Recent Obituaries in Long Beach

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Paula Jane Abbott Skaugstad

Paula Jane Abbott Skaugstad

Jul 14, 2020

Paula was born on August 27, 1938 in Compton, California to John Palmer Abbott and Pauline Louise Williams. She was an only child who lived in Compton until attending the University of Southern California where she was president of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Paula got her first teaching position at Janie P. Abbott School - an elementary school named...

Robert William Ravenscroft

Robert William Ravenscroft

Jul 11, 2020

Hi, I am Robert Ravenscroft, and I am now in heaven. Just wanted to let you know a little about me. I was born on April 15, 1984. I was kind of in a rush to get here, so I was a preemie who weighed 2lbs. 10oz. My home for the first ten months of my life was the...

Johanne Gadaire Bourgeois

Johanne Gadaire Bourgeois

Jul 10, 2020

Johanne Camille Gadaire Bourgeois passed away on July 10, 2020 at the age of 83. She was born September 17, 1936 in Olga, North Dakota to Ulysses and Eva Gadaire. Johanne married her beloved husband of 38 years, Jules, in December of 1958, who preceded her in death in 1996.

Johanne’s education was a constant throughout her...

Larry Bess

Larry Bess

Jul 4, 2020

Larry Bess  May 26, 1945 - July 4,2020

Age 75 Years Old

Survived by wife Sharon (Vickery) Bess

Children: Larry,Robert,Kevin,Scott Bess,Joyce Burchett, & David McConchie

Pre deceased son Tommy Bess

Survived by brothers Tom,Ken, & Jack. Sisters Carol,Sharon,Kathy,Connie & Linda.

Pre deceased by Robert , Charle ,...

Felipe "Rafa" Gutierrez

Felipe "Rafa" Gutierrez

Jun 25, 2020

Rafa nació el 26 de Mayo de 1954 en la ciudad de León, Guanajuato. Era el menor de los 6 hijos de Rafael Gutiérrez Garcia y María Reyes Gomes. Vivió su infancia en León y estudio primaria y secundaria.

Disfrutaba ir de casería y decía tener buena puntería. Le gustaba jugar futbol soccer y estuvo en equipos...

Geraldine Louise Alonzo- Conboy

Geraldine Louise Alonzo- Conboy

Jun 20, 2020

Moms Obituary

Geraldine Louise Alonzo Conboy unexpectedly passed away at the age of 54 on June 20 th 2020.

Geraldine, better known as Geri or Bulie, was born to Demetrio and Jesse Alonzo on September 25 1965, the youngest of seven kids. All of her life was spent in the Lakewood/Long Beach...

James Gailey Forrest

James Gailey Forrest

Jun 20, 2020

James Gailey Forrest was born 01/03/1923 in Tennessee.

He enlisted to go fight the WW ll war right of high school.

His mother had to sign for them to allow him into the Army Air Corp.

While serving United States of America. He was a tail gunner on a Liberator bomber in England....

Eileen Agnes Bentley

Eileen Agnes Bentley

Jun 16, 2020

Eileen Bentley had a rich and full life, matched by the richness and fullness of her big heart. She left this world on June 16 th , 2020, but she will never actually leave, because the lives she touched in so many ways will in turn touch other lives, in helpful ways for time to come.

Born...

John Charles Vander Horck

John Charles Vander Horck

Jun 13, 2020

On Saturday June 13, 2020, John Charles Vander Horck was called home at the age of 77. While he enters the Kingdom of Heaven, the world has lost a great and loving husband, brother, father, grandfather, uncle, and leader.

John was born to Max Phillip Vander Horck and Doris May Schonnesen on March 25, 1943, in Minneapolis,...

Bernard Joseph Cain

Bernard Joseph Cain

Jun 12, 2020

Bernard Joseph Cain Jr. was born March 24, 1925, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the oldest of four children born to Bernard Sr. and Eileen Cain. In 1943, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He proudly served his country in the South Pacific as a radioman until the conclusion of World War II....

Robert Jose Puente

Robert Jose Puente

Jun 10, 2020

Robert Jose Puente was born on June 8, 1948 to Joe and Lupe Puente in Los Angeles, CA. He was first of five children. He grew up in Pico Rivera, CA where he graduated from El Rancho High School. He graduated from Rio Hondo College and attended CSULB. He worked for UPS until his retirement.

Even though...

John Henry Van Ruiten

John Henry Van Ruiten

Jun 10, 2020

John Henry Van Ruiten, Jr., 96, a resident of Bellflower, CA, passed away at peace on June 10, 2020.

John was born in Montebello, CA in 1923 to Dutch immigrant parents, John and Katie (Schweitz) Van Ruiten. He grew up working on the family dairy farm and graduated from Whittier High School in 1942. John joined the...

Bruce Kenneth Johnson

Bruce Kenneth Johnson

Jun 7, 2020

Bruce Kenneth Johnson was born on March 8, 1943, in Mason City Iowa to the loving parents Carrol Julius Johnson and Dorothy Mae (Sperry) Johnson. At the time of his birth his father, known as Bud, was working on Baffin Island on the Alcan Highway (Alaska-Canada Highway). His father went into the Navy and returned in 1945 when Bruce...

Maria Martha Perez Ortiz

Maria Martha Perez Ortiz

Jun 6, 2020

Maria Martha Perez-Ortiz nacio el 8 de Julio del año 1978 en El Rancho Nuevo, Michoacan, Mexico. Se caso con Benito Ortiz y tuvieron tres hijos; Benito Jr., Eduardo y Roberto Ortiz. Martha era una ama de casa siempre dedicada a su familia, esposa y madre ejemplar. Le sobreviven su esposo, hijos, padres, hermanos y hermanas. Siempre se le...