Claremont Obituaries
Teacher, missionary, community health educator, public health administrator, volunteer, advocate for justice Fern Jo Kaukonen died April 5 at age 81. She was born October 1, 1942 at the family home in California Borough on the Monongahela River in Washington County, Coal Center, Washington, Pennsylvania. She was named after her two grandmothers, Fernand Carly Delbarre […]
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 woman of prodigious intellect and energy, hers was a life well and fully lived. Born November 27, 1915 in San Marcos, Texas, Ms. Scaff was […]
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 in 1933, and lived her entire life in California. After graduating from Dorsey High School, Carolyn became friends at work with Charlotte Acree, whose brother […]
Beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, homemaker Patricia Moore Shawn Lawson Christ, “aka Patty, Mommie, and Muzzie,” has been gone 10 years now, and her family wishes to express their continued love for her because she is still deeply missed. She was born in 1918, and became the matriarch of the Bill and Patty Lawson clan […]
Beloved great grandmother, avid golfer, volunteer, teacher Claremont resident Katharine Powell Daub died January 22, 2019 at Claremont Manor at the age of 94. She lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1949 to until moving to Claremont in 2008. “Kay” was born to Harold and Helen Powell in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in 1924. She attended the […]
Renaissance man, pianist, ambassador for Chinese culture, professor, chemical engineer Henry Sheng, professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Cal Poly Pomona (1978-96), died peacefully in hospice surrounded by his family and former students in Claremont on February 10, 2019. “Henry had many accomplishments, but the most important thing about him was his kind and caring […]
Storyteller, traveler, camper, crafter Marion Faust Brockers died at her home in Santa Clarita, California on February 5 after a battle with cancer. Marion was born October 12, 1956 to Don and Margaret Faust. She grew up in Claremont, attended Sycamore Elementary School, El Roble Junior High School and Claremont High School, from where she […]
YWCA and church leader, social justice advocate Mary Ida Gardner, of Claremont, died February 1 at her retirement home at Pilgrim Place at the age of 88. Mary was born June 11, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Knoxville College, Tennessee; a master’s from Teacher’s College at Columbia University, New York, […]
Loving wife, mother, friend and dedicated CUSD employee Shirley Maxwell lived her life filled with love of family and friends and died surrounded with that love on January 23 at the age of 83. Born Shirley Ann Skaggs on September 22, 1935, in Flat Rock, Illinois, she was one of four daughters to Lawrence and […]
High school teacher, wife, caring mother, grandmother Jean Louise Jackman died January 30 at the age of 84 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Jean was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Traverse City, Michigan. After finishing high school she attended St. Mary’s college in South Bend, Indiana. During her first year at college […]
CPA, mother, companion, world traveler, benefactor Julia P. (“Julie”) Donahue died peacefully at her home on January 18 after being hospitalized since early December. During her last few days she was able to spend time with her three children and their families, her nieces and nephews, and her constant companion and partner, Don Rea. Julie […]
Father, husband, printer, businessman Kenton Dale Wood, 88, died peacefully and surrounded by his loving family on January 26. A longtime resident of Mt. Baldy, he was a prominent businessman in Claremont who was well loved and respected, his family shared. He was born June 23, 1931 in Monrovia, California and moved frequently throughout Southern […]
Husband, father, realtor, teacher Clayburn (Clay) Jarvis Ward died January 26 at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. He was 81 years old. Clay was born April 28, 1937 in Frederick, Oklahoma to John and Maud Ward. He was their third and youngest son. He attended Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, and practiced radiology at […]
CMC literature professor, Gould Center director, scholar, author, poet Ricardo J. Quinones, a longtime Claremont resident and retired comparative literature professor at Claremont McKenna College, has died from complications of a many-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Professor Quinones was also founding director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at the college, which now has […]
Stanford grad, tireless volunteer, tennis enthusiast Born April 15, 1920, in Chicago to Katharine Havens Beech and Crowell Beech, Anne Beech Lewis died peacefully on January 10 at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont. She was 98 years old. When Anne was two years old her family moved from Chicago to the San Rafael neighborhood […]
Centenarian, medical researcher, dedicated Episcopalian Douglas Vincent Anderson, who was 100 years old, died peacefully on January 16, 2019. He was born July 26 1918 in Alexandria, Saint Ann, Jamaica to Ezekiel Mannaseh Anderson and Rebecca Keturah Paris. He was the second youngest of five surviving children, Lena, Gwendolyn, Sydney and Evans. He came to […]
Librarian, volunteer, passionate political devotee Claremont resident Cara Hamilton Wingert, 96, died January 4 after a short illness. Cara was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was married and moved to Claremont in 1951. A stay-at-home wife and mother, she was a longtime member of Claremont United Church of Christ and was active in her community. […]