Obituary: Bob Braden

Beverley Jean Germain, 60, of Idyllwild, died Thursday, March 7, 2002 at her residence. She was born April 7, 1941, in Muskegon, Mich. She had worked as an office manager for Fuji Film Company for seven years and had lived in Anaheim for 20 years prior to moving to Idyllwild. She was a member of…

Obituary Robert Russell Smith 1925-2014   Robert Russell Smith passed away after a short illness at the age of 88 on Thursday, May 29, 2014, in his Palm Springs home. He is survived by his children, Ron, Greg and Terisa, and daughter-in-law, Chris; his grandchildren, Erin, Isaac, Diana, Lisa and Paul; and his foster son…

Former Idyllwild resident Lela Louise Bentley, 94, of Portland, Ore., died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007 in that city. She was born April 17, 1912 and lived in Idyllwild for 12 years. She moved to Portland in 1989. Mrs. Bentley graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University and was an elementary school teacher and librarian in Kentucky. She…

Mark “Moose” Spaulding, 47, died in his sleep on Tuesday May 18, 2003 at his home at Astrocamp in Idyllwild. Moose was born January 1, 1957 in Summerville, West Virginia. Moose had been an employee of Guided Discoveries since 1981, beginning at the Catalina Island Marine Institute. In 1991 he moved to Idyllwild to help…

  Terry Smith, resident of Idyllwild and Mountain Center from 1978 to 1987, has left the planet. Terry was the son of “Windy” Bill and Mozelle Smith (both passed on) of Trail’s End and Huntington Beach, Terry’s old stompin’ ground. Raised in a younger Orange County, Terry grew up ditching school to care for his…

Born on May 8, 1936, in Peoria, Illinois, as Barbara Jean Whelan, Barbara, sadly, at age 79, has passed away. Idyllwild, California, has been her permanent home for more than 15 years. Barbara suffered a serious stroke while going about her daily activities on Feb. 25, and was emergency airlifted to Desert Regional Medical Center….