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Raola Dawn (Butler) Felker
Feb 14, 2023
Raola Dawn (Butler) Felker "Rae" was born in Perry, Illinois on February 14, 1939. She passed on her 84th birthday on Valentines Day 2023.
Rae spent most of her life in central Illinois, two decades in Florida, and the last 18 years in Sacramento, California.
Rae was valedictorian of Mt. Sterling Community High School in 1957. She spent most of...
Arlene Learn
Feb 12, 2023
Arlene Learn, 90, passed away peacefully at her Davis home on Feb. 12, 2023.
Arlene was born in State College, PA on Feb. 22, 1932 to Joseph T. and Hannah (Sprankle) Green. While working as a secretary in the Music Department at Penn State, her future sister-in-law introduced her to a young Ph.D student, Elmer Learn, whom she would later...
Barbara Jackson Perkes
Feb 11, 2023
The wind was howling and the rain was sheeting against the hospital windows on the night that William and Winifred Dicker Jackson’s daughter was born. The nurses said, “You should name her Gale,” but Winifred named her firstborn Barbara after an admired childhood friend.
Barbara’s first home was in Alameda. It was a safe and friendly place to raise Barbara...
Ronald Dean Clift
Feb 10, 2023
Ronald Dean Clift, 74, lost his battle to congestive heart failure, and passed away on Friday February 10, 2023, at his home in Davis with his wife by his side.
Ron was born on March 5, 1948, in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and was the son of a career Air Force father. As his dad was transferred, Ron lived in Paris,...
Valentine M. Mata
Feb 9, 2023
It saddens our heart to announce the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, Valentine Mata, on February 9, 2023 at the grand age of 93. He is survived by children Valerie Lugo (Al), Raul Mata, Gloria Bailey (Jim) grandchildren Elizabeth Jimenez (Thomas), Alexander Lugo, and great-grandchildren Christopher, Benjamin and Wyatt Jimenez; and siblings Lucy Lainas, Kathleen Knisely, Felix and...
Leon Louis Francois Wegge
Feb 4, 2023
Leon Louis Francois Wegge, 89, of Davis, California, passed away peacefully on February 4th, 2023, after a multi-year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma (Waldenström’s disease). He was surrounded by his loving family when he passed.
Leon was born in 1933 in Breendonk, Belgium. After attending primary school, junior high and high school in Breendonk and nearby communities, he spent two years...
Glen Robert Byrns
Jan 22, 2023
Glen Robert Byrns passed away on Sunday, January 22, 2023 after receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 esophageal carcinoma the previous Friday. He was with family and his good friend, Howard Shempp, at the time of his death.
Born in August 1952 to Clyde and Jane Byrns, he spent his first 18 years in Gardena, graduating from Gardena High...
Fran Reynolds
Jan 17, 2023
On Tuesday January 17, 2023, Frances Reynolds passed away at home after a short illness, surrounded by family, at the age of 86. Fran was born in Amalia, New Mexico in 1936. She lived in California throughout her adult life, spending many years living in San Francisco and Daly City. She later had homes in Martinez and Millbrae, most recently...
Peter Glen Kenner
Jan 14, 2023
Peter Glen Kenner was born on June 5, 1934 in Logan, Utah to Lee and Kirma Kenner. He passed away from cardiovascular disease in his home on January 14, 2023.Pete grew up in Utah, Arizona, and California and was still in close contact with many childhood friends. He graduated from high school in Berkeley, California where he met his future...
Muriel M. Chiolis
Jan 13, 2023
Muriel Marie Chiolis, 93, of Davis California, passed away peacefully on Friday January 13, 2023, after a short hospice care at the home she shared with her beloved husband Richard. Family and friends were all able to spend time together with Muriel prior to her passing.
Muriel was born on August 3, 1929 in San Jose California to Joseph and...
Janet Lee Wentworth Collins
Jan 8, 2023
Janet Lee Collins (née Wentworth) was born in 1941, in Portland, OR. She passed away unexpectedly and quickly in her home in Woodland, CA, on January 7, 2023. She was predeceased by her mother, her father, her twin sister, and a dear aunt and survived by Steve, her beloved husband of 43 years, two children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, four...
June B. (Wilhelm) Anderson
Jan 6, 2023
June (Wilhelm) Anderson, 76, formerly of Faulkton, SD passed away peacefully at her home in Davis, CA on January 6, 2023, surrounded by family. June spent over 20 years as a Chief Financial Officer in the produce industry in the San Joaquin Valley in California. She will forever be remembered for her sassy wit and keen business sense. She is...
Patricia Jean Colenzo
Jan 3, 2023
Patricia Colenzo passed away peacfully on January 3, 2023 at the age of 80, in Vacaville, California. She is survived by her husband: Salvatore (Sam) Colenzo of 52 years, children: Karin Seis (Richard), Kenneth Colenzo (Elizabeth), Kristi Colenzo, grandchildren: Jonathan and Samantha Seis, Madeline Shull, Liliana Colenzo, sister Kathy (Terry) Pituch.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles...
John M. Klineberg
Dec 31, 2022
John Klineberg, whose 25-year senior management career at NASA helped usher in many ground-breaking aeronautics and space science advances, including repairing the Hubble telescope, died on Saturday, December 31st, in Davis, California. John was 84 years old.
Born in Scarsdale, New York, on October 16th, 1938, John was the middle child of renowned social psychologist Otto Klineberg and his wife,...
Melvin Gagnon
Dec 31, 2022
Melvin Gagnon, 92, a longtime Davis resident, passed away on Dec. 31, 2022 at a private care facility in Davis, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Born Feb. 26, 1930 to Joseph and Rose Gagnon in Artesia, CA, he grew up in Buena Park, CA, as the youngest of 6 siblings. Growing up during the depression and losing his...
Barbara Phelps Risling
Dec 18, 2022
When Barbara Risling was asked two days before her death, what she would most like to be remembered by, she thought a moment and replied, “For my work behind the scenes with [husband] Dave, as an artist, especially figure drawing, as a good cook, and a seamstress.” As a mother and grandmother she was and is regarded as the best,...
William H. Marshall
Dec 10, 2022
Bill (Will) Marshall, a long-time resident of Davis, passed away after a short illness. He was surrounded by his wife and children. Bill was a graduate of UC Davis, Department of Engineering. He went on to work as a Civil Engineer for city governments, working in the Department of Public Works for the City of Davis for over 30 years. ...
Betty L. Bates
Nov 23, 2022
Betty Lou Bates died peacefully on November 23, 2022, at the age of 91. She was born in Corning, California, to William Leonard Beavers and Viola Cecelia (Smelser) Beavers and grew up with her two younger brothers in the Northern California town of Westwood. There she developed a life-long love of the mountains and nature.
After graduating from Westwood High...
Donald Steven Ormsbee
Nov 20, 2022
Donald Steven Ormsbee-steadfast husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend–passed away peacefully at 76 years old at his home in Davis, CA on Sunday, November 20, 2022 due to respiratory complications. Don was deeply loved and will be dearly missed by his wife, Kay; his daughter Kelli, son-in law Dave, and grandson Niko; his son Steve and daughter-in-law Katie; and his...
Robert Fennell Sawyer
Nov 17, 2022
Robert (Bob) Fennell Sawyer was a kind, intelligent, and wonderful man. His greatest passions were his wife Barbara, his family, the environment, and his beloved mountains. It seems fitting to start this tribute to him with a quote by one of his heroes, John Muir:
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the...
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