a genuinely kind person with a wry sense of humor and who cared a ton about the game,” said Kirk. In 2019, she and her PDS successor, actress Mitzi Gaynor, were awarded the Medal of Honor from the Actor’s Fund in recognition of their organizations’ decades-long partnership. He was filled with pride when Coralia graduated from Cal State Northridge, as well as when she had a daughter. Agredano retired a few years ago, but he hated to stop working, according to Manny. He was the fourth person to die who contracted the virus at Alder Bay. In addition, he would take the time to tell those he helped what it means to be presentable and what employers want to see. When he got sick, it was difficult for them to help. He was remembered by friends and family as a gregarious man, quick with a joke and a knack for speaking to old and young alike. Shawn said his father always considered himself a farmer at heart, and that he had empathy for the immigrants and farm laborers who worked the soil. When they were young, the girls split their time between their father and their mother, Julie Ziegler, but in high school they spent the week with their mother, the weekends with their dad. She always thought about which presents to take for them, any way to make them happy. The class ended up with gritty beans. "And when the communists were marching into the capital in 1975, the U.S. Embassy said they had room for him and my mother to fly out on a helicopter, but he refused because he'd have to leave his children.". She took a leadership role in the order in 1975. “He could be hilarious when he wrote. During those times, Hernandez taught Ehlers how to lay tile and carpet, apply wallpaper and strip a kitchen and rebuild it from scratch. In the late 1970s, she coordinated an interdenominational music festival in San Jose that drew singers from 15 Bay Area churches. As an activist, Bernuy and four other nuns were handcuffed and arrested in 1981 after blocking the driveway to the Federal Building in downtown L.A in protest of the deportation of Salvadoran refugees. On his Facebook page, Branker described himself as “Just a simple cowboy who got into rock and roll.”. “Deep inside I’m hurting, deep inside I’m broken in so many pieces. “Even during the holidays, we made it very special. Karen brought along a chalkboard. He was transferred to a rehab center on New Year’s Day and seemed to be improving. While navigating the track circuit through Europe, Robinson learned of a teammate who lacked the money to secure a hotel room. “She wouldn’t miss anything,” Keegan said. I couldn’t do it on my own. Raul and Adeline lived with their daughter Norma, who died of COVID-19 complications May 3. He was a dedicated San Francisco Giants fan and was at the World Series game on Oct. 17, 1989, that was postponed because of the Loma Prieta earthquake. You are not going to be the kind of people who start and don't finish things.’". Her parents sent her to be raised by nuns and distant relatives. In 2011, Taurino and Silvia started a church called Fe Esperanza y Amor — faith, hope and love — and, according to the church members they left behind, they embodied those values in their work. His novel approach to treating trachoma was key to understanding its resiliency and connection to chlamydia. He earned the Bronze Service Medal for his valor. “Always helpful and always paid a person back. “With Cari passing away,” she said, “its future is in limbo.”. Early on Feb. 19, Isaac got a call from his brothers across the border. Breed-Rabitoy suffered from various ailments, including renal disease. Despite his dedication to the movement, Bernabe always made time for family. “He was talking about how old he was,” Young’s daughter Stacey Silva explained, laughing at the memory. In 1983, the Burnams took in an Ethiopian 14-year-old named Tewodros “Teddy” Gedebou, who wanted to come to the U.S. to be a doctor. “He took his work really seriously,” Noemi said. “Every time there was a new baby we would go and buy clothes.”. Savannah’s longtime boyfriend, Austin Leonard, recently asked Dukes for his daughter’s hand in marriage through a window at the hospital. She liked to help them with their grocery shopping or just take them around town. He was told of his mother’s death only after he regained consciousness several days later. After 15 years at General Motors, Chin retired early, at the age of 56. Their parents, Mary and McHenry Watson, carried their own scars from childhood. In the 1970s, Lackowski was stationed in San Diego, where he settled for the next chapter of his life. But she was not concerned with how the world would remember her many charitable efforts or her decades of groundbreaking activism championing numerous causes dear to her heart. It was truly his identity. Whenever Dave Cristofaro has an important task he’d rather set aside for a while, he’ll remember the voice, his mother’s voice, and then grit his way through whatever has to be finished. “Just within two or three hours, she started having a cough,” he said. Like many boxers, Hernandez found it easy to talk about himself. “It was certainly memorable,” said Fred Claire, the former Dodgers general manager who was the team’s vice president of public relations and marketing in 1981. “But I think the biggest contribution of Jay was just in keeping all the guys around him loose.”. He was a diehard San Francisco 49ers fan. Claudine lived quite a life,” said Glory Ellen Pearson Peel. And although the agency commanded much of Harris’s energy, he also made time for his family. Grabbing pizza and a beer at a local restaurant called Tony’s Pizza was one of his favorite things to do. They'd been planning to vacation with another couple in Hawaii but canceled the trip after the state issued shelter-in-place orders in late March. “That’s what I’d like to teach my grandchildren. It’s a very sacred thing when a writer shares those things.”