Obituaries

David Ziegenhagen, 83, passed away peacefully on January 29 in Cloverdale. Husband to Mary; brother to Barbara, John, and Peg; father to Eric and Marc.  After moving to Cloverdale in 2000, he served for over a decade on the city’s planning commission, in addition to...

Jeanne was born in Quannah, Texas to parents William and Flossie Murphy (predeceased). She had two older sisters, Margaret and Doris, and an older brother Howard (all predeceased) along with 6 younger siblings Verna, Elva and Curtis still living; and Carol, Bill and Jerry...

Kay Reynolds Swanson, son of Everett and Mabel Swanson, was born in Spokane, Washington on May 9th, 1933. His family moved to Seattle and eventually settled in Tacoma, WA. He attended Tacoma schools, graduating from Stadium High School in 1951. While at Stadium, he excelled in...

Lula Catherine Straight, née Meyer, was born in Solano County California on December 1, 1918 to Louis and Glenna Meyer. She graduated from Armijo High School in 1937 in Fairfield, CA. She married high school sweetheart Francis Howard Straight in 1940. She raised four...

Claire Marie McGowan passed away in the early morning hours of December 29, 2019 at UCSF Medical Center. She was born in San Francisco on December 20, 1941 to Claire and William McGowan. After graduating from high school, Claire worked for the IRS while...

James “Jim” Lowell Spencer, born February 24th, 1931 in Colorado, passed away Monday, January 6, 2020 at the age of 88.  Jim was a young bull riding rodeo guy, served in the Navy, was a cattle farmer in Australia and retired as a teacher and...

Mike Drew passed away after a long courageous battle with multiple sclerosis. Mike was born in Sebastopol and a lifetime resident of Sonoma county. He was a Vietnam veteran and retired driver from Clover. He loved to watch sports, travel, camp, fish and spend...

Edna Mae (Dorsett) Cheek passed away unexpectedly and gently in the company of family. Edna was born in Bakersfield, California and raised from early childhood through high school in Leggett. She graduated from Santa Rosa Junior College, attended Sacramento State, and Sonoma State and received...

The angels came for Joyce Beam on Friday the 3rd of January, 2020. It was time for her to be with her daughter Janet Beam, Father William Beal, Mother Maxine Beal and sister Janet Davis. 

Tom Evart died on December 3 in Reno, Nevada at the age of 76 from complications from pneumonia. He had lived in Carson City, Nevada, since 2004 where he had relocated to be General Manager/Director of Golf for Carson City’s Eagle Valley Golf Course. Tom was born in Petaluma in 1943 to parents Thomas (Skip) and Beth Evart. The family moved to Healdsburg in 1952 when the Evarts purchased the slaughter house on Chiquita Road, renaming it the Evart Meat Co.