Memoriam

[Updated October 2, 2023 - this list is dependent on anecdotes from classmates and is not guaranteed accurate. For an up-to-date maintained list, find the "Memoriam" file posted in the Facebook group: Remembering Our Chatsworth Friends ]

Class of 1972
Allen Lewis Medford Jr ~ passed June 17, 2007 (Tucson)
Barbara "Pixie" Roon Young ~ passed August 2006
Barry Fruchtman ~ (from 'In Memoriam' in 1972 yearbook) January 24, 1972
Bradley James Gebhardt~ passed July 20, 1976
Carol Antoinette Kreuzer (Lahmann) ~ passed February 26 2005 (documented)
Cheryl Jean Corsini ~ passed October 26, 2020
Cheryl Jones Rowley ~ passed October 27, 2021 (heart failure due to sepsis in an infected bone in her foot. Cheryl had been battling diabetes for 56 years)
Christie Galbraith ~ (from 'In Memoriam' in the 1972 yearbook) passed November 26, 1970
Christophe F DePaul ~ passed December 1, 1990
Chuck Smith ~ from liver cancer on July 10, 2010
Cynthia Anne Grove (Sullivan) ~ passed July 2018 in her sleep.
Daniel Mac McAlpin ~ passed August 21, 2020 (natural causes)
David Baime ~ April 10, 1988 (doc)
Daniel Scott Cua ~ passed in 2022
David Gary Benson ~ passed November 26, 2010 (heart attack)
David Byrne ~ passed 2010 (liver failure)
David Gibbs ~ passed 2/10/2013, helicopter crash in Acton (documented)
David Allen Holmes ~ passed September 4, 2020 (of natural causes in his sleep)
David Kenyon Steinman ~ passed June 10, 2007
David Webb ~ passed February 7, 2018 (natural causes)
Dawn Gail Valanas (Moser) ~ passed February 7, 2020
Deborah Anne Buffum (Eisenman) ~ January 20, 2009 (documented)
Debra Jean Nowlin ~ (brain aneurysm) passed January 21, 2022
Denise Edell ~ passed 2010
Donald Kenneth Eisenhauer ~ passed December 4, 2007
Donna Kiningham ~ passed December 23, 2015 (cancer)
Doug Plucknett ~ passed July 5, 2012, (liver problem)
Edward Casanova ~ passed December 8, 2018 (during heart sugery)
Edward Marxmiller ~ passed December 13, 2019
Eldon Kern ~ passed in 1973 in a car accident in Colorado
Eric O'Reilly ~ passed January 27, 2010
Eugene "Zombie" Higgins ~ passed in September 2021
Franci Urgenson Pascal ~ passed April 1997
Gary Crawford ~ passed August 20, 2021
Gary Arnold Duitsman ~ passed approx 1982 (suicide)
Gary Francesconi ~ passed May 26, 1995 (doc)
Gary Sholund Richards ~ passed July 18, 2023 (Merkle Cell carcinoma)
Greg Meadville ~ passed December 1980
Greg Miller ~ passed in his sleep on October 1, 2011
Gordon Hauptfleisch ~ passed April 20, 2013, after an extended illness.
Heidi Wertheim ~
James Stout ~ passed March 31, 1999
Jane Leonard ~ passed 1996 (multiple sclerosis)
Jeanne Stoneburner - passed 2014 (heart failure)
Jeff McGowan~
Jon Jones ~ passed 3/6/2010
Joni M Smith (Goldstein) ~ passed November 11, 1999
Judy Eileen Myatt Kozeluh ~ passed July 6, 2012 (passed in her sleep)
Karen Werfield Vermeersch ~ passed November 14, 2013 (lung cancer)
Kathryn Margaret Coleman ~ passed May 4, 2023
Katherine Bjork ~ January 1, 1998 (melanoma cancer)
Katherine Fagan ~
Kathleen Kennedy~ passed 11/29/81 - was murdered in Santa Barbara by a bartender.
Kathryn Reo Sciortino ~ passed 2007
Kelly Lynne Watson Daily ~ passed September 8, 2014
Kenneth Fisken ~ passed in mid-May 2021
Kenneth Wright Gandee ~ passed June 19, 1982.
Kevin Wood ~ passed April 29, 1970 (pulmonary hemorrhage, a few months after developing rheumatoid fever)
Kim Diane Kozlowski Dudley ~ passed approx 2005
Kimberly A. Smitley ~ passed October 23, 1994
Larry Oberhaus ~ passed in early 2016
Laurie Lewandowski Hemp ~ passed 9/13/2008 (Surgery complications)
Laurie Radwick Hale ~ passed June 2, 2018 (cancer)
Mark Grinoli ~ passed February 22, 1991 (Murdered)
Mary Ann Grznar ~ passed March 3, 1975
Mary Ann Lackey Pinkert ~ passed on May 1, 2012.
