Obituaries

David has left this earth to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! David was born in Healdsburg, California to Raymond Bruno (Bing) Bettiga and Ida Catherine (DeMattei) Bettiga. He graduated Healdsburg High School and married the sweetheart of his youth, Frances Kincheloe,...

Ann Pool MacNab, co-founder of the Lamplighters Music Theater company, passed away peacefully on January 18, 2021 at the age of 91. Born in San Francisco, MacNab co-founded the beloved Lamplighters theater company in 1952 with fellow Savoyard Orva Hoskinson. Their aim was to...

Greg Meier passed away Jan 10, 2021. He was 67 years old. Greg was born in Healdsburg, CA on Nov 27, 1953. He was the much loved ‘second oldest boy’ to Rudy and Dolores Meier. Greg loved being a local, and cherished the fact...

Passed peacefully in his sleep at the age of 88. Born in San Francisco on July 17, 1932 to Hugo and Alma Bauer. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School till his sophomore year and then transferred to Samuel Gompers Trade School where he specialized...

William Warren Fuller, 94, died of natural causes in Healdsburg, CA on January 7, 2021. He was born on January 23, 1926 in Pasadena, CA to Angeline Sullivan Fuller and Edward Theodore Fuller. He was raised by his mother in Pasadena during the Great...

It is with great sadness that Paula Jo Cox passed away on November 8, 2020 after a short illness. She was born September 29, 1946 in San Francisco, California to her proud parents Joseph J. Byrne and Naomi P. Byrne. She moved with her parents...

~ In Loving Memory ~ You have been in our thoughts every day for the last five years. We will always remember your beautiful smile and how much you enjoyed listening to IZ sing, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” We will always love and miss you. You are...

Eunice Peterson died Dec. 28 in Healdsburg, California of complica-tions from Covid-19. She was 92. She was born in Marshfield, Oregon (now Coos Bay), the youngest of seven children of Swedish-immigrant parents. Her father died before she was a year old. Her mother then moved...

Charles “Charlie” Brown passed peacefully on Christmas morning in Phoenix, Arizona. Although born in Quitman, Arkansas in 1939, he considered Sonoma County, and specifically Healdsburg, to be his home. Until his health began to fail, he could be seen walking daily from his home...

Celso Rosales of Healdsburg, California, died shortly before midnight on December 31, 2020. Born in Jerez, Mexico, Celso led an extraordinary life of work and professional distinction, devotion to friends and family, and commitment to his local communities in the United States and Mexico.  For...