George Moore, 79, died of cancer on Aug. 15, at Eisenhower Medical Center. Mr. Moore was born in Hardwood, MI. on May 9, 1921. He served in the United States Navy for six years during WWII. He retired to Idyllwild in 1980, after working for Dow Chemical in Torrance for 30 years. Mr. Moore was…

Obituary Delbert Motley Sandlin 1932-2014 Delbert “Bill” Motley Sandlin left this plane for his great reward at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. He was at home with his family at the end of a long combat with cancer and cardiovascular disease. Bill came to earthly being at home in 1932 as the 12th living…

Kenneth Gooding, 82, of La Quinta died Friday, April 22, 2005 in Rancho Mirage of diabetes complications. Mr. Gooding was born to Charles and Nellie (Baber) Gooding on Dec. 7, 1922 in Cushing, Okla. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force, flying on 35 missions during World War II. On his first leave, he…

Alexis Echavarria, 16, a film student at Idyllwild Arts Academy, who was recognized by faculty as one of their most promising film makers, died very suddenly and without warning in the early morning of Thursday, Aug. 4 at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. He had just returned from serving a four-week stint as…

Jerry Jay McCampbell, 59, of Idyllwild, died peacefully in his sleep at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2009, after a three-year battle with cancer. Jerry went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue his dream of becoming a physicist in 1967. After discovering the focus at that time was to make a nuclear bomb, he…