Obituary: Don Lenik
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Idyllwild resident Don Lenik, 84, passed away at his residence in Idyllwild on Tuesday, May 1, said friends Bob and Pat Parish. According to Pat, Lenik died alone from apparent natural causes and his body was discovered several days after his passing. A frequent attendee at Town Crier story meetings, a devotee of the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series, a flower lover and Garden Club participant, and a good dancer, Lenik always had a ready smile.
Micheal Dennis O’Sullivan, 55, former resident of Idyllwild, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, in Bogalusa, La. Micheal succumbed to respiratory failure at the Louisiana State University, Bogalusa Medical Center. Micheal was born June 14, 1954 in Oceanside, Calif. He grew up in Newport Beach. He lived many years in Idyllwild, but moved to Bogalusa 10…
Robert A. Palmer, 88, of Hemet, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at home. He was born Dec. 12, 1917 in Pasadena. Mr. Palmer served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and the Korean War. He was a teacher and administrator at Hemet High School from 1953 to 1983. Mr. Palmer lived…
Grizzled, handsome, locally esteemed and internationally recognizable Camel and Marlboro man Bob Beck died at home Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, after a difficult battle with cancer. Soft-spoken, gentle-souled Beck, so different in persona from the rough-hewn Indiana-Jones type character that would and often did “walk a mile for a Camel” through the most harrowing elemental…
Robert Alfred Fredericks, 58, of Idyllwild, died of cancer at his home on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2002. Mr. Fredericks was born Jan. 22, 1944, in Oak Park, Ill. He grew up in El Cajon and worked in golf course construction, having built golf courses all over the world. He was an Idyllwild resident for 13…
Lillian Ernestine La Police, 92, of Idyllwild, died Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004 at Manor Care Convalescent Hospital in Hemet. Her daughter said she introduced herself to people as “Grandma Lil from atop the Hill.” She was born Feb. 20, 1912 in Los Angeles to Edmund and Emma Young Parkhurst. She worked for 22 years as…
“Magic is the hearth where the welcome-fire burns — where joy lifts a beacon in the gathering night,” wrote Stephanie “Stefi” Marianne Chase, a published and prolific poet who fell deeply in love with Idyllwild, writing fondly about the mountains throughout the half-century she lived here. Stefi died about 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005,…
