Craig Gage Pause

Craig Gage Pause returned to his Heavenly Father on August 18, 2025, at the age of 82 years. He was born the only child of Harold Arthur and Bonita Gage Pause in Chicago, Illinois on May 1, 1943. Raised in Bronxville, New York, Craig lived the majority his of his adult life in the greater Los Angeles, California area. Craig is a graduate of Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut, Northwestern University of Evanston in Chicago Illinois and completed his post-graduate studies at Santa Monica College and UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

Twenty-one of his working years were spent at Pam America World Airways (PAN AM) and the next eighteen years were with the US Customs as a Senior Inspector at LAX. In 2005, he retired just to watch the world change around him and chose to design buildings that would outlast both himself and the memories of him. The airport and aviation where his passion, architecture was his love, and his church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) along with his family was a work of love in progress.

Craig was predeceased by his patient and loving wife Trinidad de los Reyes who passed away in 2022. Craig and his wife Trinidad were sealed in the temple of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Saint and were cremated in their temple garments. Craig will be laid to rest at the Green Hills Cemetery in Palos Verdes, California on December 12, 2025, where he will join Trinidad for eternal life with their Heavenly Father. Craig is survived by seven children, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren and will be missed by those family and friends who loved him.