“He was the quintessential family man,” Mark says. It seemed as if Sallie Jones was always playing the piano. His father taught him to play the instrument, which led the young Lopez to perform at Dallas nightclubs that didn’t allow Mexican American patrons. She’d tell you things as she saw them and didn’t hold back — but it all came from a place of love. “I know we’re all biased, but for me personally, when I think about a woman of character, integrity, strength, beauty, grace, wisdom, and charity, that is who I think of,” Hopper Williams said. “We lost so many people during the AIDS crisis, we were at risk of losing our history, especially in the leather and motorcycle community,” Wacha said. She reveled in her independence. When Alaniz wasn’t focused on fatherhood or finances, he loved going to concerts (tribute bands in particular), watching Law & Order reruns and spending time with his beloved pets. On April 23, Leah Bernstein died at age 99 from complications of COVID-19. Agredano retired a few years ago, but he hated to stop working, according to Manny. “He had a twinkle in his eye, he had a bounce in his step, and he had the cutest little ponytail I had ever seen,” Jamie Szabadi said of the first time she met her husband. With Burnam’s help, he studied at Stanford and UC San Francisco and later returned to Ethiopia, where he became a renowned surgeon and started the Marcia Burnam Surgicenter. The son of Patty and Jack Barber, he was born in 1950 in Washington, D.C., and grew up near Frederick, Md. Murphy was a firebrand from the start. “They had a great life,” McIntyre said. An avid basketball fan, the Clippers were his team and when he could afford it, he would head to Staples Center to watch them play. Whatever it was, she told it.”. Along with his daily work, he was known for being the handyman in his neighborhood. His sixth child, born on that day, was named Magdalena in her honor. “Nobody, it’s fair to say, ever wrought deeper changes in the way the rock industry looked, felt, behaved.... To come out of a vacuum and force such changes at such speed, with such totality — even now it’s hard to conceive the force and self-belief it must have taken,” author Nik Cohn wrote after spending time with Spector in 1969. Chris Menown was seven decades her junior when he offered her a ride home from their parish, St. Brendan’s Catholic Church. “We grew up and grew closer,” Justin said of his family during the memorial. “The only way I could get myself in there was if she was on hospice care, and so I got myself in there,” Helena said. He attended as many Sacramento Solons baseball games as his allowance permitted, his brother said, and he went on to receive his bachelor’s in history from UC Davis. A Gideon’s Bible he received in grade school sat unread for many years, until Wilkes was 20 and kept waking up with an urge to “read the book.”. She recovered after months of physical therapy and remained relatively healthy until undergoing knee-replacement surgery two years ago. Neighborhood bouts, as he told The Times in 2016, led to amateur events at the Olympic Auditorium and another in Las Vegas. He was the guy you could call in the middle of the night if you needed to find shelter, a drug rehab program or just a last-minute airport pickup. The twins had a favorite pastime: disco dancing. He enjoyed a glass of wine after work and NPR on the radio. Price’s family says his religious awakening began when he followed her to a Christian tent revival service. Wayne Strom’s health began to decline last fall, and he moved into the Kensington Redondo Beach senior living facility in December. Dr. Manuel Ramirez had two strong passions: cooking and medicine. “I kept fighting for answers,” Murillo said. She took the time because she cared.”. “He was a border guy. On Oct. 22, Ellwood died at the age of 81 of complications from COVID-19 after a nearly three-week battle that his family thought he would win. “And she would always laugh.”. He is preceded in death by his father, Alfonso Ye Sr., who died in 2018, and is survived by his mother. “In this country, you’re always working,” said Ruiz, who was born in Nicaragua. When his health began to decline, his strength served him well. Hobo eventually bought an old 1987 Ford truck to sleep in during the rainy season, and to keep safe from late-night attackers. His passion, his family said, was Travel with a capital “T.”, To him, there was no limit between cultures and countries,” said his son-in-law, Daniel Franco. He often hosted Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, George Clooney, Al Pacino and other actors and studio executives, who sipped margaritas, tucked into the restaurant’s signature tufted red leather booths. When they were young, the girls split their time between their father and their mother, Julie Ziegler, but in high school they spent the week with their mother, the weekends with their dad. We called them her, ‘little old lady friends,’” said Charles. He had a long battle with dementia, and she succumbed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “She was an awesome mom.”. When Tangtam wasn’t working, he was generally watching sports. “What if he didn’t pick up the phone call?" We will remember you every single day. Valero spent his youth in Mexico. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 29, 1931, he grew into a 6-foot-5-inch right-handed pitcher who, as a 17-year-old prospect, attracted the attention of pro scouts at the Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants played. Aguilo’s death means not only no more touching notes on milestone dates, but also that Dalisay and her husband, Silvester, who live in a retirement community, won’t have anyone to bring them groceries and take them to doctor’s appointments. “They always called him ‘The Ambassador,’” Milo Minnis said. Raised in Virginia, Alexander grew up during a time that called for such courage, as segregation and Jim Crow policies reigned throughout the South. But Agredano -- a man of routine who was never late -- would pull up at 3:30 a.m. every day and sit in his truck, drinking coffee and listening to the radio until the workday began, said his granddaughter, Joyce Alonso. Ben, who continues to work at St. Mary, is transitioning into another new life, this one without Sally. His mother, too, was now dead from the virus. When L.A. County sheriff’s deputies arrived, Spector had to be subdued with a Taser. Before the pandemic hit, his last role was Benito Juarez in the premiere of “Adios Mama Carlota” at San Jose Stage. At age 9, after his father died, he was often left to care for his