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Local obituaries for families Sonoma and Marin Counties
Eleanor Ruth Friedrichsen
Aug 20, 2020
Eleanor Ruth Friedrichsen, age 88, of Petaluma, California passed away peacefully at Country Rosa Assisted Living in Santa Rosa on 20 August 2020 of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. Born in San Francisco, California in January of 1932, daughter of the late Anna and Bruno Pagendarm , wife of the late Paul H. Friedrichsen, daughter-in-law to the late Anna and...
James L. Soldate
Aug 16, 2020
At the age of 75, Jim Soldate, a descendent of the pioneer Nauert and Soldate families, passed away after a sudden, short battle with cancer on Sunday, August 16, 2020 surrounded by the love of his family. He leaves behind his loving wife of 52 years, Sandy (Giacomelli) Soldate. He was the cherished father of Shelly Ronan (Pat) and...
Beverly J. Deniz
Aug 14, 2020
Beverly J. Deniz passed away peacefully at her home in Petaluma August 14, 2020 after a lengthy illness. Beverly was born June 10, 1948 to the late Clark E. Hansen and Evelyn G. Hansen (Vondrak). A lifelong resident of the Petaluma area, Beverly graduated Petaluma High School in 1966. Beverly was a country girl at heart who loved being...
Warren Francis Broderick
Aug 12, 2020
Warren Francis Broderick passed away on August 12 ,2020 at the age of 79. He was born July 20, 1941 in Schenectady, New York. Warren spent most of his teen years in Fresno, California. He proudly entered the US Marine corps in 1958 at the age 17 until 1962 and then served in the US Navy from 1964 until...
Jonnee S. Podesta
Aug 11, 2020
Jonnee was born to Marie K and Glenn W. Stamm in Omaha, NE on September 10, 1923 and passed away in Santa Rosa, CA on August 11, 2020. She grew up in Nebraska until the age of 17 when her family moved to San Francisco, CA. Jonnee attended George Washington High School. While working at American Factors Jonnee met...
John A. Mccall
Aug 11, 2020
John A. McCall, 79, passed away on August 11, 2020 after a month long battle with covid 19. John was born on August 7, 1941 in Petaluma to Agnes and Alex McCall. He attended Tomales High School before starting his career on the family dairy. John served in the National Guard in 1959. He returned home to the dairy...
Honey Webb Dudley
Aug 11, 2020
Honey was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, the daughter of Lawrence and Phillis Webb. They lived in Lovelock, Nevada until 1966. They then moved to Concord, California in 1966 where she graduated from Clayton Valley High School.
She graduated with a bachelor of science degree from the University of San Francisco. She worked for twenty-eight years in the...
Robert "Bob" Hartrich
Aug 10, 2020
Robert (Bob) Hartrich of Petaluma passed away peacefully on August 10, 2020 at SR Memorial Hospital. He was born in San Mateo to Shirley and Gene Hartrich on September 9, 1947. Age 72 years. Bob grew up in many places, including California, New Hampshire, and Colorado. His interests included woodworking, building furniture and model airplanes, golf, tennis, camping, skiing and...
Elray C. Jacobsen Jr.
Aug 9, 2020
Ray Jacobsen (Jake, J5), age 76, passed away peacefully on August 9, 2020 at his home in Two Rock. Ray was born in Petaluma on June 20, 1944. He is a 3rd generation cattle rancher, graduating from Petaluma High School and Chico State.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Julie, son Jacob, daughters, Kirsten...
Joan Lynne Kelly
Aug 7, 2020
Joan Kelly was a true pioneer, a trailblazer, an adventurer. Joan started her life October 27, 1942, born in Salt Lake City, Utah. First daughter to Leland Eugene Stapley and Carol Jean (Haslam) Stapley. Joan has 6 siblings separated by 25 years from oldest to youngest. She was the matriarch to her siblings: Neil (Sandra) Stapley; Gail (Rich) Lakey;...
