PGHS 1954 chart and obits
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Year Name Married Name Age YOB DOD Place of Death
1954 Jerome "Jerry" Atkinson 16 Modesto, CA
1954* Jack Alfred Baron 52 1936 1/15/89 Monterey Co, CA
1954 Ann Marie Boardman ?? Unknown
1954 Nancye Jean Colvin 54
1954 David Alden Concepcion 61
1954 Kenneth Ray Hoag 48
1954* Jack Lee Holick 53 1935 3/23/89 Tulare Co, CA
1954 Bennet Gage Horsburgh 71
1954* John Howard "Johnny" Lewis 66 1934 8/13/00 Santa Clara Co,
CA
1954* Roanne May Peterson Snyder 60 1936 7/4/97 San Jose or San Mat Co,
CA
1954* Patricia Ann Schroeder Powell ? C 1986 Point Pleasant, WV?
1954 Roberta Stephenson 68
1954 James Norman Weaver 62
1954* Barry Wilson 17 '52 Pacific Grove, Mtry Co, CA
1954 (t) Jerome "Jerry" Atkinson
Pacific Grove Tribune, CA March 7, 1952 p1
Former P.G. Boy Killed by Train
Jerome "Jerry" Atkinson, 16, was killed Sunday by a Santa Fe
streetliner 13 miles northwest of Modesto. According to close friends
of the family, Jerry was standing too close to the tracks as the train
approached and was caught by it as it passed. Jerry had been frog
jumping with companions when the accident occurred. Jerry, his mother,
Esther Atkinson, and a brother, Jim, moved from Pacific Grove to Ceres
last September. Jerry spent most of his school days in the Pacific
Grove schools, going one year to Monterey Union High School.
1954 Nancye Jean Colvin (54)
Nancye Jean (Colvin) Surridge
Monterey Peninsula Herald, CA Sept. 22, 1990
Nancye Jean Colvin Surridge, a clerk at Silas B. Hays Hospital at Fort
Ord, died of heart failure at her home in Pacific Grove on Saturday.
She was 54. A native of Pacific Grove, Mrs. Surridge was born June 6,
1936, and was a graduate of Pacific Grove High School. She was a
patient assistance clerk at Hays Hospital for 15 years. She is survived
by two sisters, Charlene Colvin Raney of Carmel and Margaret Ruth
Colvin of Carmel Valley, and numerous nieces and nephews. Memorial
services will be held at the Little Chapel by the Sea in Pacific Grove
at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Inurnment will be at El Carmelo Cemetery in
Pacific Grove. The Paul Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements. The
family suggests that any memorial contributions be sent to the Blind
and Visually Impaired Center, 225 Laurel Ave., Pacific Grove 93950.
1954 David Alden Concepcion (61)
San Francisco Chronicle, CA Jan 23, 1997
A memorial service will be held Saturday for David Alden Concepcion, a
labor arbitrator in baseball salary disputes. Mr. Concepcion, who was
61, died at his Berkeley home Sunday. Since 1980, he had been an
arbitrator, serving on panels for the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service. He held several professional honors, including a
distinguished service award from the American Association of
Arbitrators. Born in Carmel, Mr. Concepcion was a graduate of the
University of California at Santa Barbara, and after service as a
Marine Corps officer he worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
directed a management analysis group at UC Berkeley and was dean for
administration at Hastings College of the Law. Survivors include his
wife of 36 years, Ann Martin Worster of Berkeley; a daughter, Leslie
Mayns of Arvada, Colo.; a son, David W. Concepcion of Madison, Wis.;
and three sisters, Lillian Liberatore of Santa Cruz, Ellen Kimbell of
Austin, Texas, and Doreen Petty of Rocklin, in Placer County. The
memorial will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church
of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley. The family suggested
contributions to the Point Reyes National Seashore Association, Point
Reyes 94956.
1954 Kenneth Ray Hoag (48)
Monterey Peninsula Herald, CA June 6, 1984
Kenneth R. Hoag, a Carmel Valley ranch foreman and former Pacific Grove
police officer and carpenter died Wednesday at Community Hospital after
a brief illness. He was 48. Mr. Hoag was born July 31, 1935, in Pacific
Grove, where he graduated from high school. He was a police officer in
the mid-1950s. He worked as a carpenter for many years after leaving
the police force. For the last four years. Mr. Hoag had been a ranch
foreman in Carmel Valley. He was a member of the Slow Poke Car Club of
Pacific Grove. He is survived by his wife, Monica, of Fresno; three
sons, Brian and Daniel, both of Salinas, and Matthew of Monterey; a
daughter, Debra, of Monterey; a sister, Wanda Gray of Pacific Grove;
and two brothers, Robert, of Pebble Beach, and Leland Hoag of
Sacramento. A Celebration of Life service will be held at Garland Ranch
Park in Carmel Valley on Monday at 11 a.m. Cremation will occur at the
Little Chapel by the Sea. The Paul Mortuary is in charge of
arrangements. The family suggests memorial contributions to the
Wildlife Foundation of America.
