Local Obituaries for Families in Wickenburg, Arizona
Shirley Lohmann
Jun 30, 2015
Shirley Irene Lohmann, age 84, passed away June 30, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. Shirley was born December 6, 1930 in Ontario, Canada to John & Sarah Puskas. She worked as a medical secretary for 30 years. She and her husband Gerry retired to Wilhoit from California in 1996. Mrs. Lohmann had been active in the community, being instrumental in creating...
Doris Bates
Jun 28, 2015
Doris Marie (Savage) Bates went to meet her Father in Heaven on Sunday, June 28, 2015. She was born June 8, 1925 in Prescott, Arizona. The daughter of Emmett and Marie Savage, she grew up in Humbolt, Arizona, and later in Wickenburg. Doris had a great passion in life, and that was her horses. She raised and trained prize-winning trick...
Helen Blakely
Jun 17, 2015
Helen G. Blakely, age 98, passed away June 17, 2015 in Mesa, Az. Helen was born May 3, 1917 in Ashland, Pennsylvania to Charles & Katie Whyne. She was a mother and homemaker and had been living in Arizona since 1947. Helen was a member of the Wenden Bible Church. She was preceded in death by her husband Harry "Red"...
Michael Flanagan
Jun 17, 2015
Flanagan, Michael "Mike" 68, of Glendale/Yarnell, AZ passed away on June 17, 2015. Mike was a 3rd Generation Native of Arizona born to Katie Brewster and Thomas "Gene" Flanagan. He along with his sister Christine, grew up in Buckeye where he graduated Buckeye HS. Mike then briefly attended NAU before the took a shot at being a Rodeo Cowboy, which...
Albert Gilchrist
Jun 13, 2015
Albert Gilchrist, Jr., 73, died early Saturday morning, June 13, 2015 at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, Ohio after a short illness. Mr. Gilchrist, affectionately known as "Al" was born November 25, 1941 in Butler, PA, a son of the late Albert and Elizabeth Nowakoski Gilchrist, and moved to Youngstown, Ohio as an infant. Raised on the east side...
Glendale Barber
Jun 3, 2015
Glendale Barber, Jr., age 94, passed away June 3, 2015 in Surprise, Arizona. Glen was born August 2, 1920 in Springfield, Ohio to Glendale, Sr. and Myrtle Barber. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and following his military service he began working in manufacturing as a machinist. He is survived by his daughter and son in law Jo Anne...
Dennis Stetler
Jun 1, 2015
Dennis Anthony Stetler passed away at the Prescott VA Hospital on June 1, 2015, at the age of 68, from complications related to a chronic illness. Dennis was born on July 10, 1946 in Garrett, Indiana, the son of Patrick and Briarly Stetler. He grew up in Riverside, California and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from...
James Johnston
May 30, 2015
James "Jim" W. Johnston, age 80, passed away May 30, 2015 at his home in Peeples Valley. Jim was born January 15, 1935 in Des Moines, Iowa to Jeff & Gertrude Johnston. He was raised and attended schools in Des Moines and later served in the U.S. Army. Following his military service he moved to California working construction. He moved...
Frank Hansche
May 28, 2015
Commander Frank C. Hansche, Jr., CEC, USN (Ret.) passed away at home in Sun City West, Arizona, on May 28, 2015. His loving wife Roxanne, daughter Carolyn, and stepdaughter Shannon were with him. Frank was 94 and died of congestive heart failure. He had struggled bravely with pneumonia for all of 2014. Until late 2013 Frank and Roxanne traveled widely...
Maria Martinez
May 27, 2015
Maria Martinez, age 74, passed away May 27, 2015 in Peoria, Arizona. Maria was born January 21, 1941 in Buena Vista, Jalisco, Mexico to Santos & Elena Sanchez. She was raised there on the family ranch and later married Vicente Martinez. They lived in Mexico until 1971 when they came to Arizona settling in the Congress area. She was a...
Felipe Mercado
May 24, 2015
Felipe Mercado, age 77, passed away May 24, 2015 in Sun City West, Arizona. Funeral Mass will be said on Monday, May 25, 2015 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Roberta Fleeman
May 18, 2015
Fleeman, Roberta passed away on May 18, 2015 in Peoria, Arizona. She was born September 6, 1928 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the daughter of George Clayton and Ethel Mary Logsdon. Roberta was the mother of five daughters: Christine Phillips; Jayceene (JC) Drake; Bernadine (Bobbie) Thayer; Claudine (Claude) Ellerbee; Nanneene (Nan) McManis; and Grandmother of 13, Great Grandmother of 27, and...
John Vandecoevering
May 18, 2015
John Mark Vandecoevering, age 59, passed away May 18, 2015 in Surprise, Arizona. John was born November 5, 1955. He served in the military and returned to Oregon where he worked in the lumber industry. He is survived by his wife Monika of Wickenburg, Arizona and Daughter; Sarah Marrie Burge of Mitchell, South Dakota.
Virginia Lucero
May 10, 2015
Virginia L. Lucero, age 95, went to be with her Lord and Savior, May 10, 2015, in Wickenburg, Arizona. Virginia was born December 18, 1919, in Nogales, Arizona, to Abraham Lopez and Maria Rojas Lopez. She attended schools in Bouse and Swansea and later married Clemente Lucero. They lived in Bouse and then Parker, AZ. for many years and finally...
Johanna Montgomery
May 8, 2015
Johanna Kisner Montgomery, age 64, passed away May 8, 2015 at her home in Yarnell. Johanna was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland February 19, 1951 to Earle Eldred Scoggins and Agnes Rosalie McDonnel-Scoggins. She was raised there and attended schools there. She raised her daughter in Baltimore and later moved to Arizona in the late 1980's. She returned to...
Ann Reese
May 8, 2015
Ann Reese, age 84, passed away May 8, 2015 in Mesa, Arizona. Ann was born August 31, 1930 in Los Angeles, California to Frank P. Layne and Bess Craw-Layne. She was raised there and attended schools there and later graduated with a degree in nursing. Ann married George Reese and raised three sons, Kip, Wayne and Greg. She and George...
Eugene Kerkman
May 8, 2015
Eugene John "Gene" Kerkman, 84, passed away at his home in Prescott on Friday, May 8 after a long and brave battle with leukemia. Gene was born in a farmhouse in Antelope County in northeast Nebraska on Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day), 1930, to Theodore and Theresa Kerkman. After graduation from Petersburg High School in 1948, he joined the U.S. Air...
Jane Boyd
Apr 30, 2015
Eleanor Jane S. Boyd, age 86, passed away April 30, 2015 peacefully at her home in Wickenburg, AZ. Eleanor Jane Starke was born on July 19, 1928 in Tarrytown, New York to George A. Schrader Starke and Anne McEwan Starke. Mrs. Boyd was raised in Tarrytown attended and graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. An enterprising...
