Claremont Obituaries
Minor Collinsworth died in his sleep from advanced Alzheimer’s disease at home under hospice care on April 29 at age 78.
Distinguished veteran, HAM radio enthusiast Herbert “Herb” Charles Macy, a longtime Claremont resident, died on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at his home in Prescott, Arizona after a long battle with COPD. He was 90. He was born on August 12, 1925 in Lynnville, Iowa to Dole Sylvester Macy and Lydia Ethel Renaud, who died shortly […]
Theater namesake, gracious hostess Carol Sontag, a longtime Claremont resident, died on September 12, 2015. She was 91. She was born Carol Ann Furth on January 8, 1924 in Woodland, California, the third child and only daughter of Victor and Valance Furth of Winters, California in Yolo County. She was a third-generation native Californian, her […]
World traveler, pilot, pinball wizard Keith Charles “Casey” Davis, a Claremont resident, was killed on July 26, 2015 when his small aircraft crashed in Riverside. He was 52 years old. He was born on July 30, 1962 and grew up in La Verne, graduating from Bonita High School in 1981. He earned a bachelor’s degree […]
Helen Ketchum, a longtime Claremont resident, died on July 29, 2015 at her home in Sandpoint, Idaho. She was 90. She was born on July 10, 1925 in South Pasadena to Bennie and Hope Furlow. She married Donald Ketchum, also of South Pasadena, and moved to Ontario and later to Upland, where the couple raised […]
John C. Powlesson, Jr. died on June 19, 2015 at his home in Claremont. He was 99. Mr. Powlesson was born on April 16, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri to John and Carrie Powlesson. He was a member of the US Army Air Corps during World War II, stationed in Anchorage, Alaska. It was there […]
Longtime Claremont resident and dentist Gerald “Jerry” Juergens died on July 10, 2015 after a brief illness. He was 90. He was born in Whittier on November 22, 1924 to Frederick Juergens and Etta Ernst. He lived his entire life in southern California except for a three-year tour as a dentist in the US Navy […]
Eleonore Regina Russak Powell died June 29, 2015 at Pilgrim Place in Claremont. She was 98 years old. She was born on June 12, 1917 in New York City, New York where she attended Hunter College. She was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, New York where she met her future husband, Oliver […]
Dedicated professor, gifted musician Mark David Parsons died peacefully, surrounded by his family, on June 3, 2015 at his parents’ home in Bend, Oregon following an extended battle with cancer. He was 55. Mr. Parsons was born on December 29, 1959 in Enid, Oklahoma to David and Avalon Parsons, and spent his junior high, high […]
Margaret Woosley died on May 30, 2015. She was 96. Mrs. Woosley was born in Los Angeles on July 21, 1918 to Vera and Jonas Frownfelter and spent her early years in Upland. After her family moved to Alhambra, she graduated from Alhambra High School. In 1978, she married Dean Woosley, a former high school […]
Laurie Lambert Nix died on May 13, 2015 at the age of 46. She was born on July 4, 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her family moved to California in 1971 and she was a Claremont resident for many years. Laurie attended Condit and Our Lady of the Assumption elementary schools and St. Lucy’s Priory High […]
Entrepreneur, veteran, loving patriarch Mario “Marty” Gottuso Sr., a longtime Claremont resident, died on May 22, 2015. He was 92. He was born in 1922 in Utica, New York to Vincent Gottuso, a Pentecostal minister, and his wife Evangeline, both of whose parents immigrated to the United States from Sicily, Italy in the early 1900s. […]
Jeffrey Nelson, a longtime Claremont resident, died on May 13, 2015 after a brief battle with brain cancer. He was 68. He was born in New York on July 13, 1946 to Lala and Clarence Nelson. Mr. Nelson graduated from Brooklyn Tech and earned his bachelor’s degree at Wagner College and his master’s degree at […]
Loving wife, mother and grandmother Martha Leone Noble Russell of Claremont died on April 22, 2015 at Pomona Valley Hospital. She was 93 years old. She was born on April 21, 1922 in Riceville, Iowa, the youngest child of Floyd A. Noble and Martha Mosher Noble. She was called Leone by friends and relatives […]
Newspaperman, jazz musician, loving patriarch Harrison Lee Stephens, a longtime Claremont resident, died on May 4, 2015, two months short of his 100th birthday. He was born on July 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, the son of Jess and Alice Stephens. His father was city attorney of Los Angeles for several years and then became […]
Activist, woman of faith, loving mother Mildred “Millie” Moser Smith, a longtime Pilgrim Place resident, died on April 1, 2015. She was 95. She was born on August 11, 1919 on a farm in Iowa, the fifth of sixth children of Edna and Alex Ross. Her father died of blood poisoning when she was six […]
Engineer, family man, practical joker Christopher Alan Stelzer died on February 3, 2015 from complications following surgery. He was 43. Mr. Stelzer graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, after receiving a full scholarship to study mechanical engineering. He went on to spend his entire professional life at Technip, where he worked […]