AGINS, Raymond Osman "Ray"
ALMARAZ "Ron" Ronald Paul
AREA James Lee
BARROWS (STEBBINS) Orpha Louise
BECK Floyd Louis
BERG (REAGAN/SCOTT) Nancy Ellen
BERKEBILE-FAULKNER, Donna (6/11/19)
BERTOIA "Doug" Douglas Everett
BETTS "Curt" Curtis Elmer
BEVENS (BARLOW) Sharon Kay
BLOCHER John W.
BRYANT, Sharon Eileen Sterner/Mandeville
Born: 2-23-46/2-26-2018; Onterio, Oregon
CARD "Don" Donald Keith
CHAMBERS Colin
CIRESI (SUMNER/VANHECKE) Wanda Fay
COATES (FISHER/JOHNSON) Marcia Lea
DIONNE "Tom" Donald Thomas
DRAGICEVICH (ALDRICH/PAINE/CORTEZ) "Vicky"
DRAGICEVICH Dennis John
DROUGHT Charles Geoffrey "Geoff"
DUKE Dale A. Jr.
ELM Janet Alaynne
FARRELL Kenneth Edward
FIELDS "Ken" Kenneth L.
GALLEGOS (SCHAFFER) Sharon Juliette
GREEN (STEELSMITH) Nellie Carolyn "Caroline"
HALVERSON (BURRIS) Patricia Ruth "Patty"
HAZLETT Jon Michael
HEDGER "Ken" Kenneth Kay
HITE "Jim" James Woodrow
HUNT, "Larry" Larry James
JENKINS-BAILEY Gordon Roger
JOHNSON (LIVESAY/BRADLEY) Sylvia Florence
JOHNSON Jerry Lee
KAULBACH Charles Edward
MOREAU, RON
MORRIS Bill Orlando
NAJARIAN "Tony" Michael Anthony
NIXON, Gary
NUOPPONEN (SHERER/MARTIN) Joan Marie
OPPENHEIMER Robert Gene "Bob"
PECK Ernest Allen "Ernie"
POLING (McGuire/Morris) Donna Jeanette
RADIKE Stephanie Anne
RAIRIGH (WALKER-GOETZ) Karen Olivia
RAY (DONADIO) Elizabeth Joann "Jody"
REYNOLDS Steve Leroy
RIVERA "Bob" Robert James
RUBIO "Ron" Ronald William
SAMARZO (O'Brien/Willingham/ARCHIE) "Judy" Judith A.
STANBERRY (LAWRENCE) Darlene Marie
STATON (LEWIS) Alma Fay or Faye
STEPIEN Thomas M. "Tom"
STONE (BLAKE) Mary Jean
SULLIVAN, Mike
VERBRYKE John Hess
VIZENTS Allan Wayne
WERTH Fred Joseph
YOUNG, Gary
ZAMORA (DIONNE) Antonia Elizabeth "Tony"
ZUBEK Thomas Allyn "Tom"
(Death Probable 95%)
ALLISON David
BAKER "Doug" Douglas Austin
BALDWIN "Bob"
BARRAGAN Bertha Lidice
BERGH "Don" Donald Charles
CAMPOS "Mike"
CANTRELL "Eugene" Raymond Eugene
CHAVEZ Martin "Marty"
DREW Dwight Alan
GONZALES (Lopez or Vargas) Herlinda Rosalie
HODGES Samuel Louis "Sam"
KNIGHT "Corky" C
MARSHALL Robert
MASI "Bob" Robert Carlton; Robert N.
MCCORMACK (Redding) "Pat" Patricia A.
MEDINA (Llamas/Lugo/KRAMER) Maria deLosAngeles
OCHOA "Eddie" Edward: Raymond, Gilbert, Ernest; nmn
OROZCO "Frank"
PIERCE John Robert John
RAY (Pasca/Perez) Victoria Lee (deceased per classmate)
ROUTH "Mike" Michael Malek
THATCHER "Dave" David Paul
VAVREK "John" Joseph John
WALTZ "Jack" Crockett
WASHINGTON "Larry" Larry Edward
February 23, 1930 - January 24, 2018 Art Hernandez, 87, of Simi Valley, CA, passed away, Wednesday at his home. A burial and a celebration of life service will be held at 11:00 am Friday, February 2, 2018 at San Fernando Mission Cemetery. Art was born in Hayden, Arizona to Sylvestre and Jesus (Benitez) Hernandez. He graduated from San Fernando High in 1949 and from UCLA in 1959. Art served on the front lines in Korea. He married his wife Margaret Knape in 1956. Art was retired from the Los Angeles Community Colleges where he served as a Vice President at East Los Angeles, Dean at Piece and acting President of Los Angeles Mission College. Art was a prolific water color, acrylic and oil painter. During Jerry Brown's first term as governor, his large Eagle painting hung in the California Capitol. Art is survived by his daughters and their families: Addie, Michele & Steve, Maureen & Keith, Elizabeth & Tariq and Toni & John; grandchildren: Chris, Kyle, James, Trevor, Jeremy, Colin, Tawnya, Dylan, Austin, Johnnie & Mayra; great Grandchildren: Dylan, Raighlyn, Skylar, Delilah and Levi.
