
Catherine A. Dearing had been an Idyllwild resident since 1976. She passed away peacefully in her home on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020.
She was laid to rest at the Temecula Public Cemetery as she did not want a funeral.
Life Tribute: Catherine A. Dearing 1947 – 2020
By Idyllwild Town Crier


Catherine A. Dearing had been an Idyllwild resident since 1976. She passed away peacefully in her home on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020.
She was laid to rest at the Temecula Public Cemetery as she did not want a funeral.
Monte Chet Filbin, 70, passed away at his home in Hemet Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. He was born Feb. 17, 1936 in Huntington Park. Mr. Filbin resided in Riverside County for the past 58 years. He graduated from Hemet High School in 1953. He was a Riverside City firefighter for 28 years from 1962 to…
Former Pine Cove resident Joy Lindley passed away on Sept. 2, 2010, in Fountain Valley, Calif., from the long-term effects of a stroke. Mrs. Lindley was born in 1923 in St. Louis, Mo., and first came to California in 1941 after her marriage to her husband, Cooper, an aircraft engineer. Although Mrs. Lindley was primarily…
Zelvin “Zel” Don Lowman, 84, passed away during the night of Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006. Mr. Lowman was a full-time Idyllwild resident from May 2002 to July 2004. He was born in McCune, Kan., on Sept. 8, 1921. He attended Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., and went off to midshipman’s school during World War…
Marcia (Parady) Torrey-Jay of Idyllwild, Calif., formerly of Los Angeles, Calif., Philadelphia, Pa., and Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., passed away Aug. 27 in Idyllwild. She was 70. She was born to Helen (Veara) and J. Eugene Parady of Rockport, Mass., on June 6, 1942, and raised in Rockport and Manchester-by-the-Sea. Marcia married Francis X. (Pete) Leahy…
Frank A. Thompson Jr., CPO, retired Navy, serving during World War II, and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, went home to his eternal resting place at 12:18 a.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2018. He was at home in Idyllwild with family at his bedside. He is survived by his wife Harriet; daughters Linda Hanson, Jeanette (Bill)…
Rayelle Roe, longtime California school teacher, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, on July 4, 2011, in Houston, Texas, after a long battle with cancer. The eldest daughter of Raymond L. Roe and Evelyn B. Roe, she was born on Nov. 17, 1946, in Camden, N.J., and grew up in Yuma, Ariz. After…