Michael Joseph Spehar, 53, of Thousand Oaks, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003 at Los Robles Hospital, surrounded by his family after a six-year battle with cancer. Mr. Spehar was born April 2, 1949 in Hancock, Mich., to Joseph and Jean Spehar. He grew up in Van Nuys, attending St. Bridget of Sweden School, Crespi High…
Horace L. Hahn, 87, a longtime Idyllwild resident, died Friday, Jan. 31, 2003, in San Diego of a heart attack. Mr. Hahn was for many years a prominent member of the California Bar and a civic leader. Born in Colorado in 1915, he was adopted at an early age by Will and Lois Hahn. He…
Eugene Stegelmeyer, 85, of Reno, Nev., died Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003, in that city. He was born Aug. 9, 1917, in Granite City, Ill., to Alfred and Ruby Graham Stegelmeyer. Mr. Stegelmeyer married Nadine Goggin on May 29, 1943, in Granite City, Ill. He served in the United States Army Air Corp in World War…
Marie Maybach Eymann, 96, of Palm Desert, died Thursday, Jan. 2, 2003, of respiratory failure in Rancho Mirage. She was born Dec. 13, 1906, in Great Bend, Kan. and was a homemaker. She and her late husband James were Idyllwild residents beginning in 1967. After his death on April 18, 1990, she continued her Idyllwild…
Shirley Hamilton, 68, a 10-year Hill resident, died Monday, Dec. 30, 2002. She was born May 27, 1934, in Plano, Texas. Ms. Hamilton possessed a lively sense of humor, delighted in all of her friends, loved to cook and was known as the “Killer Fudge Lady.” She was very active in the Idyllwild Church of…
Paul Michael McDonnell, 44, of Mountain Center, died Friday, Dec. 27, 2002, in Mountain Center. He was born March 24, 1958, in Nebraska. Mr. McDonnell had worked at the U.S. Forest Service as a Vista Grande Hotshot for 12 years and for the Riverside County Transportation Department for seven years. He also was a farmer…
Jerry Louis Adams, 83, of Palm Springs, died of cardiac arrest in that city on Friday, Dec. 27, 2002. Mr. Adams was born May 26, 1919, in Charleston, Ark. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the Army Air Corp from 1941 to 1945. Mr. Adams was a retired Los Angeles Police Department…
Darrell “Phil” Phillips, 61, of Idyllwild, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2002, in Escondido from stroke complications. Mr. Phillips was born Nov. 13, 1941, in Los Angeles. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1966. He was well-known for many years as a bartender at the Gastrognome Restaurant in Idyllwild. His family is inviting…
Terry Graves, the former music department chair of the Idyllwild Arts Academy, died suddenly last week while on vacation in London, England. Terry began working as a member of the adjunct music faculty from the academy’s founding in 1986 until 1989. In 1997, he rejoined the Idyllwild Arts Academy faculty as music department chair until…
Myron “Mel” Delos Fowler Jr., 65, of Idyllwild, died of pulmonary embolism Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002 at Hemet Valley Medical Center. Mr. Fowler was born in 1937 in San Diego. He was an aerospace supervisor and had belonged to the Chaparral Motorcycle Club and the Casita Trailer Club. A memorial service was to be held…
