Jimmy J. Romero
Aug 23, 2011
Vigil services for Lompoc native Jimmy J. Romero, 85, will be 6 p.m. Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at the chapel of Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. A funeral mass will be celebrated 10 a.m. Thursday at La Purisima Conception Catholic Church with Rev. Tom Cook officiating. Burial will follow at the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Jimmy was called to heaven by our Lord Tuesday,...
Gene Erickson
Aug 18, 2011
A memorial service for Gene R. Erickson will be held Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 1 pm at the Lompoc Elk's Lodge, 905 East Ocean Avenue. Gene was born on April 16, 1934 in Everett, Washington to Adrian Erick and Hazel Corrine Erickson. He graduated from Everett High School with the class of 1952. He served in the US Navy...
Gertrude Curtis Johnson
Aug 18, 2011
Gertrude Curtis Johnson passed away August 18, 2011 at the age of 97 in her Lompoc home of natural causes. Gertrude was born September 30, 1913 in Lexington, Missouri to George and Dolly Mae Bagnell. Her grandmother raised her after her parents died. In 1931 she married Charles Johnson who worked in the coalmines. In 1945 they moved to Taft...
Clifford Earl Cook
Aug 15, 2011
Services for Clifford Earl Cook, 80, of Lompoc, will be 10 a.m. Friday, August 26, 2011 at the chapel of Starbuck-Lind Mortuary with Pastor Gilbert Stones of the First United Methodist Church officiating. Private burial will be at the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Clifford was born on July 18, 1930, in Selma, California to Earl Milton Cook and Verona Cook. He...
Kenneth Jerome Sevenandt
Aug 13, 2011
Kenneth Jerome Sevenandt, 74, of Lompoc, California , passed away, on Saturday, August 13, 2011, following complications from a one and a half year battle with lung cancer. He was born in Moline, Illinois, June 14, 1937. In 1955, upon graduation from Alleman High School in Moline, Ken joined the Air Force. He married Nancy Moyer at Nouasseur Air Force...
J. D. Smith
Aug 12, 2011
Chief Jimmy Dean Smith 1981 - 2011 Former Lompoc Police Chief and Mayor Jimmy Dean (J.D.) Smith passed away on August 12, 2011, at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Chief Smith was 80 years old. Chief Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was raised in Modesto, California. He married his wife Nina in 1950. Chief Smith was a member...
Sharon A. Morales
Aug 11, 2011
Sharon A. Morales died on August 11, 2011, in Lompoc at the age of 68. Sharon was born in Chehalis, Washington, on September 8, 1942, to Otto and Sadie Unterberg. She was employed as a nursing assistant. She had been a resident of Lompoc for the last 20 years. Sharon is survived by her husband, Antonio Morales, son, Arthur Pena...
Jack Blackie Norris
Aug 11, 2011
Jack B. Norris of Lompoc died Thursday, August 11, 2011 at the age of 84. Jack was born July 1, 1927 to Charles and Clara Norris in Purcell, Oklahoma. He joined the U. S. Navy during World War II and served in the Asiatic Pacific Theatre. Jack Lived in Ketchikan, Alaska for many years where he was employed as a...
Koren C. Hernandez
Aug 10, 2011
Koren C. Hernandez of Lompoc died Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at the age of 36. Koren was born in Ventura California on June 28, 1975. She was employed as a pharmacy technician. She has been a resident of Lompoc for the last 25 years. The Memorial service will be Monday, August 15, 2011 at 1pm at Crossroads Community Church, 412...
Roberta Luna
Aug 6, 2011
Roberta Luna passed away on August 6, 2011 at Lompoc Valley Community Hospital. Roberta was preceded in death by her parents Art and Barbara Beaver. Roberta was born on April 22, 1946 in Inglewood, California. She moved to Lompoc when she was five years old. Her family's roots in Lompoc go back six generations which includes her grandfather's being born...
