Throughout their lives, all of the people in this annual tribute were connected to Idyllwild.
And because these are such small communities, many of the names that appear in Town Crier obituaries have appeared in past pages of the Town Crier when those people were alive. In that sense, they live on in the written history of our community, as well as in the memories of the people they left behind.
They were volunteers for one of the many organizations on the Hill, they were friends, they were relatives of a close friend, they were co-workers, they were fellow students and they were family. They were part of our community.
The Town Crier pauses to memorialize in its first newspaper of the new year, the names of 36 people who died in 2017 and three who were omitted in 2016:
Patricia Jeanne Abbott
Robert “Bob” Duane Baker
Richard H. Barker
Charles Buckman
Cheri M. Bentley-Buckman
Krieg Campbell
Frederick Carlson
Betty Jean Dravenstatt
Theresa Everhart
Scott Fjeldstad Fisher
Pamela Jean Goldwasser
Dorothy Hawthorne
Kay Jennison
Douglas Kincaid
Janice Oates Krueger
James Walter Larkin II
Bruce Ambrose Lee
Lewis Leih
Patricia “Patty” Blanche
McCaughin
Richard Francis Miller
H. David Mosier Jr., M.D.
Thomas “Thom” Lloyd Pentecost
David Mattson Potter
H. Dail Rankin
Jean Lewis Reid
Geneva Elizabeth McCleary Schlenz
Donald Herbert Schmiedt
Genevieve Eloa Moody Skiles
Vernon R. Spitaleri
Eva Sprague
Wanda Leean Swanson
Jeff Tower
Louis Trongale
Karen S. Visel
Celia Marie Wagner
Byron ‘Jim’ Walters
Passed away in 2016
Ruth M. Bradley
Pamela Fojtik
Patricia Anne Kane Morris Hair
