Claremont Obituaries
Father, tireless, award-winning high school, college educator Louis Anthony Sergio, affectionately known as “Dr. Sergio,” “doc,” uncle Lou, and dad, died peacefully on January 2 at his home in Claremont. He was 95 years old. Born on January 16, 1929, in Trenton, New Jersey, Louis moved with his family to San Gabriel, California, at 16, […]
Claremont resident Georgianna (Hall) Terrell died Oct. 31 at the age of 87 from medical complications associated with open heart surgery.
Musician, humanitarian, devout Catholic, family man Pete Fullerton grew up just south of the Claremont Village in a 1951 mid-century home on St. Bonaventure Avenue. As a musically inclined kid in the 1950s, he often jammed with other teens in his garage. After graduating from Claremont High School in 1963 he joined the band We […]
Grandmother, longtime nurse and nursing administrator, traveler. Ruth Geraldine Livingood Auld died November 26. Ruth was born May 15, 1928 in New Virginia, Iowa, the daughter of the late Jesse F. Livingood and Louella Whipkey Livingood. The family moved to Western Pennsylvania, where Ruth attended school. She graduated from Fairmont General Hospital School of Nursing […]
Great-grandmother, former Claremont city administrator, master gardener, traveler. Marcia Goldstein, former director of community services and longtime Claremont resident, died October 19 in Laguna Woods, California, under the care of hospice and with family by her side. The cause of her death was metastatic breast cancer. She was 79 years old. Marcia was born in […]
Longtime Claremont resident Charles “Chuck” Francis Farritor died at home on November 23. He was 97. His funeral will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, December 6 at Todd Memorial Chapel, 325 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont. Email Linda at lindab@dslextreme.com for more information. A full account of Farritor’s life will appear in a future […]
A resident of Claremont for over 20 years, Raoul Emilio Cervantes Jr. died unexpectedly on Friday morning, November 12, of heart complications.
James A. Penn, 73, died from complications of cancer on November 26, 2020, while in the company of his family.
John Ammon, born in Hoopa, California on May 21, 1942, died on Oct. 27 at age 79.
Ingrid Hvalsoe Petersen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 29, 1917. She attended university in Copenhagen, and, during the German occupation she and her family were deeply involved in the Danish resistance movement.
Claremont resident LaLoie J. Johnson, better known as “Loie,” died October 18. She was 86 years old.
Eloise Dale, a 25-year resident of Pilgrim Place in Claremont who spent 45 of her 96 years in Japan, died October 5.
Pamela Garr Herrlinger, 82, a longtime Claremont resident who recently relocated to Issaquah, Washington, died peacefully at home surrounded by family on October 14, from a blood cancer called Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).
Roberto “Pepe” Andrade died at his Claremont home on August 31. Born November 7, 1941, he proudly hailed from Moroleón, Guanajuato, Mexico, but he came to the United States—like so many others—in search of a better life
Les Jensen, 90, former Claremont resident, died August 28 in his home in Ashland, Oregon, of chronic lung disease.
Jeanne Chamberlain’s life was concluded on Tuesday, September 14 after a four-plus year battle with ovarian cancer.
Mrs. Rudder, a longtime Claremont resident, died at home on September 12, mercifully ending her long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 78 years old.