Recent Obituaries in Long Beach
Serving Long Beach, CA and Surrounding Areas
Dorothy Carolyn Ricketts
April 12, 2017
Dorothy Carolyn Ellis Ricketts was born at home in Warren, Arkansas on May 16, 1928, the youngest child of George and Mary Ellis and baby sister to George Jr. and Bob Ellis. Being the only girl, she was doted on by her father. She led an idyllic childhood surrounded by loving...
Ruth Irene Roberts
April 1, 2017
Ruth Irene Roberts passed away peacefully at her daughter’s home in Lakewood, CA with family and friends by her side on April 1, 2017. Ruth was born to James Andrew and Irene Rowena Vaughn in Vernon, Texas on December 7, 1926. She was the oldest of nine children. As a young woman, Ruth worked in the Woolworth’s Store in...
Linda Sue Shultz
March 29, 2017
Sue was born on Thanksgiving Day in Los Angeles, California. As a young adult she attended Bishop Conaty High School located in the Harvard Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. After graduation Sue chose to join the Catholic order of the Sisters of Mercy. Although she decided to leave the order prior to becoming fully professed, her years with the "Mercys"...
Evangeline A. Zambos
March 29, 2017
Evangeline “Angie” Zambos, age 88, passed away on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to the late George Leappes and Maria Kazikou Leappes. She married Nicholas John Zambos on December 6, 1953 and they moved to Long Beach, California in 1954. They became members of the Long Beach Assumption Greek Orthodox Church and...
Richard Cass Waranius
March 28, 2017
Our beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, Richard Cass Waranius passed away Tuesday, March 28, 2017; with his wife Leona and daughter Kymberly by his side. He passed away a week before what would have been his 88th birthday.
Richard was born April 4, 1929 at Lying-In Hospital...
Nelly T. Birchfield
March 25, 2017
Eulogy for “Mami,” Nelly T. Birchfield My “Mami” had a direct flight to Heaven on March 25, 2017; only a couple of hours after I had told her what an amazing Mom she had been to me and that I was going to be okay. Another piece of my heart is broken, since my Dad “Buck” joined our Heavenly Father...
Elizabeth Gale Minor
March 23, 2017
Elizabeth Minor was born in Rapid City, South Dakota to Lysle and Mary Gale on April 4th, 1930. The family moved to Long Beach in 1945 where Liz and her sister Barbara attended Poly High School and then Long Beach City College. Liz married the love of her life Harry Minor in 1951. Together they had 4 children Debbie,...
Marlene Teresa Quackenbush
March 22, 2017
Marlene Theresa Quackenbush, 62, passed away early, March 22, 2017 from recent onset pneumonia complications, Riverside CA.
Marlene was born April 24, 1954, in Torrance California, and lived locally in the Long Beach area most of her adult and married life. She was a retired field rep and a...
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