Local Obituaries for Families in Wickenburg, Arizona
Eleanor Copus-Jenkins
Aug 30, 2013
ELEANOR "Ellie" COPUS-JENKINS As the monsoon thunder storms swept across the Arizona desert, they left blooming flowers, double rainbows and new life behind, and took with them Eleanor Copus-Jenkins. "Ellie" as she was better known to her family and friends, spent 43 years here in the desert that she came to love. Eleanor Jesse Connor was born June 16, 1926,...
Clyde Thomason
Aug 26, 2013
Clyde M. Thomason, age 89, passed away August 26, 2013 in Wickenburg, Arizona. Clyde was born February 3, 1924 in Wickenburg to George & Elviane Thomason. He was raised in the area and grew up cowboying and later began working as an operating engineer with the U.S. Govt. working in Nevada primarily. Clyde was an Country Western Entertainer and played...
Lucile Blaisdell
Aug 25, 2013
Lucile Henrietta Blaisdell, age 93, passed away August 25, 2013 in Sun City West, Arizona. Lucile was born April 25, 1920 in Linn Grove, Iowa to George C. Terpening and Anna Frieda Magdeline (Janssen) Terpening. She married Albert Blaisdell November 10, 1946 in San Francisco, California. They made their home in San Francisco briefly and later moved to Palo Alto...
George Wilkins
Aug 21, 2013
George E. Wilkins, Jr., age 54, passed away August 21, 2013 in Sun City, Az. George was born October 1, 1958 in Prescott, Arizona to George E. & Vivian Wilkins. He graduated from Wickenburg High School and later began working with DeVries Custom Coachworks as an autobody and paint technician. He married Kimberly Mallicoat September 9, 1978 making their home...
Robert Fredericks
Aug 20, 2013
Robert P. Fredericks was born on March 17, 1934 to Robert M. Fredericks and Lorraine M. (Henning) Fredericks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up and received his education. He joined the United States Air Force in 1952 and served in Korea through 1956. He was a member of the 319th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. After completing his service in 1956,...
Jack Bland
Aug 17, 2013
Jack Dale Bland, age 70, passed away August 17, 2013 in Cottonwood, Arizona. Jack was born November 3, 1942 in New Bern, Illinois to Robert L. & Blanche Bland. He was raised there and graduated from Jerseyville High School. Following his schooling he began working for Owens Glass, where he worked for over 20 years. Jack was a Journeyman member...
Paul Garrepy
Aug 16, 2013
Paul V. Garrepy, Sr. died August 16th in Wickenburg, AZ, born February 20th 1926 to Emery and Lucy (Army) Garrepy. He leaves behind his wife of 28 years Ruth (Musgrove) Garrepy, a son Paul V. Garrepy, Jr. and his wife Sarin, two daughters, Patricia A. Hogan and her husband Paul and Nancy Gilbert and her husband Donald, a stepson John...
Jessialene Coughlin
Aug 14, 2013
Jessialene Coughlin, age 84, passed away August 14, 2013 at her home in Wickenburg. She was born July 17, 1929 in Sweetwater, Texas to Jesse Lee and Eunice Irene McMinn. Jessialene was raised in San Angelo, Texas and later California. She married Thomas J. Coughlin in 1950 in Bell, California. They made their home there briefly and eventually settled in...
Mary Hopper-DeMars
Aug 9, 2013
Mary F. Hopper-DeMars, age 89, passed away August 9, 2013 in Surprise, Arizona. Mary was born June 4, 1924 in Lawrence County, Indiana and raised in Mitchell. She attended schools there and following her schooling she began working at the local dime store briefly before she met and married Mack M. Hopper in November of 1947 and they made their...
Emily Jarnagin
Aug 6, 2013
Emily Ann Jarnagin graduated from this earthly life and returned to her Heavenly home on August 6, 2014. She was born on January 15, 1938 to Marvin Randolph Jarnagin and Bernardine Louise Nay Jarnagin in Phoenix, AZ. She lived in Glendale Arizona and went to Glendale High School. She married Bill Boen and had three children, Cynthia Ann, Duane Lee...
