Alinda Gail Nelson
Apr 11, 2011
Some say kindness is the most admirable human quality. Others cast their votes for generosity. Congeniality, sincerity and compassion all rank among the traits people hope others attribute to them. Ask the friends of Alinda Nelson and they won't hesitate to say she had them all. Ms. Alinda Nelson, Vandenberg's director of Equal Opportunity/Alternate Dispute Resolution Office, who passed away...
Frieda Anna Schaefer
Apr 10, 2011
Frieda Anna Bender was born in Detroit, Michigan. Growing up through the depression years, she worked part time in a grocery store during her teen years, helped care for her younger siblings and graduated from Detroit's High School of Commerce. She married Henry Schaefer in 1935, and their only child was born a year later. Frieda was a devoted homemaker,...
Donna E. Haacke
Mar 31, 2011
Donna E. Haacke, passed away peacefully on March 31, 2011 in Provo, Utah. Donna was born April 16, 1924 in Salt Lake City, Utah and moved to California as a young girl. She met Charles A. Haacke and was married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1945. Donna was an active and devoted member of the LDS Church serving in...
Vivian Gladys Meeks
Mar 28, 2011
Vivian Gladys Meeks, 90, passed away on March 28, 2011 while in residence at the Lompoc Convalescent Care Center. She was born in April 1920 to Richard and Emma Jensen and raised on the family farm in Tyler, Minnesota. Vivian married Joseph Vernon Meeks on September 29, 1945, and they settled in Lompoc with their four children in 1963. She...
Sally J. Goetsch
Mar 22, 2011
Sally Goetsch, wife, mom, grandma, great grandma, aunt, sister and friend went home to our Lord on March 22, 2011. Sally was born in Denver, Colorado on Nov. 22, 1934. She lived her life to the fullest. Professionally she taught elementary school for 12 years and later, after moving to Lompoc in 1978, worked as a real estate broker for...
Marc A. Pappa
Mar 21, 2011
Marc Pappa of Lompoc, passed away Monday, March 21, 2011 at the age of 21. Marc was born December 15, 1989 in Pheonix, Arizona to Mary Barnett and Frank Chantry. Marc was a fun loving person who had a big heart, he always put his family first, he was very optimistic, he loved just having fun and living life. Marc's...
William N. Madson
Mar 20, 2011
William N. Madson of Lompoc died Sunday, March 20, 2011, at the age of 85. William was born March 13, 1926, in Racine, Wisconsin to Nels and Alice Madson. He left high school to join the merchant marines and later the United States Army. He served in Germany during World War II and was discharged in 1952 as a sergeant...
Alice F. Belter
Mar 19, 2011
Alice F. Belter of Lompoc, died Saturday, March 19, 2011, at the age of 85. Alice was born January 11, 1926, in Mulkeytown, Illinois to Jacob and Pearl Simpkins. She was raised and educated in Mulkeytown and graduated from Christopher Community High School in Christopher, Illinois. Alice married Michael Belter and together they owned and operated the Ralph Blalock Company,...
Clark Russell Emmons
Mar 13, 2011
Clark Russell Emmons was born June 19, 1919 in Lompoc, California to Russell Walter Emmons and Blanche Elizabeth (Leedom) Emmons. He passed away March 13, 2011, at the age of 91. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Dorothy Cooper Emmons, sons Rusty Emmons (Barb) of Colorado and Ron Emmons (LaDona) of Ione, California, and daughter Shirley Rizzoli...
Phyllis Jean Smith
Mar 10, 2011
Phyllis Wikoff Smith was born on a farm near Bentonville, Ohio. The second child of four born to two educators, James and Lucille Wikoff. In World War II she served as a radio operator with the 8th Air Force in England and in Germany. During the war she met Ernest Smith, a young marine whom she later married. She left...
June L. Mcmillan
Mar 10, 2011
June L. McMillan, 88, formerly of Lompoc CA, went to be with our Heavenly Father on Thursday, March 10, 2011. She resided at Atterdag Village in Solvang CA. She was born April 21, 1922 in Holyoke Colorado to Jesse W. and Hazel L. McBride. June lived in Lompoc for 42 years before moving to Solvang in 2009. She was devoted...
Stephanie Helene Kazianka
Mar 8, 2011
Stephanie Helene Kazianka, 60, of Lompoc died on March 9, 2011 of unknown causes. Stephanie was born in Upland, CA on August 8, 1950 and lived in Fresno until 1959; from 1959 to 1964 she lived with her family in Tehran, Iran where her father worked for USAID. Returning to San Clemente, CA, she graduated from San Clemente High School...
Darlene Adele Feeley
Mar 6, 2011
Darlene was born September 25, 1938, in Red Lodge, Montana and passed away on March 6, 2011, in Lompoc. She moved to Lompoc in 1946, where she attended local schools graduating from Lompoc High School in 1956. While at Lompoc High she was a song leader, president of the Future Homemakers of America and Student Body President her senior year....
Connie Lou Salucci
Mar 3, 2011
Connie Lou Salucci was born in Saint Jo, Missouri and moved to Lompoc in her teens. She attended and graduated from Lompoc High School. Her favorite pass times during those years were dancing at the Hop and cruising around in her GTO. While working at the Hi restaurant, she met and married Michael Salucci of Lompoc and had two sons....
Miguel Murillo-Quesada
Mar 2, 2011
Miguel Murillo-Quesada of Lompoc died Wednesday, March 2, 2011, at the age of 38. Miguel was born November 20, 1972, to Miguel and Otilia Murillo in Degollado, Jalisco, Mexico. He came to the United States at the age of 15. Formerly of Goleta, Miguel has been a resident of Lompoc since 2000. Miguel was in the landscaping industry for the...
Robert Joe Hadley
Mar 1, 2011
Robert Joe Hadley passed away March 1, 2011. at his home in Lompoc. He was born March 27, 1926, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was a longtime Lompoc Resident and affectionately known as "Big Bob" do to his six-feet four-inch stature. He was a local member of the Elks Lodge, the VFW, the Grange, the American Legion and the Teamsters. He...
Harold V. George
Feb 24, 2011
Harold V. George was born June 21, 1923, in the Township of Roodhouse, Illinois and passed away on February 24, 2011 in Lompoc, California. Harold was raised in Illinois. He spent his childhood in a rural community, fostering his love of vegetable gardening and raising animals, a love that he nourished into his later years. He graduated from Roodhouse High...
Lorena "Trudy" H. Trudeau
Feb 24, 2011
Lorena (Trudy) Trudeau, long time Lompoc resident, dies at 91. Born Hattie Lorena Cahan on July 8th, 1919 in Kankakee Ill, Trudy arrived in Lompoc in the summer of 1958 with her Air Force husband and five children. She worked at the old Moore's department store for many years; retiring to work as a companion for invalided people and charitable...
Regina Ray Barbeau
Feb 22, 2011
Regina Barbeau Regina Raie Barbeau, 47, passed away on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 in Surprise, Arizona after a lengthy illness. Regina was born in Lompoc, California on July 17, 1963 to AJ and Billie Jean Swindle; she was the youngest of four daughters. A graduate of Lompoc High School in 1981, Regina worked within the Santa Barbara, Lompoc, and Santa...
James Lamar Price
Feb 21, 2011
Psalm 73:26 "My flesh and my heart fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." James L. Price of Lompoc, California passed away peacefully at Lompoc Hospital after suffering from Agent Orange and congestive heart failure. James was born in Toledo, OH to George Gabriel and Katherine Price on December 5, 1939. After graduating high...
