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 ...

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 ...

Donna Joyce (Johnson) Smallwood

Donna Joyce (Johnson) Smallwood, 75, died Monday, Feb. 18 in Sonora.

McNeil Ballard, Jr.

McNeil J. 'Jim' Ballard, Jr., 77, died Monday, Feb. 11 from a very fast acting cancer at home, surrounded by his family. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. His family moved all around the United States as he grew up. He went to Los Gatos High School, went into the Air Force, and graduated from Northwestern University. Mr. Ballard's first job after college was ...

Mary Jo Banducci

James Capley

James Allen Capley, 73, died Friday, Feb. 15. He was born in Whittier to Mellie and Eugene Capley. He decided at a very early age that he wanted to become a cowboy. He was just that and loved every bit of horseshoeing, working cattle, and training horses. Mr. Capley lived in Oakdale for more than 40 years and was loved by many. He ...

Mildred Downing

Mildred Downing, 86, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. She was born to Harold Vail and Esther Finfrock in Hines (now Paramount) California on Jan. 13, 1927. She was oldest of five children. She grew up in Bellflower, and graduated from Excelsior High School. She was a secretary at Republic Supply near Los Angeles, CA. One of her greatest joys as a young adult was taking her younger ...

Dorothy Lajeunesse

Dorothy Lajeunesse, 89, died Wednesday, Feb. 13 at Alexander Cohen Hospice House after a battle with cancer. She was born in Santa Rosa, the daughter of John and Helen Irwin. She grew up in Oakland and graduated from Oakland Technical High School. In 1990, she moved to Oakdale to be closer to her family after retiring from Brockway Glass Credit Union. Survivors include ...

Suzanne Holtan

Suzanne (Feichter) Holtan, 65, died Friday, Feb. 8 at UC Davis Medical Center after a long battle with heart-lung disease. She was a graduate of Oakdale High School and then lived in the Bay Area for many years. She retired to Twin Falls, Idaho with her husband Sam and granddaughter Amber. After her husband's death, she moved to Oakdale in 2009. Survivors include her granddaughter, Amber ...

Graham Sorensen

Graham James Sorensen, 77, died peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 14 after a brief illness, surrounded by his family at Doctor's Hospital, Modesto. He was born in Salinas, the son of Adolph and Ada Sorensen. He attended schools in Salinas and was a graduate of Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo. He served in the Army National Guard. Mr. Sorensen worked many years for ...

Leland Ude

Dr. Leland K. Ude, 87, died Saturday, Feb. 16. He was a longtime resident of Oakdale, working as a chiropractor from 1950 until retiring in 1991. He was very involved with the Oakdale Kiwanis, Sportsman and Dinner Clubs, as well as the Parks and Recreation Board for Stanislaus County until the 1970s, where he oversaw the development of Woodward and Modesto Reservoirs and Fox Grove. <p ...

Barbara White

Barbara White passed away on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 at the Riverbank Nursing Center, where she had lived for the past few years. She is survived by her mother, Frances Willett; sisters Sharon White and Debbie Willett; brother Joe Willett; daughters Dianne Sforza of Modesto and Sandy Leonard of Riverbank. She also had eight grandchildren, living in Riverbank and Modesto. Services were at ...

Mary Hofmann

Mary Angela Hofmann, 56, of Oakdale died peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 9 surrounded by her family after a brief illness. She was born in Patterson on Oct. 2, 1956 to Ina and George S. Bettencourt and was raised in Newman until she moved to Modesto in 1968. She attended Grace M. Davis High School and Modesto Junior College. She worked for Moore Business Forms for more ...

Gwendolyn Gregory

Gwendolyn C. Gregory, 75, died Wednesday, Feb. 6 at her Modesto home. She was a longtime resident of the Modesto and Oakdale areas. Working for many years as a registered nurse, she later owned care homes for the elderly before retiring. She relocated to her birth state of Tennessee for many years and enjoyed travel. Survivors include her sons, Michael ...

Jasperina Goedhart

Jasperina Cornelia (van den Berg) Goedhart, 88, passed away on Feb. 7, 2013, at Bethany Home in Ripon, CA. She was born on Sept. 7, 1924, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Hendrik and Teunje van den Berg, where she was raised until she moved to California in 1949 to marry Simon Goedhart, who preceded her in death in 1998. They were married for 48 years. She was ...

Johannes Denys

Johannes "John" Denys, 92, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. He was born in Halstern, NB, Holland and had been a resident of Oakdale for 48 years. Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Quirina; six sons, John, Gary, Jeff, Casey, Adrian and Alvin Denys; three daughters, Annie Mayfield, Corrie Denys and Carol Solus; and many nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Viewing will be Wednesday, ...

William Amman

William 'Bill' Amman, 54, of Oakdale died Sunday, Feb. 3 at home. He was born Jan. 24, 1959 in Los Angeles, the son of Kay and Gerald Amman. Growing up in Southern California he developed a strong talent for woodworking from his father and was involved in 4H. His love for animals continued throughout his life and he was an active supporter of local 4H and the Oakdale Animal ...