A beloved volunteer at an adult assisted-living center. A dad who would always "find the funny" in tough situations. A volunteer firefighter who died far from home while battling a blaze in the North Bay. A couple who had celebrated 75 years together.
They were among the 44 people who perished in the series of monstrous, wind-driven wildfires that brought death and destruction to huge swaths of Northern California, devastating communities in Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties. On this final day of 2017, as we look back on the year and a tragedy that touched so many, we remember those who died, the lives they lived and those they touched along the way.
Here are their stories.
Karen Aycock: 'She Had a Big Heart, Was Always There to Help'
Karen Aycock, a former construction worker who lived alone in Santa Rosa in her Coffey Park home with her cats, died in the Tubbs Fire that devastated the neighborhood.
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When Aycock’s niece, Victoria Rilling, learned of her aunt’s death, she felt “heartbreak, utter dismay,” she told The Press Democrat. She was also thankful for the efforts to locate Aycock. “They didn’t give up. Their perseverance is phenomenal.”
Aycock volunteered with animal rescue groups and her cats meant the world to her, Chad Hinden, a former roommate, told the San Francisco Chronicle. She was shy “but she had a big heart,” he said. “If you needed anything, she’d always be there to help you.”
Michel Azarian: A Creative, Globetrotting Engineer With ‘the Kindest Heart’
Michel Azarian, 41, died on Nov. 26 at UC Davis Medical Center from extensive burns he suffered when the Tubbs Fire trapped him outside his home on the outskirts of Santa Rosa.
People who knew him describe Azarian as a natural engineer -- his mind was the right mix of creative and analytical. His talents brought him from tragedy in war-torn Lebanon to the United States, Silicon Valley and eventually Santa Rosa.
Azarian’s father and uncle were killed in the mid-1980s during the Lebanese civil war, his friend Khachik Papanyan said in a phone interview. The family business was destroyed in a bombing.
Azarian helped his mother rebuild and worked in a shop selling bedding in his hometown of Zahle, Lebanon, but he dreamed of attending the American University of Beirut.
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He found out the only way he’d have a shot at getting in was an exceptionally high SAT score.
“He was a smart enough guy where he was able to get an amazing score on the test and get admitted,” Papanyan said. “However, that wasn’t enough. They didn’t have enough funds to cover the tuition for the first year.”
Azarian sold land left to him by his father, invested, and sold again, eventually generating enough money to cover his first year’s tuition. He majored in electrical engineering and started earning scholarships.
In 2002, Azarian was recruited to work for National Instruments in Austin, Texas, where he met Papanyan.
“We went to an event, actually a lecture about Greek architecture, and somehow I think I asked a question related to Armenia,” Papanyan said. Azarian, whose father was Armenian, approached Papanyan after the lecture. “That’s how we struck our friendship in Austin, and we’ve been best friends since then.”
Azarian spent eight years in Austin, designing radio technology and other wireless circuitry.
“He was extremely gifted when it came to problem-solving,” said Papanyan, who worked for Dell at the time. “The regular puzzles it would take me a day to solve, he could solve it in the blink of an eye.”
Outside of work, Azarian’s passions led him away from circuit boards and into nature. Papanyan said his friend was elated when he got a new job -- for Linear Technology -- and moved to San Jose in 2014.
“He loved to travel. He loved photography. He loved hiking quite a bit,” Papanyan said. He added that Azarian told him he’d hiked almost every weekend in Silicon Valley and “never had to repeat a trail.”
But he left a community of friends in Texas, including one associated with the Armenian Church of Austin.
“For those of you who had the pleasure of knowing Michel, he had the kindest heart and an incredible lust for life,” wrote Mihran Aroian, parish council chairman for the church, in an announcement of Azarian’s death. “He was also an active globetrotter and a brilliant photographer. He had a robust appreciation both for the quiet beauty in nature, along with fun adventures and laughter with friends.”
Azarian’s Instagram feed contains a mix of landscape photography, vibrant natural close-ups and some urban/architectural shots. Papanyan said the bulk of Azarian’s photos are believed to have been stored on his home computer, destroyed in the fire.
He moved to Santa Rosa about two years ago, Papanyan said, and took a new job with Keysight Technologies there.
Papanyan said he wasn’t sure whether Azarian was at home on Oct. 8, the night the fires hit Santa Rosa, or if he was outdoors and trapped by the wind-whipped wall of flames that roared across the hills from Calistoga.
Either way, he couldn’t get out, and appears to have tried to take shelter in a small clearing near his home. That’s where he was discovered the next day, with severe burns on more than half his body.
“It’s just amazing that he was able to survive the whole night being surrounded by the firestorm,” Papanyan said.
Thus began some six weeks of hospital visits to Azarian’s bedside at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Azarian couldn’t talk -- his throat was blocked by a ventilator.
“The only way he could communicate was with his hand,” Papanyan said. “He would actually write out the letters and we would try to decode what he was saying.”
A family friend went to Lebanon to bring Azarian’s mother to his bedside. She had been with him for the past few weeks, Papanyan said.
Keysight Technologies helped support his mother’s room and travel, according to friends and high-ranking executives, who joined her in Azarian’s hospital room many times.
He died Sunday, according to information from Cal Fire, UC Davis Medical Center and the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office.
“He was an intelligent, fun-loving, nature-loving guy that always had a broad smile on his face, was always there for his friends,” Papanyan said. “He’s now in the heavens, and he will be with us in our memories forever. It was an honor, a great honor, knowing him.”
Carmen Caldentey Berriz: Beloved Mother and Grandmother
Carmen Caldentey Berriz, 75, died in the arms of her husband, Armando Berriz, a man from whom she’d been inseparable since they met in Cuba when they were young. The couple, married 55 years, had been on vacation with family in Santa Rosa when the Tubbs Fire erupted.
When their car got stuck on a fallen tree as they fled, the pair decided to seek shelter in a swimming pool at the vacation home where they’d been staying. Carmen held onto Armando, who was keeping them afloat by hanging onto the sides of the pool, KTVU reported. She died in the pool.
"Everything they did was as a team," daughter Monica Ocon told KTVU. "They had this bond and this strength that literally lasted a lifetime."
Berriz, from Apple Valley in San Bernardino County, is survived by her husband; daughter Monica Ocon and her son-in-law, Luis Ocon; daughter Carmen T. Berriz; son Armando J. Berriz and daughter-in-law Catherine Berriz; and seven grandchildren, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“I talked to her every day,” Monica Ocon told the Chronicle. “It’s an amazing bond that I had with her. I will forever try to be like her.”
'They Were Holding Each Other': Roy and Irma Bowman of Redwood Valley
The past two years were not the easiest of Roy and Irma Bowman's more than half-century together. Roy needed triple-bypass heart surgery early in 2016, a procedure that required a long convalescence. Family members had to persuade Irma to leave his bedside to eat and sleep.
"She would spend the night there if we wouldn't have made her go home," said Elizabeth Bowman, who is married to the Bowmans' son, Gary, and lives in Medford, Oregon.
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Earlier this year, Roy Bowman suffered a stroke that put him back in the hospital and left him struggling to speak.
"He knew who we were and would try to say our names," said Elizabeth Bowman. "The fact he couldn't talk was very rough on him. He would get agitated, so he worked very hard on regaining his speech.
The Bowmans — Irma was 88, Roy was 87 — were still emerging from that crisis last month when a wildfire charged across a nearby ridge and toward their home in a development set amid vineyards and oak woodlands in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley, north of Ukiah.
All 22 homes in the development burned in the fire early Oct. 9. The Bowmans were among nine people killed or fatally injured in a 1.5-mile-long corridor along Tomki and West roads.
"They must have been in bed," Elizabeth Bowman said. "The fire marshal told us that they were holding each other when they found their remains."
The Bowmans are remembered as intensely devoted to their family, to their churches and to each other. They had been members of the Assembly of God congregations in both Ukiah and Redwood Valley and were well-known and loved for their usually unadvertised generosity.
"They were very dedicated to the Lord and very dedicated to their church," said the Rev. Jack McMilin, pastor of the Redwood Valley Assembly of God. "Any time there was a need or any time there was a campaign for something, they always wanted to be involved as far as supporting it financially."
McMilin said that at a memorial service for the Bowmans, members of the congregation talked about how the couple had helped them with various needs -- in one case, for instance, paying the tuition for a family that was otherwise unable to send its children to a local religious school.
"When I pass away, I'd like to be that well spoken of," McMilin said. "It was pretty amazing the things people said."
Roy Howard Bowman was born in 1930, the descendant of Oregon pioneers, and graduated from Oregon State University in 1954 with a bachelor of science degree in general agriculture. He served in the Air Force, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After his military service, he worked as a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He's listed as the author and editor of several Soil Conservation Service studies of California counties, including San Diego, Santa Cruz, Placer and eastern Mendocino.
Irma Elsie Wobschall was born to a German-American family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1929. She emigrated to San Diego by 1950, married, had two sons, and divorced. She later studied art at Palomar Junior College, in the northern San Diego County town of San Marcos.
Elizabeth Bowman said Irma met Roy at a square dance in San Marcos. They dated for a year or so and were married June 13, 1965. After the wedding, Roy formally adopted Irma's sons — Gary and Mark — "and gave them his name," Bowman said.
She added that her late mother-in-law was a creative force — a skilled visual artist and an accomplished baker and chef.
When Elizabeth and Gary Bowman married, "She made our wedding cake -- a four-tier wedding cake. It was wonderful -- she was very artistic and could bake anything."
Elizabeth Bowman said the family is still grappling with its grief over the deaths — a process she doesn't expect to end anytime soon.
"It's going to take time," she said. "It's going to take a long time."
George Chaney and Edward Stone Loved Traveling and Collecting Art
Napa Valley resident Don Judah said he was out on his deck sometime between 9:30 and 10 p.m. on Oct. 8 when he noticed fire coming down the ridgeline across the valley.
"I told my wife, 'Call George to get his ass out of there now,' " Judah said.
Judah's wife, Margaret, called their good friend George Chaney, 89, who lived with his lifelong partner, Edward Stone, 79, on Atlas Peak Road.
The area has a history of fires. Chaney’s shed had burned down in swept the countryside in 1981, but his house survived.
Margaret Judah got through to Chaney on the phone. He told her he couldn’t see anything. She said he and Edward would come to their house.
Fifteen minutes later, she phoned again to see if he’d left the house yet.
“He says, ‘Margaret, my house is on fire,' ” Don said. Then the line went dead.
Don and Margaret tried to get up the hill to see if they could help Chaney and Stone, their friends of nearly half a century, get out. Within a mile of their house, the fire was so intense the two had to turn back.
On Thursday, Oct. 12, Don got word from officials that George Chaney and Edward Stone had died in their home.
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Originally from Texas, Chaney moved to Napa in 1958 to work as a radiologist at the newly opened Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa. Don met Chaney in 1960, when Chaney hired him to work in the radiology department.
"He was an excellent physician and radiologist," Don remembered. "He just had a manner about him that was always kind of calm. He wasn’t a volatile person at all."
Don said Chaney's leadership helped keep Queen of the Valley's radiology department on the cutting edge of medical imaging technology.
"He knew where we were going, and he wanted to do the best he could for the patients," Don said.
Chaney's partner, Stone, worked for Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco.
After Chaney and Stone retired, Don said, they spent a lot of time traveling together to Europe, Asia and Africa. Don and his wife often joined them.
"I know they really enjoyed travel," he said. "I would say the two enjoyed classical music and artwork. George had an Asian art collection with Chinese screens and Japanese sculptures."
Don said the pair had excellent senses of humor.
"The thing about most of the dear friends I have is there’s a bond you have," Don said. "Humor is what hangs us together and keeps us together."
Carol Collins-Swasey Remembered for Her 'Wicked Sense of Irreverent Humor'
Carol Collins-Swasey was known by close family and friends as an independent, strong-willed woman with a “wicked sense of irreverent humor.”
And in typical fashion, she insisted on writing her own obituary.
“She didn’t want them saying a bunch of flowery crap about her,” said Staci Peyer-Reupke, a close friend. “She just wanted it to be funny.”
“If you are reading this, I am dead,” she wrote in the obituary that her family incorporated into a larger one published in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. “And no, I did not look this good when I checked out.”
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Collins-Swasey, 76, a Santa Rosa real estate agent and former journalist, died on Oct. 9 in her Hemlock Street home near Coffey Park in the Tubbs Fire that devastated her neighborhood. Her husband of 27 years, Jim Swasey, was out of town.
Born in January 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky, Collins-Swasey grew up with three brothers, and bounced between her divorced parents’ homes in Georgia and Chicago.
In the obituary the family published, one brother remembered her as "a bit glamorous and a bit demanding, but always magic.”
Collins-Swasey went on to study journalism at the University of Iowa, and after working briefly as a journalist in Los Angeles, headed north, She eventually settled in Santa Rosa, where she lived for the remaining 30 years of her life, working as a Century 21 residential real estate agent.
“I was blessed with some talents and was successful in several professional fields,” she said in her obituary notes. But she added: “I never stayed long with anything -- jobs, houses, husbands or friends -- until moving to Sonoma County.”
Collins-Swasey was an avid traveler and a committed community volunteer, most recently helping out at Sutter Hospice Thrift Store on Sundays.
Her friend Peyer-Reupke, a regular at the thrift store, said she was drawn to Collins-Swasey’s giving nature and fun-loving personality. “I think that’s what I’m really going to miss the most,” she said. “She once told me she didn’t want a memorial service when she died. She wanted a party.”
Collins-Swasey underscored that wish in her obituary notes: “Instead of feeling obligated to attend a memorial service -- and there won't be one -- contribute to a charity of your choice, and give a friend an extra hug today.”
In addition to her husband and brothers, Collins-Swasey is survived by a son and multiple stepchildren.
Stanley Coolidge, a Noted Attorney Who Loved Riding a Motorcycle
Stanley Coolidge leaves behind a legacy as a noted attorney, loving father and grandfather, short story writer and prolific volunteer.
According to his obituary in Marysville's Appeal Democrat, Coolidge was 78 when he died at his Yuba County home in Loma Rica on Oct. 9 during the Cascade Fire. His obit reports that he was with his fiancee, Roseann Hannah, who also died in the fire.
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Born in San Francisco on May 17, 1939, Coolidge, who went by "Stan," earned his law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall and was admitted to the bar in 1965.
Coolidge had three children. One son, Andrew Coolidge, told KRCR News that he and his father spoke nearly every other day.
"This fire was a complete tragedy," Andrew Coolidge told the television station. "It was fast and it was terrible and I know a lot of people are concerned about the property damage, but when you're dealing with losing someone close to you, losing a loved one, it really makes all of that other stuff very much not important."
Stanley Coolidge's obituary tells the story of a man who dedicated his life to volunteering and giving back to others. According to his obituary, he also loved to ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and was a longtime member of The Americans Motorcycle Club, which raises funds to cure childhood cancer.
A joint service was held for Coolidge and Hannah on Nov. 3 at Veterans Memorial Hall in Yuba City.
Janet Kay Costanzo was warm, smart, spunky and a real trailblazer, her friends said.
“She wanted to work a man’s job so she could make a man’s wage," said Reeah Winkle, who was 8 years old when she met Costanzo. “And that’s what she did. She drove trucks at Pac Bell, just like my dad.”
Costanzo lived in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley with Steve Stelter, Winkle’s father. Both died in the October wildfires that swept through Mendocino County.
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Costanzo, 71, was found inside her home in Redwood Valley. Stelter, 56, was found near a vehicle. The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said it appears he was attempting to evacuate.
Costanzo had lived in the valley for about 10 years and it suited her outdoorsy personality, Winkle said. “She was a very smart woman; she knew a lot about everything.”
One of Winkle’s first memories of Costanzo was the time she was allowed to ride her horse.
“She was around horses all of her life,” said Robert Costanzo, who dated Janet in the 1970s.
He remembers Janet as a “warm, friendly, outgoing person.” The two lived together in her mother’s house on Coolidge Avenue in Oakland. She took Robert’s last name in order to get health insurance at the time, he said. She kept the name for the rest of her life.
Her dad lived in Southern California on several acres of land and had a few horses, Robert recalls. “She used to like to do dressage and trail rides,” he said.
Janet Costanzo also bred cats. She had a parrot and two dogs, Riot and Annie.
She and Stelter moved from Oakland to her aunt’s property in Redwood Valley roughly 10 years ago. "They had a lot of land up there,” said Steve's brother, Doug Stelter.
Doug moved into a trailer on the property about five years ago. The three of them would go on walks together, watch television -- "American Pickers" and "Deadliest Catch" were favorites -- and they would take turns cooking dinner and then eat together almost every night, said Doug.
"She was a good person," he said.
“They were taken from our lives too soon," said Winkle. "We love them very much and they remain in our hearts."
David Patrick Culp, 76, a Vietnam veteran, died on Oct. 10 in the Cascade Fire that swept through his Loma Rica neighborhood in Yuba County.
“People came by and told him it’s getting too close, he had to leave, but being the stubborn vet that he was, he decided to stay with his equipment, figuring he could stop it,” Mike Saala, a friend, told CBS Sacramento.
Culp piloted UH-1 “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War, according to an obituary on the website of the Foothill Lions and Lioness Club in Marysville. He was a regular at the club on Thursday nights.
“He will be missed ... there will be a vacant spot,” Saala said.
Michael Dornbach Was Searching for His ‘Little Piece of Heaven’
Michael Dornbach came to California with his family when he was just 10 years old. They settled in the small West Marin town of Inverness, where he learned how to fish for salmon on Tomales Bay. His mother, Maria Triliegi, said he became a great fisherman, always winning the jackpot in any competition he entered.
Triliegi remembered how much her son loved the water. Not just the ocean, but lakes and rivers, too.
“That’s why he was so anxious to get his little piece of heaven,” she said.
Dornbach, 57, lived in San Pedro but came to Northern California in October, searching for that piece of heaven. The family was hoping to buy a small piece of land close to the Klamath River, someplace where he could build a cabin, fish, plant a garden and watch the stars at night.
Triliegi said he wanted to live out in the open, like the guys in his favorite movie, “Lonesome Dove.” But he didn’t want to be all alone out there.
“The cabin would have enough room for his mom and family members to come and stay,” Triliegi said. “His family was everything to him.”
Dornbach was staying with family on an 18-acre property in rural Calistoga when the October Tubbs Fire tore through and claimed his life. Triliegi said. “My biggest sadness is that the land he loved so much, in the finality of it all, took him.”
Dornbach is survived by his mother; a brother, Joshua Triliegi; a sister, Laura Dornbach; as well as aunts, uncles and cousins.
Valerie Lynn Evans loved horses. She grew up around them as a child and continued to raise and show horses as an adult. That was one reason she was so happy in her home on Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa -- she had space for her horses and plenty of beautiful places to ride.
“She was a real cowboy-type girl,” said her husband, Houston G. Evans Sr., who himself spent time working as a rodeo cowboy. In fact, that’s how the two met.
It was Nov. 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was shot. Houston was scheduled for a rodeo in Las Vegas that was canceled because of the assassination, so he drove to Los Angeles to see if he could work a rodeo there instead. He approached a group of people talking out front, one of whom he knew, and met Valerie. They went to a party together and were soon dating, marrying a few years later.
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In the early morning hours of Oct. 9, the couple woke to a fire outside their window. Houston said they had only a few minutes to get out of the house.
Valerie wanted to save the horse trailer parked in the yard, so her husband, who is 88 years old and suffers from gout, went down the road to get the tractor. When he turned around, the house was an inferno. He rushed back, but Valerie wasn’t where she said she’d be waiting.
“I almost knew instantly that she went back into the house to get the dogs,” Houston said. He fled, barely escaping with his own life. Their son, Houston Evans Jr., and his wife, Victoria, used their knowledge of the back roads around his parents' house to find a way around closures, eventually reaching Evans Sr., who had taken cover behind a shed down the road.
“I haven’t seen anything like this since I was in the war,” the elder Houston said.
