Obituaries

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

Jan. 26, 1915 – March 19, 2012 Jessie N. Blumenfeld died peacefully in her sleep at home in Laguna Beach on March 19. She was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Dolores “Maya” Bargiela, a longtime Laguna Beach resident, independent spirit and world traveler, passed away on Dec. 30, 2011, in San Juan Capistrano. She was 81. The cause was heart failure due to complications from a stroke. Bargiela was born in Newark, N.J., of Spanish and Hungarian immigrant parents. Benefiting from her talent in ballet performance, she moved to Laguna Beach when she was 16 to study under a Russian ballet master and later was among the first students at Orange Coast College. For a few years, she divided her time between Laguna and New York City but settled in Laguna in the mid-‘50s where she worked for a local business.