As a young boy growing up in Dunsmuir during the Great Depression, Nicola “Nick” Girimonte helped put food on the family table by selling fruit to Southern Pacific railroad passengers. That initiative, work ethic...
Category: Feature Obituary
It is with the greatest of sorrow that I share the sad news that Bill Siemer, an A News Cafe.com friend and contributor, died Sunday. He was 72. When I think of Bill I...
William Earl Siemer: October 16, 1944 to November 13, 2016. Poet, naturalist, photographer, writer, journalist, attorney, peace activist, actor, husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle were among the roles that engaged and endeared William “Bill”...
Karen Joy Stephens died at her home in Redding on Oct. 30 after a decade-long battle with three bouts of cancer. She was 77. Born Karen Joy Johnson on Aug. 20, 1939 in Moline,...
Margaret G. “Peggy” Mallory, passed away on June 13, 2016 at the age of 91 in Redding, California. She was born May 23, 1925, in Marysville, Montana and spent her early years in Oakland...
Alex Woodman was my son’s favorite teacher.
A few weeks ago, Alex Woodman died suddenly at 59. It’s taken time to process, for me and for the whole community. There are no words to describe this man, but because he loved stories, and words are where I go when I’m trying to understand things, I offer these up.
The second youngest of nine children, Isaac Jefferson Lowe was born on Sept. 15, 1921 in Wharton, Texas. She quickly learned that if you wanted something, you have to work and fight for it.
Jaimie Maileilani Chamberlain-Lord, formerly of Redding, died in Glendale, California, on Dec. 12, 2014, after a short illness. She was 57. Jaimie was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Oct. 28, 1957. She was Donald and...
Joann Lockwood, 74, passed away peacefully at home with her family by her side on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 in Redding, California. Joann was born in Redding to Ira M. Shadwell and Jane Brouillard....
The historic Bystle House in Old Shasta, California, still stands, yet after a struggle with complications from cancer, Dan Charles Bystle, a Shasta County native son of the pioneer Daniel Potter Bystle family, left...
