A fourth-generation female born in Oakland California, a resident of Napa for 6 years and Pleasanton for 38 years, Judi passed away at The Berkshire from complications of Lewy Body Dementia. Judi was a graduate of Holy Names College with an Elementary school teaching credential. She taught for the Diocese of Oakland for 18 years and the City of Pleasanton pre-school system for another decade. She ...

Milton was born in San Francisco on September 19, 1932 to Edna Gillogley Elm and Harold C.F. Elm. He attended St. Paul’s Grammar School in San Francisco through eighth grade. His Family moved to Santa Rosa where he attended and graduated from Santa Rosa High School in 1951. He Graduated from Santa Rosa Jr. College in 1954. He worked for Pacific Bell for 36 years, retiring at the level of senior ...

Bela Ashouri Yonan was born in 1933 and passed peacefully on October 26th, 2022 surrounded by her family. Bela immigrated to the United States in the early 1960s and attended Georgetown before ultimately moving west and graduating from San Jose State with a degree in Interior Design. She and her husband Charles moved to Pleasanton in 1967 where they raised their daughter, Frances. Bela worked for ...

Barbara Jean McMahon-Mills was born June 22, 1940 and passed peacefully on October 24, 2022 at the age of 82. Her siblings included her sisters, Elizabeth and Patsy, and her two brothers Ed and Richard. In 1949, the McMahon family moved to 2nd Street in Pleasanton, California. Barbara had a son, Donald Mills, a daughter Holly Mills-Novacek, two granddaughters Brittany Mitchell and Lindsay Grigorye...

Larry passed from this life of natural causes. He lived a life full of love, family, friends, hard work, many adventures, and many accomplishments. He was born in Baltimore. Graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Academy. Graduated from Johns Hopkins University with BA. Graduated from University of Baltimore Law School with JD. He served in the Army National Guard in Maryland for over 12 year...

Margaret Ann (Peg) Fluck Smith passed away on October 19, 2022, in Portland, Oregon. The daughter of Paul George Fluck and Ella Lillias Dicke, Peg was born on November 9, 1948, in Madison, Wisconsin. She grew up in the close-knit neighborhood of Orchard Ridge, attending Madison schools through her graduation from West High. Four years at Oberlin College led to a BA in Biology (1970) and a friendsh...

Edna "Joyce" McCorkle, age 85, passed away October 18, 2022, at Providence Hospital, Everett, Washington with her husband, Bruce, by her side. Joyce was born in Atlanta, Georgia on February 11, 1937. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Bruce, sons Jeffrey and Andrew, grandchildren, Katherine, Mark, Amanda, Samantha, great-grandchildren William and Benjamin. Joyce graduated from Joseph E. B...

IN LOVING MEMORY Helen Hunter Bassett Hess Bountis passed into the hands of God on October 15th 2022 in her home at Portola Gardens, San Francisco at the age of 68 after difficulties with dialysis and end stage renal disease. Helen was born August 5,1954 in Manchester, NH to Jean and Apostolis (Nick) Bountis, the third of five daughters. In her youth Helen excelled in academics, gymnastics and ...

Stanley Dale Vierk liked to call himself “just a country boy.” He grew up in Cairo, Nebraska, son of the town mechanic, Victor Vierk, and grandson of the local mailman. As a teenager in rural Nebraska, he was curious about everything, whether that was fixing cars, operating a printing press, or learning polkas on the harmonica to impress the girls at the Czech-German club. After a stint in the...

On Saturday, October 1, 2022, David "Dave" Carlson, loving husband, father, son, and brother passed away. He was born on December 12, 1964 to Beverly and William Carlson in Downingtown, PA. He emigrated to California where he met and married Kimberly Thompson in 1999. Together they raised three wonderful children: Will, Zachary, and Rita. Dave was known for his sense of humor and his love of p...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our beloved mother, wife and grandmother Lynne Katz, on the evening of September 27, 2022. Lynne, a thirty-seven-year resident of Pleasanton, passed away peacefully surrounded by her husband and their four children, at the age of 70. Lynne was born to Francis and Lenora Geary in Hawthorn, CA in 1952. Lynne was the youngest of five children....

Robert (Bob) Philcox, former Mayor of Pleasanton passed away Saturday at his home in Pleasanton. He passed peacefully, surrounded by his family. Bob was very grateful for the many blessings bestowed upon him during his lifetime. He was also a blessing to those many lives he touched. Bob was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 1934 to Frederick and Ethel Philcox. He was raised with his brother...

Richard “Dick” Martin passed peacefully September 13, 2022, surrounded by his loving family. Dick was blessed with a large family and always showed his four children the best example of a how to be a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Dick was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Helen Ryan Martin, his parents Julius and Virginia Martin, his sister Kathleen Ray, ...

Harm Ottens, a beloved longtime resident of Pleasanton, died on September 6, 2022 in Bend, Oregon at the age of 88. Harm, also known as Dutch, was born in Onnen, The Netherlands on September 2, 1934, the son of Aldert and Bouwina Ottens. In 1955, at the age of 21, he immigrated to the United States. He was a cook in the Dutch military, then at Fort Ord in Monterey California for the U.S. Army...

Sally Brown, a beloved resident of Livermore, died on August 31, 2022, at the age of 94. Miss Sally, as she was fondly called, was known to many for her fierce determination, her generosity and her volunteerism. Sally was born on December 26, 1927, in New York City, the daughter of Arthur Ray Brown and Bertha Losak Maderas Brown. She grew up in the Ferrer Colony, an anarchist community in St...

Chloe Anne Patzner was born in Walnut Creek, CA on December 29, 2021. In typical Chloe aka Chlo Chlo fashion she made an early arrival to the world (as she liked to do things on her own time). She may have been born early, but she was strong, sweet, and sassy from the start. A true warrior. Chloe was diagnosed shortly after birth with Pierre Robin Sequence which required her to move to a childrens...

Mary Marie Safreno passed away peacefully early in the morning on Sunday, August 28nd. She was almost 91 years old. She was kind and humble and focused on the health and well-being of her family until she passed. Mary was born in the East Bay Area and raised by her Aunt Gloria and Uncle Tony in Hayward with her sisters Betty and Ellie. She attended Hayward High School. In 1953, she met Dougla...