Stanley Birchall died on the morning of July 29 in the Sepulveda VA Medical Center due to liver complications. He was 74. Stan was a true valley guy. He was raised in La Cañada with his brother Don and sister Nancy and, in his later years, bought a house in Tujunga. Stan was a […]
1936 – 2022 Patricia Martin passed peacefully in her sleep on Aug. 3 after a brief struggle with cancer. Born Patricia Helen Eikenberry, she grew up in Culver City. World War II deeply impacted young Pat as she was left to be raised by her great-grandmother while her father served in the Navy and her […]
March 14, 1940 – Aug. 14, 2022 Thomas Bingham Alcott, age 82, residing in La Crescenta, passed away on Aug. 14. Affectionately known as “Bing,” Thomas was born on March 14, 1940 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. He grew up on his family homestead in Denora, Pennsylvania. He was an active young man and played Little […]
March 11, 1924 – July 26, 2022 Charles Hamlin (“Charlie”) Tucker was born on March 11, 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama to Charles Tucker and Mamie Louise Smitherman. He died on July 26 at the age of 98 in La Cañada where he had lived since 1973. He is survived by his wife Nina Tucker, […]
Dec. 30, 1933 – April 29, 2022 James Edward Rinder 88, a longtime Glendale resident, passed away at his home on Friday, April 29. He is survived by seven beautiful children: Sheryl Bush (69), Victoria Wilmot (66), Jeannie Hunt (63), and their families and four younger children with Kay, who passed in 2018: Lisa […]
March 17, 1947 – March 23, 2022 Judy K. Morey, 75, daughter of the late John Edward and Wilma Walker Strough, was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from John Marshall High School in 1965. She lived her entire life in the Los Angeles/Foothills area, marrying her high school sweetheart Stephen Gary […]
Feb. 8, 1932 – June 23, 2022 Dr. Donald Empey, longtime deputy superintendent of the Glendale Unified School District, died in Glendale on June 23. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Mary Catherine; three daughters: Elizabeth Nepsund (Randy) of San Antonio, Texas, Margaret Laning (Jim) of Hull, Iowa, Jennifer Clem (Mitch) […]
Dec. 30, 1955 – June 24, 2022 Susan Lynn Kilpatrick died June 24 with her family at her bedside after a brief, but valiant, struggle against illness. Sue was born to Robert and Alice Collier in Glendale on Dec 30, 1955. The family moved to La Crescenta where Sue had a wonderful childhood growing […]
Aug. 12, 1920 – May 30, 2022 Mary was born in Akron, Ohio. She had two younger brothers and one sister who she adored. The family moved to Los Angeles when she was 7. The Depression wasn’t so bad for them because her father had work and her mother was a seamstress, so they had […]
Dec. 16, 1931 – June 5, 2022 Beverly Frame, 90, passed away peacefully on June 5. Beverly was born on Dec. 16, 1931 in Burbank to parents Vilate and Nephi Anderson. She had three brothers (Howard, Wally and Blain) and two sisters (Martha and Marilyn). When she was 15 her family moved to La Cañada […]