Claremont Obituaries
Beloved patriarch, proud Navy veteran, long-time volunteer Devoted husband, beloved patriarch, proud Navy veteran, long-time volunteer, and Claremont Police Department aide Anthony Joseph Marino died peacefully at home in Florida on January 30 after a four year battle with lung cancer. Anthony “Tony” Joseph Marino was born in Columbus, Ohio July 13, 1938, to Italian […]
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 […]
“It is with deep sorrow and much love that we mourn the passing of Joyce Elaine Sokolowski, of Montclair, on February 17, 2022 at the young age of 92 years,” wrote her family.
Cornelis A. (“Kees”) de Kluyver, 72, died Monday, March 7, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon after a six-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia.