Obituary: Mary Louise Beottcher
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Mary Louise Boettcher, beloved mother and wife, passed away Sept. 19, 2007 at her home in Hemet, Calif. She and her husband, Richard, owned and operated the Fern Village Chalets Motel in Fern Valley for the past 35 years.
She is survived by her husband Richard; her children Bruce, Kathy, Brian and Eric; her grandchildren, Demain, Collin and Jason; and her great-granddaughter, Ellison. She will be missed much.
Leona McGaugh maintained a way of life more familiar to last century. She didn’t own and never used a computer. She still made her calls on a rotary telephone. She cooked meals on a wood-burning stove. But none of these facts prove she was unconnected. Owner and operator of the 130-acre Baldy Mountain Ranch near…
Born June 25, 1931, during the Depression to a struggling Catholic family in the Irish Ghetto of Flushing, Long Island, N.Y., Bill Masterson felt blessed to spend his last years overlooking the mountains of Idyllwild and the ocean of Mendocino from his beautiful home. Before his full retirement, Bill and his wife Julie enjoyed 17…
Larry Paul answered a higher calling on Monday, July 13, 2009, at the age of 71. He was born Dec. 23, 1937, in North Carolina. Larry and his wife, “Susie,” raised a family on their ranch in Garner Valley for the past 35 years. During that time he worked as a contract civil designer for…
Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning hush I am the swift uplifting…
Idyllwild resident Harold “Hal” E. Ball, 78, passed away Thursday, May 28, 2009, following a massive stroke. Hal was raised in Lodi and graduated from College of the Pacific in nearby Stockton. There he met his wife of 52 years, Patsy Ann Estep. They moved to Southern California in the late 1950s and raised their…
Carl E. Miller, 76, of Hemet, died from heart failure the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, at Hemet Valley Medical Center after being admitted with chest pains a few hours earlier. He was born Jan. 7, 1931, to Charles P. Miller of Missouri and Pearl Jacobs Miller of Pennsylvania. Mr. Miller served in the…
