00 01 Lompoc RecoRd Wednesday, august 3, 2022 A3 Death notices For information on placing an obituary, please call (805) 739-2144 Obituaries Carol P. Anderson October 9, 1930 June 15, 2022 Carol P. Anderson, 91, of Fresno, passed away on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Carol was born on October 9, 1930 to Thomas and Hattie Pogreba in Everett, Washington. Carol attended Everett High School and graduated Cum Laude from Seattle University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing.
After graduation, Carol returned to Everett and worked at Providence Hospital in obstetrics before becoming an instructor in the school of nursing. After three years, Carol moved to California where her sister's family lived. Carol taught nursing at Providence College of Nursing in Oakland, CA. After four years, Carol accepted a job in Shiraz, Iran to teach nursing to young Iranian women. In 1959, Carol met Marshall Anderson who was in the U.S.
Army, assigned to Iran as a military advisor. They met when he delivered mail to her house. Carol and Marshall were married in Tehran, Iran on August 12, 1960. Son Tom was born in 1961 and soon after, Marshall was reassigned first to Wisconsin, then to Minnesota (where Lynn was born), and finally Germany. In 1968, Marshall retired from the military and the family set up residence in Lompoc, California where Karen was born.
Carol worked for the Lompoc Hospital District for 34 years, including serving as the chief administrator at the Lompoc Convalescent Care Center. She also taught nursing at Allan Hanco*ck College and the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary. After retiring from nursing, Carol was a substitute teacher for the Lompoc Unified School District. Carol was an active member of the Catholic Daughters, Soroptimists, and played the organ at La Purisima Catholic Church for several years. After 51 years in Lompoc, Carol relocated to Fresno.
Carol is survived by her three children: Tom (Beth) Anderson of Clyde Hill, WA, Lynn (Lyn) Boop of Reno, NV, and Karen (Chris) Olson of Fresno, CA, her grandchildren Blake, Erik, and Roxanne Anderson, Madelynn and Jocelyn Boop, Lane and Miles Olson; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Carol is also survived by her brother Tom (Claudia) Pogreba of Park City, Utah. Carol is preceded in death by her husband, Marshall and her sister, Betty Rose Hahn. A funeral mass will be held on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 10:00 am at La Purisima Church in Lompoc followed by interment at Lompoc Cemetery and a Celebration of Life at Hilton Gardens Inn in Lompoc. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to La Purisima Catholic School, Lompoc California.
Aaliyah Marie Peinado July 16, 2022 Aaliyah Marie Peinado, AGE 20, Passed away July 16, 2022. Resident of Nipomo, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Bryan Alexander Esparza Carpio July 21, 2022 Bryan Alexander Esparza Carpio, AGE 15, Passed away July 21, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Dennis Jordan Rabe July 28, 2022 Dennis Jordan Rabe, AGE 60, Passed away July 28, 2022.
Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Dolores M. Martinez July 25, 2022 Dolores M. Martinez, AGE 94, Passed away July 25, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca.
Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Eglantina A. Trevino July 25, 2022 Eglantina A. Trevino, AGE 88, Passed away July 25, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Eric Vance Baker July 17, 2022 Eric Vance Baker, AGE 32, Passed away July 17, 2022.
Resident of Madera, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Evelio Ordiniza Alano July 23, 2022 Evelio Ordiniza Alano, AGE 84, Passed away July 23, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Gilbert Arguijo July 23, 2022 Gilbert Arguijo, AGE 60, Passed away July 23, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca.
Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Jacob Alexander Carreno July 26, 2022 Jacob Alexander Carreno, AGE 20, Passed away July 26, 2022. Resident of Nipomo, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Jean Burch Kerbey July 26, 2022 Jean Burch Kerbey, AGE 83, Passed away July 26, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com John Webb July 20, 2022 John Webb, AGE 86, Passed away July 20, 2022.
