Charlotte Gene Senhen died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007. She was born in 1940 in Charlotte, N.C., and raised in Louisville, Ky. Charlotte attended the University of Louisville, and married in 1960. The couple made homes in New York City, Jacksonville, Fla., Virginia Beach, Boston and Indianapolis, and La Mesa, El Cajon and Ramona, Calif. Her…

Col. William L. Porte, 82, of Idyllwild, died Tuesday, May 22, 2001, while on vacation in Chalon-sur-Saone, France. The cause of death was emphysema, and heart and kidney failure. Col. Porte was born July 19, 1918, in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., in 1940. Col. Porte had…

Robert Winks passed away Monday, May 19, 2008, at home with his wife of 64 years, Rae, and his daughter, Robyn, in Hemet. Bob and Rae had moved to Hemet three years ago from San Marcos to be closer their daughter in Idyllwild. Bob was born in Sumner, Iowa, in December 1923. He attended the…

George Ewing Niles, 85, a resident of the desert area for the past 13 months, died Tuesday, May 30, 2000, in Monterey Palms Care Center in Palm Desert. He had struggled for more than three years with lung and bone cancer. Prior to living in the desert, he was an Idyllwild resident since 1980 where…

John David Roberts, known as Dave, of Hemet, died Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at his residence. He was 78. A former Idyllwild resident for 14 years, he had lived in Hemet the past two years. He was a Pasadena resident for 30 years prior to his move to Idyllwild. Mr. Roberts was born June 30,…

Laura-Eloise Ray entered the presence of her Lord peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. She was 101 years old. Born Laura Eloise Lillie on July 5, 1911, in South Orange, N.J., she was orphaned in 1917 upon her mother’s death, and was then raised by her godly grandmother Laura B. Anderson. Laura-Eloise grew up in…