1954 Bennett Gage Horsburgh
Monterey County Herald, CA Jan 4, 2006
Bennet Gage Horsburgh. July 3, 1935 - December 29, 2005. MARINA -
Bennet Gage Horsburgh, passed away Dec. 29, 2005 at Community Hospital.
He was 70 years old. A native of Ft. Collins, CO born July 3, 1935. He
has lived on the Monterey Peninsula for 63 years, the last 2 in Marina.
He was a graduate of Pacific Grove High School and attended MPC. During
High School and for several years after he was a caddie at Cypress
Point Golf Club. He drove for the Greyhound Bus Line for 25 years,
after retiring he drove for TMP at Ft. Ord. He was a member of the
Moose Lodge of Monterey. He was proud of being the 49th member of the
Buick Club of America, which now has several thousand members. He owned
a 1949 Buick Roadmaster Phaethon with side mounts. He was a foster
parent in Monterey County for several years. He was a veteran of the
Navy during the Korean Conflict. He is survived by: wife, Lynne M.
Horsburgh and sons, Matthew A. and Aaron M. Horsburgh all of Marina.
Daughters, Noni M. Horsburgh of Salinas and Sherry Lynne Johnson of
Pleasanton, CA. Brother Alexander Horsburgh of Ashland, OR. Grandson,
Kreig Bosacki of Tracy, CA. Memorial Services will be held at The Paul
Mortuary Chapel, Pacific Grove Saturday, Jan. 7 at 1:30 p.m. Private
Cremation has been held. Contributions may be made to: The American
Cancer Soc., 1184 Monroe Street, Suite 1-2, Salinas, CA 93906.
1954 Roberta Lois Stephenson (68)
Roberta Lois (Stephenson) Carter
Monterey County Herald, CA June 10, 2005
Roberta - Stephenson - Carter SANTA CLARA - October 3, 1936 - May 24,
2005, Roberta Died from injuries caused by an automobile that struck
her while she was at a table out side of a coffee shop. Roberta
graduated from Pacific Grove high school class of 54. She moved with
her family to San Jose in 1957. Roberta married Gerald in June of 1959.
She attended San Jose City and State Collages and worked in the dental
field for over 30 Years. Her Family and many Friends will miss her. She
is survived by Her Husband Jerry, Son Robert, Daughter Tami Bain and
Grandchildren, Tezra, Malisa, Jessie, William, and Her brother Jim
Stephenson.
1954 James Norman Weaver (62)
The Almanac, Menlo Park, CA July 8, 1998
Microwave engineer James N. Weaver, who lived in Palo Alto and Menlo
Park for 30 years, died from leukemia July 3. He was 62. Born in Yellow
Springs, Ohio, he traveled widely in his youth, living and studying in
India, Switzerland and Australia. The family settled in Pacific Grove,
where Mr. Weaver graduated from high school. With a strong academic
record and interest in mechanics and electronics, he was accepted by
Cal Tech and received both bachelor's and master's degrees there. After
serving in the Navy, he began employment as a microwave tube designer
at Varian. He continued graduate study, earning a degree in electrical
engineering from Stanford in 1964. During the next 30 years, Mr. Weaver
worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, solving problems of
microwave excitation for research accelerators built there. He also
accepted exchange appointments at other accelerator centers, including
MIT; Bariloche, Argentina; and Sandia National Labs in New Mexico. Mr.
Weaver led camping, backpacking, and cross-country skiing trips for the
Sierra Club. Married and divorced he leaves behind no immediate family,
but many devoted friends. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m.
Sunday, July 12, at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505
Charleston Road. Friends suggest donations in his name to the Sierra
Club.
1954 (c) Barry Wilson (17)
Monterey County Herald, CA Aug 18, 2004
Only 10 other people have been killed in shark attacks on the West
Coast in the last 50 years, including two people in Monterey County.
