In Fall of 1970 while on a field trip Leticia (Leti) would tell another student who she did not know to “SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP”. She believed the student was provoking a fight with students from another High School. That student was me and we would go on to belong life long partners of 53 years. At the age...
Elia Sanchez Fagan passed away on December 19, 2023 at the age of 80. She was born in Sebastian, Texas on May 20, 1943 and was a longtime resident of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Our Lady of the Lake University, a private Catholic University in San Antonio Texas. She went on to...
Angela O. McKittrick (Angie) peacefully passed away on December 18, 2023 at the sweet age of 105 years. She was born in Garden City, Kansas on August 2, 1918, raised in Lamar, Colorado and moved to Torrance, California in the 1940s, where she lived a wonderfully long and successful life. She is loved and survived by her children Michael (Karen)...
Christine Meiko Takaki was a romantic, who believed in soulmates, hated to be tickled, and loved for the final time December 17, 2023. Meiko, second of six kids to Noboru and Ryoko Miyao, was born in Yano, Japan May 27, 1947, less than 2 years after and 10 miles away from the detonation of the atomic bomb. Ryoko lived with...
Antoinette Corrine Tuccinardi Young was born on September 16, 1943, to Cesare Augustus Tuccinardi and Marrietta Chrisine Sorbo Tuccinardi in Los Angeles California. The youngest of nine children, she was very independent and had a great love for her family and animals. As a single mother, she worked hard to raise four children. She retired from Northrup Grumman where she...
Paul Zamora Paular was born in 1932 to Paul I. Paular and Felicidad Arca. The third of four sons, Paul grew up in Stockton, CA, where he learned to play clarinet and worked in his father’s diner. As a teenager, he followed his older brothers Ray and Jerry to spend summers working at a cannery in Alaska. Paul was a...