Resident of Union City, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Leonard Ryo Kado July 27, 2022 Leonard Ryo Kado, AGE 71, Passed away July 27, 2022. Resident of Nipomo, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Mary F. (Carlson) Lundgren July 19, 2022 Mary F.
(Carlson) Lundgren, AGE 94, Passed away July 19, 2022. Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Richard Guy Dickey July 25, 2022 Richard Guy Dickey, AGE 84, Passed away July 25, 2022. Resident of Nipomo, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Sheryll ann Minetti July 25, 2022 Sheryll Ann Minetti, AGE 78, Passed away July 25, 2022.
Resident of Santa Maria, Ca. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com Shirley J. Walton 1927 2022 Shirley J. Walton, 95, from Lompoc California died peacefully at her daughter's home in San Luis Obispo, CA on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Born in Smoot, Wyoming in the old ranch house that her Grandfather Johnson had built, Shirley grew up working on the family farm and attending school in small three room school house.
She was good student, loved her teachers and often helped them in the classroom. In third grade Shirley had a teacher that made her students recite a new poem every week helping her to develop a love of poetry. Some of the poems she could recite well into old age. Shirley graduated from Utah State and later obtained a Masters Degree in Education from Chapman University. She began her teaching career teaching various fourth and fifth grades in Idaho and Utah.
After she was married she was helping in her daughter's kindergarten classroom when she decided kindergarten was her calling. Shirley had a good friend, Pidy, who loved to roller skate and dance. She taught Shirley to skate and they often went to the Saturday dance at the Berthana in Ogden, Utah. It was at one of the Saturday night dances she met the love of her life, Laron Rae Walton whom she later married. After her husband passed away she taught kindergarten in the Lompoc School District for over thirty years.
Teaching was her passion. She loved little children. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints where she served in many teaching and local leadership positions. Preceding her in death are her husband and her Father Ruben Earl Swenson, Mother Lillian Melvina Swenson, Brother Earl Johnson, Sisters Pearl Bruce and Joan Coulson. She is survived by her daughters: Cay Pooley and Caron D'Orazio and sons: Carl and Cary Walton.
Shirley has 5 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Her memorial service will be held on Friday, August 5th, 2022 at the Lompoc Cemetery Pavilion at 10:30 am. Grave dedication following the service. Charles George Bockius January 15, 1942 July 14, 2022 Charlie Bockius of Lompoc passed away following a lengthy illness at the age of 80 on July 14th, 2022. He is survived by his wife, Ann, and daughters Barbara Hinch, Katherine Miller, and Karin Powers; also, eight grandchildren, seven great grandchildren; his brother, George, and several nieces and nephews.
Serving our country as a Sergeant in the Air Force took Charlie to Vietnam and eventually brought him to Vandenberg AFB and Lompoc where he met and married Ann in 1971. After separating from the Air Force, Charlie attended Cal Poly, graduating with a teaching degree. Charlie taught school for 20 years, touching the lives of many children as a tutor and teacher of the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades at Fillmore Elementary School. Charlie's sense of humor was legendary as was his love of music, which he shared by giving lessons to people of all abilities recently, he gave lessons to a Physical Therapist in his hospital room! He played multiple instruments, enjoying all types of music rock roll, jazz, blues, classical, flamenco, folk, and even barbershop harmonies, but it was Bluegrass that he really loved in his later years. Locally, he played with the Bear Creek and the Southside Bluegrass Band.
He enjoyed jam sessions at Bluegrass festivals, at times playing all night long and into the next day, only stopping for a cup of coffee and some breakfast. He and Ann often traveled to Nashville to visit grandchildren and attend Bluegrass Award events, reconnecting with musician friends gained over the years. Charlie was a large presence in many lives and will be greatly missed. A celebration of his life will be held at the Lompoc Elks Lodge on November 26, 2022 and you can bet there will be music! Maria "Esther" Franquiz 1926 2022 Maria Franquiz was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, to Eugenio Cruz and Alfonsa Rosa, in 1926, the youngest of 7 siblings. She grew up during the years of the Great Depression, and carried the ethic of throughout her life.
