Claremont Obituaries
Artist, scholar, publisher, editor Mervyn Winston Adams Seldon died January 24, 2024 after a battle with dementia. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Mervyn considered herself an artist first and […]
Dedicated teacher and missionary, loving mother and grandmother On the evening of February 5, 2015, Marie Catherine Clarke Losh died peacefully in her home at Pilgrim Place from complications of […]
Music lover, tireless volunteer, beloved aunt Kathryn Theresa “Kit” Tournay, a longtime Claremont resident, died on February 3, 2015 of a stroke. She was 87. She was born March 18, […]
Influential political philosopher, Lincoln scholar Harry V. Jaffa, professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate University, died on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at Pomona Valley Hospital. He […]
Loving mother, avid runner, tireless volunteer Longtime Redlands resident Anna Hollenberg died on December 20, 2014 at her home in Mount San Antonio Gardens in Claremont after a short illness. She was […]
Loving mother and grandmother, pillar of strength Calm, strong and independent to the end, Betty Bulkley died peacefully on December 28, 2014 in her own apartment at Claremont Manor as […]
Family, friends, colleagues, volunteers, Claremonters Mary Cooke Miller Joan Carolyn Coats Martha Kohl Ervin Audra A. Oleson Edra L. Navarro Young George Copenhaver Patricia Catherine Walker Dan Rhoades Donald Eugene […]
Family anchor, enthusiastic volunteer Former Claremont resident Rena S. Smilkstein died in Sacramento on November 21, 2014. She was 91. She was born, raised and educated in Los Angeles, the […]
Pitzer professor, loving husband and father John D. “Jack” Sullivan, a longtime Claremont resident, died on December 2, 2014 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 77. He was […]
Nurse, mother, advocate for the developmentally disabled Claremont Manor resident Sophie Williams died on November 13, 2014 at age 93. Born Sophie Lucille Kurowski in 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, she […]
Financial advisor, golfer, family man Gary Jason Brown of Roseville, California died of severe coronary artery disease just over a year ago on December 2, 2013. He was 51. His […]
Environmental policy organizer, lobbyist Dina Louise Biscotti died Tuesday, December 9 at her home in Davis, California, due to a rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer. After receiving a […]
Loving husband, father and ‘Papa’ William Lee Davidson Chetney, a longtime area resident, died at home in Claremont on November 26, 2014. He was 76. Born July 1, 1938 in […]
Loving matriarch, librarian, Lakers fan Longtime Claremont resident Mary Elizabeth Briggs Blanchard died peacefully in her sleep on November 18, 2014 at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont. She was […]
World traveler, art patron, loving mom and ‘oma’ Longtime Claremonter and arts leader Ellen Knight Phillips Litney died on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at the age of 67. Mrs. Litney […]
Dedicated professor and sensei, loving husband and father Ron Rubin, a longtime Claremont resident and professor of the history of ideas at Pitzer College, died peacefully with his wife, Susan […]
Noted potter, loving father and grandfather John Fassbinder, a Claremont resident and noted ceramic artist, died on Sunday, October 19, 2014. He was 83. Mr. Fassbinder was born on August […]