July 13, 1939 – May 24, 2016 Nancy Jean (Wilson) Ellyson passed away at Villa Gardens Health Center in Pasadena on May 24 after a short illness. Nancy was born in Bakersfield on July 13, 1939 to John L. and Grace K. Wilson. The family, including her brother Robert, moved to La Crescenta in 1943. […]
July 15, 1937 – May 10, 2016 Hajira (Begum) Ahmed passed away in La Crescenta on May 10. Hajira was born in Mysore, India on July 15, 1937. She lived in many places including Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Washington D.C.; Prairie Village/Overland Park, Kansas; Brea, California; and La Crescenta, California. She earned a master’s degree in […]
Aug. 1, 1953 — May 16, 2016 Paul B. Mekhitarian was born in Aleppo, Syria, on Aug. 1, 1953 to Nourijan and Ovsanna Mekhitarian. He was the middle child of three siblings – an older sister Silva, and a younger brother Zohrab. In January 1972, he met his wife Madlen. The two were engaged on […]
July 9, 1940 – Feb. 13, 2016 Lawrence “Larry” Edwin June, 75, born on July 9, 1940, and died on Saturday, Feb. 13 at Verdugo Hills Hospital. He had Parkinson’s and dementia and was in a nursing home and in-and-out of the hospital. At the end he was in hospice care. Larry was born in […]
1928 – 2016 Dorothy H. Holland, a longtime resident of the La Crescenta area, died Sunday, May 1. She was born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Broad Ripple High School in 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, she moved to California and received a degree in electrolysis from Los […]
1951 – 2016 Ernest Victor “Skipper” Pistacchio, resident of Los Angeles County for over 60 years, died Sunday, May 1 at the age of 64. He was born to Ernest John and Gloria Marie (Rossi) Pistacchio in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1951, and moved with his family to Montrose in 1952. He was preceded […]
March 4, 1944 – April 20, 2016 Craig Robert Dailey passed away on April 20 at his home in La Crescenta of respiratory failure. Craig was born in San Diego on March 4, 1944 to Florence Pearl Gidley Dailey and Robert Harrison Dailey. Craig was a lifelong La Crescenta resident attending Lincoln Elementary, Clark Junior […]
April 16, 1938 – April 28, 2016 The Griffin family lost their family matriarch on Thursday. Elizabeth (Betty) Ann Griffin passed into the Kingdom of Heaven on April 28. She is survived by her husband John Griffin; her children Patti Roberts, Susan Bacon, Bill Griffin, Cindy Hall, and Sherri Strunk; her siblings Richard Barry, Brenda […]
Sept. 14, 1947 – April 17, 2016 Melvin Kent Kunz of La Crescenta passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, April 17 at the age of 68. Born in Montpelier, Idaho, Kent moved to Los Angeles with his family at age 4. Kent grew up in La Crescenta where he graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in […]
1929 – 2016 Alan Dearman, beloved husband to Bobbie, passed away peacefully on March 30 at his home in La Cañada. Alan was born to Emma and Edward Dearman in Sheffield, England where he was raised with two sisters, Barbara and Sheila. He immigrated in his mid-20s to the United States through Canada and then […]