With financial assistance from her older siblings, she was the only one in her family afforded the opportunity to graduate from Bayamon High School, an achievement for which she remained ever grateful, and proud. In 1945 she married a young U.S. Army soldier, Herminio Franquiz Sr, who had courted her for two years. Over the next 8 years she gave birth to 4 children, all the while accommodating to the demands of a military wife. Throughout her life Esther held a fervent religious faith, embedded in Roman Catholicism, rarely missing Sunday Mass, or a Saint Anthony's Ladies Auxiliary meeting.
These three relationships guided her life family, church, military in that order. Esther often put her own needs aside to meet the broader needs of the family, or of a specific family member. She was committed to her children's education, was very caring and attentive to their needs and interests, was unwavering in her support of her husband, was an excellent cook, maintained an impeccably clean home, enjoyed gardening, loved reading novels and traveling. Esther was the heart and soul of our nuclear family. Her extended family also knew her as kind and generous, as did her neighbors, since she was always stepping up to help someone in need.
With the church Esther was generous, both with her time and money, and this resulted in enduring friendships. Her sisterhood of church friends provided many social opportunities, and support, particularly during her years as a widow. Whenever possible, Esther enrolled her children in Catholic schools prizing their basic foundational values. When she was not in agreement with church doctrine, she would shift focus and emphasize those doctrines with which she agreed. Her underlying faith was firm and resolute.
Esther fully embraced the responsibilities of a military spouse. She found travel expansive and exciting. She grew to admire military order, which provided her a feeling of security. She was proud of helping her husband succeed and advance through the ranks in the Army. She adjusted well to the various displacements caused by each new assignment over a 30-year span.
In choosing a site to retire, proximity to a military base was essential, and so they chose Lompoc, and Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1974. She would always smile, and feel comfortable, as she passed the gate to enter the post. In Lompoc, this final stop in an otherwise peripatetic life, Esther again found enduring friendships, a strong sense of community, the La Purisima Catholic church, a nearby military base, and chose to remain here for the last 48 years. She died in her home on July 21, 2022. As she departs from this life, the memories of that life will continue to nourish those of us who loved her.
Esther is predeceased by her husband Herminio Franquiz Sr, her daughter Nereida Franquiz-Talley, her grandson Tyler Rex Pedersen, and her six siblings. Esther is survived by her daughters Maria E. Franquiz, and Lily Pedersen-Franquiz; by her son Herminio Franquiz Jr; by her sister-in-law Maria Franquiz; by her grandchildren Ben Ryken, Joey Ryken, Luke Pedersen, Elisha Talley, Jason Harris-Talley, Carlos Franquiz, Miguel Franquiz, Antonio Franquiz; and by her great-grandchildren Atreyue Ryken, Dakota Ryken, Max Ryken, Zuvuya Franquiz, Luda Tallen, Nancy Ryken, Noah Lakehal, Cora Harris-Talley and Malcolm Harris-Talley. Funeral management is by Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. The visitation will be from 5-7pm at the funeral home chapel on Sunday July 31.
The mass of Christian burial will be at La Purisima Catholic Church on Monday, August 1, at 10am followed by burial in the Lompoc Cemetery. Flowers may be directed to the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the La Purisima Catholic church or school. Maria "Esther" Franquiz 1926 2022 Maria Franquiz was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, to Eugenio Cruz and Alfonsa Rosa, in 1926, the youngest of 7 siblings. She grew up during the years of the Great Depression, and carried the ethic of throughout her life.
