Obituaries
Carl Smith
Feb 3, 2020
Carl Junior Smith, 94, of Sun City, Arizona passed away Feb. 3, 2020. Carl was born in Earling, West Virginia, resided in Arizona for the past 27 years. Visitation will be 8:30-9:30 a.m., Friday, February 7, 2020 at Menke Funeral & Cremation Center, 12420 N. 103rd Ave., Sun City, AZ. Graveside service to follow at 10:30 a.m. at the National...
L.B. Smith
Feb 2, 2020
L.B. “Bea” Smith, 88, of Sun City, Arizona passed away Feb. 2, 2020. She was born in Watts, Oklahoma, resided in Arizona for the past 27 years. Visitation will be 8:30-9:30 a.m., Friday, February 7, 2020 at Menke Funeral & Cremation Center, 12420 N. 103rd Ave., Sun City, AZ. Graveside service to follow at 10:30 a.m. at the National Memorial...
James Falada
Jan 30, 2020
James Falada passed away on January 30, 2020 at the age of 83. Proceeded by his wife Barbara Falada and daughter Sue Tripamer. Leaving behind daughter, Dawn Tripamer and son, Jimmy Falada. James had 4 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. He was loved by many and will be remembered for his wise advise, sense of humor and his big heart. Services...
Cynthia Nieman
Jan 26, 2020
Cynthia “Cindy” Lou Nieman, 62, of Phoenix, AZ, passed away peacefully on January 26, 2020, at Royal Oaks Health Care Center, Sun City, AZ, with her family at her side. Cindy put up a strong fight against glioblastoma brain cancer before the disease won the battle. Cindy was born in Aledo, IL on March 28, 1957, the youngest of four...
Margaret Nelson
Jan 26, 2020
Margaret Nelson, formerly of Sun City West, Arizona. Loving mother of Karen and Sharon (Robert). Proud Grandmother of 6 and Great Grandmother of 8. Margaret always said, "accent the positive, eliminate the negative" and that is how she lived her life. She loved music and had a gift of rhyming one song into the other. Margaret made a lasting imprint...
Thomas Taylor, Jr.
Jan 26, 2020
Thomas E. Taylor, Jr.,72, of Sun City, Arizona passed away January 26, 2020. Thomas was born in Providence, Rhode Island and served with the West Glocester Fire Department from 1980 to 2005. He was a resident of Sun City since 2014. Private family arrangements have been made.
Lois Paullin
Jan 23, 2020
Lois was born April 15, 1926 to Elvis J. Maynard II and Louise (Larson) Maynard. She spent most of her life in Guthrie County. At the age of 15, after her father suffered a severe heart attack, it fell to her to run the family farm for the next year. Rising early to do chores before school, and ending her...
Zenovia Tomkiw
Jan 21, 2020
Zenovia Tomkiw, age 86 years passed away on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Sun City, AZ. Zenovia is preceded in death by her husband Teodore Tomkiw and daughter Lydia Tomkiw. She is survived by her son John and daughter-in-law Beth Tomkiw and granddaughter Claire Tomkiw all of Milwaukee, WI. In 1990, Zenovia and her husband moved from Indiana to Sun...
Virginia Raptis
Jan 21, 2020
Virginia (Welch) Raptis, a longtime resident of Peoria, Az., passed away suddenly and peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of January 21st at the age of 88. Virginia was born in 1931, in Port Huron, Michigan, the only child of Claud Welch and Grace (McColl) Welch. Raised in Toledo, Ohio, Virginia loved horseback riding, dance, and was...
Thomas Jongert
Jan 19, 2020
Thomas A. Jongert of Sun City, a retired Stock Broker and Real Estate salesman died January 19, 2020. He was born in Grand Rapids MI, a Korean Marine Veteran and moved to AZ in 1960. He served on the boards and foundations for Calvary Rehabilitation and Phoenix Christian Grade School. He was proceeded in death by his wife, Janet, of...
