Claremont Obituaries
Proud son and father, Claremont High School grad Michael Joseph Torrez, 47, of Boise, Idaho, died February 24. He was born in Pomona on June 19, 1976 to the late […]
Revolutionary champion for nannies, college professor, traveler, genealogist Deborah Davis Caughron, a resident of Claremont since 1968, died April 18 at the age of 74. Deborah was born in Casper, […]
Trailblazing Kiwanian, tireless volunteer, longtime Claremonter Claremont resident Katherine Jane Ables died May 7 at Claremont Place, where she had been living for the past four years. She was 91. […]
Hip hop music lover, adoring brother, Lakers fan Sunrise: October 2, 1989; Sunset: March 30, 2019. Daniel fought to enter this world, as he nearly died at birth. Delivery by […]
Former mayor, League of Women Voters stalwart, civic activist To get a sense of Ellen Taylor’s prodigious gifts as an organizer and persuasive advocate, her husband, Marshall Taylor, offered a […]
CUSD head nurse, teacher, world traveler, grandmother Jeannie Cregg, born April 28, 1950 in Baltimore, died in Claremont on April 2 at the age of 68. Jeannie was the second […]
Nurse, devoted minister’s wife, quilter, active Pilgrim, volunteer Ruth Jane Barrow Blunt died peacefully of natural causes at Claremont’s Pilgrim Place Health Care Center. She was 94 years old. She […]
Defense industry veteran, card player, lifelong baseball fan William Edward Kirke, Jr. died March 18 at home in Fort Bragg, California, where he had lived for the past 18 years. […]
US Army veteran, dedicated father, active church volunteer Charles Rich Magnusson died March 11 at the age of 89. He was born November 5, 1929 and spent most of his […]
US Navy veteran, hospital executive, tennis, music lover Former Claremont resident Albert Lee Piette died at his home in Santa Rosa, California on February 16. He was born July 16, […]
Pitzer professor, author, family man Stu McConnell, professor emeritus of history at Pitzer College, died February 14 at Pilgrim Place after a years-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 62, […]
Loving mother, devoted teacher, longtime volunteer Ruth Joanne Cooke Henzie succumbed to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on March 4 and died peacefully at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. She was […]
Intellectual, physician, animal lover, eccentric Rosario Russell Scalise Ross was born August 3, 1951 in Chicago and died peacefully in his sleep on December 20, 2018 at the age of […]
Teacher, animal lover, nature enthusiast Noah of Noah’s Ark had nothing on Janice Mix. “If there was ever a person qualified to command a ship full of wild animals, it […]
Norma B. Law Trailblazing African American prison warden, ‘Pomona Clarion’ co-founder Norma Bryant Law, age 81 and a longtime resident of Claremont, died March 7 in Ontario, surrounded by her […]
Claremont activist, teacher, author, missionary Marilee K. Scaff, teacher and educator, former missionary, and longtime community activist and environmentalist in Claremont, died March 8 at the age of 103. A […]
Carolyn Beck, a longtime Claremont resident, died January 27 of complications from dementia. She was 85. The youngest of three sisters, she was born Carolyn Rosner in Los Angeles […]