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Pauline Frances Mendes
Pauline Frances Mendes, 65, died Monday, Oct. 22 surrounded by her loved ones. She was a lifelong resident of Oakdale. She and her twin sister Francine were born to Joaquin and Pauline F. (Silva) Mendes. Her parents emigrated from the Azores to the United States early in their lives. They were very proud of their Portuguese heritage and wanted to instill that in their children. She and her family were proud ...
Pauline Frances Mendes
Pauline Frances Mendes, 65, died Monday, Oct. 22 surrounded by her loved ones. She was a lifelong resident of Oakdale. She and her twin sister Francine were born to Joaquin and Pauline F. (Silva) Mendes. Her parents emigrated from the Azores to the United States early in their lives. They were very proud of their Portuguese heritage and wanted to instill that in their children. She and her family were proud ...
Pauline Frances Mendes
Pauline Frances Mendes, 65, died Monday, Oct. 22 surrounded by her loved ones. She was a lifelong resident of Oakdale. She and her twin sister Francine were born to Joaquin and Pauline F. (Silva) Mendes. Her parents emigrated from the Azores to the United States early in their lives. They were very proud of their Portuguese heritage and wanted to instill that in their children. She and her family were proud ...
Claude Richard McWhorter
Claude Richard McWhorter, 76, died Wednesday, Aug. 29, at Memorial Hospital after having a heart attack.
Justin Myers
Justin Thomas 'Coach' Myers, 21, died peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 14 after a long and courageous battle with an undiagnosed blood disease. He was born to Rocky Myers and Michelle Waggoner and resided in Oakdale since age one. All of his scholastic years were spent in Oakdale schools. He graduated from Oakdale High School in 2009, where he spent two of those years competing on the OHS Academic Decathlon ...
Jay Skelton
Jay Skelton, 80, died Thursday, Oct. 18 in Lodi. He was born in Seligman, Mo. and was a resident of Lodi. He moved with his family to Oakdale when he was age eight. He attended Oakdale schools and graduated from Oakdale High School in 1950. He continued to live in Oakdale for several more years before moving with his wife to Lodi. Mr. Skelton was a ...
Bette McLane
Bette Dawn Hegwood McLane, 92, died peacefully Friday, Sept. 28 in San Diego, where she was residing in a nursing home. She was one of 13 children. She was a longtime resident of Oakdale. Mrs. McLane was known in the community as "everybody's Gramma." She never met a child she didn't love and worked in the local elementary schools as a teacher's aide after retiring ...
Shirley McCall
Shirley Ann McCall, 77, died Sunday, Oct. 21 in Oakdale. She was born in Fairfax, Okla. to Nadeen Melton who moved her family out to Tulare when she was only six weeks old. When she was age seven, her mother married C. Earl Estepp and they relocated to Keyes where young Shirley attended school. She would later move to Oakdale in the late '50s where she ...
Ella M. Cooper
Ella M. Cooper, 88, died Wednesday, Sept. 26. She was born in Sacramento and was resident of Tranquility Living in Oakdale. Mrs. Cooper was retired from the State of California. She is survived by her brother, Roy Draper. She was preceded in death by her husband, Larry Cooper. A service was held Oct. 13 at Oakdale Memorial Chapel. Place of ...
Josefina Lopez Linarez
Josefina Lopez Linarez, 92, died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, Oct. 13. She was born in La Loma, Michoacan, Mexico. She was a resident of Oakdale since 1990. Mrs. Linarez was a very strong and determined woman. She was a wonderful woman having to be mother and father at the same time. Her husband died 50 years ago, which had left her to take care of her six ...
Arnold G. ‘Arnie’ Cornell
Arnold G. 'Arnie' Cornell, 64, died unexpectedly on Thursday, Oct. 11 at Oak Valley Hospital.
Jewell Eddie Laughlin
Jewell Eddie Laughlin, 95, died Friday, Oct. 12 at Oak Valley Care Center, Oakdale. She was born in Cowlington, Okla., the eldest of 12 siblings born to Claude and Margaret Hess. She married Bonnie Laughlin in 1933, in Spiro, Okla. and they had three children, Martha, Barbara and Carol. She was a resident of Oakdale since 1975. She is survived by her daughters, Martha (Don) Trammell ...
Anna Vander Meulen
Anna Vander Meulen, 99, passed away peacefully in Bethany Home in Ripon on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012.
JB Lewis Kromann
JB Lewis Kromann, 23, died on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. He was born on Sept. 20, 1989 to Rodney and Cindi Kromann. He was a 2007 graduate of Escalon High School where he played football, wrestled and was on the track team. An active member in Van Allen 4-H, JB attended Modesto Junior College where he majored in Kinesiology and Sports Medicine. He joined the Navy in 2009 and became a ...
Maryann (Miller) Laub
Maryann (Miller) Laub, 55, died Monday, Oct. 1. She was born in La Mirada and was a resident of Oakdale for the past 24 years. Mrs. Laub worked at various places throughout Oakdale for many years and was loved by many. She is survived by her loving husband of 12 years, Lamar Laub; brother, Ray (Joy) Miller Jr. of Rancho Cucamonga; brother-in-law, Craig Laub of Oakdale; ...
Articles by Section - Obituaries
Maria Spilky
Maria Spilky, 79, of Escalon passed away in Riverbank on Jan. 6, 2013 following a battle with cancer.
Meliza ‘Misty’ Gregory-Tennant
Meliza 'Misty' Gregory-Tennant, 34, died Sunday, March 3 from a tragic accident in Hanford, where she lived.
Ava Kathleen “Kathy” Rueda
Ava Kathleen "Kathy" Rueda, 61, died Sunday, March 10, 2013.
Flossie Lulalia Buie
Flossie Lulalia Buie, 94, died Thursday, March 14 of natural causes in Fresno.
Maria Salinas Alanis
Maria Salinas Alanis, 87, died Thursday, Feb. 21. She was born in General Teran, Mexico. She was raised in Estacion Aldamas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico where she met and married Domingo Alanis on Feb. 9, 1951. She and her husband moved to Riverbank, where she lived for 54 years. Mrs. Alanis worked for many years at Hunt Wesson and retired in 1985. <p class="MsoNormal" ...
Erna A. Brink
Erna A. Brink, 93, died peacefully on Wednesday, Feb. 27 with her six children by her side.
Denvil Thomas Downing
Denvil Thomas Downing, 92, passed away recently.
Rafael Canchola Lopez
Rafael Canchola Lopez, 77, died peacefully on Friday, March 1 with his family by his side.
Anita Medrano
Anita Medrano, 69, of Riverbank died Saturday, Feb. 23, following a year-long battle with cancer.
Martha S. Richter
Martha S. Richter, 90, of Oakdale died Wednesday, Feb. 27 at home with her family at her side.
Caryl Fay Schot-Witt
Caryl Fay Schot-Witt, 92, died Friday, March 1 at The Wach Inn Adult Foster Care in Grants Pass, Ore.
Ronald C. Blevins
Ronald C. Blevins, 72, died Friday, Feb. 22 in Modesto.
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