Douglas “Doug” McSwain Wight passed away at home on May 27, 2022 at age 78. He had recently been ill but his passing was untimely and unexpected.Doug was born on August 3, 1943 to Bill and Dorothy Wight in Berkeley, on his sister Diana’s 5th birthday. She was upset with him at first, but she [...]
Katelyn Renee Imsdahl went home to our Father in Heaven on the wings of angels on May 23, 2022. She was 35 years old.Katie was devoted to her daughters, “the loves of her life”. She was a loving mother who raised her girls, Jazlyn and Samantha, by herself.Katie is survived by her mother Cathleen Vanderloo, [...]
Rick Votino passed away on June 2, 2022. He was 46. No services will be held.Rick was born June 5, 1975 in Glendale, CA to Chris Votino, Sr. and Sharon Sanzone. Rick had moved to a small group home he picked in Vallejo in December of 1994 and continued to live there until just two [...]
James “Jim” Ernest Perkins died on May 23, 2022 in Grass Valley, California. He was 80 years old. A celebration of life memorial service will be held on July 29, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. at Twin Cities Church. Jim was born on December 7, 1941, in Houston, Texas, the same morning Pearl Harbor was attacked. [...]
Derrick Michael Gregory joined his brothers on the mountain on May 22, 2022 after a brief, yet courageous battle with cholangiocarcinoma at the age of 54 surrounded by loved ones as he started his next journey.Born August 4, 1967 to Phillip and Carole Gregory, Derrick attended Hennessy and Lyman Gilmore middle school and where he [...]
Robert Scott Gerity died of natural causes at 92 years old on May 30, 2022, in Grass Valley, CA. Bob was born in Dover, Ohio in 1930. At the start of WWII, his mom drove her kids across the country to meet their father in Vallejo, CA. He joined the Navy and "saw the world" [...]
Commander Victor G. Mottarella, USNR, passed into the infinite blue horizon on Sunday, May 15, 2022. He was born in Pittsfield, MA, October 26, 1925, and joins his wife of 66 years, Betty O’Neil Mottarella. He is survived by his three children, Domenica, Michael, and Victor, and one granddaughter, Malayka Mottarella of Seattle. Commander Mottarella [...]
Edwin “Ed” Bernard Smith, October 12, 1927 to May 21, 2022. Ed passed away peacefully at home. Ed was born in Los Angeles, CA, to John Rugh Smith and Jessie Belle (Carter). He had two siblings, Jack and Audrey, and two half-sisters, Margret and Jane. Ed Joined the Navy when he was 18 and was [...]
Chester Salvatorelli went peacefully to the lord May 7th, 2022. Chet was born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, to immigrant parents Nicola and Josephine Salvatorelli. As a young boy during the depression, Chet sold newspapers for the Ellwood City Ledger for 2 cents a paper and made a penny. On a good day, he would make [...]
Kenneth Mann Browning passed away after a long illness on May 4, 2022 in Modesto, Ca. Born and raised in California, Kenneth spent much of his youth on a ranch in French Corral, CA. Later, as a plumber’s apprentice in Camino, CA, then a few years as a back country hunting guide in Idaho before [...]