Published in the Los Angeles Times from Jan. 30 to Jan. 31, 2018
Fabled 1963 Sylmar basketball player Ron Moreau passed away in 2014. Besides being the #1 Spartan player, he went on to be a respected journalist and war correspondent.
This article was originally published on The Daily Beast. Some of Moreau's many Newsweek stories can be read here.
We lost Ron Moreau in the spring of 1991. He had gone to Iraqi Kurdistan for Newsweek to cover the panicked flight of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes to the high harsh ice of the mountains on the Turkish border, where they hoped to escape the savagery of Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of Desert Storm. And then, Ron had gone incommunicado.
Finally, one morning he called Newsweek’s Paris office from a pay phone in a fly-blown town on the Turkish border and dictated from his notebook the cover story for that week’s magazine, which demanded to know why George H. W. Bush didn’t care about these people and their suffering. In fact, Ron made the world care.
April 15, 1991.NEWSWEEK
Today we learned that we lost Ron again, but this time there is no coming back. He died in his sleep at a Houston hospital on Tuesday night, with his wife and daughter, Lac and Linh Anh, at his bedside, after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis and a lung transplant last year that didn’t work out.
Ron was one of the last great foreign correspondents of a great generation. And Ron was that even rarer phenomenon, a real gentleman. As a colleague he was unfailingly gracious sharing his time, information, contacts and experience. His generous spirit was and remains unforgettable.
Ron first joined Newsweek in 1972 at the height of the Vietnam War and impressed just about everyone who worked with him. Ron, who was only 27 at the time, had been a conscientious objector. He had learned Vietnamese while performing alternative military service in the Mekong Delta. (He was born in Los Angeles and educated at U.C. Berkeley. His father called him “the best educated hippie in the country.”)
“In my heart Ron remains the friendly and youthful figure older colleagues turned to in Saigon for insights, because of his uncommon knowledge of the language and the lives of the Vietnamese poor in the countryside,” says Jean-Marc Illouz, a veteran French television correspondent.
After the fall of Saigon and the unification of Vietnam, Ron moved on to cover other conflicts in the Middle East and Latin America, but was always drawn back to Southeast Asia where he served for years as Newsweek’s Bangkok bureau chief.
For much of the last decade Ron was based in Pakistan for Newsweek and then for The Daily Beast, often collaborating with Sami Yousafzai to produce prize-winning coverage of Afghanistan, the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
“It has been a great pleasure and honor for me to work with Ron for such a long time,” Sami wrote this afternoon from Pakistan. “He was so nice, calm and kind, and his journalistic understanding was wonderful.” Even the often vindictive and capricious Pakistani intelligence officers came to respect Moreau’s integrity.
“Ron loved working in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” says Sami. “I remember once in 2006 we were in Ghazni and we talked to a Taliban commander on the phone, who told us we should come talk to him in person. We said, not if he was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. He said, ok, no AK-47. So when we got to the meeting about noon, the Taliban commander was waiting for us and his men were carrying RPGs [rocket propelled grenades]. I told the commander, ‘My colleague, Ron, told his wife he wouldn’t go any place risky. You’re not supposed to have any guns.’ The commander said, ‘this is an RPG, not an AK-47.’ Ron and I laughed all the way back to Kabul.”
“Ron was in love with Afghan green tea and every night and morning we sat together drinking full pots of it. He was like a university for me when he talked about journalism,” says Sami.
The last piece Ron and Sami teamed up on, in December, warned that Pakistan and Afghanistan had released waves of Taliban prisoners in a goodwill gesture—but instead of returning home, the radicals were rejoining the fight.
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By then, Ron was engaged in his own battle against a debilitating disease that cut off the air he breathed and sapped him of energy. His son, Dan, wrote to friends of his last days and hours:
“Ron wanted to pass, and it is our belief that he wanted to leave us and end his suffering. He did so quietly without wanting to burden his family any longer. He was a committed son, father, husband and journalist….
“Ron was happiest when he was writing and reporting and traveling, and his disease unfortunately took that away from him,” wrote his son. “Per his final wishes, Ron will be cremated and his remains will be transferred to the Vietnamese Buddhist Center in Sugar Land, Texas.”
Thursday, 20 June 2013 06:48
On Thursday June 13, 2013, the flag at the Floral Memorial Park Cemetery in Fresno County flew at half-staff for Vietnam veteran Olen Myron Majers.
Olen was born in the city of San Fernando Aug. 4th, 1946, and passed away on June 8, 2013. He was laid to rest with honors for serving his country in the Vietnam War.
Graduating from Sylmar High School in 1964, he was drafted into the Army after high school and then later went to Vietnam.
He served his tour of duty with ground troops as a machine gunner carrying an M16 automatic rifle.
Witnessing some of the most horrific things that warfare has to offer, he did what it took to keep himself alive.