Michael Hollis ~ passed October 7, 1980
Michael John McNally ~ passed August 1, 2017 (complications of COPD)
Michael Patterson ~ passed approx 2005
Michael Richman ~ passed August 16, 2002
Michael (Mike) Schrag ~ passed September 2, 2021 (Covid)
Nick Kitchak ~ passed June 1986, in Kern County
Pamela Sue Barnes Macaluso ~ passed Mar 31, 1997 (Murder victim at Vandenberg AFB)
Patti Piraino ~ (heart disease)
Paul Byron Clark ~ passed December 1996
Phil Stephen Dubin ~ passed in San Mateo July 29, 1984 (possibly a car crash)
Rachael Cooke ~ (staph infection following surgery)
Ralph Garcia ~ passed July 1, 2011, (cancer)
Rian Wellerstein Smith '72 ~ passed September 25th, 2023 (ovarian cancer)
Richard Bersinger ~ passed February 1, 2023
Richard Kay ~ passed in 1982 (cancer) He was 28 years old.
Richard Levinson ~ passed (during back surgery)
Richard Harris ~ passed January 10, 2005 (heart attack)
Robert Boyd ~ passed February 21, 2007 (multiple organ failure)
Robert Wentworth Hayes ~ passed June 7, 2023 (after a long illness)
Robert William Jarnagin ~ passed December 2003
Robert Jenkins ~
Robert ‘Robin’ Martin Hastings ~ passed September 6, 2021 (pancreatic cancer)
Robert Stewart ~ passed May 1985 (complications from cancer)
Robert Dean Widener ~ passed February 22, 1977 (leukemia)
Rocky Cook ~ passed approx 2005 (cancer) (was in our class at Lawrence)
Rod Branscum ~ passed in a car accident in 1973
Ron MacMaster III ~ (noted in '76 memoriam) (suicide jump from Colorado Bridge)
Ron Neville ~ passed September 2012 (cancer)
Ron Vanicek ~ passed January 3, 1978 (in a car accident) (Also shown in the '78 yearbook memoriam)
Roy Edward Snyder ~ passed November 1, 2017, at age 62.
Russell Lee Jossey ~ passed in July 2015 in Licking, OH.
Scott Bauer ~
Scott Bufkin ~ passed June 30, 1974, in Los Angeles. (brain hemorrhage)
Scott Hamilton ~ passed March 5, 1986
Scott Rubenstein~ passed March 28, 1978 (suicide) (Also listed in the '78 yearbook memoriam)
Sharon Bielicki ~
Shaun Webster ~ passed in 2010 (according to a Sutter list, needs confirmation)
Stephen Andrew Lisbin ~ passed away on September 2, 2002. (heart attack)
Susan Ellis Walton ~ passed in 2004 (suicide)
Susan Ward ~ passed in 2011 (from cancer two days after her 57th birthday)
Teresa Dixson Thornburgh ~
Teri Robin Randall ~ passed May 16, 2009, at the age of 46
Terry Lee Ann Shiner ~ passed November 12, 2011
Theresa Martinez ~ passed 7/28/2011 (suicide)
Vicki Lynn Reynolds (Britt) ~ passed December 6, 2011, at age 56
Vincent Kelly ~ passed December 12, 2021 (confirmation needed)
Wade Long ~ Canyon High School, passed November 2010
Warren Wisotzky ~ passed September 30, 1975 (noted in '76 yearbook memoriam)
Wendell (Jay, J.R.) Franklin ~ passed August 2016 (cancer)
William Austin Walker ~ passed August 20, 1995 (age 41)
Woody Hernandez ~

Class of 1973
Albert Jenkins ~
Andrew (Drew) Reid Scally ~ passed April 25, 1990
Anthony Michael Jackson ~ passed April 16, 2018
Armando Real ~ passed March 27, 2023 (from a type of Non-Hodskins Lymphoma)
Barbara Wetzel ~ passed June 11, 2011
Barth Betsalel ~
Bob Greenwood ~ (fire)
Brian Ling ~
Brock Husted ~
Bryan Nestor~
Byron Thady (Thad) Dormire ~ passed January 31, 2020, in Windsor CO (passed in his sleep)
Casey Bonnewell ~ passed mid-September 2012 in Indiana
Cherie Bigbee ~ passed February 1, 2020
Cheryl Cameron Betyar ~ passed 2-3-04, (auto accident)
Chris Souza ~ passed June 10, 2017 (brain tumor)
Craig McCarty ~ passed 1998 or 2000 (motorcycle accident)
Coleen Stack ~ passed 1977 (car accident)
Connie Sue Winter ~ passed February 13, 2010, in Madera, CA (confirmation requested)
Cully Anderson ~
Curtis Vig ~ passed February 17, 2017 (heart attack)
Daniel Joseph Azar ~ passed January 6, 2018 (heart attack)
