Alfred “Price” MacNair

Aug. 25, 2017 Alfred “Price” MacNair died Aug. 25. He was 95. Price’s parents moved him, brother Bud and sister Sue to the Glendale area when Price was 2. Price attended Glendale schools, including Roosevelt Jr. High School and Hoover High School, where he met his wife and high school sweetheart, Betty Jane Hansen. After […]

Richard Michael Ryback

Aug. 7, 1929 – Aug. 15, 2017 Richard Michael Ryback died at his home in Sunland on Aug. 15. Rick was born on Aug. 7, 1929 in the Milwaukee area of Wisconsin. There he was raised by his loving mother Helen. While still in his teens, Rick joined the U.S. Marine Corps. During his time […]

Burdette Leroy “Tommy” Thomsen

Nov. 26, 1929 – Sept. 2, 2017   Tommy was born in the Danish community of Kimballton, Iowa to immigrant parents Thomas and Nettie. He was one of 10 children. He moved to Glendale and attended Glendale High School and entered the U.S. Army upon graduation in 1948. While serving a tour of duty in […]

Margaret Patty Miles

Nov. 22, 1923 – Aug. 5, 2017 Margaret Patty Miles died in Glendale on Aug. 5 at the age of 93. She was born on Nov. 22, 1923 in Los Angeles. She will be missed by her two daughters, two sons-in-law, six grandchildren and five grandchildren. Donations in Margaret’s name can be made to the […]

Lynne Kress (Sciacqua) Baumheckel

Aug. 7, 1940 – Aug. 9, 2017 Lynne Kress (Sciacqua) Baumheckel, a longtime resident of Montrose, suddenly passed away on Aug. 9 with her husband, son and granddaughter by her side. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Aug. 7, 1940, Lynne and her family relocated to Southern California when she was 3. She moved to […]

Myrna Iris Grijalva

April 1, 1942 – Aug. 7, 2017 Myrna Iris Grijalva, beloved wife, cherished mother, adored grandmother and respected business woman, passed away surrounded by her family on Aug. 7. Myrna was the matriarch of Joselito’s Mexican Food, a pillar of the foothills since 1977. Myrna was also dedicated to the town of Montrose where her […]

Marion R. Robman

Marion Ruth Robman, 98, died on Wednesday, July 19 in USC Verdugo Hills Hospital.   Born in Wolverton, Minnesota she grew up in Breckenridge, Minnesota. The family later moved to Minneapolis and after she graduated from high school, they moved to Los Angeles. In 1944, she married Harold Robman and in 1952 they moved into […]

Barbara Taylor

July 23, 2017 Barbara Taylor died on July 23 of complications after surgery; she was 85. There will be a memorial service at the Lutheran Church in the Foothills, 1700 Foothill Blvd. in La Cañada Flintridge, on Saturday, Aug. 12 at 11 a.m. Barbara is survived by three sons: Ben, Rex (Karen), and Eric. She […]

The Campbell Center (TCC) Announces Passing of Founder Phyllis Campbell

Mrs. Phyllis Campbell, co-founder of The Campbell Center, died in the afternoon of July 25. Phyllis had been at Dignity Health Glendale Memorial Hospital for the previous week where her heart specialist was caring for her. Her death ends a period of health challenges stretching over the past several years, the most recent included surgery […]

Hanne Ward

July 20, 2017 Hanne Ward, 74, of La Cañada, passed away July 20 with her family by her side. Born in Søborg Denmark, Hanne and her family immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1951, and then to Altadena in 1955. They ultimately settled in La Cañada in 1966. Hanne graduated from John Muir High School and […]