Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild.
And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written history of our community, as well as in the memories of the people they left behind.
They were volunteers for one of the many organizations on the Hill, they were friends, they were relatives of a close friend, they were co-workers, they were fellow students and they were family. They were part of our community.
The Town Crier pauses to memorialize in its first newspaper of the new year the names of 37 people who died in 2016:
Peter “Pedro” John Anderson
Melvin William “Bill” Aussieker Jr.
Nicholas Thomas Bailey
Cheryl Howton Nicols Berg
Heath “Bo” Bottomly
Howard Wesley Brown
Barbara Jean Burgess
Steven R. Carter
Luella Hansen Clavio
Beatrix Ann Crimi
Robert Paul Crimi
Tawny Crist
Linda Leigh Davidson
Richard Emery Doro
Wayne Ebner
Ernest J. Edwards
Dolores “Dolly” Ellison
Pamela Fojtik
Mildred Victoria Foley
Zane Gibbons
James “Jim” L. Goff
George Hall
Ruth Jones Hart
William Robb Hart
Ellmar Dean Johnson
Violet Mae Johnson
Mark Maris Jones
June Oliverio LaMantia
Roy Mills
George Nettleman
Thomas Pritchett
Bonnie J. Pumphrey
Eutiquio Ramirez
Philip Scott “Scott” Scheid
Terry Smith
Kathi Vogley
Elaine “E.J.” Weiler
Passed away in 2015
Raymond Arthur Coutu Jr.
Geri Sperling
