| This page is added to post recent news, both happy and sad, to keep class members up to date with the Class of 1957. | |
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We are also maintaining the photos from the 2007 50th Class Reunion and the 2012 55th Class Reunion for those who want to relive those reunions. |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Wamda Schenk Welles She attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School She resided in Redlands, CA August 25, 2023 |
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| We mourn the deaths of our friends and
classmates Michael and Mary Wingfield Cate They attended John Marshall Junior High School They resided in Ogden, UT 2000 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Lawren Baxter Rittenhouse He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Newport Beach, CA |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Carole Claussen Iliff She attended William McKinley Junior High School She resided in San Marino, CA March 13, 2023 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate David Harold Porter He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Arcadia, CA May 4, 2023 Photo from 60th reunion |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Richard Stephen Cupp He attended William McKinley Junior High School He resided in La Canada, CA 2020 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Robert "Bob" Odell, M. D. He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Glendale, CA December 29, 2022 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Brenda Johnston Pfeifer She attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School She resided in Henderson, NV April 2022 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate John George Scurlock He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Carlsbad, CA December 27, 2021 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Douglas Henderson Lowndes Jr. He attended William McKinley Junior High School He resided in Port Charlotte, FL August 15, 2021 |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Bruce George McDonell He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Pinehurst, NC May 2010 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Rita Mathes Corp She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Upland, CA 2021
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Robert Arthur Booth He attended William McKinley Junior High School He resided in San Jose, CA March 18, 2021 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Jean Wilfong Fricks She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Mission Viejo, CA March 2018 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Donald Eugene Sawyer He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Mission Viejo, CA 2021 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate David Samuel Morris He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Palm Springs, CA August 12, 2021 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Gale George Davis He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Pasadena, CA April 2, 2021 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Gary Leon Philpott He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Midland, TX November 2020 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Joseph J. "Joe" Ehret III He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Laguna Woods, CA March 7, 2020 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Bonnie Taylor Wulff She attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School She resided in Menands, NY February 13, 2020 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Darrell Leonard (AKA Ealson) Nelson He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Leeds, UT October 4, 2019 (Notification provided by wife Donna) |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Dennis Christopher Jakob He attended William McKinley Junior High School He resided in Calistoga, CA July 2019 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Karen Ruth Startup Barrett She resided in Provo, UT June 2019 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Erica Judith Sweeting Goode, M. D. She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Richmond, CA June 15, 2019 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate John William "Bill" Bowling He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Sierra Madre, CA May 29, 2019 |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Alyce Davis Howard She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Carlsbad, CA January 5, 2019 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Stephen Laertes White He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in the Bahamas February 2018 (Photo from 50th Class Reunion) |
| Dear Classmates, It has been
unusually quiet since the 60th high school class reunion last
August. It
would seem that "no news" is "good news." Please keep us informed
of any status changes you become aware of, both for yourselves and
fellow classmates. Thanks. The Reunion Committee. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Carolyn "Carol" Hollingsworth Gingrich She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Madison, WI October 24, 2017 Carol, too, was one of our most loyal classmates. She will be greatly missed. Our condolences to Mike and the family. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Larry Stump He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Palm Desert, CA October 19, 2017 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Philip "Phil" Chelsvig He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Arcadia, CA September 1, 2017 Phil was one of our most loyal classmates. He will be greatly missed. Our condolences to his family. |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Sandra Goode Larsen She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Irvine, CA 2015 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Carlton "Carl" Service He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Arcadia, CA April 26,1991 (Recently reported by Wendy Alexander Brown and Janace Witherell Cole) |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Joyce Rae French Glenn She attended William McKinley Junior High School She resided in Prescott Valley, AZ 2015 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Bror Richard "Dick" Clark He attended William McKinley Junior High School He resided in Sierra Madre, California July 26, 2017 Photo of Jan and Dick Clark from the 55th year reunion |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Linda Markuson Bray She attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School She resided in Rancho Mirage, CA February 6, 2017 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Robert Tedford "Ted" Searls He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Glendora, California March 11, 2014 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Felice Giacalone McLane She joined us during our senior year She resided in Ridgecrest, CA February 18, 2017 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Lee Olhoffer He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Rio Rancho, New Mexico March 29, 2017 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Mary Elizabeth Rasmussen Hopman She attended William McKinley Junior High School She resided in Merzhausen, Germany April 30, 2017 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Kenneth Olesen He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Altadena, CA January 3, 2016 |
| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Jeanne Orr Wilhelmy She attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School She resided in Irvine, CA |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate David Hofstad He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Victorville, CA |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Dennis Holman He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Port Hadlock, WA |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate David McBurney He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Rio Rico, AZ |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Fred Gaggero He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Ventura, CA October 22, 2015 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Dorothy "Dotty" Schleimer Jansen She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Las Vegas, NV November 2015 |
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| After the first 60th year reunion
e-mailing, we had a number of e-mails bounce. We suspected the
reason may be that some of these classmates are deceased. Sadly,
we
found this to be the case. Our roster sleuth, Janace Witherell
Cole, went through the "bounced" list, and we found the following ten
classmates to be deceased. Thank you for your efforts,
Janace. |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Stephen F. Peters He attended William McKinley Junior High School He resided in Pasadena, CA December 7, 2012 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate JoAnne Lousine Karagozian Galloshian She attended William McKinley Junior High School She resided in Agoura Hills, CA May 20, 2016 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Robert Lee Wells He attended Junior High School in New Mexico He resided in Applegate, OR June 8, 2015 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Linda Anne Braden Addleman She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in San Diego, CA December 18, 2014 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Thomas Alfred Appleford He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Camarillo, CA September 14, 2016 For those who knew Tom, his obituary is available. |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Carol Ann McPheeters She attended Junior High School in Utah She resided in Pleasant Grove, UT April 15, 2014 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Leonard T. Frederick He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School April 15, 2013 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Robert L. Haeussler He attended John Marshall Junior High School November 16, 2014 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Daniel F. Parker He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School 2011 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Richard Daniels He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Destin, FL September 27, 2016 For those who knew Dick, his impressive obituary is available. A true patriot. |
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| Janace Witherell Cole, our class roster
chairperson, has been searching Internet databases for information on
our "lost" classmates. Thank you for your efforts, Janace.
The easiest ones to search for are our male classmates (last name unchanged); our female classmates, this may not be so and are more difficult to search for. Janace recently found four of our classmates now deceased. They are listed below. |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Gary Ruffner He attended John Marshall Junior High School June 2, 2012 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate John Edwin Holmes He attended John Marshall Junior High School March 13, 2010 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Robert B. Montgomery He attended William McKinley Junior High School December 15, 2008 |
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| We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Carl Peirce He attended William McKinley Junior High School March 24, 2006 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate
Gary Wallace Leek He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Costa Mesa, CA October 23, 2015 |
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Terry Battelle, our inspirational PHS
Class of 1957 leader for many years, is recovering from a serious
illness at his home in Henderson, NV. At this point, Terry feels
he can no longer serve as principal contact for receiving and
forwarding updated information profiles from fellow classmates and for
leading the effort to find "lost" classmates. These duties will
now be assumed by Janace Witherell Cole and Don Hilgendorf. The
class website has been updated to reflect these changes. Thank you, Terry, for your dedicated service to the Class of 1957 for so many years. Please keep Terry and Brenda in your thoughts and prayers. |
| We are happy to report that our
classmate William "Bill" Laurence Pyle has found us! He resides in Brier, WA. He attended John Marshall Junior High School. (Bill provided a photo of the 6th grade class of George Ellery Hale Elementary School from 1951) |
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| Our friend and classmate Charles
"Chuck" Lesher passed away April 19, 2015, as memorialized below. His burial at Arlington National Cemetery took place November 12, 2015. Charles Lesher was honored by his beloved country as a true patriot and hero. Dave Cantrell produced a YouTube slide show of the burial that can be viewed using the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQNNt6sIX8&feature=em-upload_owner A video of Chuck's burial can also be viewed (link below). It includes a fifteen minute Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Arlington National Cemetery scenes at the beginning of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd1nanLIUtg A photo of Chuck's headstone at Arlington National Cemetery can also be viewed. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Herbert Koch He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Fontana, CA April 28, 2015 This photo of Herb is from the 40th Reunion booklet. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Geraldyne (Geri) Berry Filhart She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Arcadia, CA August 11, 2015 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Carol Claybrook Sutherland She attended Charles W. Eliot Junior High School She resided in Spokane, WA May 25, 2015 This photo of Carol appeared with her obituary in the Spokane Spokesman-Review. