Claremont Obituaries
A memorial service and gravesite viewing for Mervyn Winston Adams Seldon, who died January 24, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 21 at Forest Lawn […]
Medical technologist, father, artist, sports fan Elliott Chung, a longtime Claremont resident, died on August 29, 2014 in Claremont. He was 81. Elliott Chung was born on July 2, 1933 […]
Innovative educator, champion of women writersBerkeley feminists and world poetry lovers are saddened to learn of the death of a pioneer translator and anthologizer of women’s poetry from around the […]
Loving mother, grandmother, educator and entrepreneurPlease allow us to share our thoughts and memories of our mom, Dorothy “Dot” Sheehy. She loved her community and her family so much that […]
YWCA leader, advocate for gender and racial equalityElizabeth Palmer, a resident of Pilgrim Place in Claremont, died early Saturday morning on October 4, 2014. She was 101 years old. A […]
Author, inventor, wife of Peter Drucker Doris Schmitz Drucker, entrepreneur, author, sportswoman and mountain climber, died on October 1, 2014 at age 103. She was the widow of the eminent […]
International educatorFred Baker was surrounded by his family when he died at his home in Claremont on September 15, 2014, after a valiant two-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was […]
Loving mother and grandmother, prayer warriorDelores Quinn died on September 6, 2014 in Claremont, just two months shy of her 92nd birthday. A loving wife, mother of four children, grandmother […]
Loving mother, tireless teacher, world travelerMary Katherine Courtney Wyatt, a longtime Claremont resident, died in Pomona on March 30, 2014 following a pacemaker implant that went awry. She was 99.She […]
Barbara Bolinger Mitchell died on September 3, 2014 at her Palm Desert home after a valiant six-and-a-half-year battle with colorectal cancer. She was 68. She was surrounded by family and […]
Gifted athlete, college administrator Ray Eberle of Upland died August 15, 2014 at Silverado Sierra Vista Memory Care Community in Azusa from frontotemporal dementia. He was 73. He was born […]
Professor, loving husband and father Langdon Elsbree, a longtime Claremont resident, died on June 21, 2014, two days before his 85th birthday. Mr. Elsbree began his life on June 23, […]
Professor, world traveler, loving grandmother Lore M. Dormer, a longtime Claremont resident, died on July 2, 2014. She was 89. She was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1925 and earned […]
Ruth Bobo, a longtime Claremont High School teacher, died peacefully on Saturday, June 7, 2014 surrounded by family and friends. She was 76. Mrs. Bobo was born on March 16, […]
School counselor, loving mother and grandmother Kay Smith, a longtime Claremont resident, died on April 15, 2014 at home due to complications from pulmonary fibrosis. She was surrounded by family […]
Patricia “Trish” Branley, a longtime COURIER photographer, died on January 6, 2014 after a battle with cancer. She was born in Florida, the second of four children who were doted […]
Conservationist, community-builder, jazz lover Michael Zachary Heilpern died peacefully at his home in Claremont on February 15, 2014. He was 63 years old. He was born December 15, 1950 in […]