Claremont Obituaries
Great-grandfather, longtime water district manager, traveler Anthony “Tony” Poli, 81, of Claremont, died peacefully on September 19, surrounded by loved ones. Anthony was born in Los Angeles on June 10, 1943, to Angelina Rizzotto and Biagio Poli. After graduating from Mark Keppel High School in 1961, he attended East Los Angeles College and opened a […]
John Owen Regan died May 13, 2022 at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont, California. He was 90 years old.
Wife, mother, artist, teacher and community activist Mary Hughes died March 9 at her home in Claremont. She was 69.
Elisabeth Mott DesCombes, known as Lis, died unexpectedly at her home on March 26. She was nearing a full recovery from surgery for a spinal infection and was looking forward to returning to her passions.
Ellen Marie Dauchy (née Maloney), age 73, of Ontario, died April 2 at San Antonio Regional Hospital in Upland.
Artist and antique dealer Gary Michael Keith, a longtime resident of both the Central Coast and Upland, died suddenly on December 20, 2021 from unknown causes shortly after a routine surgery.
Beloved son and longtime fixture in the Claremont music scene, Pebber Brown, died suddenly in late February at the age of 62.
Sam Silvas, resident of Claremont for 22 years, died March 8. He was 57 years old.
Andrew Mackenzie Douglas, dear son, brother and uncle, died at home in Pomona on April 15. He was 32.
Born Charles Worthing Freitas on November 24, 1942, to Worthing Charles Freitas and Jordis Astrid Nelson Freitas, Chuck grew up in the orange groves of 1940s and ‘50s Orange County.
Betty Louise Thresher was born in Hampden, Massachusetts on February 7, 1935. She departed this life April 4 at her home in Nipomo.
Dru Curtis Gladney, Ph.D., died unexpectedly while snowboarding at Mt. Baldy on one of his favorite holidays, St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday, March 17.
Rick Calhoun, who attended elementary schools in Claremont and high school in Corona del Mar, California, died March 12 at age 67.
Arigo Ignacio Sugihara was born September 26, 1945 to Shigeyoshi Sugihara, a Japanese national, and Antonia Vermeer Sugihara, a Dutch Indonesian, in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies presently known as Jakarta, Indonesia. Both parents preceded him in death.
Grandfather, author, distinguished, lauded scholar Fred Burwick, an internationally recognized authority on Romantic-era British literature, and the author and editor of more than 30 books, including recently A History of Romantic Literature (2019), died one day before his 86th birthday in Pomona on March 16, after suffering an abdominal aneurysm. “Fred defined indefatigability. He simply […]
Cordell Cullen Goode: longtime Claremont real estate agent Cordell Cullen Goode died peacefully January 19, 2021 at her home in Ventura, California. She was 90 years old. Cordell was born on April 9, 1930 in Casper, Wyoming, and raised by her father after her mother died when she was an infant. She graduated from the […]
Loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Margaret Ann Hortick (Goyette), known as Maggie, died peacefully in her Pomona home on March 11 after a long illness, 12 days before her 86th birthday. She was born March 23, 1936, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada to William and Janet Goyette. Maggie was high school sweethearts with Nicholas Hortick. They […]