Claremont Obituaries
Great-grandmother, lifelong Claremont resident Elizabeth M. (Liles) Golling died peacefully at her home surrounded by loved ones on July 24, after being treated for cancer for the past four years. Born November 29, 1951, she was a lifelong resident of Claremont, graduating from Claremont High School in 1969. She met the love of her life […]
Theresa Kirke died in Lafayette, California on August 2, 2021 after suffering from advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Devoted family man, high school history teacher, archivist, friend Pilgrim Place resident Chuck Cooney made his great transition at the facility’s Health Services Center (HSC) on November 2, All Souls Day/Día de los Muertos. He was supported in his journey with Alzheimer’s disease and his passing by HSC and hospice staff, his family, relatives and […]
Sharon Ann McNott, 82, died unexpectedly but peacefully on November 29 at her home in Montgomery Village, Maryland.
Harry Clifford Harrison, who grew up in Claremont and graduated from Claremont High School, died September 23 at his home in the Philippines.
Charles Francis Farritor was born September 9, 1924 in Anselmo, Custer County, Nebraska. He was the fifth child of six children, the grandson of Irish immigrants who successfully homesteaded in Nebraska in the mid-1800s.
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.