John Francis
Aug 6, 2013
John Russell Francis, Sr., age 82, passed away August 6, 2013 in Sun City West, Arizona. John was born May 2, 1931 in Toledo, Ohio to William Webster Francis and Helen Mae McDowell. He attended schools in Toledo, and later attended college in the state of Washington and received an Associates Degree in Business. John served in the U.S. Army...
Claudia Herwick
Aug 5, 2013
Claudia Sue Herwick, age 68, passed away August 5, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona. Claudia was born January 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois. She had worked as a microbiologist in the medical field at UCSD Hospital in San Diego, California for years. She had moved to Arizona in 2005 settling in Chino Valley. Claudia is survived by her son David (Cori)...
Vernon Andrae
Aug 3, 2013
Vernon L. Andrae, age 79, passed away August 3, 2013 at his home in Peeples Valley, Az. Vernon was born February 19, 1934 in Mountain City, Nevada to Dan Andrae and Clara Morse Andrae. Vernon was a cowboy most all his life, growing up in northern Nevada he worked as a cowboy and worked ranching most of his life. He...
Ena McGuire
Aug 2, 2013
Ena L. Lamar (Lilly) McGuire was born April 18, 1914, the first of seven children born to C.H. And Ila Lamar of Virgil, Kansas. In 1916 Ena's family moved to northern Arizona, where her father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. In 1923 the moved to Morristown, Az. Ena lived in Morristown the majority of her life, and had the...
Charles Callaway
Jul 22, 2013
Charles Ray Callaway, age 63, passed away July 22, 2013. Ray was born December 23, 1949 in Raymondville, Texas to Troy & Marian Callaway. During his lifetime Ray had lived in various locations, as a boy in Venezuela, Canada and later in several western states. He served in the Marine Corps during the Viet Nam War. Ray had been musical...
Elizabeth Erikson
Jul 21, 2013
ELIZABETH VIRGINIA ERIKSON Elizabeth Virginia Erikson, age 57, passed away July 21, 2013, from complications following an emergency surgery. She was born on December 9, 1955 in Bakersfield California, and attended school in Sacramento, Ca. where both her parents were educators. She started what became a long nursing career as a candy-striper, volunteering at local hospitals at age 15. When...
Beverly Nemetz
Jul 21, 2013
Beverly B. Nemetz, age 98, passed away July 21, 2013 in Surprise, AZ. Beverly was born June 11, 1915 in Pasadena, California to Frank Ohrmund and Grace Baldridge Ohrmund. She came to Arizona in 1974 from California. She was preceded in death by her husband Stephen J. Nemetz in 1983 and a son Stephen J. Nemetz, II in 2010. Beverly...
Kenneth Metcalf
Jul 13, 2013
Kenneth Odell Metcalf, age 82, passed away July 13, 2013 at his home in Wittmann, Arizona. Ken was born March 19, 1931 in Salina, Kansas to Charles Metcalf, Sr. and Johnnie Ethel Humphrey Metcalf. He attended schools there and later served in the U.S. Navy following his military service he and wife Colleen moved to Arizona settling first in Casa...
James Rudy
Jul 11, 2013
James Conrad Rudy, age 81, passsed away July 11, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona. Jim was born July 7, 1932 in Wichita, Kansas to Alex Rudy and Marie Mecham Rudy. He was raised in both Octave and Bagdad, Arizona and attended schools there. He later began working with Bagdad Copper Company where he worked in various capacities, mill, drilling, warehouse and...
Richard Rudolph
Jul 10, 2013
Richard Robert Rudolph, age 85, passed away July 10, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona. He was born April 7, 1928 in St. Paul, Minnesota to John Rudolph and Alma Brandt Rudolph. Richard was raised in St. Paul and attended schools there. He began working in maintenance when he finished his schooling and in 1955 he moved to Arizona where he worked...
