Obituaries
Edwin Lee Symens
Mar 31, 2025
Edwin Lee Symens of Davis died March 31, 2025 at Vacaville Medical Center from kidney cancer.
Ed was born at home at 411 1st street in Davis, Ca. on October 10, 1938. His parents were Percy Edwin Symens and Gladys Bernice (Kroeger) Symens. He graduated from Davis High School, went to Junior College for a year, then joined the army. While...
Dan Lew
Mar 22, 2025
Dan Lew, a longtime Davis resident, passed away unexpectedly at age 52 on March 22, 2025 at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, surrounded by loved ones.
Born and raised in Santa Rosa, Dan attended local public schools and Montgomery High School. After brief stints at UC Santa Cruz and Sonoma State University, Dan found his way to UC Davis, graduating with...
William Earle Hatcher
Mar 21, 2025
William Earle Hatcher, known to family and friends as Bill, passed away peacefully on March 21, 2025, at the age of 77. He died at his home, holding the hands of his loving daughters, with a smile on his face.
Born on February 8, 1948, in Woodland, Bill was the son of Kelsey and Betty Ann Campbell Hatcher. He attended Cacheville...
Rosie Mowha Soohoo
Mar 8, 2025
Rosie Mowha Lee Soohoo, an educator, was born in San Francisco, CA on June 18, 1937 as the youngest daughter of parents who immigrated from China to start the US-branch of the family trading company in the early 1900s. She grew up in the Bay Area alongside her two brothers and three sisters.
Rosie graduated from the prestigious Lowell High School...
Darlene M. Arendt
Mar 8, 2025
Darlene M. Arendt, a longtime resident of Redlands, CA passed away March 8 in Auburn, CA.
Darlene was born June 18, 1933, in Fargo, North Dakota to Lawrence and Margaret Ukestad. She was the third of five children and attended Shanley High School in Fargo. In 1952 she married her sweetheart, Jerome (Jerry) Arendt. They made their home in Fargo until...
James Bernardy
Mar 5, 2025
James Bernardy, 96, died in El Macero on March 5, 2025. Curious and compassionate, he was a champion for public education and a friend to all. He was devoted to his family and community.
He was born in Menomonee, Michigan on Christmas Eve in 1928, the fourth child of Nicholas and Rosana Bernardy, owners of the general store in the tiny...
Edward Dean Schroeder
Feb 27, 2025
Our family lost our beloved, one and only Ed Schroeder on February 27. He took care of us all, loved joking, telling stories, and most of all, making everything better for his family, friends and students. It is hard to imagine a world without Ed.
Ed was born in Thermopolis, Wyoming to Hazel and William Schroeder and his older sister, Beverly....
Andrew Thompson, Jr.
Feb 21, 2025
Andy was born in Boston on July 10, 1942, to Jane Ohler Thompson and Andrew Thompson. He died on February 21, 2025, following a stroke.
He spent his early years in East Aurora, New York and attended St. Marks School, Princeton University and UC Hastings College of Law. As a US Navy officer from 1964 to 1968 he served as navigator...
James Vernon Carroll
Feb 17, 2025
James Vernon Carroll, best known as Jim, died on Monday February 17, 2025 at Atria Covell Gardens, in Davis, CA, his home for the last 7 years.
Jim was born in Sacramento, CA on June 23, 1941, the only son of Gladys and Vern Carroll. He spent his early years in San Francisco and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in...
John Andrew D'Elia
Feb 15, 2025
John Andrew D’Elia, 70, of Sacramento, CA passed away on February 15, 2025. John was born on March 12, 1954 to the late Peter D’Elia and Signa (Siggi) Dayson. John grew up in Woodside, CA, graduating from Woodside High School. He then went on to UC Berkeley where he earned a B.S. in Business Administration. John was a long-time resident...
Gerald David Scott
Feb 14, 2025
Gerald David Scott passed away peacefully at home on Hospice Care in Woodland, CA on February 14, 2025 at age 91. “Jerry” was born on January 1, 1934 in Los Angeles, CA.
He attended Lynwood Adventist Academy in Lynwood, California, graduating in 1952. There he sang in the choir, played the tuba and one time marched in the
Pasadena Rose Parade as...
James Gordon "Jim" Wright
Feb 14, 2025
James Gordon "Jim" Wright, JD, passed away peacefully at home on February 14, 2025, in Davis, California.
Born in 1947 to Gordon and Anne, Jim's love of nature developed early while adventuring in the Oakland hills. Jim earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of California, Davis, in 1968. He then attended the UC Davis King...
Beverly Lee Haertle
Feb 11, 2025
Beverly Lee Haertle died peacefully on February 11, 2025, at Woodland Memorial Hospital. She was born at home on December 14, 1935, in the Western Yolo County town of Esparto.
Beverly’s parents were Carroll and Helen (Russell) Ender. Her mother was from Capay Valley pioneering families (Russell, Armstrong, and Taber) who settled in the area beginning in the mid-1800s. She was...
Donald L. Turcotte
Feb 4, 2025
Donald Lawson Turcotte, 92, of Davis, California passed away peacefully at the Sutter Davis Hospital on February 4, 2025. He was born on April 22, 1932 in Bellingham, Washington to Lawson P. Turcotte and Eva A. Pearson, and grew up in Bellingham. He received his Bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from Caltech in Pasadena, California. At Caltech, he met his wife,...
Robert Christopher Henderson
Jan 31, 2025
We are mourning the sudden and tragic loss of a wonderful human, Rob Henderson, who passed away unexpectedly at age 61.
Born in Sacramento and a resident of Davis, Rob is survived by his wife, Kristin Mick; sons, Alex and Colin Henderson; sister, Lisa Henderson; stepsons, Gavin and Colin Mick; his boys’ mother, Lori Henderson; and his 17-year-old pug, Rocket.
Rob’s profound...
Maynard Loren Finley
Jan 16, 2025
Maynard Loren Finley passed away at home in Kelseyville, CA on January 16, 2025, at the age of eighty-six after a brief battle with Pneumonia. He was born into the farming community of Spokane Washington on June 9, 1938. He excelled in several sports including baseball, football, basketball and Track and Field. He married the love of his life, Barbara...
Ann Rebecca (Taylor) Birkelo
Jan 14, 2025
Ann Birkelo died peacefully on Tuesday, January 14, at the age of 98 years in Davis after several weeks on hospice. She was born in Clifford, North Dakota, growing up on a farm with dreams of becoming a nurse. She achieved that goal and after serving with the Nurse Cadet Corps in WWII was able to work as a college...
Eva Prokopiv
Jan 10, 2025
Eva Prokopiv, 98, of Davis passed away January 10, 2025 in Woodland. She was born August 16, 1926 in New Jersey to Harry and Anna Prokopiv. She had been an area resident for over 45 years.
Eva was one of a very few chosen from a group of graduates to work in a plastic laboratory in New Jersey where she did...
Jessica Ruth Gaines
Jan 6, 2025
Jessica Ruth Gaines AKA Amarok Gaines died peacefully at UC Davis Medical Center on January 6, 2025 after a 2 year battle with cancer. They were surrounded by family.
Jessica was born in Vallejo, Ca on May 19,1988 and spent her early years in Napa. When the family moved to Davis in 1992, the warm summers meant time at Davis swimming...
Cherry Y. Leung
Jan 6, 2025
Cherry Y Leung, of Davis, CA died peacefully at home at the age of 88 on January 6, 2025.
She was born in Japan in 1936, the oldest child of Kam and Dorothy Yan, but she and her family moved back to China before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war. She grew up during war time in Guangdong, China before moving...
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