Juan "Johnny" Contreras
Aug 26, 2012
Juan "Johnny" Abundio Contreras passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, August 26, 2012 after a difficult battle with cancer. Johnny was born in Lordsburg, New Mexico and was a longtime resident of Lompoc, California. He was a Master Craftsman with a happy and faith-filled love for life. He is survived by his wife Rachel, and two children, Johnny and...
Raymond John Williams
Aug 22, 2012
Raymond John Williams passed away on August 22, 2012 at Lompoc Skilled and Rehabilitation Center. He was born March 28, 1911 in Metamora, MI to Arthur C. and Lillie Anna Jagow Willams. The eldest of three sons (brothers were Wilfred and Arthur D., both deceased), Ray began his banking career in 1927 in Lapeer, MI with an after-school job as...
David Alex Garcia
Aug 20, 2012
David A. Garcia, 63, a native and lifelong resident of Lompoc, passed away on Monday August 20, 2012 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. David was born May 6, 1949 to Bernardino and Isabel Garcia. He worked as a commercial and residential painter and cabinet finisher for over 30 years. David loved music and played bass and lead guitar...
Alvin "Al" Walker
Aug 20, 2012
Al was born in Plainfield, Wisconsin on September 26, 1939. He graduated from Shafter High School, Bakersfield Junior College and then moved to Lompoc at age 19 in search of excitement, adventure and employment. Al completed military service in the Army at Fort Ord and then returned to Lompoc and served as a National Guard Reservist at the Reserve Post...
Richard "Pard" Flynn
Aug 19, 2012
Richard "Pard" Flynn, passed away on August 19, 2012 from complications with several ongoing health problems. Richard was born in Everett, MA on June 7, 1936. He was raised in Newtonville, MA. and graduated from Newton High School in 1955. One of his first jobs was as a newspaper boy, getting up early before school to fold and deliver the...
Betty Lee Williams
Aug 18, 2012
Betty L. Williams passed away peacefully at home on August 18, at the age of 71. Betty had been a resident of Lompoc since 1959, and had been battling cancer for the last ten years. She retired from the Lompoc Unified School District as Classified Personnel Director in 2005 after 25 years of service. She was very active in the...
Dean C. Anderson
Aug 13, 2012
Dean C. Anderson was born May 11, 1923, to Bernard and Isabel Anderson of Phillips, Wisconsin. After completing high school he served in the U. S. Army for three years working in the Allied Base Headquarters during World War II. At the end of the war he attended the University Of Wisconsin School Of Education where he earned a Bachelor...
Sheila Ireland
Aug 12, 2012
SHEILA IRELAND The ever charming, most compassionate Sheila Ireland left this "vale of tears" to rejoin her beloved Darrell on August 12th, 2012, leaving her devoted "darlings"—daughters Sharon Ireland-Burke and Tanya Ireland, her wonderful son-in-law Don Burke, and numerous friends and family to mourn her loss. Sheila was born July 13th, 1927 to Hilda and Tom Kalaher in the Rotherhithe...
Luciano Garcia Terrones
Aug 11, 2012
Luciano Garcia Terrones passed away August 11, 2012 from a life-long lingering illness. Luciano, a native of Lompoc, was born February 6, 1965, and is the youngest of 16 children. He spent his early childhood active in karate and little league football and was proud of his accomplishments as a CIF champion wrestler for Lompoc High School. As an adult,...
Victoria (Luna) Golson
Aug 9, 2012
Victoria (Luna) Golson, known to friends and family as Vickie, passed away on August 9th, at the Lompoc Valley Medical center at the age of 56. She has been a resident of Lompoc most of her life and also graduated from Lompoc High School. Long before she became ill she found her calling as a caregiver to several local families....
Genoveva "Genie" Sublett
Aug 7, 2012
Genoveva (Genie) Sublett was born January 3, 1931 in Waialua, Hawaii. She worked at Pinkerton Guard in Lompoc and food service of twenty years in Hawaii. Genie was loved by everyone that knew her. Our mom's heart was bigger than her numerous years battling an illness. Angels came and escorted mom home on August 7, 2012. She is survived by...
Don Wesley Stalker
Aug 6, 2012
Don Wesley Stalker, 87, passed away peacefully at home on August 6, 2012 with his loving wife of 65 years, Minniebelle, and family. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ray and Dorothy and his only sibling, Norma Rae Reynolds. He was born on November 25, 1924, to Ray Parmely Stalker and Dorothy Dawn (Burgar) Stalker in Helper, Utah....
Jennie Mendibles Woods
Aug 6, 2012
Jennie Mendibles Woods, 64, joined her Heavenly Father on August 6, 2012, in Healdsburg, California, after a short battle with cancer. Jennie was born January 22, 1948, in Prescott, Arizona to John and Jennie Mendibles. The family moved to Santa Barbara, California where Jennie attended local schools. Jennie is survived by her husband Edward Woods, her sons Alex Alonzo Jr....
Helga Matthews
Aug 5, 2012
Helga Matthews peacefully left this world to be with Jesus on August 5, 2012. She was laid to rest at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery on August 8, 2012. She will be forever loved and missed by all who knew and loved her. Helga was born February 22, 1936, in Aalen, Germany to Karl and Emma Bullinger. She was a beautiful and...
Clara Rita Nicastro
Aug 4, 2012
Clara Rita Nicastro, a long-time resident of Lompoc, died Saturday, August 4, after a brief but heroic battle with lung cancer. Born in 1941 in Pordenone, Italy, Clara spent her childhood and teen years with a small group of girlfriends whom she maintained a friendship with until death. Their foursome (Clara, Franca, Graciela, and Wilma), spent many happy hours dancing...
Gina Terrones Villalobos
Aug 3, 2012
Gina Villalobos, 46, passed away August 3, 2012. She was born April 4, 1966 in Lompoc, California. Gina was fun, loving, kind, generous, and free-spirited. She enjoyed laughing and spending time with her children, grandchildren, and long-time boyfriend Randy Boyer. She also enjoyed taking her dog on bike rides in the "Rusty Rains Rider". She will always be remembered as...
Charles Eugene Nelms
Jul 31, 2012
Charles Eugene Nelms of Lompoc passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at the age of 61. Charles was born September 16, 1950, to Garrnett and Alice Nelms in Highpoint, South Carolina. Formerly of Alabama, his family settled in Lompoc in 1962, where he attended Lompoc High School graduating in 1968. He subsequently earned an associate's degree from Allan Hancock. Charles...
Florence S. Smith
Jul 30, 2012
Former and longtime resident of Lompoc, Florence Stewart Smith, age 90, passed away on Monday, July 30, 2012 in Newnan, Georgia. Graveside services will be held 11a.m. Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Doug Pike, former Bishop of the Lompoc Ward, will preside. Florence was born on November 12, 1921 in Hinckley, Utah. She was an excellent...
Kathleen Mary Grossman
Jul 29, 2012
Kathleen was the youngest of four children born to Ruth and James (Jack) Johnston in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. After graduating from Ripon College, Wisconsin, with a degree in Liberal Arts, Kathleen moved to California where she began her career as an elementary school teacher and reading specialist for the Lompoc Unified School District. Kathleen was a dedicated educator who taught for...
Emiliana C. Samortin
Jul 19, 2012
Emiliana C. Samortin of Lompoc died Thursday, July 19, 2012, at the age of 93. Emiliana was born May 22, 1919, in the Philippine Islands. She came to the United States and settled in Lompoc in the early 1960s. She worked for many years as a housekeeper at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Family was the most important thing to Emiliana....
