Claremont Obituaries
Mother, grandmother, licensed clinical social worker Claremont resident Frances Lillian O’Leary (nee Bock) died peacefully at home on November 14 at age 88 after a long battle with cancer. She was born at St. Vincent hospital in Los Angeles on January 10, 1937, to Albert C. Bock and Ellen M. Bock (nee Sweeney), the fourth […]
Reverend Courtney Erland Peterson died of natural causes at 89 years of age in Portland, Oregon on December 26, 2021. He lived a full, rich, and wonderful life.
Longtime Claremont resident Betty Lorraine Frampton died peacefully on January 17 with her family by her side. She was 94 years old.
June Helton Stromberg was born October 19, 1915, in Grandfield, Oklahoma, in the home of her parents, Robert Isaac Helton and Stella Moore Helton, joining an older brother, Robert M. Helton.
Helen Ramp was born in September 1921 in Ontario, California to a family that included parents Arthur and Lella Ramp and brother Leland.
Claremont lost one of its most beloved citizens last week in Chet Jaeger, who died at home at the age of 97 on January 4 after a brief bout with pneumonia.
William R. Partridge, age 94, beloved father and grandfather, died peacefully while reading on October 6, 2021 at Riderwood Village, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Lillian M. Gude Peairs died peacefully at home in Upland on December 4, 2021 after a long illness. She was 82 years of age and was a longtime resident of Upland.
Lee Cameron McDonald, a resident of Claremont since the late 1940s, died December 29 of natural causes brought on by old age.
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 […]