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Sheila Grattan She resided in Palm Springs, CA April 16, 2015 This photo of Sheila is from the 50th Class Reunion. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Charles "Chuck" Lesher He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Akron, OH April 19, 2015 Chuck served as a Captain in the Marine Corps in Vietnam for over five years. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Harold "Butch" Howard, Jr. He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Oceanside, CA April 16, 2015 This whimsical photo is of Butch Howard and his wife Alyce Davis Howard, who is also our Pasadena High School Class of 1957 classmate. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Katherine "Katie" Tolbert Bartlett She attended William Mckinley Junior High School She resided in Upland, CA March, 2015 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Brent Charles Manning He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in San Marcos, CA July 30, 2014 This photo of Brent and June Manning was taken at the 2014 Mini-Reunion. |
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A belated, but nevertheless, heartfelt thanks to Barby Wells Gilbert and her team for producing the 55th Reunion Booklet. A great deal of effort was required. The photos were wonderful and the class roster that was compiled will be of great help in keeping track of our classmates in the coming years. Thanks again, Barby!! |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Weldon Wesley "Wes" Seegers He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Orange, CA January 28, 2014 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Phillip "Phil" Andrews He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Surprise, AZ January 15, 2014 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Elizabeth "Betsy" Kingsbury Ellsworth She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Redlands, CA January 13, 2014 This photo of Betsy is from the 55th Class Reunion. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Jay Kennelly He resided in both Glasston, ND and Pasadena, CA October 26, 2013 This photo of Jay is from his 50th birthday party. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Don Drageset He attended John Marshall Junior High School He resided in Nevada City, CA June 13, 2013 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Palesteen "Pat" Hampton Obey She attended William McKinley Junior High School She resided in Pasadena, CA June 2013 |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Michael J. Lenhart He attended Woodrow Wilson Junior High School He resided in Sierra Madre, CA October 2012 This photo of Mike is from our 50th class reunion. |
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We mourn the death of our friend and
classmate Margery Eaton Johnson She attended John Marshall Junior High School She resided in Tigard, OR May 2013 This photo of Margie is from our 50th class reunion. |
| As of April 2012, Dave Cantrell has
agreed to become our class treasurer. Thank you, Dave. Dave
takes over for Jack Hayes, who passed away in November 2010. Jack
assumed the duties of treasurer after the planning "camp" held at Peggy
Finn Aga's home in Los Osos, CA in August 2000 for the 45th
reunion. He
managed the finances for the 45th and 50th reunions, including
collecting and depositing classmate's attendance checks and paying the
bills for the reunions. He reported class finances to reunion
committee members. Jack kept our class finances in good order and
we thank him for his dedicated service. |
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All too soon, our friend and fellow classmate, Jack Hayes, lost his battle with cancer on Monday, November 22, 2010. Jack was one of our most loyal classmates through the years. He attended the "camp" organized by Peggy Finn Aga at her home in Los Osos in August 2000 prior to the 45th reunion, and agreed to become the treasurer of our Class of 1957. He kept our class finances on a firm footing up until the time earlier in 2010 when he felt he could no longer fulfill those duties. We have lost a great friend and he too will be greatly missed. |
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Our friend and fellow classmate, Gino Mangione, lost his battle with cancer in the late evening hours of Saturday, November 20, 2010. Gino was very active in student body activities during our Pasadena school years. At John Marshall Junior High School, Gino was a Student Government Spring Commissioner. Gino served as our Senior Class President during our senior year at Pasadena High School. The photo at left was taken at the 50th reunion, where we were able to enjoy his friendship once again. Gino will be greatly missed. |
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All too soon, we are again saddened to inform you that our classmate Sue Osborne Neustein passed away on May 20, 2008 from the complications of treatment for cancer. Like Peggy, Sue was deeply involved in our class reunion activities. Sue provided great help at the 45th and 50th reunions. Those close to Sue knew she was not feeling well at the 50th reunion and it was shortly after that she was diagnosed with cancer. She also will be greatly missed. |
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We are saddened to inform you that our classmate Peggy Finn Aga passed away on March 29, 2008 from cancer. Peggy was one of our most loyal classmates, deeply involved in organizing our class reunions. Those who attended the "camp" she organized in August 2000 prior to the 45th reunion two years later will remember the great time we had at her home in Los Osos, CA. We were blessed to have her help with the 50th reunion and enjoyed her company there. She will be greatly missed. |
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For those unaware, one of our
fellow classmates died tragically during the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001. Our classmate Jacqueline (Jackie) McGuire
Norton and her husband Robert Grant Norton were passengers onboard
American
Airlines Flight 11,
which crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
They had moved from California to Maine, and were on their way to visit
family in California when their plane was hijacked after taking
off from Logan International
Airport in
Boston. The following link takes you to the World Trade Center
9/11 Memorial website to show where
Jackie and her husband Robert's names are memorialized at the site: http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=person&id=4440 The photo below was taken (June 2014) at the 9/11 Memorial Site in New York City showing the names of Robert Grant Norton and Jacqueline June Norton:  |
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page
memorialzing our deceased classmates has been added. The link on the Home Page can also be used to view the complete deceased list. |
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