Jeanetta "Pee Wee" Redrick
Aug 5, 2011
Jeanetta Roselei "Pee Wee" Redrick peacefully departed this life on Friday, August 5, 2011. Born on July 27, 1929 in Honolulu, HI to Albert and Muriel Gilding, she was preceded in death by husband Samuel Redrick and son Samuel Matthew Redrick; survived by brother Albert (Marvalee) Gilding, Jr. of Honolulu, HI, daughters Brenda-Lee (James) Smith of Moreno Valley, CA, Anetta...
Dorothy Furmanski
Aug 5, 2011
Dorothy passed away Friday, August 5th at the Lodge of Lompoc surrounded by her friends there. Dorothy was born September 17, 1917 in Phillips, Nebraska to Otto and Mae Scharnow. She and her husband Carl lived in Denver, Colorado with their four children until 1955. The family moved to Long Beach, where they resided until 1959. They then moved to...
Frances C. Mackenzie
Jul 29, 2011
Corrine was born November 23, 1929 in Randlett, Oklahoma. She passed away Friday, July 29, 2011 following a brief illness. She was preceded in death by her husband, Crawford Cameron (C.C.) MacKenzie in 1991, her parents, her niece Shannon Elliot, as well as her brothers, Wallace and Eugene Elliott. She is survived by her daughter Pam MacKenzie, in Lompoc; daughter...
Jerri Paulette Kinsey
Jul 27, 2011
She was a special little blossom, Jerri Paulette Kinsey, who was born August 6th, 1942 in Terre Haute, Indiana to Paul and Clara Ferguson. Because Paulette became asthmatic, the family moved to Tucson, Az., and then on to National City, Ca. where the settled down and her father began to work at the aircraft plants. There, Paulette met and married...
Irene “Bonnie” Martinez
Jul 26, 2011
Funeral Mass for Irene "Bonnie" Martinez, 58 of Lompoc, will be held Saturday July 30th, 2011 at 12 PM at the Queen of Angels Catholic Church. Private burial will be held at the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Bonnie Martinez passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully in her home. Bonnie was born in Lompoc, California on February 26, 1953 to Gilbert and Josephine...
Margaret "Peggy" D. Dover
Jul 24, 2011
Margaret "Peggy" Dianne Dover, 77, of Lompoc passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2011. A viewing will be held at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary on Monday, August 1, 2011 from 3pm to 7pm; with the vigil service starting at 6pm. Graveside services will be held the following day, Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 3pm at the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery, followed by a...
Salvador B. Mojarras
Jul 24, 2011
Salvador B. Mojarras of Lompoc died Sunday, July 24, 2011 at the age of 79. Salvador was born November 29, 1931 in El Centro, California. He was raised and educated in Nayarit, Mexico. He returned to the United States as a teenager, and at the age of 21 he married Isac Moreno in Oregon. Formerly of Delano he has been...
Anna Gloria Smith
Jul 21, 2011
Anna Gloria (Mendez) Smith Dec. 22, 1927 – July 21, 2011 Anna Gloria Smith passed away unexpectedly in Lompoc on July 21. She was born Dec. 22, 1927 in Lompoc, the sixth of Joaquin and Isabell Mendez' seven children. She graduated from Lompoc Union High School in 1947. She met her husband Floyd Smith at a school dance and they...
Christopher Zahuta
Jul 20, 2011
On July 17, 2011 Christopher left this earth to spend his life in eternity with his Heavenly Father. Christopher was born on December 13, 1990 at Lompoc Hospital in Lompoc, California. He grew up here first attending La Honda Elementary School, then El Camino Middle School, and finally Cabrillo High School where he graduated with honors in June 2009. Since...
Gifford M. Farrar
Jul 18, 2011
Gifford M. Farrar of Lompoc died Monday, July 18, 2011 at the age of 56. He was born December 2, 1954. A loving husband, father, brother and friend Gifford was preceded in death by his wife of many years Mona Cordero Farrar in 2006. He leaves behind two precious daughters, Christine and Heather. He also leaves behind two sisters Kathy...