Valerie, who was 75 when she died, loved their home in Santa Rosa, working “every kind of dirty lousy job you can think of to pay for this place.”
She operated a Caterpillar tractor at the dump and drove trucks for several companies in the area. She even worked as a dispatcher in Santa Rosa, a job her husband said she had to quit. “It was too much for her to handle, people getting killed and murdered. It would give her nightmares.”
Raising and showing horses was Valerie’s passion. The couple traveled all over the country to compete in horse shows, often bringing home ribbons and trophies. She loved to ride in the beautiful countryside around Santa Rosa and in the Southern California mountains when the couple lived there.
“She enjoyed life," her husband said. "She enjoyed friends; she enjoyed nature.”
Valerie Lynn Evans is survived by her husband, Houston G. Evans Sr.; a son, Houston G. Evans Jr.; and her daughter-in-law, Victoria Evans. The family plans to hold a memorial service for Valerie sometime in the spring.
Barbara Jane Gardiner and Elizabeth Charlene Foster: A Creative Soul and Her Caregiver
The walls and halls of Barbara Jane Gardiner’s Mendocino County home in Redwood Valley were her museum.
Gardiner was a creative soul, according to her obituary in the Ukiah Daily Journal. From the beaded earrings to the knitted crafts, her personality was as vibrant as the colors she chose in her personal art pieces. She collect painted glass art and fashionable handbags. Her needlework was intricate, along with the never-conforming art she made.
According to her obituary in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Barbara Jane Gardiner moved to Redwood Valley with her husband Eugene Vincent Gardiner about 1980.
On Oct. 9 at 1 a.m., she called her stepson, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department, to tell him that fire had surrounded her home. She was with her caregiver, Elizabeth Charlene Foster.
Foster was 64 years old. The two lived together on Tomki Road in Redwood Valley.
According to the county sheriff’s department, Gardiner told her stepson that she and Foster were waiting for the fire department to evacuated them from their home. They didn’t survive.
“Her signature smile and high-pitch, jolly laugh will echo in the hearts of those who loved her,” said Barbara Jane Gardiner’s Ukiah Daily Journal obituary.
Mike Grabow 'Instantly Made People Feel Better About Themselves'
The morning before the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa, Mike Charles Grabow was in a local bar giving away hope bracelets. He'd bought them for friends as a way to donate to breast cancer research.
Grabow's sister, Lindsay Osier, said he often gave generously to those around him.
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“He was always giving money to charities and wherever he could find ways to help out,” Osier said. “He didn’t require anything back. It was all freely given.”
Grabow was 40 when he died. Osier misses her brother’s hugs.
“The hugs that he gave me would take all of the problems away,” she said. “He just instantly made people feel better about themselves and encouraged you to be a better human being.”
Grabow lived in Northern California for the past five years and had a tight-knit circle of friends. They remember his energy and his love of craft beer.
“I’ll remember him for how much he loved everyone around him and how fully he lived his life,” said Rachael Ingram, one of his friends.
Earlier in his life, Grabow lived in the Pacific Northwest. He eventually moved back to Idaho, where he was born and lived for most of his adult life.
He loved the outdoors and found lots of opportunities to enjoy it around Boise. Osier said that when Grabow was young, his grandfather took him fishing a lot, and that is when he was truly the happiest. Grabow also liked to snowboard, hunt and golf.
As for work, he showed his independence by being self-employed in jobs that allowed him to be outside, such as landscaping and construction.
On Oct. 26, friends and family celebrated Grabow at one of his favorite places to grab a beer, Cooperage Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa. They raised money for fire relief efforts in his name.
“There’s a huge community of people that are missing him right now,” Ingram says.
Retired Navy Pilot Arthur Tasman Grant ‘Would Do Anything to Help Somebody Out’
Like his wife, Suiko Grant, Arthur Tasman Grant loved spending time with his granddaughter, Sloane.
The retired Navy lieutenant and Pan Am Airlines captain also relished sitting in the sun watching the birds ride the updrafts, having a beer and sharing his stories about all the years he spent flying airplanes. “Those little things, and his garden, which really was his realm,” says Grant’s daughter, Trina Grant, of her father’s many favorite pastimes.
Grant was 95 at the time of his death in the Tubbs Fire. He and his wife, who also died in the blaze, fled to the wine cellar of their hilltop Santa Rosa home to escape the flames.
He is survived by daughters Tasman Grant of San Francisco and Trina Grant of Denver, as well as his granddaughter.
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Grant grew up in Point Arena on a dairy farm. He had 12 siblings. He joined the Navy during World War II, where he trained as a fighter pilot. After retiring from the military, he worked for Pan Am for 25 years.
Trina Grant remembers her father’s innate kindness. “He would do anything to help somebody out,” Trina Grant says.” In addition to being an accomplished aviator, Trina Grant said, her father was an extraordinary artist.
But cooking wasn’t among his many skills.
Trina Grant fondly remembered the time she was home from college, grievously sick, at age 18. This was before cellphones. Her mom was away, and she needed her father’s help.
“It took me two hours to drag myself along the floor from the bed to the phone, whereupon I finally called him,” Trina Grant said. “He leapt into action, bringing me microwaved mushroom soup that was barely lukewarm and not particularly appetizing. But he came and brought it to me with such good intention, that despite how horrid the soup was, at that moment, it was the best meal I’d ever had.”
Donna and Leroy Halbur Were Always Prepared for an Extra Guest
Donna Mae Kearney was born Aug. 10, 1937, in Iowa City, Iowa. Four days later, LeRoy Halbur came into the world in Roselle, almost due east and 200 miles across the state. They died together, Oct. 9, at their home in the Larkfield area of Santa Rosa, at the age of 80.
In between, they married, had careers, two sons and two grandchildren. Over the years they welcomed many people into their home.
They first met in Iowa, after Leroy was out of the Army and Donna had graduated from college, which she had left a Catholic religious order to attend. They married on Aug. 12, 1967. Some 40 years ago, they moved into the hillside house on Angela Drive, next to a vineyard.
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LeRoy was a CPA and worked for over 30 years at the real estate company Codding Enterprises, becoming a vice president. Donna, with her degree in education, worked as a substitute teacher in elementary schools and later as a reading specialist. He was the serious financial guy, she the creative free spirit, says their son, Tim Halbur.
“They were both Depression-era kids,” he says. “So they always had a full pantry and full freezer and were ready to feed people.” LeRoy, too, had Catholic roots, and he practiced rather than preached a life of service. Three nights a week, he delivered food to the poor.
The couple loved to travel and once a year took the family on a big trip -- Mongolia, the Nile, China. At home, they played pinochle. That was the family game. “Every time we got together, it was the rhythm of our house,” says Halbur. “Eat a meal, clear the table, play some games.”
In August, Donna and LeRoy celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, and for the occasion Tim created a video tribute, in which you can see snapshots of their life together. The song is Glenn Miller’s“ Moonlight Serenade.”
They are survived by their two sons, Tim and David Halbur; their daughters-in-law, Michelle Halbur and Amy Heibel; their grandsons, Travion Jackson and Rowan Halbur; and siblings, Jolene, Linda, Ken, Duane and Glen Halbur; and Cecil, Paul and Marcella Kearney.
Roseann Hannah, Cascade Fire Victim, 'Prided Herself on Being a Great Mom'
Roseann Hannah died in Yuba County's Cascade Fire on Oct. 9. She and her fiance, Stanley Coolidge, loved adventuring together. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, they would ride Coolidge's motorcycle from his home in the community of Loma Rica up the coast to Oregon or to the beach in Mendocino County, where Hannah enjoyed spending time.
The newspaper tribute said Hannah was visiting Coolidge in Loma Rica when they both died in the Cascade Fire. She was 53 years old.
Hannah lived in Grass Valley with her 26-year-old twin sons, Jeffrey and Jordan Hannah. Her obituary said she was a loving mother and friend who "loved her boys and doing things with them and for them."
In addition to her two sons, Hannah is survived by a grandson, Aleczander Hannah.
Christina Hanson shared one thing with everyone — her smile.
"Your smile was infectious," wrote Santa Rosa resident Meg Barry in one of many tributes posted online for the 27-year-old Hanson. "You made my babies laugh, and we relaxed in the sunshine sharing jokes with one another. It was one of those moments where I felt like we’d known each other for a long time even though we’d just met."
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Hanson was well known in her community and was close with her spiritual family at Spring Hills Community Church in Santa Rosa.
Hanson died Oct. 9 at her home on Wikiup Bridge Way in Santa Rosa, a month shy of her 28th birthday. Hanson's apartment in the Mark West Springs neighborhood was overrrun by the Tubbs Fire.
For days she was listed among the missing as her family and friends circulated photos asking for help in locating her.
She was a much loved volunteer at Primrose, a local adult assisted living center specializing in memory care.
"She had a connection with seniors her whole life," said her cousin, Brittney Vinculado. "Maybe it was because of her own mobility issues."
Hanson was born with spina bifida, a spinal condition that affected her mobility and caused her to spend a lot of time in the hospital as a child. She was also very close to her grandmother, Vera Hanson, who passed away earlier this year, and Vinculado said talking and enjoying time with elders came naturally to Hanson.
Her father, Michael Hanson, lived in a separate apartment on the property. He was badly burned in the fire and his family believes he was trying to rescue his daughter when he was overcome by smoke and collapsed outside. He is still recovering from his injuries.
"The fire came down the road and it was in the middle of the night, so people were sleeping and unaware and no evacuations had started. And they were one of the first neighborhoods hit," said Vinculado.
Hanson was very fond of animals and for many years was seen with her guide dog, Zulu, at the side of the wheelchair she used to help her move around.
Most recently she adopted Joey, a terrier mix. The dog managed to make it out of the fire with minor burns on his paws.
In middle school Hanson enjoyed playing basketball on an adaptive sports team. She was known for her love of singing, especially anything by Celine Dion.
"She had a great sense of humor and a very positive attitude," Vinculado said.
Hanson was a talented craftswoman, especially with intricate work involving her hands. She loved making beaded jewelry to give as gifts for friends and family. She also learned American Sign Language, and her family says she was very good at interpreting for people with hearing impairments.
On the online tribute page, Christine O'Neil Frazier wrote: Your wit and wisdom touched everyone. You taught us all how to be better people. The world needed your love and kindness, but heaven needed you more."
Christina Hanson is survived by her father, Michael Hanson of Santa Rosa; her stepmother, Jennifer Watson of Santa Rosa; a grandfather, Richard Hanson of Oakley; and a grandmother, Rose Diaz of Dublin.
The family suggests donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
At 101 Years Old, Tak-Fu Hung Could Still Command a Room
By all accounts, Tak-Fu Hung was a remarkable man. He would have turned 102 on Nov. 25, but instead, his family held his funeral on that day.
Hung died in his Fountaingrove home, on the eastern side of Santa Rosa, a victim of the Tubbs Fire. According to accounts by his family (in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat), he couldn’t get out of his house fast enough as the flames approached. He told his wife of 46 years to flee, and he perished in the fire. She sustained burns but survived.
Born in 1915, Hung held the rank of general with the Chinese Nationalist army defeated by Chinese Communist forces after World War II. Hung fled to Hong Kong and then Taiwan, where he worked as a civil engineer, before moving to the Bay Area, according to his family.
They described him to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat as a man who loved his children and grandchildren and “was really good at commanding a room.” He only recently began using a cane to walk, and “liked a party” according to his daughter, Anne O’Hara.
He is survived by his wife, six children, 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Sitting around a dinner table with Monte Kirven meant an evening of entertaining tales. Maybe he’d talk about the time he scaled cliffs to reach peregrine falcon nests in his efforts to conserve the species.
Or he’d talk about the trips he led to Baja California in Mexico to see gray whales -- including the time he had to patch a car tire using a lighter, tequila and a tooth from a plastic comb.
Sometimes he’d talk about his time in the military, or the birding trips he led to Africa.
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Whatever his tale, whatever his task, Kirven approached all things with passion and intensity.
Kirven died in his home in the Mark Springs West neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9, when the Tubbs Fire consumed his house. He was 81.
Kirven’s love for nature began during his childhood in rural Indiana, where he spent much of his time outdoors. He fished and hunted from a young age. He later turned these passions into his academic focus: He majored in biology at the University of Mississippi, got a master's degree focusing on Caspian and elegant terns at San Diego State University, and later got a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado.
In 1961, he married Valerie Quate and they had three children, raising them mostly in San Diego. His daughter, Kathleen Groppe, recalls a childhood full of adventure. She says her father always spearheaded wildlife rescue projects -- and used their house as a base camp.
She remembers injured ducks, falcons and other birds. Sometimes the animals would be in the backyard, other times they’d take up residence in the bathtub. The goal was to release them back to the wild, but if that couldn’t happen, Kirven would pass the healed animals off to the San Diego Zoo.
Groppe remembers his passion for falcons especially. He worked with them tirelessly and always had one or two of the birds. These experiences sparked Groppe’s own academic pursuits in ecology.
Notably, Kirven was part of a team of scientists who helped show that the use of insecticide DDT led to the thinning of peregrine falcon eggshells. DDT was subsequently banned in 1972.
Still, in 1978, there were only 19 known pairs of these falcons in California.
Kirven’s former employer, the Bureau of Land Management, quotes him saying: “Humans brought these birds to near extinction, and we have a moral obligation to bring them back.”
To rebuild the population, Kirven and colleagues would take peregrine falcon eggs from nests, and replace them with porcelain fakes. The real eggs were hatched at UC Santa Cruz, and then cautiously returned to their home nests and mothers.
Accessing these nests often required scaling steep cliffs, which Kirven did enthusiastically. Through these efforts, the American peregrine falcon was removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife in 1999.
Through the years, Kirven became increasingly passionate about environmental conservation and efforts to curb climate change. He funneled this energy into teaching undergraduates at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.
It’s ironic, his daughter Kathleen Groppe notes, that something he worked to combat -- climate change -- could have contributed to his demise.
Beyond nature, Kirven had an extraordinary love of people. He’d host dinners after returning from fishing or hunting to share his goods. The evening before his death, he threw a celebratory party for friends and workers who had just finished construction of his new roof.
He made them steaks and turkey with stuffing, and he opened a fancy bottle of wine to share. He went to sleep that night content, having lived another day to its fullest.
Monte Kirven is survived by daughter Kathleen Groppe of Lancaster, Texas; sons Kenneth Kirven of San Diego and Brian Kirven of Point Reyes Station; sister Marcia Gray of Helena, Montana; ex-wife Valerie Quate of Poway (San Diego County); and grandchildren Patrick Kirven, Caroline Groppe, Andy Arredondo and Chinzia Pinnamonti.
Sally Lewis, a Napa Native With a Pioneer Spirit, and Her Caregiver, Teresa Santos
A native of the Napa Valley, Sally Lewis died on Oct. 8, when a fire engulfed her Soda Canyon home.
Lewis lived with a pioneer spirit that fit her surroundings. According to the Napa Valley Register, she was an active fisher and hunter. Lewis raised two daughters by herself after the sudden death of her husband. She took over his school bus business and became one of just two female auto dealers in California at the time, the newspaper reported.
Lewis is survived by two daughters, Windermere Tirados and Dixie Lewis. Tirados told the San Francisco Chronicle that her mother was “a down-to-earth person who loved everybody.”
The Chronicle reports that the Soda Canyon Road home where Lewis died at the age of 90 was constructed by her grandparents in 1920 and had been her home for most of her life. In the last year of her life, Lewis received in-home care from Teresa Santos, a native of the Philippines who lived in Fairfield. She also died in the fire at the age of 50 years old. Her family told the Chronicle they wanted privacy to grieve and little was reported about her life and work, but Tirados called her a "fantastic" woman who took good care of her mother.
Veronica McCombs was the oldest of six children, and her siblings say that her imprint on them "will live on forever."
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that McCombs died in her home on Oct. 9 during the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. She was 67 years old.
In her obituary, her siblings write that "throughout her life, Veronica was always there to listen and help her family, siblings, and others who needed the wisdom and care that she gave unconditionally."
McCombs' family is mourning the loss of what her son, Brandon McCombs, calls the family's "foundation" (according to his statement to the Chronicle).
"She devoted her life to the love and care of our family and her community," Brandon McCombs wrote. "As a family we are grieving deeply and she will be missed forever."
Carmen Colleen McReynolds: 'Gutsy and Self-Reliant'
When Carmen Colleen McReynolds was born on Jan. 30, 1935, her father, Joseph McKinley, wasn't present. He had to be quarantined after contracting tuberculosis. He wouldn't meet Carmen until she was 9 months old.
"My grandfather is an important part of my aunt's story," says Gabriel Coke, McReynolds' nephew. It was her father, according to Coke, who inspired McReynolds to become a doctor. "My grandfather became a doctor after his own mother died of tuberculosis, and my Aunt Carmen went on to be a doctor because of my grandfather. She looked up to him."
McReynolds graduated from medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver. She worked as an internist for Kaiser until 1995, when she retired and moved to the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa.
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"She was very gutsy and self-reliant," remembered Coke. "She liked to have friends that were also independent. She loved to play the guitar and the piano. She was a big Hank Williams fan, she knew how to shoot a rifle, and she rode a motorcycle until she was in her 70s."
McReynolds, 82, was so tough that her family held out hope that, even with her failing health, maybe she had escaped the Tubbs Fire that swept her neighborhood and destroyed her home.
But nearly a week after the fire, a search team found McReynolds' remains in her garage, inside her 1973 Mercedes convertible.
Coke said his aunt was a trailblazer and a dignified woman who valued her independence. She was married for seven years in the 1960s, he said, but later divorced. McReynolds cared a lot for her family, and although he didn't see her often in later years, Coke said she was always a strong presence in their lives. "She came to my wedding in France," Coke said. "That meant a lot to me because she was very frugal. She spent money on experiences, she wasn't frivolous."
After McReynolds' death. Coke learned that she was deeply committed to charities like the Earle Baum Center for the blind. "There's still so much I'm learning about her extraordinary life."
Firefighting 'Was His Passion': Garrett Angel Paiz
From the time he was a boy, there were two things Garrett Angel Paiz wanted to be when he grew up: a cowboy and a firefighter.
Before his death on Oct. 16, while helping to battle the Northern California fires in Napa County, Paiz, 38, had fulfilled those dreams.
"A cowboy he became by working several ranches across the United States, herding cattle, branding and roping," said his big sister, Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz of Palm Springs. "Anything a cowboy did, Garrett did. He was also a trail supervisor in Mammoth."
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Paiz served as a volunteer firefighter in Noel, Missouri, too, and was assisting with fires in Washington state when he was called to help fight the Northern California blazes.
"He loved to help and did whatever was needed," his sister said. "Firefighting was not a job. It was his passion. Serving others was his passion."
Early on Oct. 16, Paiz was driving a tanker truck designed to bring water to the scene of the fire when the rig crashed on the Oakville Grade in Napa County. His truck went down an embankment, turning over and landing on its roof. Authorities aren't certain what caused the accident but say fatigue might have been a factor.
Paiz was born in Indio, California, and raised in the town of Mecca. He came from a large family that loved to spend time together and play pranks on one another.
"I will always remember my baby brother as the funny kid who was always up to something," said Cinthia Paiz. "You just never knew what he would get into next."
Paiz graduated from Coachella Valley High School and studied agriculture at College of the Desert in Palm Desert. He came from a long line of men and women who served as first responders and in the armed forces, said his brother, Carlos Paiz.
"We believe that helping others is paramount in life. Standing up for others is just what you do," he said in a statement.
Paiz is survived by his wife, Bobbie Paiz of Noel, Missouri; parents, Judi and Armando Paiz of Coachella; sister, Cinthia Paiz; brother, Carlos Paiz of Coachella; and a daughter, Terri Ann Paiz of Tehachapi.
Carlos Paiz said there were three things he wanted people to do to honor his brother: "Love your family, follow your dreams and serve your community."
Sandra Picciano, Cascade Fire Victim, Loved Animals and Always Helped Her Neighbors
Those who lived near Sandra Picciano in the Yuba County hamlet of Loma Rica remember her as a compassionate woman who always lent a helping hand.