Norman Roy "Whitey Christensen
Aug 4, 2020
Norman “Whitey” Christensen of Cotati passed away peacefully at the age of 92, on August 4th, at Green Acres Manor in Kenwood, CA. Norm was born and raised in Petaluma, CA and spent the majority of his life in Sonoma County. That is where he met the love of his life, Beverly June (Houweling), to whom he remained a...
Judith Toby Kay
Aug 3, 2020
Born in San Francisco on October 19, 1943, Judith Toby (Greenbach) Kay passed away peacefully in her sleep at home in Petaluma on Monday, August 3, 2020. She is survived by her sons Andrew Kay and Daniel Kay, her sister Michelle Goldman, brother-in-law Allen Goldman and daughters-in-law Sara Bixler and Melinda Guerra, as well as her beloved grandchildren Maddie,...
Jacqueline Mackinnon
Aug 2, 2020
Jacqaueline Carol MacKinnon, aged 59, passed away on August 2, 2020. Jacqueline was born in Petaluma on February 8, 1961, to the late Jack and Beverly MacKinnon. She graduated from San Antonio High School in 1979. After high school, Jacqueline began working as a waitress at the Washoe House and Showers. She excelled at her jobs, as she loved...
Robert Lyle Conklin, Jr.
Aug 1, 2020
Robert (Bob) Lyle Conklin, Jr., 70, passed away peacefully on August 1, 2020 at his home in Petaluma. Bob was born on September 6, 1949 in Petaluma to Patricia Thole Conklin and the late Robert Lyle Conklin, Sr.
After graduating Petaluma High School in 1967, Bob joined the Oak Grove Hot Shots with the US Forest Service....
Albert P. Behrens, Jr.
Jul 30, 2020
On July 30, 2020, Albert P. Behrens, Jr., age 97, died in his home in Spring Lake Village in Santa Rosa, California. Al had been a long-time, well-known resident of Petaluma, California as the Behrens family, natives of Denmark, first settled near Petaluma in 1864 on a ranch bordering the Sonoma-Marin County line. Al was born in Petaluma, California,...
Olga Riva Laureano
Jul 30, 2020
Olga Riva Laureano died surrounded by her family on July 30th, 2020. She was 89. Olga moved from Brazil to Sonoma County in 1959 to join her fiancé, Antonio Laureano, whom she met two years prior in Brazil. They married that same year and then settled in Penngrove to start a family. She briefly worked at Petaluma Poultry Processors...
Tiffany Joleen Hutchinson
Jul 29, 2020
Tiffany Joleen Hutchinson, born March 19, 1981, in Petaluma, California, passed away July 29, 2020, in Penngrove, California at the age of 39. Beloved wife of Dean Wallace Cummings (son of Dean and Gerry Cummings), and loving mother of her precious miracle, Dawson Wesley Cummings (9 months old). She is survived by her loving parents, Harold and Debra Cella...
Sharon Lee Sharke
Jul 28, 2020
Sharon Lee Sharke, daughter of Richard and Lucille Sharke, was born on August 8th, 1959 in Heidelberg, Germany. Her love for animals and school started at a young age. She always wanted to take in animals and save as many as she could. She enjoyed gymnastics and girl scouts as a child and was a 4.0 student all through...
David Milton Sullivan
Jul 28, 2020
On the evening of July 28th, 2020 at the age of 96, David M. Sullivan Jr peacefully passed away in his home surrounded by his loved ones. David was born December 13, 1923 in San Francisco California to his mother Clara Culhane of Butte Montana and his father David M Sullivan Sr. of Wabash Indiana. He grew up in...
Karen Elizabeth Dutton
Jul 27, 2020
After battling with cancer, Karen Dutton passed away peacefully with her loving husband George by her side at their home in Healdsburg. Karen graduated from Healdsburg High in 1954 and raised six children. She utilized her amazing organizational skills to become a legal secretary and spent seven years of her career as the executive legal secretary to the Sonoma...
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