Obituaries

Ruth Birgit Welker, age 96, passed away peacefully at her home in Healdsburg on December 27, 2020 from bladder cancer with family members at her side. Ruth was born on June 5, 1924, in Kempten, Germany, to Albert and Maria Rosenthal. Kempten was an idyllic...

Kathryn Margaret was born in Salmon, Idaho, on January 28, 1927. Her parents were Mildred Cox and Jay Leonard. She grew up in Idaho and Montana. She married Harold Newman in 1970 and lived in Mountain View, CA until they moved to Cloverdale in 1999, purchasing a home in the Del Webb Clover Springs Community, where they made new  friends and enjoyed the community.

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...

2/8/1932 – 1/31/2022 2/23/1937 – 2/1/2022 In Memory of Bob and Noreen Curtis - A Legacy of Love Robert William Curtis was born in Darby, Pennsylvania on February 8th, 1932 and moved to Santa Rosa at the age of sixteen. At the age of seventeen, he joined...