Nov. 19, 1939-March 25, 2012 Ken Wood, partner with Fred Lang in the Laguna Beach landscape architecture firm of Lang and Wood, died in Norway on March 25. It was Wood’s pencil that drew the curving lines of Laguna’s Main Beach boardwalk. He started working with Lang in 1967 and they formed their partnership in [...]
Kenneth Wynn Wood Nov. 19, 1939-March 25, 2012 Ken Wood, partner with Fred Lang in the Laguna Beach landscape architecture firm of Lang and Wood, died in Ile d’Oleron, France, on March 25. It was Wood’s pencil that drew the curving lines of Laguna’s Main Beach boardwalk. He started working with Lang in 1967 [...]
No one loved Laguna Beach more than Andy Hedden. He was born on May 4, 1957, in Long Beach, and had to wait three interminable years before moving to Laguna for the rest of his life, a proud 52 year resident of what he considered Heaven on Earth. He attended virtually every school in town, [...]
Janet Lena 1941-2012 D.H. Lawrence once said, “It is not the length of life but the depth.” If one agrees with this conclusion then Janet (Jan) Lena’s, of Laguna Beach, certainly filled the bill. Born in New York City in 1941, Lena spent her formative years in Long Branch, N.J., where she developed a [...]
Norman Fruman Norman Fruman, an educator and scholar best known for his biography of the English poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge, died on April 19, at his home in Laguna Beach, of cancer. He was 88. Born in the Bronx, New York, on Dec. 2, 1923, Fruman was the son of Russian immigrants. [...]
Ed Drollinger Ed Drollinger, a rail-thin fixture at Laguna Beach’s public meetings and an often obsessive volunteer for several local organizations, died Saturday, April 21. He was 86, had lived in Laguna since 1976, and recently fell and was hospitalized. His wife of 61 years, known as Kit, died in October 2010. They most their [...]
Jan. 26, 1915 – March 19, 2012 Jessie N. Blumenfeld died peacefully in her sleep at home in Laguna Beach on March 19. She was 97 years old. Blumenfeld was born in New York City on Jan. 26, 1915, and lived in her birthplace until 2005 when she move to Laguna Beach to be [...]
Robert Hoyk, Phd. Sept. 17, 1952- Feb. 24, 2012 Robert Magnuson Hoyk, 59, died at home in Laguna Beach on March 12 after a seven-year struggle with ALS. Dr. Hoyk was a clinical psychologist who received his doctorate at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. In private clinical practice in Dana Point, [...]
Daniel Desilva Huston 3/23/21 – 3/15/12 Daniel DeSilva Huston passed away at Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach on March 15, 2012, just eight days shy of his 91st birthday. He was born in Riddle, Ore., where his parents were homesteading on land won through a lottery for WWI veterans. He and his family moved [...]
Bob Henry Television Pioneer Dies Bob Henry, a producer and director noted for his groundbreaking role in helping African American performers reach a broader audience, died March 18 at his home in Laguna Beach. Henry was 92. Henry was present at the birth of the television variety show, moving from radio to television in 1950. [...]
Robert Magnuson Hoyk, 59, died at home in Laguna Beach on March 12 after a seven-year struggle with ALS. Dr. Hoyk was a clinical psychologist who received his doctorate at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. In private clinical practice in Dana Point, Hoyk also conducted research for several institutions; taught communication skills [...]
Ellen Wright Ellen Wright, 95, a longtime Laguna Beach resident, passed on March 1 in the home she occupied for 57 years. Wright was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, but moved to Laguna Beach in 1954. She was an acclaimed organist and pianist and played at Laguna Presbyterian Church for 34 years. [...]
Dyan Jones Feb. 4, 1959 – Feb. 22, 2012 Heaven was sent another angel. Dyan Jongewaard Jones passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her heartbroken family who never left her side as she valiantly fought cancer with dignity, grace and amazing courage. They kept her happy, comfortable and ever so beautiful until the end. Jones was [...]
Richard P. Carlson May 22, 1926- Feb. 15, 2011 Please join the Carlson Family in remembering Dick Carlson and his life and loves at this first anniversary of his death. In 1961, Carlson was selected by Rexall Drug and Thermoplastics Company as general manager of their Santa Ana plastic extrusion operation. So he [...]
On Feb. 9, 2012, Chris Bellino lost her courageous three-year battle with lung cancer. Bellino was born on July 3, 1955 in Yunuena, New York, to Lucille and Vic Serrichio. She is survived by her brother Victor and his wife Karen, and their children Victoria and Nick. She is also survived by her favorite [...]
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Ignoring a Red Zone Elicits More Than a Ticket
How can lack of a parking space land you behind bars? In Laguna Beach, it occurs when you pull into a spot marked in red reserved for the police watch commander. That’s what happened to Barbara Louise Kanode, 47, of Newport Beach, who on Wednesday, May 9, took an available spot near City Hall while [...]