. He was 72. “His accomplishments, he didn’t wear them on his shoulder,” said Paul Robinson, who said his father had contracted COVID-19. On March 3, Wilson Maa stood at the top of Machu Picchu with his wife, Toyling. She’d tell you things as she saw them and didn’t hold back — but it all came from a place of love. “She didn't have much money, but she had time and she knew how to sew,” he said. “Everything that she would get or buy, she always took really good care of it,” Dave said. "She was really aware of what was going on politically," Michele said. It’s the way I grew up and it’s what my kids grew up with.”. “How are you doing?” he would ask the workers in Spanish. The consequences are beyond her expectations. She was only 18 when her son Dick was born without an ear. Tall and weighing 300 pounds, Terry Blanchard could be an imposing sight, but those who knew him said he was a “gentle giant,” a hard-working, determined man who would help anyone he could. “Does it hurt your family? That responsibility took him after graduation first to Oregon, where he headed the aquatics department at a YMCA, then to Iowa, where he studied at the Palmer College of Chiropractic, just as his father and mother had done. He enjoyed those hikes with his. Harris, then only 11, remembers loading into the car and driving through Skid Row in the middle of the night to look for the woman. The San Francisco native was born in the Cow Hollow neighborhood, the son of gas station owner Edward Butori and caterer Mary. In the end, he lost, but he continued the fight, always looking for any opportunity to open his own gym. It was very comforting.”. He made the top 10 chart 14 times between 1958 and 1965, created a signature sonic avalanche in the studio known as “the Wall of Sound” and — record by record — revolutionized popular music. Over 30 years with the San Diego Unified School District, Alexander taught a variety of subjects, before becoming a vice principal at Nye Elementary, where she retired in 2002. As the disease progressed with ruthless aggression, he lost his driver’s license. Schachter is survived by his wife, daughter, sons Marc and Alexander, three grandsons and a brother, Norbert. Gómez was abundantly friendly and quickly struck up a conversation — it was in his nature, Regalado said. Fanucchi was born and raised in Lincoln, Calif., the son of Italian immigrants. He would have his daughter help translate a word in Los Angeles Times stories to make sure he understood them properly. “He understood ambition, and what he instilled in students was that ‘can do’ idea. In a stroke that would define his style of spiritual work, Cook, then associate pastor at Hollywood United Methodist Church, took to the streets of the smoldering city to offer ministry. When he had saved enough, he’d return to his native land with a PA system, a Fender guitar and other instruments — ready for stardom. I wish he would have just listened to what he was telling me.”, She so admired her father that she vowed as a young woman she’d marry a man just like him. The MGM head invited Rogosin to visit the studio lot, where an awestruck Rogosin bumped into a “startlingly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor.” Inside Schary’s office, he saw the studio head "counting what appeared from a distance to be, and in fact was, a pile of money!". “I’m grateful for every moment he gave me and that he gave me all my children. Bennett had her first brushes with the world of show business when she was a little girl. “My pneumonia got very bad. Garrett is survived by daughter Keegan, six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. His research focused on quantitative and data analytic methods and their applications to human development, which led to a wide array of studies involving non-maternal child care, health and human behavior, HIV transmission in at-risk populations, and educational policies and outcomes. As a businessman, he climbed to several top positions in the computer industry, including president, chief operating officer and co-chairman of Ingram Micro in Irvine, one of the world's largest distributors of technology products and services. His children and grandchildren weren’t allowed to visit him in the hospital as he battled COVID-19, but he was able to speak with them on the phone two days before he died. “He had this drive to make things different, fun and exciting.”. That’s why I kept casting him,” she said “He was a brilliant man. Don’t get trapped in credit card debt. Dianne Kelly, a family friend for more than 60 years, said Roche lived “a pretty quiet life, but she was happy.” Kelly considered Roche her honorary aunt. Nelson died on May 14 at Sterling Court of complications from COVID-19. At competitions, he’d even lend a hand to students from opposing teams. That extended work family continues to embrace Ben, who would have celebrated his 20-year anniversary with Sally in December. “When we were kids, he would buy and sell cars all the time,” Randall White recalled. She died at Garfield Hospital. “I think sometimes she still thought I was 18 years old in her head,” Garcia said. When Jim Farrell contracted COVID-19 in early November, he kept the news to himself. But, in some ways, you know, I am relieved that my brother is not in pain anymore.”. Instead he cultivated a new audience in the U.S. keen on embracing their heritage through music, albeit a different type. One day while her father, a real estate agent, was doing business with powerful clients in Beverly Hills with Bennett at his side, they met Judy Garland, who kept Bennett distracted with a board game. Grandpa Buzz, as he was known to his many grandchildren, had a life filled with funny stories to tell. William Minnis is survived by his wife of more than 40 years, Carla Marion Minnis; his daughter Margaret Mae Moodian, a grandson and his sister. At Desert Reign Church, Bernard ran the church’s food delivery program, married couples and conducted funeral services. He is survived by his two children, Silva and Dwayne Young, and six grandchildren. “It wasn’t by choice,” Michelle said. Claire was heading from the field to the press box as a game was about to start when he saw Johnstone — in full uniform — ordering a hotdog from a concession stand outside the Dodgers clubhouse. “But it was quick, no pain, so we are grateful for that.”