Life Tribute: Mary DeMille 1938 – 2020
By Idyllwild Town Crier
Mary DeMille, who lived in Royal Pines Estates, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Eisenhower Medical Center.
She was known to many in town as Aunt Mary and had a dog sitting business in the past.
She is survived by her son Patrick DeMille of Idyllwild.
Francis Theodore “Frank” Gorzny passed away on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley. Idyllwild Fire Department paramedics were called to his home when he stopped breathing. They revived him and he was air lifted to the hospital where he later had cardiac arrest. He was 93. Born May…
Walter Warren Shirley, 88, of Idyllwild, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011, from complications of stroke and cancer. He was born Sept. 25, 1923, in Stuart, Okla., the oldest of five children. Walter attended a one-room schoolhouse and later graduated from Haywood High. He left the farm to attend college in Ada, Okla., but…
Howard A. Kay, 59, of Pine Cove, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2001, at Mercy Hospital in Folsom, Calif. Mr. Kay was born Dec. 29, 1941, in Los Angeles. He was a veteran, having served in the U.S. Navy, and had worked for 35 years as a sales manager for W.G.K. Inc. in Orange County. In…
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…
Long-time former Idyllwild resident Margaret Adams, 84, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006 of hip fracture complications. She was born Feb. 2, 1921 in Pasadena. Mrs. Adams was a life-long animal lover who was a member of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Memorial services are pending. She is survived by five…
Richard Emery Doro, 85, left this world peacefully the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, at the home he shared with his twin daughters. Born in Riverside in 1930, Mr. Doro settled into the Idyllwild community with his parents, Frank and Berenice Doro, after graduating from Palm Springs High School in 1948. After graduation, Mr….