Andrew Stevenson
Jan 18, 2020
Andrew “Pop” Stevenson, 76, of Glendale, Arizona passed away January 18, 2020. Born in Burlington, Iowa to Garwood and Doris Stevenson, he became an Arizona resident in 1961. A military veteran, he served in the U.S. Army. Andrew worked as a concrete contractor in the Phoenix area for 50 years, he loved his family poker games in the backyard and...
Carrie Delrosario
Jan 16, 2020
Carrie Delrosario (Wood) 50, devoted wife, daughter, sister, and stepmother went to her heavenly home on January 16, 2020. She was born October 21, 1969 to William (Bill) and Carole Wood. She was preceded in death by her father whom she dearly loved. She is survived by her adoring husband Rico Delrosario, her mother Carole, her siblings Bridget (Doug) Suiter,...
Terry Posey
Jan 15, 2020
Terry was born December 28, 1937, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Terry O. & Lillian B. Posey. A brother, James H., joined the family in August 1941. The family moved to Texas, Odessa area, early in 1938, then later to the Texas panhandle. Terry began his schooling in Phillips, Texas, and in the summer between the second & third grades,...
Ralph VanZwol
Jan 14, 2020
Ralph William “Bill” VanZwol Jr. peacefully passed away on January 14, 2020. Bill was born in Eagle Grove, Iowa on July 29,1930. Unbeknownst to him, his lifelong love, Aletha Bevier, was born the very next day about 11 miles away in Vincent, Iowa. Bill and Aletha started dating at age 15. They spent the next 74 years together. They married...
Zenon Arteaga
Jan 13, 2020
Zenon Salazar Arteaga, 88, of Peoria, Arizona, beloved husband, father, cousin, nephew, brother, son and grandfather, passed away peacefully, surrounded by love at 17:55 on Monday, January 13, 2020. He was the devoted husband of Sarah Arteaga for 56 years. Born in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 1931, he was the son of Adalberta Salazar and Augustine Arteaga. He graduated...
Richard Hough
Jan 12, 2020
Richard Allen Hough, born on March 12, 1935, in Ellenville, New York, passed away at the age of 84 on January 12, 2020, in Sun City West. Richard’s parents moved to Phoenix in 1940 with him and his two brothers. He was a teacher for 34 years, teaching in Bisbee for four years and in Phoenix for 30 years. He...
Hyla McLain
Jan 10, 2020
Hyla Mae McLain, 82, of Peoria, Arizona, passed away on January 10, 2020, surrounded by her loving family. Hyla was the only child born to Molly and Bronson Evans in Elkton, Maryland on November 9, 1937. The family moved to Phoenix in 1947. Hyla then graduated from North Phoenix High School in 1955 and later attended ASU where she was...
Naomi Raderstorf
Jan 8, 2020
Raderstorf, Naomi Joyce (88) of Sun City, AZ went to be with her Lord on January 8, 2020. Born in Akron, Ohio to Robert and Eleanor Edwards on July 22, 1931. She and Donald Raderstorf were married in Indiana in 1950. They moved to Arizona in 1961. She retired from the Arizona Republic at the Lazy R&G Ranch. She was...
John Frizzell
Jan 3, 2020
John Cannon “JC” Frizzell, 85 years old, of Glendale, Arizona, passed away on Friday, January 3rd, 2020. He is survived by his daughters Carolyn “Suzie” Nobbe and Sandra Kozorra, and his son Jason Frizzell, as well as five grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter. He was preceded in death by his wife Joan, and daughters Lola “Kimmie” Frizzell and...
Cled Yochum
Jan 2, 2020
Cled “Yogi” Yochum, 86, of Sun City, AZ passed away Jan. 2, 2020 in Glendale, AZ. Mr. Yochum was born in Golddust, TN. A US Army veteran, he served in Korea. A resident of Sun City for the past 28 years, he was a member of the Sun City Moose Lodge and the Computer Club at Fairview Recreation Center. He...
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