Obituaries

May 12, 1919-April 21, 2011 Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Eva Schweitzer spent most of her life in Los Angeles and Laguna Beach. She was beautiful, gracious...

Sarah Ross, Art-A-Fair's vice president of marketing, recently passed away unexpectedly as she and her husband and a fellow photographer were returning from a...

Fred Scott Gould, 47, passed away Jan. 3, 2017, in Temecula, after a long battle with medical problems. Gould was a runner, former collegiate...

Duane Lowell Bickel, 89, passed away at home in hospice on May 15, 2019, due to Corticobasal Degeneration, a rare Parkinson’s-like disease. His beloved...

Bonnie Mae Osborn   Bonnie Mae Osborn, mother of Nancy Wagner and grandmother of Darshan Hodges and a frequent visitor to the coast, died, on Nov. 2...

Anneliese Schools founder Anneliese Schimmelpfennig, a teacher, visionary and entrepreneur, passed away peacefully due to complications from pneumonia, surrounded by her family, on May...

Obituary: Romaine Keith Friesen Feb. 19, 1943 - Oct. 24, 2022 Romaine “Rome” Keith Friesen was born Feb. 19, 1943 to Wendell and Hannah Friesen in...

By Billy Fried, Special to the Independent Laguna lost a treasure when Dennis Morin died Dec. 31 after a vigorous battle with cancer.  He was...

Marthann Newton, 86, of Laguna Beach, passed away March 4, 2018, in Springdale, Ark. She was born Nov. 15, 1931, in Auburn, Ala., to Julian...

Gail Converse, 65, of Laguna Beach, passed away on Feb. 14, 2016, surrounded by her family after a six-year battle with cancer. Gail was born...

12/28/56 – 10/18/12 Matt Murphine was a happy loving person.  He grew up in Laguna surfing, hanging with friends, playing baseball, and graduated from Laguna...

  After battling cancer for over nine years, Robert “Bob” Powell, 78, passed away quietly on Friday, June 17, 2011, surrounded by family.   A devoted husband...

Our community lost a rare treasure on Monday, March 2, 2020 when (Edna) Jean Raun passed from this life. Jean died just shy of...

DeWitt “Dewey” Hutchings Carson, 52, formerly of Laguna Beach, passed unexpectedly while on vacation in Machu Picchu, Peru on April 4, 2013. He was born...

Festival of Arts board member Ann Webster passed away on Friday, Sept. 16, at her home in Laguna Beach with her family by her...