Barry Wilson was killed in 1952 while swimming in Pacific Grove, and
Lewis Boren was fatally attacked while surfing in Spanish Bay in 1981.
http://www.shawnalladio.com/pwc/pwcDetail.asp?pwc_detail=166
Great white feeding zone - There is an area off a 100-mile section of
the Northern California coast known as "The Red Triangle." It stretches
from Bodega Bay down to Ano Nuevo and reaches out to the Farallon
Islands. It earned its name because there have been more great white
attacks on humans in that area than any other place in the world. Sea
lions and seals are the favorite meal of great whites, which typically
attack from behind or beneath with an initial bite and then wait for
their prey to bleed to death. Because most attacks happen at the
surface, it's believed great white attacks on humans are simply cases
of mistaken identity - they see a surfer or a diver wearing a dark wet
suit and figure it for a tasty sea lion. Fifty years ago, on Dec. 7,
1952, 17-year-old Barry Wilson was swimming with friends in Monterey
Bay when he was bitten at least twice by what was later reported to be
a 15-foot great white shark. Wilson was dead by the time he was brought
to shore. It marked the first recorded great white attack on a human in
California, and he now stands as one of eight people known to have been
killed.
Monterey Herald on 8/18/2004.
Victim of shark attack was noted sport fishing advocate
Death of Randall "Randy" Fry shocks fishing, marine communities
By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY / Herald Staff Writer
A nationally known sport fishing advocate who was killed by a great
white shark off the Mendocino coast Sunday was instrumental in
convincing the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to add a
recreational fishing representative to its advisory council earlier
this year. Randall "Randy" Fry lobbied the sanctuary board to have two
fishing seats on its advisory council, one for the commercial industry
and one for recreational anglers. As western regional director for the
Recreational Fishers Alliance, a political organizing and lobbying
group, Fry had also helped the often-acrimonious fishing groups work
together for fishing interests. Fry was killed Sunday afternoon by a
16- to 18-foot shark while he and two friends were diving for abalone
in 20-foot waters near Fort Bragg. His headless body was recovered by a
Coast Guard search crew on Monday. The news of Fry's death reverberated
through California's fishing and marine communities on Tuesday. Sport
fisherman Howard Egan of Santa Cruz worked with Fry to lobby for the
sanctuary advisory council's recreational fisher seat. "He and I worked
on getting that seat together," said Egan, the Monterey Bay
sanctuary-affairs coordinator for the Recreational Fishers Alliance and
the council's alternate member representing the fishing industry.
"We're a collection of volunteers," Egan said of the alliance. "Randy
was our one full-time paid member. Randy held things together. He kept
all the activities coordinated, all the big picture stuff. It's going
to be really a big loss to lose that kind of continuity and it's going
to be really hard to replace him both personally and professionally."
Sanctuary spokeswoman Rachel Saunders said it was at the "urging" of
Fry and other recreational fishers that the sanctuary placed a chair at
its advisory table for recreational fishers. The sanctuary is seeking
applicants for both primary and alternate members to fill that seat.
Applications are due by Aug. 27. Applicants should be active
recreational fishers familiar with fishing issues within the sanctuary,
able to conduct outreach to the broader recreational fishing community
and committed to the sanctuary's environmental stewardship goals,
Saunders said. She said the sanctuary previously offered only one seat
to both the commercial and recreational fishing communities because the
recreational anglers initially weren't as "engaged" with the sanctuary
as commercial fishers. The group, including Fry, sought more
involvement in the decision-making process once the sanctuary began
considering passage of "marine protected areas," where all fishing
would be off-limits. "We were shocked and saddened to hear" of Fry's
death, Saunders said. An Auburn resident, Fry was a frequent visitor to
the Mendocino Coast and its shallow-water abalone beds, where abalone
takes are limited but legal. Cliff Zimmerman of Fort Bragg, a longtime
friend of Fry's, was in the water with him when the shark attacked. As
Fry was diving head-first below the water's surface, Zimmerman said he
heard a "'whoosh,' like a submarine, like a boat going by fast. It
almost brushed me. I saw its dorsal fin." The next thing he saw was a
pool of blood spreading across the surface of the water. Neither Fry
nor the shark was seen again. "It was over in five seconds," said Red
Bartley of Modesto, another friend who witnessed the attack from the
trio's boat. The Coast Guard searched until dark on Sunday and then
found the decapitated body in nearby waters Monday morning. A Mendocino
Sheriff's Department spokesman said divers would continue to search for
Fry's remains later this week, in the hopes the shark would leave the
area. Only 10 other people have been killed in shark attacks on the
West Coast in the last 50 years, including two people in Monterey
County. Barry Wilson was killed in 1952 while swimming in Pacific
Grove, and Lewis Boren was fatally attacked while surfing in Spanish
Bay in 1981. While there have been a number of shark attacks on the
Mendocino Coast, Fry is the first fatality. "It's certainly a shock,"
said Egan of the sanctuary council, "especially when you think there
have been only 10 deaths in the last 20 or 30 years and he got hit by
one of them." The San Francisco Chronicle and the Santa Rosa
Press-Democrat contributed to this report.