Dorothy Claire Braaten-Goesch age 92, was born December 15, 1928 in Pickert, North Dakota. Died September 8, 2021 in Brentwood, California.    Dorothy's husband, Gerald William Goesch passed away December 4, 2019.  She is survived by her 4 children: daughters, Kathleen Claire Goesch-Burton, Janet Eileen Hammack, Leslie Maureen Patterson and 1 son Terrence William Goesch. Sons-in-law Randy Burton, Michael Hammack, John Patterson. Daughter-in-law Janice...

Harold E. Friesen Harold E. Friesen was born December 11, 1925, to Jacob and Tena Friesen in Henderson, Nebraska. He was the oldest in a family of 3 boys and 2 girls. He grew up in the small town of Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, Canada, where his father was the grain buyer for United Grain Growers. Harold started school at age 4, and graduated from high school in 1943 at age 17. Right after high school, he began teacher training school. There was an acute shortage of teachers because of WWII so...

Chase Benjamin Thompson January 16, 2021 – August 31, 2021   Chase was born January 16, 1985 in Mt. View, CA. He was the eldest son of Nan & Charles Thompson. He lived in Saratoga, CA as a baby and a toddler and later moved to Martinez where he spent his childhood. Chase attended college in Santa Barbara, before changing his career path and graduated from the Oxnard Fire Academy. After graduation he returned to Martinez to begin his career, dedicated to the oil and gas...

Marilyn Edwards passed in peace Thursday, August 26th, in Pleasant Hill, Ca, at the age of 86.  Beloved only daughter of Albert and Harriet Hayes, she was born and raised in Oakland, Ca.  After graduating from San Jose State University with a BA in Business Administration, she worked as a medical transcriptionist in the Bay Area, a career she really enjoyed.  She met her first husband, Richard Snow, on a ski trip, and the pair later relocated to Boulder Creek, Ca, where they...

Robert Leroy Towers  1940 ~ 2021

  Kwang Sup Yum II (also known as “Kaye”), of Concord, CA, passed away at 81 years old after a long battle with diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. Kaye was born in Chicago, Illinois, the only child of Treva Louise Grossnickle (1909 - 2000) and Kwang Sup Yum I (1897 - 1975).  Kaye attended grade school at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. After one year at Fenger High School in Chicago, Kaye studied for three years of prep school on an academic...

TRIBUTO Maria Honoria Muñoz Vargas 9 de Enero de 1931 – 19 de Agosto de 2021   La señora Honorita, como le gustaba que la llamaran, nació en Adjuntos del Refugio, Zacatecas, Mexico.  Fué la quinta hija de nueve hermanos de los cuales solo sobrevive Graciela.  A la edad de 27 años, se casó con Pedro Jesus García.  De esta unión, le nacieron 6 hijos: Jesus, Miguel A., Jose Antonio, Fernando, Honorita y...

On Tuesday, August 17, 2021, Marga Kuemmeler of Walnut Creek, Ca passed away peacefully at age 94. Marga was born on October 29, 1926 in Vielau, a small town in eastern Germany.  She was the youngest of six children and grew up very quickly when she was orphaned at 16 after her parents died young.  She was raised mostly by her older sister Gertrude.  Her youth was spent navigating the war years where she endured the tragedies of three of her brothers passing in World War...

Carolyn Faye Wessman October 2nd, 1931 – August 14th, 2021 Resident of Clayton, CA   On a peaceful Saturday afternoon, Carolyn Faye Wessman passed away in her beautiful home on Mt. Diablo at the age of 89. Born in Alabama, Carolyn and her family settled in Pinole, California, where she met the love of her life, Jack Wessman. In 1950, the childhood sweethearts married and started their own business, Blue Star Supply. Beginning their life together, the young entrepreneurs made...

Stephen Pirie  1949 ~ 2021