. An average weekend for Macias included barbecuing or cruising in a boat on Lake Elsinore with his mother, sisters and nieces. “I was plucked from the tree, and suddenly I had flowered. “Those meant more than any gifts you could buy at a store because they were made by her. Neighborhood bouts, as he told The Times in 2016, led to amateur events at the Olympic Auditorium and another in Las Vegas. In 1962 she married Louis Apothaker, a lawyer, and had two children. Others might have wilted under the weight of such grief. But almost immediately, he developed pneumonia, then had a heart attack. Those who knew him said Craig treated everyone in his life with that same love, affection and patience, as though they were part of the Craig clan too. They achieved things that detractors said they couldn’t, weren’t capable of doing.”. He is survived by his mother, Helena Pask, and a half brother, Ronnie Pask. Her old liver — damaged from years of unhealthy eating and diabetes, her family says — had forced her to retire after about 30 years as founding director of the Pala Youth Center in Pala, one of the loci of life for the Pala Band of Mission Indians, to which she belonged. Two years ago, Robinson was asked what he saw when looking at a photo of his winning jump, a moment of excellence frozen forever in time. It was, Maitland-Lewis said, one of Berry’s proudest achievements. Having given her son up for adoption amid the alcoholism that plagued her in early adulthood, Mary Joanne Rosario became a mother to almost everyone she met the rest of her life. About a week after graduating from San Diego High School, Westmoreland joined the Marines and served four years in Vietnam. Linda remembers fondly the time her brother and a friend made an audition tape for “The Amazing Race,” a global scavenger hunt television show. “That’s my mantra in life now [that] she’s away,” Aileen said. “Two weeks later he proposed, and I accepted. “I gave him love, I hugged him, I kissed him — I gave him everything you’re not supposed to do,” she said. In addition to his wife, Fanucchi is survived by his sons Joe, Mike and Chris; grandchildren Isabella, Gabriella, Samuel, Gia and Francesca; and a sister, Alba. “We were always able to communicate anything and everything to my dad,” Richard said. This month would have been their 65th wedding anniversary. Harris was born in Los Angeles in 1938. "Dan had the ability to walk into a room and light it up with his presence," Rusmussen said. I don’t know, I don’t know. “They had a great life,” McIntyre said. A Lemon Grove resident, Westmoreland was 76. There, he studied under Lee Strasberg. She wanted to take it slow, to make sure it was a good match, especially after things were so difficult early on. After he was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, however, Ragonesi's world became smaller and smaller. Greg now has an uncool job of his own as an associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke. He returned the tires, but not before a priceless reaction, a near-call to the police and a riot of laughter. In recent years Mitchell had been working as an administrator for the Sacramento School district. His first wife, Samara Kennedy, died of cancer after more than 20 years of marriage. “Now, I want to follow my husband’s dreams.”. Donald Sperling was funny, but not in a gregarious, performative sort of way. Missing from the scene was their fourth son, Ismael Rivera, who watched the final moments of the ceremony on his phone while standing outside a restaurant in Tijuana. His wife talked him out of it. He and his wife, Judie, had just celebrated their 60th anniversary. While no other deaths have been reported, eight other parishioners have tested positive for the virus, according to the Sacramento Bee. He was a great outdoorsman, but he liked to use topography maps, not trail maps. You can make the world a better place.”. Dr. Manuel Ramirez had two strong passions: cooking and medicine. As a child, Wernick spent family vacations with her parents in Palm Springs — living in California had been a lifelong dream. Michael Price, who worked with Wilmore on three different shows, called him “irreplaceable.” Writer Henry Gammill said Wilmore was “empathetic beyond measure, not to mention the funniest one in the room every damn time.”. He was the house chef, treating his family to chicken adobo, Filipino spring rolls and other dishes from his native country. “That’s what she would always say, ‘I’ve got to go to the Earth,’” Hopper Williams said. Sisemore was hospitalized for two to three weeks and placed on a ventilator. The dosage that slowed him for a decade and a half during his fight with glioblastoma was accidentally cut in half. “If someone came to us and didn’t have much,” Jon said, “they certainly went away with something.”. Johnstone, who hit .267 with 102 home runs and 531 RBIs in a 20-year major league career from 1966-85, suffered from dementia and was in a Granada Hills nursing home when he died of complications from COVID-19. “She was 39 years old, and this virus took everything.”, “Erica was so smart,” said another uncle, Lamont Royston. Born Catherine Sotir in Detroit in July 1930, she went work after college at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York as a buyer for the young women’s section. At Church by the Side of the Road, which she attended with her family, she led a yearlong reading of the Bible that ended with a trip to Jerusalem. They liked to laugh. We all have a responsibility for each other.”. “Her family meant the world to her,” her daughter Patty Talamantes said. “He was always so sociable,” Faye said. She was 98. He tested positive for the virus and was admitted to Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside. He worked at one of the three food distribution facilities that were briefly closed over the summer by Los Angeles County public health authorities after outbreaks of the virus. “Hy had a great sense of humor,” White said. Thirteen would die. He recovered and even resumed driving his beloved stick-shift car. His family was foremost.

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