Memorial services for Olga Beatirce Ayers, of Garner Valley, will be held at 2 p.m., Sautrday, Feb. 21, at Shepard of the Valley Lutheran Church in Anza. She was 88. Mrs. Ayers was born April 23, 1909, in Wakefield, Mich. to Antti and Katarina Lehtonen Kanninen. She was a self-employed Realtor for approximately 35 years….

David Downey, 87, a former resident of Idyllwild and a Presbyterian church elder, died of a stroke Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000, at his home in Oceanside. Mr. Downey and his wife of 62 years, Helen, had been living in Oceanside for a year after living in Idyllwild from 1991 to 1998. He was born Jan….

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…

Barbara Jean Owen, 77, died at her Idyllwild home on Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. She was born Aug. 25, 1931, in Kansas City, Kan. Services will be for immediate family members only in San Diego. She is survived by her husband, John Owen, of nearly 60 years; a brother, Robert Canfield; five sons, Randy, Gary,…

Michael Scott Jones, 55, born April 9, 1950 in Van Nuys, died suddenly on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005 in Hemet. He was the fourth child of Arthur Wyn Jones and Mildred Marie Mills Jones who preceded him in death. Michael graduated from Cleveland High School in Reseda. He worked for the Los Angeles Department of…