Our community mourns the loss of Agnes Branch Pearlman, longtime Idyllwild homeowner, who died May 21, 2010 at the age of 87. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.
Obituary: Agnes Branch Pearlman
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Our community mourns the loss of Agnes Branch Pearlman, longtime Idyllwild homeowner, who died May 21, 2010 at the age of 87. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.
“A legend taken too soon.” Mark M. Jones, architect, passed away at age 73 on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. Mark had been flown to the hospital from his home in Del Norte, Colorado, after contracting the deadly Hantavirus. His loss is felt deeply by his family…
Irving Theodore Severtson, 80, of Cathedral City, died Friday, March 25, 2005 in Palm Desert. He was born Nov. 5, 1924 to Ole Tobias and Inga Tomina Severtson in Milford, Iowa. Mr. Severtson married Shirley Andersen on June 13, 1953 in Minneapolis. He was the owner of the Idyllwild Gift Shop for 25 years and…
Francine Ann Billman, 61, of Idyllwild, died of breast cancer Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003 at home. She was born Feb. 9, 1942, in Bell, Calif. She graduated from Glendale High School and California Western College. She previously lived in El Cajon and Glendale. Mrs. Billman was director of residential services at Morning Sky School from…
Writer and former Idyllwild resident Gene Thompson died of complications from cancer April 14, 2001, at his home in Culver City. He was 76. Mr Thompson lived here for 20 years. He was born June 28, 1924, in San Francisco and wrote for radio shows featuring Groucho Marx and sitcoms starring personalities like Lucille Ball….
Betty Louise Webley passed away peacefully Dec. 31, 2012, in Beaumont, Calif., at the home of her daughter, Jo Ellen Champion, after a brief decline. Her daughter Jane Louise Heth of Fayetteville, Ark., was also at her side. Born in Eagle Grove, Iowa, on April 22, 1927, to Richard Kenneth Albee and Edith Dayberry Albee,…
Shirley Mae Petkin of Rancho Mirage, Calif., died on Aug. 11, 2012, in Rancho Mirage from complications of Parkinson’s disease. She was born to Bert and Agnes Jacobson on May 30, 1928, in Chicago, Ill. She was 84 years old. Shirley Mae, as she liked to be called, grew up in Chicago, where she…