Daniel Krekelberg ~ passed 1984 (from Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Daniel Lamping ~ (from 'In Memoriam' in 1972 yearbook) (drowning)
David Jacobson ~ passed November 2019 (cancer)
David Oller ~ passed passed suddenly July 16, 2023
David Saliano ~ passed 2019 (complications related to cancer)
Deborah Lee Moore ~
Diane Davis ~ passed June 12, 2012 (liver failure)
Diane Lynne Johnson Garrett ~ passed away around 1998 (brain aneurysm)
Richard "Duff" Thrasher~
Donna Carrington ~ passed 2008
Douglas Bowen Inman ~ passed approx 2000
Earl Deever Jr ~
Eric Blond ~ passed November 21, 2014 (pancreatic cancer)
Eric William Hillman ~ passed May 11, 2017 (cancer)
Gary Reiter ~
George T Corpodian ~ passed April 16, 2003, at the age of 48
George M Greeley ~ passed August 6, 2006
Glenn C Baxter ~ passed September 25, 2009
Gordon D. Kenney ~ passed April 28, 2010 (throat cancer)
Gregg W Petticord ~ passed June 17, 2023
Henry Gordon~
Jack Lee Messersmith ~ passed May 19, 2020
Jack Wilson~ passed April 23, 2013, (heart attack)
James Lawrence Hunter Schell (Larry) ~ passed August 22, 2016 (approx)
James Walter Kunkle ~ passed April 16, 2022 (cancer)
Jared Rule ~
Jay (Maxwell) Erwin-Grotsky ~ passed November 27, 2017 (influenza Type B)
Jeff Gartiser ~
Jeffery Scott Trevillyan ~ passed April 29, 2019 (suicide, ‘Hari-Kari style’)
Jody Lewis ~ passed 2016
Jody Meisel ~ passed November 21, 2022
John Ferrin ~ passed early 90's (Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
John Kong Jr ~ passed at 19 years old (noted in the '76 yearbook memoriam)
John Michael Rapoza ~ passed January 10, 2016
Julie Pelton ~
Kathleen Annette Bilyeu (Martin) ~passed August 30, 2011
Kathryn Ellis (Vance) passed October 2018, 10 years post-stroke
Kelly Donahue~ passed 2010
Kim Stasinos ~ car rollover, possibly prior to 1993
Kirk Terry ~ (noted in '76 yearbook memoriam)
Laurie Clayton ~
Lynne Ann Haug ~ passed July 16, 2003 (hit by a car in Santa Monica)
Marie Bagdasarian ~ passed April 27, 2023 (cancer)
Mark R Borgman ~ passed July 11, 2003, born November 23, 1955.
Mark Doderlein ~
Mark Robert Schieve ~ passed August 13, 2002
Mark Fleming ~
Marc Shultz ~ passed in 2009 (H1N1 virus)
Mary Savoie ~ (from 'In Memoriam' in 1972 yearbook)
Michael A Fanucchi ~ passed March 30, 2006, after an extended illness
Michele Clemens ~ passed 2011
Pete Smith ~
Phillip Young ~ passed August 1, 2020, in his sleep
Raymond Lyon ~ passed May 17, 2006
Ricardo ‘Rick’ Presta ~ (ALS)
Richard Laird ~ passed in 1978 (car crash)
Robert Booker ~ passed (choking on food)
Robert Paul "Robby" Turner ~ passed July 29, 2022
Rory Markas ~ passed January 4, 2010 (apparent heart attack)
Rosemary Moran ~ passed November 13, 1970 (car crash at Oakwood Cemetery) (from 'In Memoriam' in 1972 yearbook)
Roy Fells
Russell Thomas Deyo ~ passed May 24, 2002
Scott Doudy ~ passed 2016 (heart attack)
Scott Hensel ~ passed September 27, 2019
Shari Rudd ~ passed 11/20/2008 (ovarian cancer and scleroderma)
Sharon Ann Shinbo ~ passed December 1993
Shawn McDonough McKeown ~ passed September 27, 2019 (cancer)
Stan Morris~ stomach cancer ~ passed in 2001
Stephen Lee Paul ~ passed November 8, 1996
Steve Cannon ~
Steve Cross~ passed 1985, heroin overdose
Steven Preston DuCharme ~ passed May 6, 2009, at age 53
Sue Nalbandian ~ (breast cancer)
Sue Horvath ~
Sue "Sioux" Selsky Seifert ~ passed in 2017 (sepsis)
Terry Talley ~ passed July 21, 2015
Theresa (Tess) Saetta ~ passed July 15, 2018
Tim Schlueter~ passed January 12, 1991
Tom Bauer ~
Wendi Weiss Cooper Maronati ~ passed August 28, 2022 (peacefully, surrounded by family)
William Hogg ~
William Lager ~
William Ryder ~
William (Bill) Weems~ passed on September 11, 2000 (2nd plane, Flight 175)