Recent Obituaries in Long Beach

Serving Long Beach, CA and Surrounding Areas

Margie Beth Gensemer

Margie Beth Gensemer

Nov 23, 2020

Margie Beth Gensemer, 84, passed away on Monday November 23, 2020. Margie was born on December 14, 1935 in Lincoln Kansas. On September 20, 1953 she married Bill Gensemer, and they raised two children Kathy and Gary. Early in her married life she remained a full-time mother. She loved spending time with her Bluebird Group going on campouts and...

Marilyn R. Armstrong

Marilyn R. Armstrong

Nov 18, 2020

Marilyn Rudolph Armstrong, 85, passed away on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at Sunrise of Seal Beach where she was a resident in Memory Care.

Marilyn was born on March 28, 1935 in Warren, PA, to the late Hannah and Russell Rudolph. She was married on June 25, 1955 to Jack Armstrong at the Presbyterian Church in Warren,...

Gordon Fellows

Gordon Fellows

Nov 17, 2020

Gordon Fellows passed away on November 17, 2020 in his home in Long Beach after a long battle with cancer. He passed peacefully surrounded by his loving family. He was 76 years old.

Gordon was born in Salem, Oregon, to Georgiann and Oliver Fellows. He was a graduate of Healdsburg High School in 1961. In...

Jason G. Lindsey

Jason G. Lindsey

Nov 14, 2020

Jason Guy Lindsey born September 22, 1962 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, passed away on November 14, 2020 in Long Beach, California from esophageal cancer. Jason grew up in Albuquerque, graduating from Rio Grande High School. He attended University of New Mexico for short while then decided to go to Europe, ending up in Amsterdam for a year. He met...

Beverly Louise Young

Beverly Louise Young

Nov 9, 2020

Beverly Louise Young loved Long Beach, CA, her hometown. She was born there on March 15, 1924. Bev actually lived most of her life in Long Beach or nearby, with some years out of state in AZ and CO, and her last four years in Ontario & Montclair, CA.

It was while the family attended the historic...

Patricia Ruth Felts

Patricia Ruth Felts

Nov 6, 2020

Patricia, aka Tish, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 9, 1940 to Charles and Alice Yeager and was one of four children (Charlotte, Charles & Julia.).

She married the love of her life, William Russell Felts on November 26, 1960 and they moved to California in 1962. She worked as an Inspector at McDonald...

Dallas M. Stejskal

Dallas M. Stejskal

Nov 3, 2020

Dallas M. Stejskal, 88, passed away peacefully at home on November 3, 2020 in Norwalk, CA.

Dallas was born in Tobias, NE to Louis and Katherine Stejskal on November 21, 1931. He married Shirley Pratt on June 20, 1954 in Tobias, NE. He worked as an Operating Engineer/Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic for Macco and Paramount Pacific for...

Thomas Edward Miller, Jr.

Thomas Edward Miller, Jr.

Oct 24, 2020

Thomas Edward Miller, Jr.,76 years old, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his loved ones, on Saturday, October 24 th , 2020.

Born on December 15, 1943 in Long Beach, California to Thomas Sr. and Marie Miller. He attended Jordan High School and Long Beach City College.

In 1968, he married the love...

William James Elliott

William James Elliott

Oct 21, 2020

William James Elliott (Bill) was born in Trout Lake, Michigan on May 26, 1941 to Emily Hazel Leona Hughes and Roy Charles Elliott. When Bill was a baby they moved to the town of Rudyard in teh UP of Michigan. His father Roy was a lumber jack and his mother was a chef at the town hotel. Bill had...

Barbara Florence Banks

Barbara Florence Banks

Oct 20, 2020

Barbara Banks was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother. She was born in Bell Gardens November 14, 1931 to parents Florence Helen Seddon and Roland Irwin Nisewander. She was the fourth of six children. She grew up in Bell Gardens where she completed all her schooling with perfect attendance. She was raised and baptized in the...

Maria Ioffrida

Maria Ioffrida

Oct 19, 2020

Maria Ioffrida, age 81 earned her angel wings and was called into heaven on Monday October 19, 2020 after a strenuous battle with lung cancer.  She was born in Roggiano Gravina, Cosenza, Italy on March 28, 1939.  In 1975 she moved to Downey, California after marrying husband Giuseppe Ioffrida.  Maria is survived by her two daughters Antonietta Ioffrida and...

Jose Razo Amezcua

Jose Razo Amezcua

Oct 15, 2020

Jose Razo Amezcua, nacio el 02 de Marzo del, 1957 en Venustiano Carranza, Michoacan, Mexico.

Sus padres fueron: Manuel Razo Lopez y Maria Del Refujio Amezcua Razo, los cuales procrearon 11 hijos, siendo Jose el mas pequeño de sus hermanos. Todos lo conocían como “El Cheris”

A los 17 años de edad, Jose dejo su...

Marcella Rose Palzer

Marcella Rose Palzer

Oct 12, 2020

Marcella Rose Palzer was born May 10, 1933, in Mazeppa Minnesota, to Emil and Rose Hofschulte. She had two sisters, Matilda and Mildred. She was a loving mother to seven children, Thomas, Rebecca, Douglas, Jeffery, Patrick, Timothy, and Dawn. She has 13 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Marcella's "Marcy"' hobbies included bingo, bunko, sewing, crocheting and her Dodgers. She loved...

Pascual M. Navarro

Pascual M. Navarro

Oct 8, 2020

Pascual Navarro, whom many of his friends knew as “Manny”, was called home to be with the Lord on October 8, 2020.  He was 88 years old.  He is survived by his daughter Carolyn Navarro Toscano, (son-in-law) Frank Toscano, (grandchildren) Frankie and Paloma, (brother) Everardo Navarro, and (sister) Esther Navarro, and many nieces and...

Peter Luciano Miotto

Peter Luciano Miotto

Oct 4, 2020

Pietro Luciano Miotto was born on September 26th,1927 in Arba, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Italia to Vittorio and Elena Miotto. He lived on the family farm for the first six years of his life, which laid the groundwork for his love of gardens, full of fig trees and roses, snails and birds.

The poor crop yields and economic situation in...

Favian Esquivias

Favian Esquivias

Sep 25, 2020

On Friday, September 25th, 2020, Favian Esquivias, 18, passed away in a tragic car accident that evening. Favian was born on April 5, 2002, in Long Beach, California to parents Patricia and Tino Esquivias.

He attended Lakewood High School and got his first job as an aspiring technician at Parkhouse Tires; where he would jokingly brag about...

Gilbert Portugal

Gilbert Portugal

Sep 21, 2020

Gilbert Portugal was born on July 31,1929, and called home by our Lord in Heaven on September 21, 2020. He was born to his parents Laureano and Socorro Portugal in the Pebbly Beach area on the beautiful island of Catalina. Gilbert remembered fondly the typical childhood mischief that he would get into, along with his younger siblings Lawrence Jr....