"She helped out with neighbors, taking them to doctor appointments and checking on them when they were sick," said Nadine Webb, Picciano's neighbor of 17 years.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Picciano was 77 years old and had no living relatives. She did have several horses, which she cared for through their old age.
When the Cascade Fire started to blaze, Picciano was quick to leave her home. Authorities said she was killed when she crashed into a tree along the road.
Another Loma Rica neighbor, John Billingsley, told The Sacramento Bee that the smoke from the fire that night was so thick "you could just see a little bit in front of your hood."
Lynne Anderson Powell Thrived on Music, Quilting and Her Dogs
Lynne Anderson Powell woke up every morning at 5 a.m, no matter what. Her border collies, four of them total, needed to go hiking. So she and her husband, George, would take them for a walk in the hills of northeast Santa Rosa, near their home on Blue Ridge Trail, right up to the day before the fire.
Lynne and George were married for 33 years. They met at a holiday party thrown by someone at El Camino Community College in Southern California, where her mother, artist Jean Jenkins, taught. George was a staff photographer there.
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George said they had an instant connection.
“It was just incredible,” he said. They married just weeks after meeting, over Presidents Day weekend in 1984.
Lynne played the flute throughout her life, starting at age 7. She majored in flute performance and music education at Carnegie Tech (later renamed Carnegie Mellon) in Pittsburgh. She was a roommate with lifelong friend Joan Sextro, and they took part in each other’s weddings. Sextro said she always admired Lynne’s strength, honesty and kindness.
“Lynne was a very upfront person,” said Sextro. “You know where you stand with her, yet she was a very kind, warm person.”
When she and George met and fell in love, Lynne was first chair flute in the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. George joined her in Albuquerque so that she could continue to play. After 17 years in the symphony, Lynne began working an office job at Sandia National Laboratories, also in Albuquerque.
The couple retired to Eugene, Oregon, but soon moved to Northern California to be closer to Lynne’s aging parents.
Lynne was devoted to her dogs and trained them for agility trials. She was also an avid quilter, a hobby well-suited to her meticulous and intelligent nature.
“She was the most brilliant person on the planet — there was nothing she couldn’t figure out,” said George.
For the past year and a half, Lynne had been undergoing intensive treatment for salivary gland cancer. Even though the chemotherapy and radiation took a heavy toll, George remembers her strong determination in the face of discomfort. “She was my rock. She took care of me, no matter how much pain she was in.”
Sextro said Lynne was just beginning to get back to normal life, after her cancer treatments, making her death “a double sadness.”
On the night of the fire, the couple woke to smoke and the red glow of the Tubbs Fire sweeping toward their house. George told Lynne to leave with her dog, who slept next to her. He would follow in another car with his three dogs. They planned an escape route, but Lynne did not make it to their meeting place. Apparently blinded by smoke and flames, she drove off the road and crashed down a ravine. Her car and body, along with the body of her dog, were found days later.
If he had known Lynne was down in the ravine, George would have tried to find her and would have been satisfied to die next to her, he said. The fire destroyed their home, her quilting studio and George’s photography collection.
George said he’d like people to know “how loving and kind she was.” When a new person moved into the neighborhood, he said, “she’d be the first person to welcome them and ask what she could do for them.”
Lynne was 72 when she died. George remembers her as being the best spouse he could have hoped for. “She’s still with me,” he said.
A Box of Chocolates and an Infectious Smile: The Big Heart of Marilyn Ress
Once a week, Marilyn Ress would board a city bus from her home at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park and ride 35 minutes to the Montgomery Village Shopping Center on the east side of Santa Rosa. From there, Ress would walk into See’s Candies.
“She would easily buy $100 worth of peanut brittle, chocolate and gift cards,” said manager Susan Murphy.
But the gift cards and candies were not for herself. Ress bought them as gifts for others. One box of chocolates would go to the bus drivers who took her around town. One would go to her doctor’s office. Another would end up with a neighbor who was having a bad day.
“She would even give chocolates to the landscapers,” said her best friend, Cynthia Conners.
Ress died in the Tubbs Fire. She was 71.
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Conners said Ress was the epitome of selflessness. “I never saw her do anything for herself, not even go to the salon.”
Ress was known to pay for strangers' groceries and cups of coffee. Once, on a trip to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco with Conners, Ress paid for several drivers’ tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge.
“She handed the toll booth clerk a $50 bill and said, 'Pay for all the cars behind us that this covers,' ” Conners said. “She lived and breathed ‘pay it forward.’ ”
Conners and Ress met in the late 1970s, when they both worked at Santa Rosa’s Creekside Hospital. Ress was a certified nursing assistant and Conners was the activities director. Conners said Ress had a goofy sense of humor and an infectious smile.
Ress grew up in the Sonoma County town of Penngrove and attended Petaluma High School. She led a simple life with her two cats at Journey’s End. Conners would sometimes take her on rides through the Sonoma County countryside or to the coast. They would go to Fosters Freeze, where Ress would order her favorite meal: a chili cheeseburger, fries and a vanilla malt.
Ress spent holidays with Conners. A more recent tradition involved hours of holiday cooking in Conners’ small apartment.
“She’d get a list of people that had nowhere to go on Thanksgiving and then show up at my house and tell me I was cooking dinner,” Conners said. “I didn’t have a choice. I had to make fresh cranberries, stuffing, turkey, I mean the whole nine yards.”
Ress would then deliver foil-wrapped meals, two plates at a time, to her neighbors.
Conners and Ress talked over the phone at least once a week. So when she didn’t hear from Ress the week of the fires, she knew something was wrong. But Conners believes Ress is at peace now.
“I just have a funny feeling that she would be happy in heaven,” Conners said. “I can just see her smiling and dancing.”
Charles Rippey -- nicknamed “Peach” as a child for his fuzzy cheeks -- and his wife, Sara Rippey, celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in March. Four months later, Charles celebrated his 100th birthday.
Just three months after that, he died, apparently trying to reach his wife as flames engulfed their home in Napa.
“My father certainly wouldn’t have left her,” his son, Mike Rippey, told the Associated Press.
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Charles Rippey grew up in Hartford, Wisconsin, where he met Sara in grade school. According to the Napa Valley Register, the two attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, together. Charles graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1939.
The Register reported the couple married in 1942, just before Charles joined the Army for World War II service in North Africa, France, Italy and Germany. After the war, Charles and Sara Rippey had three daughters and two sons, and Charles went on to work for the Firestone tire company.
Rippey spent 30 years with Firestone, the Register reports, leading three different divisions and working in Sweden, Argentina and across the Midwest.
In 1978, when most of their adult children moved to California, the elder Rippeys followed, with Charles going to work with Southern California's Norris Industries.
The Rippeys' children say their parents delighted in each other's company.
“Every Sunday night they went dancing,” Mike Rippey told the Register. “They loved to do stuff together; they’d always come home laughing and giggling. Neither ever vacationed alone or went anywhere alone. They were together all the time.”
That remained true until their final moments, when Charles apparently tried to reach Sara, who had been partially paralyzed since suffering a stroke in 2012.
In an interview with the AP, Mike Rippey said his brother discovered their parents’ bodies in the remains of their home in Napa. His father, Rippey said, appeared to be heading to his mother’s room when he was overcome by smoke and flames.
“If he’d survived and she was gone, he would be the most miserable person alive,” Mike Rippey said in an interview with the Register. “If you had asked them if they wanted to go out together, they would have said yes.”
Sharon Robinson, a 79-year-old artist and antiques collector, died in when the Tubbs Fire engulfed her Santa Rosa neighborhood.
In the immediate aftermath of the fires, Robinson's daughter, Cathie Merkel, searched for her mom. She posted recent photos of her on Facebook, along with a photo of the lot where Robinson's home had been reduced to ashes. Robinson’s car remained in what was left of the garage.
After days of searching, Merkel posted a message on her Facebook page to let loved ones know Robinson had not survived:
“To my dear friends, thank you all for your efforts in trying to find my mom. We received the news today that she did not make it out of her home the night of the fire. During the next few days I won’t be returning any messages as we deal with the effects of this tragedy. We know she found peace in her passing. Thank you for understanding, stay safe.”
Merkel told the San Jose Mercury News that she visited her mother shortly before the fire with her daughter, who suffers from terminal brain cancer. “It was a very happy visit, very friendly.”
“She was really a warm and lovely woman, absolutely,” Jeri Sprague, a former neighbor of Robinson who knew her for decades, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Lee Chadwick Rogers, 72, died in her Sonoma County home on Cavedale Road as the Nuns Fire burned near the town of Glen Ellen. She lived east of Highway 12 near Mountain Terraces Winery and Vineyard.
Marnie Schwartz Devoted Herself to Activism and Teaching
Marjorie Schwartz was her real name, but everyone called her Marnie.
And everyone remembers that she called them "sweetie." Denise Harrison, a friend of Schwartz, told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I don't ever remember her calling me 'Denise.' I remember her calling me 'sweetie.' I can hear it in my head now: 'Hi, sweetie.' "
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Schwartz, 68, died in the Tubbs Fire.
Schwartz' spirit will live on in the memories of those she taught, which spanned students in Walnut Creek, San Rafael, Santa Rosa and English-language learners, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
She was also active in her religious community, serving as president of the Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa at one point, according to the Chronicle.
Rabbi George Gittleman told the paper that Schwartz loved to study and discuss Jewish texts of all kinds, and she was very literate, well-read and well-educated.
Touch Football and a Middle School Crush: After the Fire, 8th-Graders Remember Classmate Kai Shepherd
Kai Logan Shepherd, 14, was the youngest person to die in the October wildfires. But in the weeks after the tragedy, he was still a presence among his classmates at Redwood Valley's Eagle Peak Middle School.
Eagle Peak's Spirit Week, which features a different dress-up theme every day, was delayed by three weeks after the fire that devastated the Mendocino County community and killed nine people, including Kai's 17-year-old sister, Kressa.
Eagle Peak Principal Dan Stearns, shuffling down a school hallway on wear-your-pajamas-to-school day in slippers and a plaid bathrobe, says he remembers Kai as a kid "constantly running from group to group, interacting, laughing, joking around.”
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Stearns stops at a classroom on the second floor where a group of eighth-grade students are hunched over their laptops, scrolling through photos: Kai at the beach, Kai playing baseball, Kai goofing around with his friends.
School was closed for a week after the fire, but the first day back, students asked their digital media teacher if they could make a dedication page for Kai in the yearbook.
"They've been working nonstop on it since then," says Elizabeth DeVinny, who taught Kai in her honors English class last year. "They've been gathering photos and even asking if they could have extra space, because they have so much that their classmates want to say and their teachers want to say."
Kai loved sports. One of his best friends, Brenton Wheeler, took a video of Kai competing in a wrestling match last year.
"After he was done wrestling ... he kinda ... he smiled. Even though he lost, he smiled, and, kept his chin up," Brenton remembers.
Winning or losing, he always walked off the mat with a smile, says Shane Stearns, another of Kai's friends.
The three boys played touch football every morning on the blacktop at school, he says. Kai was the quarterback.
"He would get frustrated easily, but ...," Brenton says.
"He'd always be laughing when he was arguing, though," Shane finishes.
Kai had other dimensions, and Janeane Higdon, 13, wants to show the side of him that she knew in the yearbook.
"On the outside, I know he was very athletic. But on Instagram, he’d just act like a totally different person. He would talk about nerd stuff like Magic and video games," she says. "Deep down inside, I think he was a nerd."
For their celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, students put together an altar for Kai. It has a baseball and football on it. And a box of Kai's favorite cereal: Golden Grahams. Janeane draped a special necklace over the box.
"We had matching shark-tooth necklaces from Six Flags," she says, the kind that are sold in pairs.
Janeane kept one, and gave the other one to Kai.
"I had a crush on Kai last year," she says. "So I brought him back a necklace. And he wore it, I think, twice. And then he put it on his shelf, I’m pretty sure he told me. So I had one of his best friends deliver it to him, 'cause I was kind of scared to."
They started messaging over Instagram. Janeane wrote poems about him in her honors English class, including an ode to Kai’s blue eyes.
Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,
they make me get butterflies.
Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,
around you they make me feel shy.
Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,
they make me feel high.
Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,
they make me love the plain dull sky
Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,
thoughts of you preoccupy my mind
Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,
they’re prettier than a dragon’s eye….
Janeane gave a couple of her poems to Kai, and he told her he liked them because they reminded him of rap music. She was never really sure, though, what Kai thought about her.
But Brenton and Shane did.
"I remember Kai kinda liked Janeane, too, at one point," Shane says. "I remember him talking about that."
"Kai would say, 'It's kinda nice knowing that Janeane likes me,' " Brenton says. "And how he kinda liked her back."
Janeane didn’t know this.
"It kinda makes me sad now. Because we could have gotten closer," she says. "And now that he's dead, I know that we won't be able to replay that."
Ukiah High School Students Mourn the Death of Kressa Shepherd and Celebrate Homecoming in the Same Week
Homecoming is not a day at Ukiah High School; it's a weeklong series of events. After a wildfire tore through Redwood Valley in October, the school district postponed the football game and festivities to give the town some time to recover.
Three weeks later, the night before the rescheduled events were about to start, high school junior Kressa Shepherd died in the hospital. She was 17.
“The mood is definitely complicated and complex,” said Gordon Oslund, the school principal, as he watched students milling in the courtyard. “It’s people trying to figure out, how do you deal with a community tragedy and then carry on and have a community celebration all at the same time?”
Kressa and her parents were found in the road near their home the night of the fire and flown to hospitals for treatment of severe burns. Kressa’s younger brother, Kai, 14, died before help arrived. Both of Kressa’s legs were amputated in the hospital, and she suffered cardiac arrest and multiple infections before she also died.
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On the morning of the big football game, Nov. 3, students packed the bleachers in the gym for a homecoming rally, one of several held throughout the week. The juniors wore all shades of pink, their class color. Hanging on the wall above them, gold balloons shimmered in the fluorescent light, spelling out K-R-E-S-S-A and K-A-I.
For some of Kressa’s friends, the ones who made it to school that week, the whole scene was just weird.
“It was just like, ‘Wow, like how can you be happy right now?’ ” said Sasha Wilkins, a sophomore.
The class period right before, she had been to a grief circle for Kressa’s friends and classmates.
“It was weird being in a group of everyone having such strong emotions, of being sad and down. And then going to another group of people who's so excited and so happy,” Wilkins said. “But then I realized not everyone's thinking about that all the time, but that's OK.”
Before Ukiah high, Kressa went to a Waldorf school. From fourth grade through eighth, she was in the same class with the same teacher and the same 23 kids. The high school counselors gathered them, and the class of sophomores below hers, to talk and share memories of Kressa.
Wilkins remembered feeling intimidated last year about becoming a sophomore. She was confiding in her friends about it when Kressa walked by.
“She overheard that and came up to me later and we just sat down and talked about it, and she comforted me,” she said. “She was like, ‘Yeah I was really nervous as well, but it's going to be OK and it's not as hard as you think it is.’ It was a wonderful moment.”
Kressa’s teachers embodied the mixed emotions of the week. Some cried openly in front of their classrooms, then dressed up days later in purple and gold for homecoming. Across the board, they remember Kressa as a star student who kept a 4.0 GPA.
“She’s the rock in the classroom,” said Meagan Davis, her English teacher. “To have at least one student in the class be there for you. You look up and you see them fully enveloped in what you're teaching – she was that student in my class.”
A peacemaker, is how Liz Johnson, Kressa's U.S. history teacher, described her.
“She had a lot of compassion for multiple points of view,” Johnson said. “She had a deeper understanding of the world around her.”
And she was a natural-born artist, according to her art teacher, Rose Easterbrook.
“She wanted to be an illustrator someday, and she truly could have done that,” she said.
Kressa had been working on a series of drawings of a young girl with blond hair frolicking in a meadow. She carried them everywhere with her. For her photography class, she took a similar picture of her cousin picking flowers, and photo-shopped fairy wings into it.
“That was her: innocent and sincere,” said Lech Slocinski, her photography teacher, as he hung a collection of Kressa’s black-and-white prints in the school lobby. “There was nothing fake about her. Everything was just real. And kind. And it shows in her pictures.”
Her work often portrayed a calm world, he said, removed from madness and conflict.
And that was the kind of scene the school tried to recreate in her memory the night of the homecoming game.
“This evening, we pay tribute to the lives of Ukiah High School junior, Kressa Shepherd, and her brother, Kai Logan Shepherd,” principal Gordon Oslund said to the crowd, asking them to join him in a moment of silence.
Before the marching band came on, before the football players took the field, and before screaming erupted in the stands, more than a thousand people stood up and went completely quiet.
Even at 71, Daniel Martin Southard Hadn't Lost His Love of Football
Daniel Martin Southard, 71, one of those who died in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, was known for his love of football. According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, when he graduated Southern California's Crescenta Valley High School in 1964, he received special awards in athletics.
That love of sports athleticism and love of the sport never left him. The Press Democrat reports that he went on to become a personal trainer and eventually bought a Gold's Gym in Santa Rosa.
Daniel Southard's son Derek told the Mercury News in San Jose that his father "was just a very loving guy. He was very sweet and very kind."
A photograph of Steve Stelter shows him wearing a shirt of "Beavis and Butt-Head," who are themselves wearing "Ren & Stimpy" costumes. It helps to be familiar with the crude hilarity of these shows to better understand what Stelter’s daughter, Reeah Winkle, means when she says her dad was playful.
But along with his love of irreverent, fart-joke humor was his witty, softer side, she said. “If there was a hard situation, he would find the funny in it,” said Winkle, who gave him the shirt as a birthday present. “You could laugh with him even when you were having a hard time.”
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Winkle laughs thinking about memories she has of her dad: trips to the movies or the flea market or an amusement park. Winkle said that even though she didn’t live with her dad, he was very present.
“He was the kind of person that if you needed anything, he was there to help you any way he could,” she said.
Stelter helped neighbors clear iced-over driveways on cold winter days. He helped family with plumbing problems or with cars that needed fixing (his specialty). He was a handyman.
“He would be right over to fix it,” said Winkle.
Stelter drove trucks for a number of companies, but it was at Pacific Bell that he met his longtime partner, Janet Costanzo, who also died in the fire.
The pair lived on a large parcel where they’d take their dogs for walks and where Steve could shoot his guns and work on cars, Winkle said.
Steve’s brother, Doug Stelter, eventually moved into a trailer on their property. The three of them would eat dinner together most nights: more meat and fewer vegetables, said Doug Stelter.
“We’d all sit around and watch TV," he said. "They liked '[American] Pickers.' " And "Deadliest Catch" was also a favorite.
Steve loved the holidays, too. Winkle remembers fireworks on the Fourth of July, trick-or-treating on Halloween and how her father loved being around family for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But more than anything, he loved being a grandpa to his two grandchildren, Winkle said.
“He’d be down on the ground playing with them,” she said. “He was that kind of grandfather.”
Steve Stelter, 56, is survived by his brother Doug, his daughter Reeah Winkle, and his grandchildren, Mac and Sunny Mortensen.
Margaret Stephenson Spread Joy With Huge Heart and Love of Parties
Margaret Stephenson, 86, was a vibrant and tenacious British transplant to Mendocino County's Redwood Valley who lived alone on 2 rural acres, loved animals and never shied away from a good party.
“She was very proud of her British heritage and a person that loved to celebrate festivities,” said Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, who received Halloween and Christmas cards from her every year. “I can’t imagine ever not having fun if Margaret was at an event.”
Stephenson was the last victim found after the fire.
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Stephenson moved to Mendocino County in the 1970s with her husband, Raymond, who took a job as a manager at Mendo Mill & Lumber Co.. She briefly worked as a schoolteacher but devoted most of her life to helping her husband and maintaining their land. The couple were married roughly 60 years. They had no children.
“She and her husband came over with nothing, essentially,” said Mandi Hamilton, who became Margaret’s insurance agent and close friend after her husband died in 2015. “They worked hard, joined clubs and became an integral part of community."
