Tribute to Will Bonsey
The day was too short
For all the things there were to do
Under a sky of unbroken blue.
The song of the surf
The feel of the...
Pauline Shubel Bužan
A longtime resident of Laguna Beach, Pauline Shubel Buzan passed away peacefully on Jan. 30, 2013, at the age of 92.
Pauline (Pauli) was born...
Mary Goree
Mary Goree
Elinor Nootbaar
Elinor Nootbaar, wife of Herb Nootbaar of Laguna Beach, died March 27. She was 87.
The couple’s love for Pepperdine University’s School of Law motivated...
Billie Lou Quam
Billie Lou Quam, affectionately called “Mom Quam” or “Me-Mom” by her family, passed away peacefully on April 6, 2019 at the age of 92....
Obituaries
Kitty Smith
Oct. 29, 1955 to Dec. 1, 2010
After more than a decade of combating immune suppressive health problems, Kathryn Harrod Smith (Kitty) succumbed to...
Wynne Tapley
Wynne Tapley was born on Dec. 17, 1936, in Manchester, England.
In her early years in England, she remembers the WWII bombings and spending time...
Dorothy Gaither
On Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, much loved mother, grandmother, great and great-great grandmother, Dorothy Winger Gaither, passed away peacefully at her home in Laguna...
Donald Shoemaker
Aug. 14, 1937 – Feb. 20, 2017
Donald Shoemaker died Feb. 20, 2017, at his home in San Juan Capistrano after a four-year illness.
Don was...
Mark Guy Moore, A Laguna Beach Original
By Howard Hills
Word of Mark Moore’s passing on July 10, 2016, stunned and deeply saddened his hometown of Laguna Beach, as it did friends...
Robert P. Powers 1952-2016
Robert P. Powers, 63, died quietly at home in Santa Fe, N.M. on Jan. 2, 2016, following a courageous 10-month battle with cancer.
Bob was...
Memorials
Friends Plan Tribute to Tom Rizzo
Friends and family of Tom Rizzo are invited to a 10 a.m. celebration Saturday, April 16, in Heisler Park...
John Robert Bergmann
John Robert Bergmann, 60, passed away Oct. 3, 2017 in his home in Trumbull, Conn.
John was born in Wichita, Kas., to the late B....
Angela Alwin
Angela Alwin of Austin, Tex., passed from this life Feb. 11, 2018. She was born Aug. 16, 1967, in Tulsa, Okla., to Ruth Ann...
Norman Fruman
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...