Local Obituaries for Families in Wickenburg, Arizona
Joe Burns
Mar 30, 2014
Joe H. Burns, 84 of Wickenburg AZ October 25,1929 / March 30, 2014 After a short illness Joe passed away Sunday March 30 2014. He was married to his wife Barbara for 64 years. Joe went to the University of Idaho and joined the USAF after graduation in 1952. He completed pilot training school 1958. He flew for MAC (Military...
Rosario Torres
Mar 29, 2014
Rosario Torres, age 66, passed away March 29, 2014 surrounded by his family. He was born February 7, 1948 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. Rosario came to Arizona in 1973 working in the Yuma area in Agriculture and in 1986 came to Wickenburg. He was preceded in death by daughters Lucian Torres and Maria Cenovia-Torres. He is survived by his...
Flora Ieradi
Mar 26, 2014
Our beloved Flora, at 95 years of age, passed into eternal life peacefully in her Arizona home on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, after being on dialysis for six years. Flora was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 2, 1918 to Mary Morra and Louis Ragonetti. She was the seventh of thirteen children, growing up in a happy and complicated...
Larry Chatterton
Mar 23, 2014
Larry R. Chatterton was born January 26, 1949 in Oklahoma to Richard & Opal Hart. He served in the military during Viet Nam, following his military service he worked in the construction trade a as a drywall finisher. Larry had been living in Wittmann, Arizona for the last 9 years. He is survived by his children: Tiffany Chatterton of Wittmann,...
Harold Robison
Mar 21, 2014
Harold E. Robison, age 75, passed away March 21, 2014 in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Harold was born February 3, 1939 in Bellefont, Pennsylvania to Charles Robison and Olive Walker Robison. He had served in the Airforce and following his military service had worked in the hospital industry. He is survived by his wife Evelyn and 3 daughters. Interment with...
James Hillis
Mar 18, 2014
James E. Hillis, age 82, passed away March 18, 2014 at his home in Salome. James was born October 24, 1931 in Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania to Morris Hillis and Barbara Rhodes Hillis. He worked in construction most of his life. James was very skilled as a mason and welder and many other areas of construction. He is survived by his wife...
Van Shumway
Mar 10, 2014
Van L Shumway passed away Monday March 10, 2014 surrounded by his 6 children. He was born in Taylor AZ, Dec. 18, 1925, the youngest of Charles L and Julia Myrtle Jennings Shumway's 8 children. He married Ruth Fleming Aug. 21, 1952; together they made their home and raised their family in Phoenix. She passed away August 13, 2011. Dad...
Kenneth Wooley
Mar 10, 2014
Kenneth Walter Wooley, age 79, passed away March 10, 2014. He was born on March 2, 1936 in Crosby County, Texas. Kenneth worked in construction for years, working on the California-Nevada pipeline. He later came to Arizona working as a mechanic operating his own transmission shop in Miami, AZ later moving to Wickenburg in 1980 where he began working for...
Daniel Thrasher
Mar 8, 2014
Dan Thrasher passed away March 8TH, in his home in Wickenburg, while in the loving care of his family and Hospice of the Valley. Dan was born in Phoenix, Az. August 15, 1921 at 19th Avenue and Indian School Road, where his parents farmed. They homesteaded in Forepaugh in 1932. Dan graduated from Wickenburg High School in 1940. He worked...
Donovan Wadlow
Mar 7, 2014
Donovan James Wadlow Donovan James Wadlow, 92, passed away peacefully March 7, 2014, in Wickenburg, Arizona. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Wickenburg. Pastor Ken Piepenbrink will officiate. Donovan (Don) was born in the town of Grafton, Jersey County, Illinois on November 9, 1921, the son of...
Dorothy Watkins
Mar 6, 2014
Dorothy M. Watkins,age 76, passed away March 6, 2014 in Wittmann, Arizona. Dorothy was born in Weizer, Idaho to Roscoe & Olive Robison. She and husband Ronald came to Arizona after retiring in 1994 settling in Wickenburg. Funeral services with interment will take place in Weizer, Idaho.
Marjorie Michaelson
Mar 6, 2014
Marjorie Houg Michaelson Born May 31 1922 - Died March 6 2014. Marge had a pioneering spirit and led an adventurous life. A young woman from the rural town of Exeland, WI, she took off on her journey by becoming one of the first air hostesses for Trans World Airline. After WWII she married Kent W. Michaelson and moved to...
Jeannette Walters
Mar 4, 2014
Jeannette P. Walters, age 98, passed away in Phoenix, Arizona on March 4, 2014. She was born June 11, 1915 in Spanish Fork, Utah to Joseph W. Pearson and Mary Alice McLean Pearson. She married Carl Walters in 1932 in Prescott and they made their home in the Wickenburg area later moving to Bagdad where she has lived most of...
Bertha Candelaria
Mar 3, 2014
Bertha C. Candelaria, age 72, passed away March 3, 2014 in Surprise, Az. Bertha was born September 11, 1941 in Ray, Arizona to Salvador and Carmen Contreras. She was raised and attended schools there. Following her schooling she began working in Phoenix at the Arizona Industrial Commission during that time she met Tom Candelaria and they were married in 1967...
Ronald Kolbo
Mar 2, 2014
Ronald Lee Kolbo, age 74, passed away March 2, 2014 in Sun City West, Arizona. Ron was born June 13, 1939 in Lodi, Nebraska to Lloyd and Sylvia Kolbo. He served in the National Guard as an airplane mechanic and developed a love of airplanes and flying. He was an auto mechanic by trade and when he retired he moved...
Thomas Hill
Feb 28, 2014
Thomas "Tex" J.G. Hill age 70, passed away February 28, 2014 at his home near Wickenburg, AZ. Tex was born February 20, 1944 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He was raised in Vero Beach, Florida and attended schools there later serving in the U.S. Air Force. Following his military service he began a career in law enforcement in Del Rio, Texas...