younger sister as his mother worked in the garment industry. “Her last words to us were that she loved us and that she couldn’t wait to come see us,” said Kristie Johnson, the girl’s mother and Johnson’s daughter. Martinez spent the last 10 years of his life working as an Uber driver. If you walk in your father’s footsteps, you’ll never go wrong, because he was a very honorable man.'". Stephen Butters found great joy and solace in nature. “I cry every day,” Rosalie said. At Desert Reign Church, Bernard ran the church’s food delivery program, married couples and conducted funeral services. Contracting COVID-19 at 95, he died May 25 in Riverside. After Tillson retired from the youth authority in 1996, he worked for a decade as a part-time consultant for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a nonprofit research group focused on criminal justice reform. It was during a Sierra Club outing in the 1970s that he met his wife, who was impressed with his knowledge and intellect. After Ellis completed rehabilitation for his own alcoholism, he gave Rosario an ultimatum to do the same or he wouldn’t speak to her again. Just a couple months ago, we were just talking about how he was going to help us navigate the California Arts Council grant process. Cancun was a favorite destination. Ellwood, said Meppen, consistently saw a glass half full. His generosity extended to leaving his body to science. Still, he wore the outfit of a true rocker: blond hair reaching down to his shoulders and worn cowboy boots. But part of the new job required basic arithmetic, adding up the money visitors donated. Her mother, father, sister and brother are in a state of shock and mourning.”, Urrea added that “Valeria made the ultimate sacrifice for her elderly patients. He would make us laugh, as well as his friends and clients,” Maggie said. He was 60. In 1983, the Burnams took in an Ethiopian 14-year-old named Tewodros “Teddy” Gedebou, who wanted to come to the U.S. to be a doctor. His wife, Margie, had washed his pajamas in anticipation of his return home, and Meppen had ordered all the ingredients to make his favorite pasta: a savory dish with a homemade low-salt marinara sauce mixed with sautéed vegetables and ground chicken. I kept telling him, ‘When I get my own house, I want you to build us a deck with gorgeous wood.’ He loved working with things created by nature.”. But that’s where Tara Arentz fell in love. They married in 1979. “He understood my pain, and I understood his,” said Emelina Martinez, who lost a brother in a shooting before meeting her husband. Martin was also fiercely independent, insisting on living alone in a Roseville apartment well into her 90s. Rose Matsui Ochi was a trailblazing Los Angeles attorney who tapped far-flung political networks from City Hall to Congress in her fierce advocacy of civil rights, criminal justice reform and Japanese American causes. He tested positive for COVID-19, and doctors told him that the breathing problems he’d had for three months weren’t from allergies after all. He is survived by his wife, son Jeff and daughter Jill. And it’s that closeness so many in Santa Paula already miss. Lourdes is survived by her husband, son, daughters Janice and Maureen, five grandchildren, and eight brothers and sisters. He was really good with that.”. They became inseparable. At the time, newspapers proclaimed it the largest geodesic church structure in the world, and it remains a landmark visible to air travelers arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. His positive COVID-19 test result came back the next day. “It has made her a kind of heroine for librarians, especially women librarians, across the breath of the United States.”. Keegan would also take her mother to her own hula performances at the nearby Sonoma Valley Woman’s Club. ”He hoped to go professional and had the 1980 Olympics in his sights. Whitmore and his team plotted a path that came to be known as “The Nose.”. Trained as a lawyer, Ben went back to school for nursing and soon landed a job at St. Mary, where his wife had been working since 1997. He was curious about life and determined to make his own way — through music or social activism.”. “He loved the camaraderie,” said his son Jon. But this year, for the first time her children can remember, she missed Mardi Gras. It was close to midnight when Danielle Enriquez got a call from her grandmother, Rose Cadena Lord. Schachter died on Dec. 20 from COVID-19 in a hospital in San Francisco. It was one of the biggest events ever back then.”. A Vietnamese soldier against colonial France, a lieutenant colonel against the communist Viet Cong, a leader of South Vietnam’s counterinsurgency training program. She never made it back to school, but the life she created for herself was its own study in perseverance and service. Valencia said he was 2 when Zuniga met his mother, Norma. He loved music and loved to dance and just be goofy, his family said. “Dad left it all on the table,” Riley says. The game, McGihon told his four children, was the best measure of a person. The couple had been married 41 years. She cajoled her father to set aside his chauvinistic views about gender roles and teach her the Japanese martial art of kendo — which she said helped her develop the courage to endure getting hit and face her own fears. By 26, he had received a doctorate in operations management from UC Berkeley on a full scholarship, Ben said. [Luz’s] family was.”, The couple lived most of their life in New York, with Luz obtaining a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Rochester. She opened a sewing business from her home and later worked as a cosmetologist and a caretaker for the elderly. Writing in the introduction of the book “We’ve Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong captured the essence of his band’s first-ever Los Angeles gig, at the Teaszer. Me, take orders? “It’s just so strange,” Dearborn said. Eleven residents at the care facility have died of COVID-19-related illnesses, according to the California Department of Public Health. “She would drive for us. People would call on him to be master of ceremonies at events because he would always have something memorable to say.”. “But little brother, he became a giant.”. “They were members of every dance group that existed out in the desert,” Randall said. Because he put in that effort, they could more easily handle his absence when duty called at an inconvenient time. “It sounds easy,” said Roger Kirk, assistant athletics director, “but if you make a mistake, everyone sees it.”.

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