When he talked about it sometimes, it brought tears to his eyes. On two occasions he could've been awarded the Purple Heart. He was shot in his left ear; luckily he turned just as a bullet grazed him. Had he not turned, the bullet would have killed him instantly.
Another time he stepped on a bamboo booby trap, injuring his foot. Being as humble as he was, he was not one to accept an award for those injuries. After all, he had seen his fellow soldiers with far worse injuries and some not making it out at all.
He just wanted to get back out there and serve with his fellow comrades that became brothers to him. He was also exposed to the chemical known as Agent Orange. Unknown to him, this would later have a serious impact on his medical conditions later on in life.
Shortly after returning home from Nam, while working in his father's liquor store, a gunman walked into the store and held Olen at gunpoint.
He and a coworker were brought to the backroom and tied up. Olen was able to get free, exit out the back, and call the police. Two suspects were arrested. It was said that four to five men were taking part in the crime.
Even going through all that he has been through, he was the most amazing person. Always one to tell a joke and make people laugh. Give him a deck of cards, and he would show you some of the most amazing card tricks. If someone was down on their luck, he would do whatever it took to help that person out. He liked to help people, and was always there when you needed him.
Olen Majers, a very patriotic man was a loving Husband, Brother, Father, and Grandfather. Not only a hero who fought for his country, but also a hero to me. Dad, thanks for all that you taught me. I admire everything about you and all that you been through. You were always so brave and courageous.
Your stories and memories will always live on. I will strive to be the man you once were.
-- Kenny Majers, San Fernando business owner, Majers Coin Laundry
Gary was born in Glendale, California to Ernest Albert and Flossie Florene Young on October 14, 1945. Gary went home to be with his Lord and Savior on February 1, 2017.
His family moved to Sylmar, California in 1949 where Gary attended various elementary and middle schools, ultimately graduating from Sylmar High School in 1963. Gary went on to attend Pasadena College (now known as Point Loma Nazarene University). While studying business at Pasadena College, he met and married Lynda Fern Broyles in 1965. Over the next 49 years they enjoyed travelling, spending time with family and attending many concerts. Gary's early career in the Los Angeles area consisted of working for Thrifty Stores, the Automobile Club of Southern California, owning a men's clothing store in Sylmar, California and working for Certified Grocers. Gary relocated his family to Bakersfield, California in 1976 through a transfer opportunity with Certified Grocers. In 1985, Gary took a sales position with Procter and Gamble, serving stores throughout Bakersfield and extending up to the Bishop/Mammoth area. Gary spent 20 plus years working for P&G covering various sales and marketing territories in the western United States. He retired from P&G in 2007.
In his spare time, Gary coached baseball and soccer, worked at the annual Kern County Fair handling entertainment and security duties, sang in the Golden Empire Chorus and various barbershop quartets, and attended numerous bluegrass and southern gospel concerts. Gary also promoted gospel concerts, including Gospel Day at the KC Fair and was very active in the Western States Gospel Music Association.
Gary was preceded in death by his parents Ernest and Flossie Young, his brothers-in- law Derek Whitehead and Leo Anselm and his loving wife Lynda of 49 years. He leaves behind his sisters Linda Anselm and Jan Whitehead, brother Joe Young, daughter Ami Maranto, son Joel Young and wife Angela, granddaughter Breanne Ulloa and husband Nehemias, grandsons Joseph Maranto, Jared Young, Jaxon Young and Jasen Young, granddaughter Jynna Young and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
The family would like to thank Dr. Stephen Strategos and Dr. Pete McCauley and their respective staff for their wonderful care and attention to Gary over the past several years.
A Memorial service will be held at Valley Baptist Church Fruitvale Campus on Saturday, February 11th at 10:30 am with a time of fellowship to follow at Valley Baptist Church Olive Drive Campus.
Published in Bakersfield Californian on Feb. 8, 2017
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Gil, by Rick Quist
Lots of sad news. Mike Sullivan (not the one in my class) and Gary
Nixon, both class of '63, died last week I believe. Also, Denny Betts,
Curt's brother, died several months ago in a car accident. Sources for
these reports are Ken Siebert, Carolyn Cloyd and Marianne Grosskopf.
Also, in case you don't know, Gary Young died several months ago.
After Sullivan's death I took a photo of the left field wall of
baseball fame at the school. Taken from a distance it's not great
quality but might still work on a web site. I assume the name Thompson refers to Denny Thompson, S64, who was a player and a coach at Sylmar.
Rick
Sparta mourns the passing of former Sylmar teacher Larry
Banner on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2013. He is best
remembered by Alphadons and D'Aragons as a former Olympian
and husband to classmate Martha (Marty) Paulson. He is survived
by his wife Martha, two sons, Eric and Bret, his grandchildren,
Emalee and Ryan, and his sister Sherry Daniels. He was
married to Marty for 47 years and resided in Modesto, Ca. at the
time of his passing. His entire obituary can be found in the
Modesto Bee or this link:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/modestobee/
obituary.aspx?n=larry-banner&pid=168328618.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Banner family.
If anyone is aware of any additional classmates that have passed please notify Gil Moya