“She spoke so openly of her husband, Raymond, and how much she loved him,” Hamilton added.
Soon after she met Stephenson, Hamilton said, the two of them hit it off and began calling each other every morning. About six months before the fire, Stephenson was diagnosed with cancer, but was responding well to treatment and remained very independent. Last summer, Hamilton taught her how to drive her husband's truck, which she had previously refused to touch. And to boost her spirits, Hamilton also recently gave her a cat, which she instantly fell in love with.
Tamara Latrice Thomas, a San Francisco Native Who Perished in Assisted-Care Home
Tamara Latrice Thomas, 47, was a native of San Francisco who split her time between her hometown and a board-and-care facility in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, one of the areas ravaged by the Tubbs Fire early Oct. 9.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Thomas, who was paralyzed, died after being unable to get out of her second-floor bedroom at the Crestview Court Residential Care Home.
KQED was unable to reach Thomas's family members for comment, but the Press Democrat reported her brother is suing PG&E for wrongful death, alleging the utility failed to maintain power lines that could have sparked the wind-whipped fire. The case was filed in Sonoma County Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages for pain and suffering.
Linda Tunis Was Close to Her Daughter Until the End
In January 2017, Linda Tunis moved from Florida to Santa Rosa to be closer to her daughter, Jessica.
Their time together in California was cut short. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Linda Tunis called her daughter early the morning of Oct. 9 as the Tubbs Fire began burning her mobile home. “I was telling her I love her when the phone died," Jessica Tunis said.
According to an obituary published in The Boston Globe, Tunis loved going to the beach, playing bingo, traveling and going to the theater.
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Cecil Williams, the beloved social justice activist and longtime pastor of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church, died Monday at the age of 94.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams is best known for his stewardship of the Tenderloin neighborhood church that he became pastor of in 1963 and helped develop into a world-renowned congregation and social service nonprofit. As its leader, Williams built and oversaw multiple community outreach programs that have offered crucial support to hundreds of thousands of impoverished residents in the city over the last six decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief among those initiatives is the Free Meals Program. Launched in 1980, the program provides three free hot meals a day to anyone in need, dishing out hundreds of thousands of meals each year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willliams also became known for his welcoming approach to the LGBT community and his unflinching support of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One very special thing about Cecil was that he met everyone where they were — literally and spiritually,” said Oakland resident Ernestine Nettles, who has volunteered at Glide for over 50 years, and first met Williams when she was a child. “If you couldn’t make it to the church to get a Thanksgiving meal, volunteers packed them up and brought them out to the streets, handing them out to everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nettles noted that Williams “embodied the spirit of Christianity” in not passing judgment and loving people as they are. She said he treated everyone as equals, no matter their race, age, background, economic status, sexuality, past, or present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is a true example of not only a Christian, but an American,” said Nettles, recalling how Williams championed a range of local and national social justice causes, and even once came to her Oakland high school to help her campaign to allow girls to wear pants. “He was a drum major for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"cecil-williams\"]The grandson of a slave, Albert Cecil Williams was born Sept. 22, 1929, and raised in the segregated West Texas town of San Angelo. He was one of six children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to San Francisco, Williams helped revive Glide with Janice Mirikitani, who later became his wife. Mirikitani \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883109/janice-mirikitani-glide-co-founder-and-sf-poet-laureate-dies\">died in 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the addition of a chorus and a band, Williams’ church soon began hosting spirited, celebratory Sunday services that attracted a diverse swath of parishioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he retired as the church’s pastor in 2000, he retained his roles as the Minister of Liberation and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/\">the GLIDE Foundation\u003c/a> — organization that now has a more than $20 million budget and thousands of members — until last year, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/rev-cecil-williams-glide-steps-down-17799046.php\">he officially stepped down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, who wrote a book on the history of the neighborhood, said Williams’ leadership of the church was transformative. Many people, he said, don’t realize that when Williams was hired to lead Glide, the congregation was almost down to the single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chose a remarkably unsurprising strategy to rebuild the congregation. He decided to be a fierce advocate for social justice and civil rights. And most controversial for the time, he became an outspoken advocate for lesbian and gay and transgender rights” at a time when San Francisco Police were arresting gay and lesbian people for being in bars, Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In turning Glide into a major deliverer of social services, Williams became a prolific fundraiser and powerful booster, garnering the support of celebrities and major influencers, the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Bono and Warren Buffet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil was able to make financial connections to donors that no one else in the Tenderloin, and maybe even in San Francisco, could make,” he said. “He was the fiery minister who was urging people to get involved in stuff and fighting for justice and not mincing words about things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mayor London Breed called Williams “the conscience of our San Francisco community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He spoke out against injustice and he spoke for the marginalized,” she said. “He led with compassion and wisdom, always putting the people first and never relenting in his pursuit of justice and equality. His kindness brought people together and his vision changed our City and the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also noted how Williams championed the idea of supportive housing and “wraparound” services for those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a young girl, I would never have dreamed I’d grow up to work with him,” she said. “We all benefited from his guidance, his support, and his moral compass. We would not be who we are as a city and a people without the legendary Cecil Williams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED’s Matthew Green, Alex Gonzalez, and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Williams became pastor of Glide in 1963, where he helped build and oversee multiple community outreach programs and social service initiatives that have provided crucial support to hundreds of thousands of impoverished residents in the city over the last 6 decades.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713978737,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":818},"headData":{"title":"Cecil Williams, Legendary Pastor of Glide Church, Dies at 94 | KQED","description":"Williams became pastor of Glide in 1963, where he helped build and oversee multiple community outreach programs and social service initiatives that have provided crucial support to hundreds of thousands of impoverished residents in the city over the last 6 decades.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cecil Williams, Legendary Pastor of Glide Church, Dies at 94","datePublished":"2024-04-23T01:52:17.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-24T17:12:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rev. Cecil Williams, the beloved social justice activist and longtime pastor of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church, died Monday at the age of 94.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams is best known for his stewardship of the Tenderloin neighborhood church that he became pastor of in 1963 and helped develop into a world-renowned congregation and social service nonprofit. As its leader, Williams built and oversaw multiple community outreach programs that have offered crucial support to hundreds of thousands of impoverished residents in the city over the last six decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief among those initiatives is the Free Meals Program. Launched in 1980, the program provides three free hot meals a day to anyone in need, dishing out hundreds of thousands of meals each year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willliams also became known for his welcoming approach to the LGBT community and his unflinching support of civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One very special thing about Cecil was that he met everyone where they were — literally and spiritually,” said Oakland resident Ernestine Nettles, who has volunteered at Glide for over 50 years, and first met Williams when she was a child. “If you couldn’t make it to the church to get a Thanksgiving meal, volunteers packed them up and brought them out to the streets, handing them out to everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nettles noted that Williams “embodied the spirit of Christianity” in not passing judgment and loving people as they are. She said he treated everyone as equals, no matter their race, age, background, economic status, sexuality, past, or present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is a true example of not only a Christian, but an American,” said Nettles, recalling how Williams championed a range of local and national social justice causes, and even once came to her Oakland high school to help her campaign to allow girls to wear pants. “He was a drum major for justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"cecil-williams"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The grandson of a slave, Albert Cecil Williams was born Sept. 22, 1929, and raised in the segregated West Texas town of San Angelo. He was one of six children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to San Francisco, Williams helped revive Glide with Janice Mirikitani, who later became his wife. Mirikitani \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883109/janice-mirikitani-glide-co-founder-and-sf-poet-laureate-dies\">died in 2021\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the addition of a chorus and a band, Williams’ church soon began hosting spirited, celebratory Sunday services that attracted a diverse swath of parishioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he retired as the church’s pastor in 2000, he retained his roles as the Minister of Liberation and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.glide.org/\">the GLIDE Foundation\u003c/a> — organization that now has a more than $20 million budget and thousands of members — until last year, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/rev-cecil-williams-glide-steps-down-17799046.php\">he officially stepped down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, the director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, who wrote a book on the history of the neighborhood, said Williams’ leadership of the church was transformative. Many people, he said, don’t realize that when Williams was hired to lead Glide, the congregation was almost down to the single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chose a remarkably unsurprising strategy to rebuild the congregation. He decided to be a fierce advocate for social justice and civil rights. And most controversial for the time, he became an outspoken advocate for lesbian and gay and transgender rights” at a time when San Francisco Police were arresting gay and lesbian people for being in bars, Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In turning Glide into a major deliverer of social services, Williams became a prolific fundraiser and powerful booster, garnering the support of celebrities and major influencers, the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Bono and Warren Buffet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil was able to make financial connections to donors that no one else in the Tenderloin, and maybe even in San Francisco, could make,” he said. “He was the fiery minister who was urging people to get involved in stuff and fighting for justice and not mincing words about things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mayor London Breed called Williams “the conscience of our San Francisco community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He spoke out against injustice and he spoke for the marginalized,” she said. “He led with compassion and wisdom, always putting the people first and never relenting in his pursuit of justice and equality. 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These protests follow \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599\">student protests at other universities, including Columbia and Yale\u003c/a>. (Read more about the decadeslong background from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR in their ‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands in front of a high school building. She looks away from the camera and has the Palestinian flag painted on her rigth cheek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deena, a high school student, participates in a walkout to demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has a long history of protest. But if you plan on attending a rally, how can you stay safe? What are your rights as a protester?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is the first time you or your friends will go to a protest, make sure to bookmark this guide, as our team frequently updates it with new information.[aside postID='news_11967439,news_11955465,news_11871364,news_11827832' label='Related Guides From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: If you’re unable to join a rally or protest in person for whatever reason but want to make your stance on an issue known, you always have the option to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, how to do it, and what to expect as a result, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"start\">\u003c/a>Have a plan — and then a backup plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot you can do before a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel with friends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choose a meeting place beforehand in the event you get separated. You may also want to designate a friend who is not at the protest as someone you can check in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charge your phone. However, some activist groups also recommend taking digital security measures, such as disabling the fingerprint unlock feature to prevent a police officer from forcing you to unlock the phone. Others also recommend turning off text preview on messages and using a more secure messaging app, such as Signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, make sure that you can function without a phone. Consider writing down important phone numbers and keeping them with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pack a small bag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring only essentials such as water, snacks, hand sanitizer and an extra phone charger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The active component in tear gas adheres to moisture on your face. So it’s also a good idea to pack an extra mask or face covering in case you are exposed to tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people \u003ca href=\"https://lifehacker.com/how-to-protest-safely-and-legally-5859590\">recommend bringing basic medical supplies and a bandana soaked in vinegar\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/tear-gas-guide/\">in water in a sealed plastic bag\u003c/a> in case there is tear gas. Others recommend a small bottle of water — or even better, a squirt bottle — to pour on your face and eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get tear-gassed, it is often recommended to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Close your eyes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hold your breath.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get out of the area as soon as possible.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rinse your eyes when possible (ideally using what you have packed with you).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research the intended protest route\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may be confusing since there’s not always a clearly stated route (a protest is, or course, not a parade), but some protests have preplanned routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By knowing where the protest is headed, you will be able to plan how you might \u003ca href=\"https://netpol.org/guide-to-kettles/\">avoid being caught in a “kettle”\u003c/a> or other containment method — and be able to leave when you are ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know who is organizing the protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth doing some research on the people and groups behind any protest you plan to attend to make sure it’s in alignment with your values and objectives. During certain Black Lives Matter protests in San Diego in June 2020, for instance, organizers warned demonstrators to avoid specific events they said likely had been surreptitiously coordinated by white nationalist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Know your rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You are entitled to free speech and freedom of assembly. However, your rights can be unclear during curfews and shelter-in-place orders. The American Civil Liberties Union has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">detailed guide to your rights as a protester or a protest organizer\u003c/a>. Notably, when police issue an order to disperse, it is meant to be the last resort for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If officers issue a dispersal order, they must provide a reasonable opportunity to comply, including sufficient time and a clear, unobstructed exit path,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">according to the ACLU\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955465/dolores-hill-bomb-legal-rights-spectator-onlooker\">Read our guide to your rights as a spectator.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are photographing others, it is recommended to respect privacy, as some may not want to have videos or photos taken. This may also depend on context, location and time of day. In some cases journalists, or those documenting events, have been the target of tear gas and rubber bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment gives you the right to film police who are actively performing their duties, and bystander videos can provide important counternarratives to official accounts. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">guide to filming encounters with the police safely and ethically\u003c/a> and where to share your footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information can be found from the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild — the NLG has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/\">pocket-sized know-your-rights guides\u003c/a> in multiple languages. Writing the number for the NLG hotline (and other important numbers such as emergency contacts) on your arm in case you lose your phone or have it confiscated is another suggested way to ensure you have it — should you need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd with signs gathers in front of a large stone building. A line of police officers stands nearby.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters, counter-protesters, and SFPD are seen at a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The court is hearing arguments for the city’s appeal of an injunction filed by the Coalition on Homelessness, which has temporarily kept city workers from removing encampments on the streets. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be aware of your surroundings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of George Floyd protests in the Bay Area in June 2020, there were fireworks, fires, rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bangs and even some gunshots. Being aware of your surroundings includes having an understanding of what possible actions may occur around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know the possible law enforcement ramifications of attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On April 17, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">she was considering charging a group of pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/a> with a felony for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocking Bay Area freeways\u003c/a>. People who were stuck in traffic on the bridge, Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">wrote on X\u003c/a>, “may be entitled to restitution + have other victim rights guaranteed under Marsy’s law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU Northern California’s legal director, Shilpi Agarwal said she found the move by Jenkins had the potential to cast a “chilling effect” on speech in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lawful protests are, by design, meant to be visible and inconvenient,” Agarwal said. And while the government can place “reasonable limits on protest” in what is called \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">a “time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>” — meaning authorities can call for certain parameters of protest for safety or other people using the space — the government may \u003ci>not \u003c/i>tell people they cannot protest. And in public spaces, Agarwal said, “people are allowed to protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of law enforcement charges could protesters face, however? Agarwal said while \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights\">charges for protests can be nuanced\u003c/a>, at a basic level, if you are engaged in a protest and encounter police officers who then determine for “some reason” you have violated the “parameters” of the protest, there are usually three charging options available to officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>An infraction: typically a ticket where you show your ID, get a citation and may have to appear in court. Usually, an infraction is just a fine to pay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A misdemeanor: for which “you rarely serve” jail time for low-level offenses, Agarwal said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A felony: A more serious criminal charge that usually brings jail time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Agarwal said the “vast majority of offenses that are commonly charged at protests, when the police do get involved, are typically infractions or misdemeanors.” Common provisions for protesters have been something like resisting arrest, disrupting a public meeting, and failing to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Protest Law and Litigation’s senior counsel, Rachel Lederman, said restitution is common in criminal cases, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> in November 2023 are currently paying “a very small amount of restitution to one person who had a specific medical bill, that they attributed to the traffic blockage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, California State Assemblymember Kate Sanchez introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/california-bill-would-create-new-infraction-for-protesters-who-block-highways/\">a bill before the Assembly Transportation Committee\u003c/a> that would create a new infraction for those who obstruct a highway during a protest that affects an emergency vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill proposes a fine of between $200 and $500 for the first offense, $300 and $1000 for the second offense and $500 to $1000 for additional offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reminder: Your rights are at their highest in a public forum\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering your rights, take into account the location where a protest may take place — it could be a campus, a city council meeting, or a usually busy road. And Agarwal said that while the law is complicated and can vary in different situations, First Amendment rights are generally “at their highest when something is a public forum” — that is, a place like a sidewalk or a public plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>, “when you have a public forum, there is very, very little that the government can do to regulate your speech,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, First Amendment rights are at their lowest at places like private homes, Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean that you have no rights, but it does mean that whenever and wherever you are on something that is not a public forum, the strength of your First Amendment rights starts to wane,” she said. “And the government can do more to regulate what you can and cannot say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember there are many ways to protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the disability community continues to remind others, there are many ways to show up. We are still in a pandemic, and you may need to weigh the risks and goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can participate in many meaningful ways that don’t include attending an in-person protest or rally. This could include educating yourself, voting, talking to your community and supporting grassroots organizations, as outlined in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881199/5-ways-to-show-up-for-racial-justice-today\">this 2020 guide from KQED’s Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID is still with us: What to know about your possible risks attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: Your risks of getting COVID-19 outdoors remain far lower than your risks indoors — about 20 times less, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, being vaccinated and boosted will greatly reduce your risks of getting very sick, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19. If you’re not yet boosted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960630/free-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2023\">find the new COVID-19 vaccine shot near you\u003c/a>. If you’re bringing children to a protest with you, remember that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917289/covid-vaccines-for-kids-under-5-are-here-heres-how-to-find-one\">kids and babies aged 6 months and over can get their primary COVID-19 vaccine series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you should still think about your risks of getting (or spreading) COVID-19 at a big event full of people, even when you’re outdoors. As with so many decisions during the pandemic, a lot comes down to your personal risks and circumstances — not just to protect yourself but others, too. “I think it requires people to be thoughtful about who they are, who they live with, and what happens when they leave the protest and go back home,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider bringing a mask along regardless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the number of people you’ll encounter at a protest — it’s what they might be \u003cem>doing\u003c/em>. Even outside, screaming, chanting, coughing and singing all expel more of the particles that can spread COVID-19 than regular activity does, and you may decide to keep your mask on during a protest if it’s a super-crowded space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might also find that some protest organizers explicitly request you wear a mask and maintain social distancing at the event, especially if the event is being attended by groups or communities at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the possibility that you might not \u003cem>stay\u003c/em> outside the whole time. “Whenever you have a protest, nobody just stays necessarily outdoors,” Chin-Hong said, giving pre-protest gatherings and meetings or post-protest dinners as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These may be done in people’s homes. I think it’s the stuff that goes around the actual outdoor protest that I’m more worried about,” Chin-Hong said. He recommends that people “think about carrying a mask with them, like they carry an umbrella. So that they just bring out the ‘umbrella’ when it’s potentially ‘raining with COVID\u003ci>.\u003c/i>‘”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965077\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowed with signs crowds around a building that has been fenced off. Many are pushing against the fence and others are carrying signs. Almost all are wearing facemasks.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take a knee during a demonstration outside of Mission Police Station to honor of George Floyd on June 3, 2020, in San Francisco. Three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still common to see people wearing facemasks at protests to protect themselves from a possible coronavirus infection.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 2021, Chin-Hong told KQED that protests against racist violence and the killing of Black people by police were themselves “a response to a public health threat, if you think about the impact of structural racism and stress on health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, when it comes to weighing the desire to protest a cause with the risks of getting or spreading COVID-19, “I think the benefits of protesting are even more in favor of protesting now,” Chin-Hong told KQED in 2022. That “risk/benefit calculus,” as he puts it, is even more in favor of attending a rally — “because we have so many tools to keep people safer,” from vaccines and boosters to improved COVID-19 treatment if someone \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah, Lisa Pickoff-White, Carly Severn and Nisa Khan. Beth LaBerge and \u003c/em>\u003cem>Peter Arcuni also contributed. A version of this story originally published on April 23, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Here are some tips on safety and preparation, should you choose to participate in a protest about a cause you care about.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713995948,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":61,"wordCount":2709},"headData":{"title":"How to Attend a Rally Safely in the Bay Area: Your Rights, Protections and the Police | KQED","description":"Here are some tips on safety and preparation, should you choose to participate in a protest about a cause you care about.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How to Attend a Rally Safely in the Bay Area: Your Rights, Protections and the Police","datePublished":"2024-04-23T21:25:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-24T21:59:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"News","sourceUrl":"http://kqed.org/news","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was originally published on June 24, 2022, and was last updated at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 24.