With financial assistance from her older siblings, she was the only one in her family afforded the opportunity to graduate from Bayamon High School, an achievement for which she remained ever grateful, and proud. In 1945 she married a young U.S. Army soldier, Herminio Franquiz Sr, who had courted her for two years. Over the next 8 years she gave birth to 4 children, all the while accommodating to the demands of a military wife. Throughout her life Esther held a fervent religious faith, embedded in Roman Catholicism, rarely missing Sunday Mass, or a Saint Anthony's Ladies Auxiliary meeting.
These three relationships guided her life family, church, military in that order. Esther often put her own needs aside to meet the broader needs of the family, or of a specific family member. She was committed to her children's education, was very caring and attentive to their needs and interests, was unwavering in her support of her husband, was an excellent cook, maintained an impeccably clean home, enjoyed gardening, loved reading novels and traveling. Esther was the heart and soul of our nuclear family. Her extended family also knew her as kind and generous, as did her neighbors, since she was always stepping up to help someone in need.
With the church Esther was generous, both with her time and money, and this resulted in enduring friendships. Her sisterhood of church friends provided many social opportunities, and support, particularly during her years as a widow. Whenever possible, Esther enrolled her children in Catholic schools prizing their basic foundational values. When she was not in agreement with church doctrine, she would shift focus and emphasize those doctrines with which she agreed. Her underlying faith was firm and resolute.
Esther fully embraced the responsibilities of a military spouse. She found travel expansive and exciting. She grew to admire military order, which provided her a feeling of security. She was proud of helping her husband succeed and advance through the ranks in the Army. She adjusted well to the various displacements caused by each new assignment over a 30-year span.
In choosing a site to retire, proximity to a military base was essential, and so they chose Lompoc, and Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1974. She would always smile, and feel comfortable, as she passed the gate to enter the post. In Lompoc, this final stop in an otherwise peripatetic life, Esther again found enduring friendships, a strong sense of community, the La Purisima Catholic church, a nearby military base, and chose to remain here for the last 48 years. She died in her home on July 21, 2022. As she departs from this life, the memories of that life will continue to nourish those of us who loved her.
Esther is predeceased by her husband Herminio Franquiz Sr, her daughter Nereida Franquiz-Talley, her grandson Tyler Rex Pedersen, and her six siblings. Esther is survived by her daughters Maria E. Franquiz, and Lily Pedersen-Franquiz; by her son Herminio Franquiz Jr; by her sister-in-law Maria Franquiz; by her grandchildren Ben Ryken, Joey Ryken, Luke Pedersen, Elisha Talley, Jason Harris-Talley, Carlos Franquiz, Miguel Franquiz, Antonio Franquiz; and by her great-grandchildren Atreyue Ryken, Dakota Ryken, Max Ryken, Zuvuya Franquiz, Luda Tallen, Nancy Ryken, Noah Lakehal, Cora Harris-Talley and Malcolm Harris-Talley. Funeral management is by Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. The visitation will be from 5-7pm at the funeral home chapel on Sunday July 31.
The mass of Christian burial will be at La Purisima Catholic Church on Monday, August 1, at 10am followed by burial in the Lompoc Cemetery. Flowers may be directed to the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the La Purisima Catholic church or school. Retha Lynn Morlatt 1953 2022 Retha was born August 2, 1953. She passed away at her home on July 20, 2022, surrounded by her loved ones.
She will be truly missed and loved as a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend, and neighbor to all. A celebration of life will be held at Miguelito Park Section A on August 27, 2022, at 1pm. Albert J. Pagliassotto July 21, 2022 Albert J. Pagliassotto of Lompoc died Thursday, July 21, 2022, at the age of 76.
Starbuck-Lind Mortuary, directors. Starbucklind.com Harry Edward Schwarte, Jr. July 20, 2022 Harry Edward Schwarte, Jr. of Lompoc died Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the age of 73. Starbuck-Lind Mortuary, directors.
Starbucklind.com Sally R. DeMaria July 17, 2022 Sally R. DeMaria of Lompoc died Sunday, July 17, 2022, at the age of 98. Starbuck-Lind Mortuary, directors. starbucklind.com.