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months into 2024, the Bay Area has seen many passionate demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These range from students \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971577/berkeleys-peoples-park-cleared-by-police-7-arrested\">opposing construction replacing People’s Park in Berkeley\u003c/a> and a march in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983701/sweeps-kill-bay-area-homeless-advocates-weigh-in-on-pivotal-u-s-supreme-court-case\">a Supreme Court case addressing how cities can respond to homelessness\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">protests, rallies and vigils drawing thousands of people around the region in support of a cease-fire in Gaza\u003c/a> — joining direct action taking place nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#start\">Tips on what to have ready before going to a protest.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>These latest protests included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">a series of actions on April 15 that blocked I-880 in Oakland and the Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/04/22/uc-berkeley-protest-sit-in-gaza-war-cal-investments\">a sit-in at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>. These protests follow \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599\">student protests at other universities, including Columbia and Yale\u003c/a>. (Read more about the decadeslong background from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR in their ‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11965032 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman stands in front of a high school building. She looks away from the camera and has the Palestinian flag painted on her rigth cheek.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/231018-StudentWalkoutGaza-011-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deena, a high school student, participates in a walkout to demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in San Francisco on Oct. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay Area has a long history of protest. But if you plan on attending a rally, how can you stay safe? What are your rights as a protester?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is the first time you or your friends will go to a protest, make sure to bookmark this guide, as our team frequently updates it with new information.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11967439,news_11955465,news_11871364,news_11827832","label":"Related Guides From KQED "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: If you’re unable to join a rally or protest in person for whatever reason but want to make your stance on an issue known, you always have the option to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, how to do it, and what to expect as a result, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"start\">\u003c/a>Have a plan — and then a backup plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot you can do before a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel with friends\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choose a meeting place beforehand in the event you get separated. You may also want to designate a friend who is not at the protest as someone you can check in with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charge your phone. However, some activist groups also recommend taking digital security measures, such as disabling the fingerprint unlock feature to prevent a police officer from forcing you to unlock the phone. Others also recommend turning off text preview on messages and using a more secure messaging app, such as Signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, make sure that you can function without a phone. Consider writing down important phone numbers and keeping them with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pack a small bag\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring only essentials such as water, snacks, hand sanitizer and an extra phone charger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The active component in tear gas adheres to moisture on your face. So it’s also a good idea to pack an extra mask or face covering in case you are exposed to tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people \u003ca href=\"https://lifehacker.com/how-to-protest-safely-and-legally-5859590\">recommend bringing basic medical supplies and a bandana soaked in vinegar\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/tear-gas-guide/\">in water in a sealed plastic bag\u003c/a> in case there is tear gas. Others recommend a small bottle of water — or even better, a squirt bottle — to pour on your face and eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get tear-gassed, it is often recommended to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Close your eyes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hold your breath.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get out of the area as soon as possible.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rinse your eyes when possible (ideally using what you have packed with you).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research the intended protest route\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may be confusing since there’s not always a clearly stated route (a protest is, or course, not a parade), but some protests have preplanned routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By knowing where the protest is headed, you will be able to plan how you might \u003ca href=\"https://netpol.org/guide-to-kettles/\">avoid being caught in a “kettle”\u003c/a> or other containment method — and be able to leave when you are ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know who is organizing the protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth doing some research on the people and groups behind any protest you plan to attend to make sure it’s in alignment with your values and objectives. During certain Black Lives Matter protests in San Diego in June 2020, for instance, organizers warned demonstrators to avoid specific events they said likely had been surreptitiously coordinated by white nationalist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Know your rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You are entitled to free speech and freedom of assembly. However, your rights can be unclear during curfews and shelter-in-place orders. The American Civil Liberties Union has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">detailed guide to your rights as a protester or a protest organizer\u003c/a>. Notably, when police issue an order to disperse, it is meant to be the last resort for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If officers issue a dispersal order, they must provide a reasonable opportunity to comply, including sufficient time and a clear, unobstructed exit path,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights/#i-want-to-take-pictures-or-shoot-video-at-a-protest\">according to the ACLU\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955465/dolores-hill-bomb-legal-rights-spectator-onlooker\">Read our guide to your rights as a spectator.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are photographing others, it is recommended to respect privacy, as some may not want to have videos or photos taken. This may also depend on context, location and time of day. In some cases journalists, or those documenting events, have been the target of tear gas and rubber bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The First Amendment gives you the right to film police who are actively performing their duties, and bystander videos can provide important counternarratives to official accounts. Read our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871364/recording-the-police-what-to-know-and-how-to-stay-safe-doing-it\">guide to filming encounters with the police safely and ethically\u003c/a> and where to share your footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information can be found from the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild — the NLG has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/\">pocket-sized know-your-rights guides\u003c/a> in multiple languages. Writing the number for the NLG hotline (and other important numbers such as emergency contacts) on your arm in case you lose your phone or have it confiscated is another suggested way to ensure you have it — should you need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958935\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd with signs gathers in front of a large stone building. A line of police officers stands nearby.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68263_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-17-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters, counter-protesters, and SFPD are seen at a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The court is hearing arguments for the city’s appeal of an injunction filed by the Coalition on Homelessness, which has temporarily kept city workers from removing encampments on the streets. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be aware of your surroundings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first few days of George Floyd protests in the Bay Area in June 2020, there were fireworks, fires, rubber bullets, tear gas, flash-bangs and even some gunshots. Being aware of your surroundings includes having an understanding of what possible actions may occur around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Know the possible law enforcement ramifications of attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On April 17, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">she was considering charging a group of pro-Palestinian protesters\u003c/a> with a felony for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982940/protesters-shut-down-880-freeway-in-oakland-as-part-of-economic-blockade-for-gaza\">blocking Bay Area freeways\u003c/a>. People who were stuck in traffic on the bridge, Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983413/could-protesters-who-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-be-charged-with-false-imprisonment\">wrote on X\u003c/a>, “may be entitled to restitution + have other victim rights guaranteed under Marsy’s law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU Northern California’s legal director, Shilpi Agarwal said she found the move by Jenkins had the potential to cast a “chilling effect” on speech in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lawful protests are, by design, meant to be visible and inconvenient,” Agarwal said. And while the government can place “reasonable limits on protest” in what is called \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">a “time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>” — meaning authorities can call for certain parameters of protest for safety or other people using the space — the government may \u003ci>not \u003c/i>tell people they cannot protest. And in public spaces, Agarwal said, “people are allowed to protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What kinds of law enforcement charges could protesters face, however? Agarwal said while \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights\">charges for protests can be nuanced\u003c/a>, at a basic level, if you are engaged in a protest and encounter police officers who then determine for “some reason” you have violated the “parameters” of the protest, there are usually three charging options available to officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>An infraction: typically a ticket where you show your ID, get a citation and may have to appear in court. Usually, an infraction is just a fine to pay.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A misdemeanor: for which “you rarely serve” jail time for low-level offenses, Agarwal said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A felony: A more serious criminal charge that usually brings jail time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Agarwal said the “vast majority of offenses that are commonly charged at protests, when the police do get involved, are typically infractions or misdemeanors.” Common provisions for protesters have been something like resisting arrest, disrupting a public meeting, and failing to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Protest Law and Litigation’s senior counsel, Rachel Lederman, said restitution is common in criminal cases, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967536/protesters-calling-for-gaza-ceasefire-block-bay-bridges-westbound-lanes\">pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge\u003c/a> in November 2023 are currently paying “a very small amount of restitution to one person who had a specific medical bill, that they attributed to the traffic blockage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, California State Assemblymember Kate Sanchez introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/california-bill-would-create-new-infraction-for-protesters-who-block-highways/\">a bill before the Assembly Transportation Committee\u003c/a> that would create a new infraction for those who obstruct a highway during a protest that affects an emergency vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill proposes a fine of between $200 and $500 for the first offense, $300 and $1000 for the second offense and $500 to $1000 for additional offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Reminder: Your rights are at their highest in a public forum\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When considering your rights, take into account the location where a protest may take place — it could be a campus, a city council meeting, or a usually busy road. And Agarwal said that while the law is complicated and can vary in different situations, First Amendment rights are generally “at their highest when something is a public forum” — that is, a place like a sidewalk or a public plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the \u003ca href=\"https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time-place-and-manner-restrictions/\">time, place, and manner restriction\u003c/a>, “when you have a public forum, there is very, very little that the government can do to regulate your speech,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, First Amendment rights are at their lowest at places like private homes, Agarwal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean that you have no rights, but it does mean that whenever and wherever you are on something that is not a public forum, the strength of your First Amendment rights starts to wane,” she said. “And the government can do more to regulate what you can and cannot say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remember there are many ways to protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As the disability community continues to remind others, there are many ways to show up. We are still in a pandemic, and you may need to weigh the risks and goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can participate in many meaningful ways that don’t include attending an in-person protest or rally. This could include educating yourself, voting, talking to your community and supporting grassroots organizations, as outlined in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881199/5-ways-to-show-up-for-racial-justice-today\">this 2020 guide from KQED’s Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">contact your elected officials to express your opinions\u003c/a>. For more information on what “call your reps” actually means, read our explainer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID is still with us: What to know about your possible risks attending a protest\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The good news: Your risks of getting COVID-19 outdoors remain far lower than your risks indoors — about 20 times less, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, being vaccinated and boosted will greatly reduce your risks of getting very sick, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19. If you’re not yet boosted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960630/free-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2023\">find the new COVID-19 vaccine shot near you\u003c/a>. If you’re bringing children to a protest with you, remember that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917289/covid-vaccines-for-kids-under-5-are-here-heres-how-to-find-one\">kids and babies aged 6 months and over can get their primary COVID-19 vaccine series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you should still think about your risks of getting (or spreading) COVID-19 at a big event full of people, even when you’re outdoors. As with so many decisions during the pandemic, a lot comes down to your personal risks and circumstances — not just to protect yourself but others, too. “I think it requires people to be thoughtful about who they are, who they live with, and what happens when they leave the protest and go back home,” Chin-Hong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider bringing a mask along regardless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only the number of people you’ll encounter at a protest — it’s what they might be \u003cem>doing\u003c/em>. Even outside, screaming, chanting, coughing and singing all expel more of the particles that can spread COVID-19 than regular activity does, and you may decide to keep your mask on during a protest if it’s a super-crowded space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might also find that some protest organizers explicitly request you wear a mask and maintain social distancing at the event, especially if the event is being attended by groups or communities at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the possibility that you might not \u003cem>stay\u003c/em> outside the whole time. “Whenever you have a protest, nobody just stays necessarily outdoors,” Chin-Hong said, giving pre-protest gatherings and meetings or post-protest dinners as examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These may be done in people’s homes. I think it’s the stuff that goes around the actual outdoor protest that I’m more worried about,” Chin-Hong said. He recommends that people “think about carrying a mask with them, like they carry an umbrella. So that they just bring out the ‘umbrella’ when it’s potentially ‘raining with COVID\u003ci>.\u003c/i>‘”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965077\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowed with signs crowds around a building that has been fenced off. Many are pushing against the fence and others are carrying signs. Almost all are wearing facemasks.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS43804_GettyImages-1244191840-1-qut-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters take a knee during a demonstration outside of Mission Police Station to honor of George Floyd on June 3, 2020, in San Francisco. Three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still common to see people wearing facemasks at protests to protect themselves from a possible coronavirus infection.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 2021, Chin-Hong told KQED that protests against racist violence and the killing of Black people by police were themselves “a response to a public health threat, if you think about the impact of structural racism and stress on health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, when it comes to weighing the desire to protest a cause with the risks of getting or spreading COVID-19, “I think the benefits of protesting are even more in favor of protesting now,” Chin-Hong told KQED in 2022. That “risk/benefit calculus,” as he puts it, is even more in favor of attending a rally — “because we have so many tools to keep people safer,” from vaccines and boosters to improved COVID-19 treatment if someone \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Lakshmi Sarah, Lisa Pickoff-White, Carly Severn and Nisa Khan. Beth LaBerge and \u003c/em>\u003cem>Peter Arcuni also contributed. A version of this story originally published on April 23, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_223","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_21077","news_32707","news_1386","news_19971","news_28067","news_18538","news_29029","news_28044","news_6631","news_28031","news_18","news_28041","news_29475","news_29198"],"featImg":"news_11947885","label":"source_news_11821950"},"news_11983850":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983850","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983850","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-less-homework-stress-make-california-students-happier","title":"Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier?","publishDate":1713956456,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Some bills before California’s Legislature don’t come from passionate policy advocates or powerful interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, the inspiration comes from a family car ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While campaigning two years ago, Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/pilar-schiavo-5510\">Pilar Schiavo\u003c/a>’s daughter, then 9, asked from the backseat what her mother could do if she won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiavo answered that she’d be able to make laws. Then, her daughter Sofia asked if she could make a law banning homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a kind of a joke,” the Santa Clarita Valley Democrat said in an interview, “though I’m sure she’d be happy if homework were banned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the conversation got Schiavo thinking, she said. And while \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2999?slug=CA_202320240AB2999\">Assembly Bill 2999\u003c/a> — which faces its first big test on Wednesday — is far from a ban on homework, it would require school districts, county offices of education and charter schools to develop guidelines for K–12 students. It would urge schools to be more intentional about “good” or meaningful homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, the guidelines should consider students’ physical health, how long assignments take, and how effective they are. However, the bill’s main concern is mental health and when homework adds stress to students’ daily lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homework’s impact on happiness is partly why Schiavo brought up the proposal last month during \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/03/happiness-california-legislature/\">the first meeting of the Legislature’s select committee on happiness\u003c/a>, led by former Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/anthony-rendon-120?_gl=1*186p1dm*_ga*MTM0NTExODk4NS4xNjkwMzA5NjYy*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcxMzg1MzY3OS45MzYuMS4xNzEzODU2ODUzLjU4LjAuMA..*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcxMzg1Njg1MS4xMDAzLjAuMTcxMzg1Njg1MS4wLjAuMA..\">Anthony Rendon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"mindshift_62400,mindshift_63052\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“This feeling of loneliness and disconnection — I know when my kid is not feeling connected,” Schiavo, a member of the happiness committee, told CalMatters. “It’s when she’s alone in her room (doing homework), not playing with her cousin, not having dinner with her family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill analysis cites a survey of 15,000 California high schoolers from Challenge Success, a nonprofit affiliated with the Stanford Graduate School of Education. It found that 45% said homework was a major source of stress and that 52% considered most assignments to be busywork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://challengesuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Challenge-Success-Homework-White-Paper-2020.pdf\">organization also reported in 2020\u003c/a> that students with higher workloads reported “symptoms of exhaustion and lower rates of sleep” but that spending more time on homework did not necessarily lead to higher test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homework’s potential to also widen inequities is why Casey Cuny supports the measure. Cuny, an English and mythology teacher at Valencia High School and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr23/yr23rel81.asp\">2024’s California Teacher of the Year\u003c/a>, said language barriers, unreliable home internet, family responsibilities or other outside factors may contribute to a student falling behind on homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never want a kid’s grade to be low because they have divorced parents, and their book was at their dad’s house when they were spending the weekend at mom’s house,” said Cuny, who plans to attend a press conference Wednesday to promote the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, as technology makes it easier for students to cheat — using artificial technology or chat threads to lift answers, for example — Schiavo said that the educators she has spoken to indicate they’re moving towards more in-class assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuny agrees that an emphasis on classwork does help to rein in cheating and allows him to give students immediate feedback. “I feel that I should teach them what I need to teach them when I’m with them in the room,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2-.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a table facing a woman and man seated at a larger table with microphones attached.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2-.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Select Committee On Happiness And Public Policy Outcomes listen to speakers during an informational hearing at the California Capitol in Sacramento on March 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill said the local homework policies should have input from teachers, parents, school counselors, social workers and students; be distributed at the beginning of every school year; and be reevaluated every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly Committee on Education is expected to hear the bill Wednesday. Schiavo said she has received bipartisan support, and so far, no official opposition or support has been listed in the bill analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she acknowledges that, if passed, the measure’s provision for parental input may lead to disagreements given the recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/culture-wars-california-schools/\">culture war disputes\u003c/a> between Democratic officials and parental rights groups backed by some Republican lawmakers. “I’m sure there will be lively (school) board meetings,” Schiavo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, she hopes the proposal will overhaul the discussion around homework and mental health. The bill is especially pertinent now that the state is also poised to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/06/mental-health-funding-2/\">cut spending on mental health services for children\u003c/a> with the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/prop-1-mental-health/\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiavo said the mother of a student with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder told her that the child’s struggle to finish homework had raised issues inside the house, as well as with the school’s principal and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m just like, it’s sixth grade!” Schaivo said. “What’s going on?”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A bill from a member of the Legislature’s happiness committee would require schools to develop homework policies that consider the mental and physical strain on students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713912168,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":848},"headData":{"title":"Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier? | KQED","description":"A bill from a member of the Legislature’s happiness committee would require schools to develop homework policies that consider the mental and physical strain on students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier?","datePublished":"2024-04-24T11:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-23T22:42:48.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Lynn La\u003cbr>CalMatters\u003c/br>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983850/will-less-homework-stress-make-california-students-happier","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Some bills before California’s Legislature don’t come from passionate policy advocates or powerful interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, the inspiration comes from a family car ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While campaigning two years ago, Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/pilar-schiavo-5510\">Pilar Schiavo\u003c/a>’s daughter, then 9, asked from the backseat what her mother could do if she won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiavo answered that she’d be able to make laws. Then, her daughter Sofia asked if she could make a law banning homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a kind of a joke,” the Santa Clarita Valley Democrat said in an interview, “though I’m sure she’d be happy if homework were banned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the conversation got Schiavo thinking, she said. And while \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2999?slug=CA_202320240AB2999\">Assembly Bill 2999\u003c/a> — which faces its first big test on Wednesday — is far from a ban on homework, it would require school districts, county offices of education and charter schools to develop guidelines for K–12 students. It would urge schools to be more intentional about “good” or meaningful homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, the guidelines should consider students’ physical health, how long assignments take, and how effective they are. However, the bill’s main concern is mental health and when homework adds stress to students’ daily lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homework’s impact on happiness is partly why Schiavo brought up the proposal last month during \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/03/happiness-california-legislature/\">the first meeting of the Legislature’s select committee on happiness\u003c/a>, led by former Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/anthony-rendon-120?_gl=1*186p1dm*_ga*MTM0NTExODk4NS4xNjkwMzA5NjYy*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcxMzg1MzY3OS45MzYuMS4xNzEzODU2ODUzLjU4LjAuMA..*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcxMzg1Njg1MS4xMDAzLjAuMTcxMzg1Njg1MS4wLjAuMA..\">Anthony Rendon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"mindshift_62400,mindshift_63052","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This feeling of loneliness and disconnection — I know when my kid is not feeling connected,” Schiavo, a member of the happiness committee, told CalMatters. “It’s when she’s alone in her room (doing homework), not playing with her cousin, not having dinner with her family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill analysis cites a survey of 15,000 California high schoolers from Challenge Success, a nonprofit affiliated with the Stanford Graduate School of Education. It found that 45% said homework was a major source of stress and that 52% considered most assignments to be busywork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://challengesuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Challenge-Success-Homework-White-Paper-2020.pdf\">organization also reported in 2020\u003c/a> that students with higher workloads reported “symptoms of exhaustion and lower rates of sleep” but that spending more time on homework did not necessarily lead to higher test scores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homework’s potential to also widen inequities is why Casey Cuny supports the measure. Cuny, an English and mythology teacher at Valencia High School and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr23/yr23rel81.asp\">2024’s California Teacher of the Year\u003c/a>, said language barriers, unreliable home internet, family responsibilities or other outside factors may contribute to a student falling behind on homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never want a kid’s grade to be low because they have divorced parents, and their book was at their dad’s house when they were spending the weekend at mom’s house,” said Cuny, who plans to attend a press conference Wednesday to promote the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, as technology makes it easier for students to cheat — using artificial technology or chat threads to lift answers, for example — Schiavo said that the educators she has spoken to indicate they’re moving towards more in-class assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuny agrees that an emphasis on classwork does help to rein in cheating and allows him to give students immediate feedback. “I feel that I should teach them what I need to teach them when I’m with them in the room,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2-.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2-.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at a table facing a woman and man seated at a larger table with microphones attached.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2-.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/031224-Happiness-Committee-FG-CM-2--1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Select Committee On Happiness And Public Policy Outcomes listen to speakers during an informational hearing at the California Capitol in Sacramento on March 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bill said the local homework policies should have input from teachers, parents, school counselors, social workers and students; be distributed at the beginning of every school year; and be reevaluated every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly Committee on Education is expected to hear the bill Wednesday. Schiavo said she has received bipartisan support, and so far, no official opposition or support has been listed in the bill analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she acknowledges that, if passed, the measure’s provision for parental input may lead to disagreements given the recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/culture-wars-california-schools/\">culture war disputes\u003c/a> between Democratic officials and parental rights groups backed by some Republican lawmakers. “I’m sure there will be lively (school) board meetings,” Schiavo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, she hopes the proposal will overhaul the discussion around homework and mental health. The bill is especially pertinent now that the state is also poised to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2023/06/mental-health-funding-2/\">cut spending on mental health services for children\u003c/a> with the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/prop-1-mental-health/\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiavo said the mother of a student with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder told her that the child’s struggle to finish homework had raised issues inside the house, as well as with the school’s principal and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I’m just like, it’s sixth grade!” Schaivo said. “What’s going on?”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983850/will-less-homework-stress-make-california-students-happier","authors":["byline_news_11983850"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32580","news_27626","news_28683","news_2998","news_3457","news_6387"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11983856","label":"news_18481"},"forum_2010101905488":{"type":"posts","id":"forum_2010101905488","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"forum","id":"2010101905488","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rainn-wilson-from-the-office-on-why-we-need-a-spiritual-revolution","title":"Rainn Wilson from ‘The Office’ on Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution","publishDate":1713993655,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Rainn Wilson from ‘The Office’ on Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>You’d be forgiven for associating Rainn Wilson primarily with Dwight Schrute, the overbearing, mansplaining geek on “The Office.” And in his bestselling book “Soul Boom” the three-time Emmy Award-nominated actor acknowledges the connection: “Why is the beet-farming, paper-selling, tangentially Amish man-baby with the giant forehead and short-sleeved mustard shirts writing about the meaning of life?” But then again, why wouldn’t he be curious? 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The nurses are calling for health care organizations to hit pause on the rollout of new AI technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as state and federal regulators race to catch up with the explosive growth of generative AI tools, which experts say also have great potential to improve health care delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11976097,news_11980719,news_11982218\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest employers in San Francisco, Alameda and other Bay Area counties, has been an early adopter of AI. Company officials \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/fostering-responsible-ai-in-health-care\">have said\u003c/a> they rigorously test the tools they use for safety, accuracy and equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our physicians and care teams are always at the center of decision-making with our patients,” a Kaiser Permanente statement said in response to a KQED request for comment. “We believe that AI may be able to help our physicians and employees and enhance our members’ experience. As an organization dedicated to inclusiveness and health equity, we ensure the results from AI tools are correct and unbiased; AI does not replace human assessment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One program in use at 21 Kaiser hospitals in Northern California is the Advance Alert Monitor, which analyzes electronic health data to notify a nursing team when a patient’s health is at risk of serious decline. The program saves about 500 lives per year, according to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt='Many people dressed in scrubs hold red signs that say \"Trust Nurses Not AI\" in the street.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurses from across California rally at Kaiser Permanente on Geary Blvd in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to advocate for patient safety in the face of artificial intelligence technology. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gutierrez Vo said nurses have flagged problems with the tool, such as producing inaccurate alarms or failing to detect all patients whose health is quickly deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just so much buzz right now that this is the future of health care. These health care corporations are using this as a shortcut, as a way to handle patient load. And we’re saying ‘No. You cannot do that without making sure these systems are safe,’” said Gutierrez Vo, a nurse with 25 years of experience at the company’s Fremont Adult Family Medicine clinic. “Our patients are not lab rats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized some AI-generated services before they go to market, but mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/28/ai-doctors-healthcare-regulation-00124051\">without the comprehensive data\u003c/a> required for new medicines. Last fall, President Joe Biden issued an \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">executive order\u003c/a> on the safe use of AI, which includes a directive to develop policies for AI-enabled technologies in health services that promote “the welfare of patients and workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very good to have open discussions because the technology is moving at such a fast pace, and everyone is at a different level of understanding of what it can do and [what] it is,” said Dr. Ashish Atreja, Chief Information and Digital Health Officer at UC Davis Health. “Many health systems and organizations do have guardrails in place, but perhaps they haven’t been shared that widely. That’s why there’s a knowledge gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sun glasses and a red shirt stands in a crowd with red signs in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Larkin listens to speakers alongside fellow nurses from across California during a rally at Kaiser Permanente on Geary Blvd in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to advocate for patient safety in the face of artificial intelligence technology. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Davis Health is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/uc-davis-health-and-leading-health-systems-launch-valid-ai/2023/10\">collaboration\u003c/a> with other health systems to implement generative and other types of AI with what Atreja referred to as “intentionality” to support their workforce and improve patient care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have this mission that no patient, no clinician, no researcher, no employee gets left behind in getting advantage from the latest technologies,” Atreja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Robert Pearl, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate Business School and a former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), told KQED he agreed with the nurses’ concerns about the use of AI at their workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generative AI is a threatening technology but also a positive one. What is the best for the patient? That has to be the number one concern,” said Pearl, author of “ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine,” which he said he co-wrote with the AI system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic about what it can do for patients,” he said. “I often tell people that generative AI is like the iPhone. It’s not going away.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At a protest in San Francisco, nurses say health care employers must ensure the artificial intelligence tools they use do not harm patients.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713834971,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1003},"headData":{"title":"Nurses Warn Patient Safety at Risk as AI Use Spreads in Health Care | KQED","description":"At a protest in San Francisco, nurses say health care employers must ensure the artificial intelligence tools they use do not harm patients.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Nurses Warn Patient Safety at Risk as AI Use Spreads in Health Care","datePublished":"2024-04-23T00:38:45.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-23T01:16:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983752/nurses-warn-patient-safety-at-risk-as-ai-use-spreads-in-health-care","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the use of artificial intelligence proliferates in the health care industry, Bay Area unionized nurses call for greater transparency and say in how the technologies are deployed to minimize risks to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a protest on Monday outside of Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center, many in the estimated crowd of about 200 members of the California Nurses Association held red signs that read “Patients are not algorithms” and “Trust nurses, not AI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All health care corporations need to make sure that the technology is tested, it’s valid, and it’s not harmful to patients,” said Michelle Gutierrez Vo, a president at CNA, representing 24,000 nurses at Kaiser Permanente. “And before they deploy it, they need to sit down with nurses so that the nurses can review and make sure it’s congruent with patient safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983730\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sun glasses and a red shirt holds a microphone in front of people while she stands behind a podium with a red sign in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Gutierrez Vo, a registered nurse at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont and a California Nurses Association president, speaks during a rally alongside fellow nurses from across California at Kaiser Permanente on Geary Blvd in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to advocate for patient safety in the face of artificial intelligence technology. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez Vo and other nurses worry that without proper oversight and accountability, health care employers will use AI to replace nurses and other medical professionals for profit, to the detriment of patient care. The nurses are calling for health care organizations to hit pause on the rollout of new AI technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as state and federal regulators race to catch up with the explosive growth of generative AI tools, which experts say also have great potential to improve health care delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11976097,news_11980719,news_11982218","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest employers in San Francisco, Alameda and other Bay Area counties, has been an early adopter of AI. Company officials \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/news/fostering-responsible-ai-in-health-care\">have said\u003c/a> they rigorously test the tools they use for safety, accuracy and equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our physicians and care teams are always at the center of decision-making with our patients,” a Kaiser Permanente statement said in response to a KQED request for comment. “We believe that AI may be able to help our physicians and employees and enhance our members’ experience. As an organization dedicated to inclusiveness and health equity, we ensure the results from AI tools are correct and unbiased; AI does not replace human assessment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One program in use at 21 Kaiser hospitals in Northern California is the Advance Alert Monitor, which analyzes electronic health data to notify a nursing team when a patient’s health is at risk of serious decline. The program saves about 500 lives per year, according to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt='Many people dressed in scrubs hold red signs that say \"Trust Nurses Not AI\" in the street.' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-02-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurses from across California rally at Kaiser Permanente on Geary Blvd in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to advocate for patient safety in the face of artificial intelligence technology. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gutierrez Vo said nurses have flagged problems with the tool, such as producing inaccurate alarms or failing to detect all patients whose health is quickly deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s just so much buzz right now that this is the future of health care. These health care corporations are using this as a shortcut, as a way to handle patient load. And we’re saying ‘No. You cannot do that without making sure these systems are safe,’” said Gutierrez Vo, a nurse with 25 years of experience at the company’s Fremont Adult Family Medicine clinic. “Our patients are not lab rats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized some AI-generated services before they go to market, but mostly \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/28/ai-doctors-healthcare-regulation-00124051\">without the comprehensive data\u003c/a> required for new medicines. Last fall, President Joe Biden issued an \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">executive order\u003c/a> on the safe use of AI, which includes a directive to develop policies for AI-enabled technologies in health services that promote “the welfare of patients and workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very good to have open discussions because the technology is moving at such a fast pace, and everyone is at a different level of understanding of what it can do and [what] it is,” said Dr. Ashish Atreja, Chief Information and Digital Health Officer at UC Davis Health. “Many health systems and organizations do have guardrails in place, but perhaps they haven’t been shared that widely. That’s why there’s a knowledge gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983727\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing sun glasses and a red shirt stands in a crowd with red signs in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-NursesAI-19-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Larkin listens to speakers alongside fellow nurses from across California during a rally at Kaiser Permanente on Geary Blvd in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to advocate for patient safety in the face of artificial intelligence technology. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Davis Health is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/uc-davis-health-and-leading-health-systems-launch-valid-ai/2023/10\">collaboration\u003c/a> with other health systems to implement generative and other types of AI with what Atreja referred to as “intentionality” to support their workforce and improve patient care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have this mission that no patient, no clinician, no researcher, no employee gets left behind in getting advantage from the latest technologies,” Atreja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Robert Pearl, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate Business School and a former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente), told KQED he agreed with the nurses’ concerns about the use of AI at their workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generative AI is a threatening technology but also a positive one. What is the best for the patient? That has to be the number one concern,” said Pearl, author of “ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine,” which he said he co-wrote with the AI system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m optimistic about what it can do for patients,” he said. “I often tell people that generative AI is like the iPhone. It’s not going away.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983752/nurses-warn-patient-safety-at-risk-as-ai-use-spreads-in-health-care","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_2114","news_28642","news_27626","news_18659","news_421","news_28963","news_30933"],"featImg":"news_11983729","label":"news"},"news_11983830":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983830","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983830","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"silicon-valley-house-seat-race-gets-a-recount","title":"Silicon Valley House Seat Race Gets a Recount","publishDate":1713952841,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Silicon Valley House Seat Race Gets a Recount | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots are being recounted in the race for California’s 16th Congressional house seat, which ended in a tie for second between Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian. One or both of them will move on to face former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Guy Marzorati explains how the recount is working, and why it’s gotten a little ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1324653751&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Election workers are recounting ballots in Silicon Valley after the race for California’s 16th congressional district seat ended. In a mind blowing tie, Assembly member Evan Lo and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian both got second place, after each winning exactly 30,249 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It took just such a insane confluence of events to even end up here. I mean, all the candidates have talked about, like, people coming up to them. I’m really sorry, I have to admit. Like, I didn’t cast a ballot like you. Could have been the difference today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>KQED politics and government correspondent Guy Marzorati explains how the recount is going and why it’s gotten a little ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So this is a district that stretches from Pacifica down through San Mateo County into Santa Clara County, Palo Alto, Mountain View, parts of San Jose all the way to Los Gatos. It’s been represented for about 30 years by Anna Eshoo. She decided last year she’s not going to run for another term. And so this opened up this really wild primary that’s gotten even more interesting recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. And can you just remind us to who are the players in this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So there was a lot of players in the primary. You could have made a football team out of it. There’s 11 candidates, running, but three ones who were the front runners, kind of from the beginning. And that was former mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo. Evan Lowe, a state assembly member, and Joe Simitian, who’s currently a Santa Clara County supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Those three, I guess we’re kind of the favorites going in, but there’s a lot of money spent more than $5 million by campaigns in the primary there, as millions more by outside groups just trying to get, you know, candidates names out there. But ultimately those were the, you know, top three finishers in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Remind us of this very crazy, unlikely. Everything that happened in terms of the results of this race, there were actually two runner ups who were basically caught up in a tie. Like, what are even the odds of that happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I’m I’m not a math person, but this you would need one of those massive calculators where they’re like front of it kind of ramps up at the end to figure this out. Basically. Yeah. Liccardo won the primary. He got a little bit more than 38,000 votes. And then Lo and Simeon each ended with 30,249 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I mean, it’s just like the chances of that happening and the vote counts were coming in all through the month of March. People were, you know, following it. They would go back and forth. One person would lead the next day, then it would switch. But that’s where they ended up. And what that means is both Simitian and Lo advance of the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I know we have a top two primary, but the rules and the top two primaries, if there is a tie for a second, all three candidates, would advance for a general election, which is just incredibly rare. That only happened one time in the state history since we switched to a top two primary, and in this case, the first time where you’d have three Democrats on the ballot in the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So this tie that we’re talking about between Evan Lo and Joe Simitian did that, then automatically trigger a recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Now, that’s what’s crazy is there is no automatic recount. In this race, that is the law for some local races, like in Santa Clara County and a local race, if it’s within 25 votes, it doesn’t even have to be tied though automatically to a recount. But in this case, there is no automatic recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This is a federal race that stretches across two different counties, and it’s up to a voter to actually come forward and start the recount process. So in this case, you know, once the vote was certified in early April, there was a five day window where any voter could come forward and request a recount as long as they can pay for the recount themselves, then the recount can go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>The first place we were looking was would the campaigns be interested in doing this? But both Evan Lowe and Joe Simeon were like, you know what? We’re good. Like, let’s just run it back in in November and see what happens. But then someone did come forward. Jonathan Padilla, who requested a recount in both of the counties and got this process started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How then, does a recount work? Exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>What literally what’s happening is the ballots are being run back through the machine with the extra added element of PDA has requested to view a lot of election materials and ballots that were not counted the first time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what are those ballots you’re referring to? Ballots that weren’t counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So this can, you know, range a lot of different ways, but how it’s actually played out so far in this recount is ballots relating to conditional voters. So if you’re someone who shows up to vote but is not registered even up to Election Day in California, you can just register on the spot and cast a, conditional on a provisional ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>How that works is you fill out your information, you attest to the fact that you’re a citizen, that you’re 18 years old, that you’re not voting elsewhere, and then the registrar will go and double check all that information and ultimately count your ballot or not. In this case on the form, there was a box that needed to be checked. Just declare I’m a US citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>There was also a signature field to say I’m a citizen, I’m 18, etc. in many of these ballots that are being challenged, the voters signed it but did not check that box and so the registrar did not count their ballots. We don’t know which way the voters voted in this race, but the registrar didn’t even go through the process of actually counting that vote. And so Padilla and his lawyers are challenging that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And this is just a very, very small number of ballots. Right. But when we’re talking about a tie, they maybe matter a lot. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Only takes one. I mean, I think that’s definitely something to drive home in this case. In any election you’re going to look at, there might be a handful of votes that are kind of judgment calls. Maybe it’s a voter marked a certain choice, cross it out and marked another one. In this case, election workers literally review those. Those ballots go on like dual screens and two election workers view them and kind of make their determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>But those are kind of judgment calls trying to figure out, okay, what is this voter’s intent. And so in this case, you have, at least in Santa Clara County, about two dozen ballots that have been challenged. You have about a dozen more in San Mateo County, but that’s in the grand scheme of thousands and thousands of votes. So it’s not as if we’re finding a whole different result. But as you say, it only takes one vote to actually change what we’re all watching in this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about who requested the recount and why. Some folks in the South Bay are suspicious of him. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so anyone can initiate a recount as long as you basically have the money to to fund it. But in this case, it’s even more interesting, in part because of who requested it and what we know of his background. Tell me a little bit more about who exactly this guy is, Jonathan Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So here’s where things I think pivot from, like schoolhouse Rock to something a little more spicy. Jonathan Padilla actually used to work for Sam Liccardo. He was the finance director when Liccardo ran for mayor of San Jose in 2014. He contributed to Lakatos campaign last year. He told me like, that’s the last contact he’s had with the campaign from then D.A., someone who stayed politically involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Even though he’s a tech entrepreneur, he doesn’t necessarily work in politics, is his day job. He’s been involved in politics. So when it was discovered this is the guy who is requesting the recount. That’s when questions started. Why is he doing this? Is there some advantage that he is looking for for Liccardo by requesting this recount?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Perhaps he wants a field to be narrowed to just two candidates. So that’s when the questions started to come in. And like, you know, what’s the political motivation behind going ahead with this process? You’ve heard a lot of critiques from Evan Lo’s campaign. They’ve even called him like a lackey for Sam Liccardo. They’re basically like, you’re doing Sam Liccardo bidding in this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Well, what do we know about that? Why is he spending money to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This is what I’ve been trying to figure out for weeks. Padilla came out and said, you know, I just want to have all the votes counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Padilla: \u003c/strong>My positions have been super clear. We should count every single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I’ve been DMing with him like trying to get more information. Finally, earlier this week, he agreed to to chat on the phone, and he’s kind of stuck by this story that he is not doing this in any kind of coordination with Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Padilla: \u003c/strong>This is about counting all the ballots. I have not spoken Mercado about this. I have not spoken anybody campaign about this. I had no meaningful contact with anybody in Liccardo campaign since I made my donation at the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>He said, you know, I have no idea how this is going to turn out. I’m really just interested in making sure that all the votes are counted. And something he talked about was he didn’t want any candidate to win the seat with like a plurality of votes. I mean, you could end up in a scenario with three candidates. Maybe someone gets, you know, in the high 30s and they can still win the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This is a really important seat. There’s no term limits. You can have this for decades. So it’s almost like, should it really be up to less than a majority of voters to make this decision? That’s his story. I mean, he is very involved in politics. It’s hard to believe there’s no political inklings or no kind of political motivations at all in here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>But that’s what Padilla said. He said he’s not getting anything out of this personally other than, you know, supporting democracy. And the Carlos campaign has said, we have nothing to do with this. We you know, we’re completely not involved. We’re happy to see the votes get counted. But we’re not involved with this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How much is this costing Jonathan Padilla?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It’s not just Padilla. There’s this whole outside organization called Count the Vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Padilla: \u003c/strong>And we’re a concern group of citizens that are acting with every intent to follow, every FEC guideline and law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It could be well over $200,000 when all is said and done, because the amount each county is charging is $12,000 a day. And literally, like I’ve seen the checks, they have to write a $12,000 check each day and give it to the registrar. And then that’s how the work goes forward for that day with a recount. Like you have to see it all the way through. If at any point they start making the payments, then the whole recount stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And even if there were votes that were changed, none of it counts. There have been calls, you know, from Anna. Sue currently holds the seat. She wants them to release their donors. Who’s actually funding the recount? There have been a complaint filed with federal election regulators by a group of lawyers in Santa Clara County who have said, Sam Liccardo is really behind this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This needs to be investigated what kind of coordination he has with this recount group. So there have been a lot of critiques hurled that Padilla’s way. And until we get more of the information about donations, what we know now is Padilla is someone who has supported Liccardo in the past, but there’s no smoking gun, you know, between the Liccardo campaign and Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So you have Padilla and Liccardo basically saying, we’re not in this together, and you have Evan Lowe saying, yeah, you are. Where’s Joe Simitian and all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>You know, Joe Simitian has not gone into the fray in this kind of back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Simitian: \u003c/strong>Eventually the process will work itself out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>He’s kind of said, I want to see this play out. And it’s actually kind of been a good look for him. I would have to say, you know, in this race where you have this mudslinging back and forth, when I’ve asked him his reaction to all these developments, he said, look, I just want to thank the election workers and we’ll see how this process plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Simitian: \u003c/strong>I’ll just politics at this point. And, my job is to stay focused on how I can best represent the folks in our district. That’s really my reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you make of the rhetoric here in this debate over the recount guy between all the candidates involved? And it just seems very heated, like, why does it matter to the average voter what arguments these people are slinging around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I think there’s definitely room for self-reflection on a lot of sides, in kind of how the rhetoric has escalated since this recount started. You had Evan Lowe’s campaign when the recount was announced, accused PDA of taking a page out of Trump’s playbook, attacking democracy, subverting the will of voters. I mean, ultimately, we’re counting ballots like the will of the voters will either be confirmed or newly illuminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And then you also had Padilla, who said, you know, the fact that there was ballots challenge. He called it a travesty. He said the ballots were discovered. He said there was special interest influencing, you know, the election work going on in San Mateo County. Even when I asked him, like what specifically you’re talking about? He didn’t really have an answer. So I’m not trying to be the language police here, but like just taking a step back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>These are all Democrats. I know all these folks were appalled by, you know, former President Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election, appalled by ideas like fake, fake electors. And I think if every bit of election gamesmanship becomes Trumpian, if it becomes undermining democracy, then it all might just be noise to voters when someone is actually trying to threaten democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what’s next here, guy? What’s the timeline for this? When can we know the new results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>By the end of this week. Santa Clara County election officials are confident they can wrap this up. Adjudicate all those, you know, challenge ballots, finish running everything through the machine and have a result. It might be even sooner in San Mateo County just because it’s there’s fewer votes there. So I think, you know, by the end of this week, we could know who’s actually going to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, as a politics reporter, I’m curious what big questions you’re left with from this situation. I mean, one thing I’m thinking about is that not any average person maybe has $200,000 lying around if they want a recount. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And that’s, you know, what Padilla has actually been. That’s one of the things he’s been talking about a lot is like, why should it come to this that I have to put together this money to make the recount happen? At the local level, there are automatic recount laws. And so I wonder if this is, you know, going to kind of spur a conversation about maybe having a state law that triggers an automatic recount at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I mean, like I said, there’s in any election, there’s going to be votes where you have kind of a 5050, you know, should this vote be counted, what’s the voters intent? But in the grand scheme of things, they don’t really matter. But if you have a race like this where it’s tied, maybe that’s the impetus that could lead to some changes. Could lead to a state mandatory recount law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Guy, thank you so much as always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>My pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Guy Marzorati, politics and government correspondent for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Guy was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Ellie Prickett-Morgan is our intern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>They scored this episode and added up the tape. Music courtesy of First Come Music Audio Network and Universal Production Music. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, thanks so much for listening. 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One or both of them will move on to face former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Guy Marzorati explains how the recount is working, and why it’s gotten a little ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1324653751&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Election workers are recounting ballots in Silicon Valley after the race for California’s 16th congressional district seat ended. In a mind blowing tie, Assembly member Evan Lo and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian both got second place, after each winning exactly 30,249 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It took just such a insane confluence of events to even end up here. I mean, all the candidates have talked about, like, people coming up to them. I’m really sorry, I have to admit. Like, I didn’t cast a ballot like you. Could have been the difference today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>KQED politics and government correspondent Guy Marzorati explains how the recount is going and why it’s gotten a little ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So this is a district that stretches from Pacifica down through San Mateo County into Santa Clara County, Palo Alto, Mountain View, parts of San Jose all the way to Los Gatos. It’s been represented for about 30 years by Anna Eshoo. She decided last year she’s not going to run for another term. And so this opened up this really wild primary that’s gotten even more interesting recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. And can you just remind us to who are the players in this election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So there was a lot of players in the primary. You could have made a football team out of it. There’s 11 candidates, running, but three ones who were the front runners, kind of from the beginning. And that was former mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo. Evan Lowe, a state assembly member, and Joe Simitian, who’s currently a Santa Clara County supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Those three, I guess we’re kind of the favorites going in, but there’s a lot of money spent more than $5 million by campaigns in the primary there, as millions more by outside groups just trying to get, you know, candidates names out there. But ultimately those were the, you know, top three finishers in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Remind us of this very crazy, unlikely. Everything that happened in terms of the results of this race, there were actually two runner ups who were basically caught up in a tie. Like, what are even the odds of that happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I’m I’m not a math person, but this you would need one of those massive calculators where they’re like front of it kind of ramps up at the end to figure this out. Basically. Yeah. Liccardo won the primary. He got a little bit more than 38,000 votes. And then Lo and Simeon each ended with 30,249 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I mean, it’s just like the chances of that happening and the vote counts were coming in all through the month of March. People were, you know, following it. They would go back and forth. One person would lead the next day, then it would switch. But that’s where they ended up. And what that means is both Simitian and Lo advance of the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I know we have a top two primary, but the rules and the top two primaries, if there is a tie for a second, all three candidates, would advance for a general election, which is just incredibly rare. That only happened one time in the state history since we switched to a top two primary, and in this case, the first time where you’d have three Democrats on the ballot in the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So this tie that we’re talking about between Evan Lo and Joe Simitian did that, then automatically trigger a recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Now, that’s what’s crazy is there is no automatic recount. In this race, that is the law for some local races, like in Santa Clara County and a local race, if it’s within 25 votes, it doesn’t even have to be tied though automatically to a recount. But in this case, there is no automatic recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This is a federal race that stretches across two different counties, and it’s up to a voter to actually come forward and start the recount process. So in this case, you know, once the vote was certified in early April, there was a five day window where any voter could come forward and request a recount as long as they can pay for the recount themselves, then the recount can go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>The first place we were looking was would the campaigns be interested in doing this? But both Evan Lowe and Joe Simeon were like, you know what? We’re good. Like, let’s just run it back in in November and see what happens. But then someone did come forward. Jonathan Padilla, who requested a recount in both of the counties and got this process started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How then, does a recount work? Exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>What literally what’s happening is the ballots are being run back through the machine with the extra added element of PDA has requested to view a lot of election materials and ballots that were not counted the first time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what are those ballots you’re referring to? Ballots that weren’t counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So this can, you know, range a lot of different ways, but how it’s actually played out so far in this recount is ballots relating to conditional voters. So if you’re someone who shows up to vote but is not registered even up to Election Day in California, you can just register on the spot and cast a, conditional on a provisional ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>How that works is you fill out your information, you attest to the fact that you’re a citizen, that you’re 18 years old, that you’re not voting elsewhere, and then the registrar will go and double check all that information and ultimately count your ballot or not. In this case on the form, there was a box that needed to be checked. Just declare I’m a US citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>There was also a signature field to say I’m a citizen, I’m 18, etc. in many of these ballots that are being challenged, the voters signed it but did not check that box and so the registrar did not count their ballots. We don’t know which way the voters voted in this race, but the registrar didn’t even go through the process of actually counting that vote. And so Padilla and his lawyers are challenging that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And this is just a very, very small number of ballots. Right. But when we’re talking about a tie, they maybe matter a lot. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Only takes one. I mean, I think that’s definitely something to drive home in this case. In any election you’re going to look at, there might be a handful of votes that are kind of judgment calls. Maybe it’s a voter marked a certain choice, cross it out and marked another one. In this case, election workers literally review those. Those ballots go on like dual screens and two election workers view them and kind of make their determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>But those are kind of judgment calls trying to figure out, okay, what is this voter’s intent. And so in this case, you have, at least in Santa Clara County, about two dozen ballots that have been challenged. You have about a dozen more in San Mateo County, but that’s in the grand scheme of thousands and thousands of votes. So it’s not as if we’re finding a whole different result. But as you say, it only takes one vote to actually change what we’re all watching in this race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, we’ll talk about who requested the recount and why. Some folks in the South Bay are suspicious of him. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so anyone can initiate a recount as long as you basically have the money to to fund it. But in this case, it’s even more interesting, in part because of who requested it and what we know of his background. Tell me a little bit more about who exactly this guy is, Jonathan Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So here’s where things I think pivot from, like schoolhouse Rock to something a little more spicy. Jonathan Padilla actually used to work for Sam Liccardo. He was the finance director when Liccardo ran for mayor of San Jose in 2014. He contributed to Lakatos campaign last year. He told me like, that’s the last contact he’s had with the campaign from then D.A., someone who stayed politically involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Even though he’s a tech entrepreneur, he doesn’t necessarily work in politics, is his day job. He’s been involved in politics. So when it was discovered this is the guy who is requesting the recount. That’s when questions started. Why is he doing this? Is there some advantage that he is looking for for Liccardo by requesting this recount?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Perhaps he wants a field to be narrowed to just two candidates. So that’s when the questions started to come in. And like, you know, what’s the political motivation behind going ahead with this process? You’ve heard a lot of critiques from Evan Lo’s campaign. They’ve even called him like a lackey for Sam Liccardo. They’re basically like, you’re doing Sam Liccardo bidding in this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Well, what do we know about that? Why is he spending money to do this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This is what I’ve been trying to figure out for weeks. Padilla came out and said, you know, I just want to have all the votes counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Padilla: \u003c/strong>My positions have been super clear. We should count every single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I’ve been DMing with him like trying to get more information. Finally, earlier this week, he agreed to to chat on the phone, and he’s kind of stuck by this story that he is not doing this in any kind of coordination with Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Padilla: \u003c/strong>This is about counting all the ballots. I have not spoken Mercado about this. I have not spoken anybody campaign about this. I had no meaningful contact with anybody in Liccardo campaign since I made my donation at the end of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>He said, you know, I have no idea how this is going to turn out. I’m really just interested in making sure that all the votes are counted. And something he talked about was he didn’t want any candidate to win the seat with like a plurality of votes. I mean, you could end up in a scenario with three candidates. Maybe someone gets, you know, in the high 30s and they can still win the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This is a really important seat. There’s no term limits. You can have this for decades. So it’s almost like, should it really be up to less than a majority of voters to make this decision? That’s his story. I mean, he is very involved in politics. It’s hard to believe there’s no political inklings or no kind of political motivations at all in here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>But that’s what Padilla said. He said he’s not getting anything out of this personally other than, you know, supporting democracy. And the Carlos campaign has said, we have nothing to do with this. We you know, we’re completely not involved. We’re happy to see the votes get counted. But we’re not involved with this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>How much is this costing Jonathan Padilla?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It’s not just Padilla. There’s this whole outside organization called Count the Vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Padilla: \u003c/strong>And we’re a concern group of citizens that are acting with every intent to follow, every FEC guideline and law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It could be well over $200,000 when all is said and done, because the amount each county is charging is $12,000 a day. And literally, like I’ve seen the checks, they have to write a $12,000 check each day and give it to the registrar. And then that’s how the work goes forward for that day with a recount. Like you have to see it all the way through. If at any point they start making the payments, then the whole recount stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And even if there were votes that were changed, none of it counts. There have been calls, you know, from Anna. Sue currently holds the seat. She wants them to release their donors. Who’s actually funding the recount? There have been a complaint filed with federal election regulators by a group of lawyers in Santa Clara County who have said, Sam Liccardo is really behind this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>This needs to be investigated what kind of coordination he has with this recount group. So there have been a lot of critiques hurled that Padilla’s way. And until we get more of the information about donations, what we know now is Padilla is someone who has supported Liccardo in the past, but there’s no smoking gun, you know, between the Liccardo campaign and Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So you have Padilla and Liccardo basically saying, we’re not in this together, and you have Evan Lowe saying, yeah, you are. Where’s Joe Simitian and all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>You know, Joe Simitian has not gone into the fray in this kind of back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Simitian: \u003c/strong>Eventually the process will work itself out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>He’s kind of said, I want to see this play out. And it’s actually kind of been a good look for him. I would have to say, you know, in this race where you have this mudslinging back and forth, when I’ve asked him his reaction to all these developments, he said, look, I just want to thank the election workers and we’ll see how this process plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Simitian: \u003c/strong>I’ll just politics at this point. And, my job is to stay focused on how I can best represent the folks in our district. That’s really my reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you make of the rhetoric here in this debate over the recount guy between all the candidates involved? And it just seems very heated, like, why does it matter to the average voter what arguments these people are slinging around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I think there’s definitely room for self-reflection on a lot of sides, in kind of how the rhetoric has escalated since this recount started. You had Evan Lowe’s campaign when the recount was announced, accused PDA of taking a page out of Trump’s playbook, attacking democracy, subverting the will of voters. I mean, ultimately, we’re counting ballots like the will of the voters will either be confirmed or newly illuminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And then you also had Padilla, who said, you know, the fact that there was ballots challenge. He called it a travesty. He said the ballots were discovered. He said there was special interest influencing, you know, the election work going on in San Mateo County. Even when I asked him, like what specifically you’re talking about? He didn’t really have an answer. So I’m not trying to be the language police here, but like just taking a step back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>These are all Democrats. I know all these folks were appalled by, you know, former President Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election, appalled by ideas like fake, fake electors. And I think if every bit of election gamesmanship becomes Trumpian, if it becomes undermining democracy, then it all might just be noise to voters when someone is actually trying to threaten democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what’s next here, guy? What’s the timeline for this? When can we know the new results?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>By the end of this week. Santa Clara County election officials are confident they can wrap this up. Adjudicate all those, you know, challenge ballots, finish running everything through the machine and have a result. It might be even sooner in San Mateo County just because it’s there’s fewer votes there. So I think, you know, by the end of this week, we could know who’s actually going to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, as a politics reporter, I’m curious what big questions you’re left with from this situation. I mean, one thing I’m thinking about is that not any average person maybe has $200,000 lying around if they want a recount. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And that’s, you know, what Padilla has actually been. That’s one of the things he’s been talking about a lot is like, why should it come to this that I have to put together this money to make the recount happen? At the local level, there are automatic recount laws. And so I wonder if this is, you know, going to kind of spur a conversation about maybe having a state law that triggers an automatic recount at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I mean, like I said, there’s in any election, there’s going to be votes where you have kind of a 5050, you know, should this vote be counted, what’s the voters intent? But in the grand scheme of things, they don’t really matter. But if you have a race like this where it’s tied, maybe that’s the impetus that could lead to some changes. Could lead to a state mandatory recount law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Guy, thank you so much as always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>My pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Guy Marzorati, politics and government correspondent for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Guy was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Ellie Prickett-Morgan is our intern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>They scored this episode and added up the tape. Music courtesy of First Come Music Audio Network and Universal Production Music. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, thanks so much for listening. Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983830/silicon-valley-house-seat-race-gets-a-recount","authors":["8654","227","11898","11649"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33812","news_17968","news_33982","news_353","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11922004","label":"news"},"news_11631064":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11631064","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11631064","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"remembering-those-lost-in-northern-californias-october-fire-catastrophe","title":"Remembering Those Lost in Northern California's October Fires","publishDate":1514736036,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A beloved volunteer at an adult assisted-living center. A dad who would always \"find the funny\" in tough situations. A volunteer firefighter who died far from home while battling a blaze in the North Bay. A couple who had celebrated 75 years together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were among the 44 people who perished in the series of monstrous, wind-driven wildfires that brought death and destruction to huge swaths of Northern California, devastating communities in Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties. On this final day of 2017, as we look back on the year and a tragedy that touched so many, we remember those who died, the lives they lived and those they touched along the way. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside id=\"top\" class=\"aligncenter noborder\">\n\u003ch2>Click on the person's name to read more about the victims of the fires\u003c/h2>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd width=\"50%\">\n- \u003ca href=\"#aycock\">Karen Aycock\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#azarian\">Michel Azarian\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#berriz\">Carmen Caldentey Berriz\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#bowman\">Roy and Irma Bowman\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#chaney\">George Chaney and Edward Stone\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#collinsswasey\">Carol Collins-Swasey\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#coolidge\">Stanley Coolidge\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#costanzo\">Janet Costanzo\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#culp\">David Culp\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#dornbach\">Michael Dornbach\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#evans\">Valerie Lynn Evans\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#gardiner\">Barbara Jane Gardiner and Elizabeth Charlene Foster\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#grabow\">Mike Grabow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#grant\">Arthur Tasman Grant and Suiko Grant\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#halbur\">Donna and Leroy Halbur\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#hannah\">Roseann Hannah\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#hanson\">Christina Hanson\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#hung\">Tak-Fu Hung\u003c/a>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd width=\"50%\">\n- \u003ca href=\"#kirven\">Monte Kirven\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#lewis\">Sally Lewis and Teresa Santos\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#mccombs\">Veronica McCombs\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#mcreynolds\">Carmen McReynolds\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#paiz\">Garrett Paiz\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#picciano\">Sandra Picciano\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#powell\">Lynne Anderson Powell\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#ress\">Marilyn Ress\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#rippey\">Charles and Sara Rippey\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#robinson\">Sharon Robinson\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#rogers\">Lee Chadwick Rogers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#schwartz\">Marnie Schwartz\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#shepherd\">Kai Shepherd\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#kressa\">Kressa Shepherd\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#southard\">Daniel Southard\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#stelter\">Steve Stelter\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#stephenson\">Margaret Stephenson\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#thomas\">Tamara Latrice Thomas\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#tunis\">Linda Tunis\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"aycock\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Karen Aycock: 'She Had a Big Heart, Was Always There to Help'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karen Aycock, a former construction worker who lived alone in Santa Rosa in her Coffey Park home with her cats, died in the Tubbs Fire that devastated the neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Aycock’s niece, Victoria Rilling, learned of her aunt’s death, she felt “heartbreak, utter dismay,” she told \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7519692-181/victims-identified-in-deadly-sonoma?artslide=0\">The Press Democrat\u003c/a>. She was also thankful for the efforts to locate Aycock. “They didn’t give up. Their perseverance is phenomenal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aycock volunteered with animal rescue groups and her cats meant the world to her, Chad Hinden, a former roommate, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-wildfires-Karen-Aycock-54-dead-in-12280011.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. She was shy “but she had a big heart,” he said. “If you needed anything, she’d always be there to help you.”\u003ca id=\"azarian\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Michel Azarian: A Creative, Globetrotting Engineer With ‘the Kindest Heart’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 576px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11633811\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian.jpg 576w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-240x279.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-375x436.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-520x604.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Azarian, photographed during a recent trip. Azarian lived outside Santa Rosa and died Nov. 26 as the result of burns suffered during the Tubbs Fire in October. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Khachik Papanyan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michel Azarian, 41, died on Nov. 26 at UC Davis Medical Center from extensive burns he suffered when the Tubbs Fire trapped him outside his home on the outskirts of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who knew him describe Azarian as a natural engineer -- his mind was the right mix of creative and analytical. His talents brought him from tragedy in war-torn Lebanon to the United States, Silicon Valley and eventually Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian’s father and uncle were killed in the mid-1980s during the Lebanese civil war, his friend Khachik Papanyan said in a phone interview. The family business was destroyed in a bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian helped his mother rebuild and worked in a shop selling bedding in his hometown of Zahle, Lebanon, but he dreamed of attending the American University of Beirut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Michel Azarian\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>He found out the only way he’d have a shot at getting in was an exceptionally high SAT score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a smart enough guy where he was able to get an amazing score on the test and get admitted,” Papanyan said. “However, that wasn’t enough. They didn’t have enough funds to cover the tuition for the first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian sold land left to him by his father, invested, and sold again, eventually generating enough money to cover his first year’s tuition. He majored in electrical engineering and started earning scholarships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, Azarian was recruited to work for National Instruments in Austin, Texas, where he met Papanyan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to an event, actually a lecture about Greek architecture, and somehow I think I asked a question related to Armenia,” Papanyan said. Azarian, whose father was Armenian, approached Papanyan after the lecture. “That’s how we struck our friendship in Austin, and we’ve been best friends since then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian spent eight years in Austin, designing radio technology and other wireless circuitry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was extremely gifted when it came to problem-solving,” said Papanyan, who worked for Dell at the time. “The regular puzzles it would take me a day to solve, he could solve it in the blink of an eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of work, Azarian’s passions led him away from circuit boards and into nature. Papanyan said his friend was elated when he got a new job -- for Linear Technology -- and moved to San Jose in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He loved to travel. He loved photography. He loved hiking quite a bit,” Papanyan said. He added that Azarian told him he’d hiked almost every weekend in Silicon Valley and “never had to repeat a trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he left a community of friends in Texas, including one associated with the Armenian Church of Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those of you who had the pleasure of knowing Michel, he had the kindest heart and an incredible lust for life,” wrote Mihran Aroian, parish council chairman for the church, in an announcement of Azarian’s death. “He was also an active globetrotter and a brilliant photographer. He had a robust appreciation both for the quiet beauty in nature, along with fun adventures and laughter with friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian’s Instagram feed contains a mix of landscape photography, vibrant natural close-ups and some urban/architectural shots. Papanyan said the bulk of Azarian’s photos are believed to have been stored on his home computer, destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BYH4U11F9tM/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to Santa Rosa about two years ago, Papanyan said, and took a new job with Keysight Technologies there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papanyan said he wasn’t sure whether Azarian was at home on Oct. 8, the night the fires hit Santa Rosa, or if he was outdoors and trapped by the wind-whipped wall of flames that roared across the hills from Calistoga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, he couldn’t get out, and appears to have tried to take shelter in a small clearing near his home. That’s where he was discovered the next day, with severe burns on more than half his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just amazing that he was able to survive the whole night being surrounded by the firestorm,” Papanyan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus began some six weeks of hospital visits to Azarian’s bedside at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Azarian couldn’t talk -- his throat was blocked by a ventilator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way he could communicate was with his hand,” Papanyan said. “He would actually write out the letters and we would try to decode what he was saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family friend went to Lebanon to bring Azarian’s mother to his bedside. She had been with him for the past few weeks, Papanyan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keysight Technologies helped support his mother’s room and travel, according to friends and high-ranking executives, who joined her in Azarian’s hospital room many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He died Sunday, according to information from Cal Fire, UC Davis Medical Center and the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an intelligent, fun-loving, nature-loving guy that always had a broad smile on his face, was always there for his friends,” Papanyan said. “He’s now in the heavens, and he will be with us in our memories forever. It was an honor, a great honor, knowing him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"berriz\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Carmen Caldentey Berriz: Beloved Mother and Grandmother\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carmen Caldentey Berriz, 75, died in the arms of her husband, Armando Berriz, a man from whom she’d been inseparable since they met in Cuba when they were young. The couple, married 55 years, had been on vacation with family in Santa Rosa when the Tubbs Fire erupted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When their car got stuck on a fallen tree as they fled, the pair decided to seek shelter in a swimming pool at the vacation home where they’d been staying. Carmen held onto Armando, who was keeping them afloat by hanging onto the sides of the pool, KTVU reported. She died in the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything they did was as a team,\" daughter Monica Ocon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/woman-dies-in-husbands-arms-seeking-shelter-in-pool-during-santa-rosa-fire\">KTVU\u003c/a>. \"They had this bond and this strength that literally lasted a lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berriz, from Apple Valley in San Bernardino County, is survived by her husband; daughter Monica Ocon and her son-in-law, Luis Ocon; daughter Carmen T. Berriz; son Armando J. Berriz and daughter-in-law Catherine Berriz; and seven grandchildren, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Carmen-Berriz-died-in-her-husband-s-arms-trying-12277372.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to her every day,” Monica Ocon told the Chronicle. “It’s an amazing bond that I had with her. I will forever try to be like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"bowman\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'They Were Holding Each Other': Roy and Irma Bowman of Redwood Valley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/bowmans1-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11629165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/bowmans1-2-1020x934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"586\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma and Roy Bowman in 2015 with a plaque commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The past two years were not the easiest of Roy and Irma Bowman's more than half-century together. Roy needed triple-bypass heart surgery early in 2016, a procedure that required a long convalescence. Family members had to persuade Irma to leave his bedside to eat and sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She would spend the night there if we wouldn't have made her go home,\" said Elizabeth Bowman, who is married to the Bowmans' son, Gary, and lives in Medford, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Irma and Roy Bowman\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Roy Bowman suffered a stroke that put him back in the hospital and left him struggling to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew who we were and would try to say our names,\" said Elizabeth Bowman. \"The fact he couldn't talk was very rough on him. He would get agitated, so he worked very hard on regaining his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bowmans — Irma was 88, Roy was 87 — were still emerging from that crisis last month when a wildfire charged across a nearby ridge and toward their home in a development set amid vineyards and oak woodlands in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley, north of Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 22 homes in the development burned in the fire early Oct. 9. The Bowmans were among nine people killed or fatally injured in a 1.5-mile-long corridor along Tomki and West roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They must have been in bed,\" Elizabeth Bowman said. \"The fire marshal told us that they were holding each other when they found their remains.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bowmans are remembered as intensely devoted to their family, to their churches and to each other. They had been members of the Assembly of God congregations in both Ukiah and Redwood Valley and were well-known and loved for their usually unadvertised generosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were very dedicated to the Lord and very dedicated to their church,\" said the Rev. Jack McMilin, pastor of the Redwood Valley Assembly of God. \"Any time there was a need or any time there was a campaign for something, they always wanted to be involved as far as supporting it financially.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMilin said that at a memorial service for the Bowmans, members of the congregation talked about how the couple had helped them with various needs -- in one case, for instance, paying the tuition for a family that was otherwise unable to send its children to a local religious school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I pass away, I'd like to be that well spoken of,\" McMilin said. \"It was pretty amazing the things people said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roy Howard Bowman was born in 1930, the descendant of Oregon pioneers, and graduated from Oregon State University in 1954 with a bachelor of science degree in general agriculture. He served in the Air Force, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After his military service, he worked as a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He's listed as the author and editor of several Soil Conservation Service studies of California counties, including San Diego, Santa Cruz, Placer and eastern Mendocino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irma Elsie Wobschall was born to a German-American family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1929. She emigrated to San Diego by 1950, married, had two sons, and divorced. She later studied art at Palomar Junior College, in the northern San Diego County town of San Marcos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Bowman said Irma met Roy at a square dance in San Marcos. They dated for a year or so and were married June 13, 1965. After the wedding, Roy formally adopted Irma's sons — Gary and Mark — \"and gave them his name,\" Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that her late mother-in-law was a creative force — a skilled visual artist and an accomplished baker and chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Elizabeth and Gary Bowman married, \"She made our wedding cake -- a four-tier wedding cake. It was wonderful -- she was very artistic and could bake anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Bowman said the family is still grappling with its grief over the deaths — a process she doesn't expect to end anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to take time,\" she said. \"It's going to take a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"chaney\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>George Chaney and Edward Stone Loved Traveling and Collecting Art\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Napa Valley resident Don Judah said he was out on his deck sometime between 9:30 and 10 p.m. on Oct. 8 when he noticed fire coming down the ridgeline across the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told my wife, 'Call George to get his ass out of there now,' \" Judah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judah's wife, Margaret, called their good friend George Chaney, 89, who lived with his lifelong partner, Edward Stone, 79, on Atlas Peak Road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area has a history of fires. Chaney’s shed had burned down in swept the countryside in 1981, but his house survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Judah got through to Chaney on the phone. He told her he couldn’t see anything. She said he and Edward would come to their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen minutes later, she phoned again to see if he’d left the house yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He says, ‘Margaret, my house is on fire,' ” Don said. Then the line went dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don and Margaret tried to get up the hill to see if they could help Chaney and Stone, their friends of nearly half a century, get out. Within a mile of their house, the fire was so intense the two had to turn back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Oct. 12, Don got word from officials that George Chaney and Edward Stone had died in their home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about George Chaney and Edward Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Originally from Texas, Chaney moved to Napa in 1958 to work as a radiologist at the newly opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.thequeen.org/\">Queen of the Valley Medical Center\u003c/a> in Napa. Don met Chaney in 1960, when Chaney hired him to work in the radiology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an excellent physician and radiologist,\" Don remembered. \"He just had a manner about him that was always kind of calm. He wasn’t a volatile person at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said Chaney's leadership helped keep Queen of the Valley's radiology department on the cutting edge of medical imaging technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew where we were going, and he wanted to do the best he could for the patients,\" Don said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaney's partner, Stone, worked for Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Chaney and Stone retired, Don said, they spent a lot of time traveling together to Europe, Asia and Africa. Don and his wife often joined them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know they really enjoyed travel,\" he said. \"I would say the two enjoyed classical music and artwork. George had an Asian art collection with Chinese screens and Japanese sculptures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said the pair had excellent senses of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing about most of the dear friends I have is there’s a bond you have,\" Don said. \"Humor is what hangs us together and keeps us together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"collinsswasey\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Carol Collins-Swasey Remembered for Her 'Wicked Sense of Irreverent Humor'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carol Collins-Swasey was known by close family and friends as an independent, strong-willed woman with a “wicked sense of irreverent humor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in typical fashion, she insisted on writing her own obituary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t want them saying a bunch of flowery crap about her,” said Staci Peyer-Reupke, a close friend. “She just wanted it to be funny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are reading this, I am dead,” she wrote in the obituary that her family incorporated into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?n=carol-h-collins&pid=187019168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger one\u003c/a> published in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. “And no, I did not look this good when I checked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Carol Collins-Swasey\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey, 76, a Santa Rosa real estate agent and former journalist, died on Oct. 9 in her Hemlock Street home near Coffey Park in the Tubbs Fire that devastated her neighborhood. Her husband of 27 years, Jim Swasey, was out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in January 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky, Collins-Swasey grew up with three brothers, and bounced between her divorced parents’ homes in Georgia and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the obituary the family published, one brother remembered her as \"a bit glamorous and a bit demanding, but always magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey went on to study journalism at the University of Iowa, and after working briefly as a journalist in Los Angeles, headed north, She eventually settled in Santa Rosa, where she lived for the remaining 30 years of her life, working as a Century 21 residential real estate agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was blessed with some talents and was successful in several professional fields,” she said in her obituary notes. But she added: “I never stayed long with anything -- jobs, houses, husbands or friends -- until moving to Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey was an avid traveler and a committed community volunteer, most recently helping out at Sutter Hospice Thrift Store on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend Peyer-Reupke, a regular at the thrift store, said she was drawn to Collins-Swasey’s giving nature and fun-loving personality. “I think that’s what I’m really going to miss the most,” she said. “She once told me she didn’t want a memorial service when she died. She wanted a party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey underscored that wish in her obituary notes: “Instead of feeling obligated to attend a memorial service -- and there won't be one -- contribute to a charity of your choice, and give a friend an extra hug today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her husband and brothers, Collins-Swasey is survived by a son and multiple stepchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"coolidge\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stanley Coolidge, a Noted Attorney Who Loved Riding a Motorcycle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636547\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 130px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28508_stanleycoolidge-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28508_stanleycoolidge-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"152\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11636547\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Coolidge loved volunteering and riding his motorcycle. He passed away at age 78 in the Cascade Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Appeal Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> Stanley Coolidge leaves behind a legacy as a noted attorney, loving father and grandfather, short story writer and prolific volunteer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his obituary in Marysville's \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187076634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appeal Democrat\u003c/a>, Coolidge was 78 when he died at his Yuba County home in Loma Rica on Oct. 9 during the Cascade Fire. His obit reports that he was with his fiancee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=187076628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roseann Hannah\u003c/a>, who also died in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Stanley Coolidge\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Born in San Francisco on May 17, 1939, Coolidge, who went by \"Stan,\" earned his law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall and was admitted to the bar in 1965. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coolidge had three children. One son, Andrew Coolidge, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.krcrtv.com/news/father-of-chico-city-councilman-presumed-dead-in-fire/635873925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KRCR News\u003c/a> that he and his father spoke nearly every other day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fire was a complete tragedy,\" Andrew Coolidge told the television station. \"It was fast and it was terrible and I know a lot of people are concerned about the property damage, but when you're dealing with losing someone close to you, losing a loved one, it really makes all of that other stuff very much not important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Coolidge's \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187076634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary\u003c/a> tells the story of a man who dedicated his life to volunteering and giving back to others. According to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187076634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary\u003c/a>, he also loved to ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and was a longtime member of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theamericansmc.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Americans Motorcycle Club\u003c/a>, which raises funds to cure childhood cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A joint service was held for Coolidge and \u003ca href=\"#hannah\">Hannah\u003c/a> on Nov. 3 at Veterans Memorial Hall in Yuba City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"costanzo\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Friends Were Like Family to Janet Costanzo\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Janet Kay Costanzo was warm, smart, spunky and a real trailblazer, her friends said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to work a man’s job so she could make a man’s wage,\" said Reeah Winkle, who was 8 years old when she met Costanzo. “And that’s what she did. She drove trucks at Pac Bell, just like my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costanzo lived in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley with \u003ca href=\"#stelter\">Steve Stelter\u003c/a>, Winkle’s father. Both died in the October wildfires that swept through Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Janet Kay Costanzo\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Costanzo, 71, was found inside her home in Redwood Valley. Stelter, 56, was found near a vehicle. The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said it appears he was attempting to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costanzo had lived in the valley for about 10 years and it suited her outdoorsy personality, Winkle said. “She was a very smart woman; she knew a lot about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Winkle’s first memories of Costanzo was the time she was allowed to ride her horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was around horses all of her life,” said Robert Costanzo, who dated Janet in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers Janet as a “warm, friendly, outgoing person.” The two lived together in her mother’s house on Coolidge Avenue in Oakland. She took Robert’s last name in order to get health insurance at the time, he said. She kept the name for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 646px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627604 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s.jpg 646w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-160x154.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-240x231.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-375x361.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-520x501.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Costanzo and Robert Costanzo dated in the 1970s. The two never married but Janet took his last name in order to get health insurance. Robert remembers Janet as warm, friendly and outgoing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Costanzo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her dad lived in Southern California on several acres of land and had a few horses, Robert recalls. “She used to like to do dressage and trail rides,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Costanzo also bred cats. She had a parrot and two dogs, Riot and Annie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Stelter moved from Oakland to her aunt’s property in Redwood Valley roughly 10 years ago. \"They had a lot of land up there,” said Steve's brother, Doug Stelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug moved into a trailer on the property about five years ago. The three of them would go on walks together, watch television -- \"American Pickers\" and \"Deadliest Catch\" were favorites -- and they would take turns cooking dinner and then eat together almost every night, said Doug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was a good person,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were taken from our lives too soon,\" said Winkle. \"We love them very much and they remain in our hearts.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"culp\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Vietnam Vet David Culp Leaves an Empty Spot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"326\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11637505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut.jpg 242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut-240x323.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire victim David Culp was a member of the Foothill Lions Club. \u003ccite>(Foothill Lions Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Patrick Culp, 76, a Vietnam veteran, died on Oct. 10 in the Cascade Fire that swept through his Loma Rica neighborhood in Yuba County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People came by and told him it’s getting too close, he had to leave, but being the stubborn vet that he was, he decided to stay with his equipment, figuring he could stop it,” Mike Saala, a friend, told \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/10/19/yuba-county-mourns-4-killed-by-devastating-cascade-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Sacramento\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp piloted UH-1 “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War, according to an obituary on the website of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.foothill-lions.net/index_files/Page682.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foothill Lions and Lioness Club\u003c/a> in Marysville. He was a regular at the club on Thursday nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He will be missed ... there will be a vacant spot,” Saala said. \u003ca id=\"dornbach\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Michael Dornbach Was Searching for His ‘Little Piece of Heaven’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11631075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11631075\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-960x706.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-520x383.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Dornbach, 57, died Oct. 9 in Calistoga. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Maria Triliegi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Dornbach came to California with his family when he was just 10 years old. They settled in the small West Marin town of Inverness, where he learned how to fish for salmon on Tomales Bay. His mother, Maria Triliegi, said he became a great fisherman, always winning the jackpot in any competition he entered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triliegi remembered how much her son loved the water. Not just the ocean, but lakes and rivers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why he was so anxious to get his little piece of heaven,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dornbach, 57, lived in San Pedro but came to Northern California in October, searching for that piece of heaven. The family was hoping to buy a small piece of land close to the Klamath River, someplace where he could build a cabin, fish, plant a garden and watch the stars at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triliegi said he wanted to live out in the open, like the guys in his favorite movie, “Lonesome Dove.” But he didn’t want to be all alone out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cabin would have enough room for his mom and family members to come and stay,” Triliegi said. “His family was everything to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dornbach was staying with family on an 18-acre property in rural Calistoga when the October Tubbs Fire tore through and claimed his life. Triliegi said. “My biggest sadness is that the land he loved so much, in the finality of it all, took him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dornbach is survived by his mother; a brother, Joshua Triliegi; a sister, Laura Dornbach; as well as aunts, uncles and cousins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"evans\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Valerie Lynn Evans: 'A Real Cowboy-Type Girl'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Lynn Evans, right, with her son, Houston Evans Jr.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Lynn Evans, right, shares a treat with her son, Houston Evans Jr. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Victoria Evans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valerie Lynn Evans loved horses. She grew up around them as a child and continued to raise and show horses as an adult. That was one reason she was so happy in her home on Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa -- she had space for her horses and plenty of beautiful places to ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a real cowboy-type girl,” said her husband, Houston G. Evans Sr., who himself spent time working as a rodeo cowboy. In fact, that’s how the two met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Nov. 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was shot. Houston was scheduled for a rodeo in Las Vegas that was canceled because of the assassination, so he drove to Los Angeles to see if he could work a rodeo there instead. He approached a group of people talking out front, one of whom he knew, and met Valerie. They went to a party together and were soon dating, marrying a few years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Valerie Lynn Evans\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours of Oct. 9, the couple woke to a fire outside their window. Houston said they had only a few minutes to get out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valerie wanted to save the horse trailer parked in the yard, so her husband, who is 88 years old and suffers from gout, went down the road to get the tractor. When he turned around, the house was an inferno. He rushed back, but Valerie wasn’t where she said she’d be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost knew instantly that she went back into the house to get the dogs,” Houston said. He fled, barely escaping with his own life. Their son, Houston Evans Jr., and his wife, Victoria, used their knowledge of the back roads around his parents' house to find a way around closures, eventually reaching Evans Sr., who had taken cover behind a shed down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t seen anything like this since I was in the war,” the elder Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valerie, who was 75 when she died, loved their home in Santa Rosa, working “every kind of dirty lousy job you can think of to pay for this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She operated a Caterpillar tractor at the dump and drove trucks for several companies in the area. She even worked as a dispatcher in Santa Rosa, a job her husband said she had to quit. “It was too much for her to handle, people getting killed and murdered. It would give her nightmares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising and showing horses was Valerie’s passion. The couple traveled all over the country to compete in horse shows, often bringing home ribbons and trophies. She loved to ride in the beautiful countryside around Santa Rosa and in the Southern California mountains when the couple lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She enjoyed life,\" her husband said. \"She enjoyed friends; she enjoyed nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valerie Lynn Evans is survived by her husband, Houston G. Evans Sr.; a son, Houston G. Evans Jr.; and her daughter-in-law, Victoria Evans. The family plans to hold a memorial service for Valerie sometime in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"gardiner\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Barbara Jane Gardiner and Elizabeth Charlene Foster: A Creative Soul and Her Caregiver\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The walls and halls of Barbara Jane Gardiner’s Mendocino County home in Redwood Valley were her museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635940\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11635940\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101.jpg 324w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101-160x233.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101-240x349.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo is from the Ukiah Daily Journal obituary page\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gardiner was a creative soul, according to her obituary in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ukiahdailyjournal/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-jane-gardiner&pid=187113806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukiah Daily Journal\u003c/a>. From the beaded earrings to the knitted crafts, her personality was as vibrant as the colors she chose in her personal art pieces. She collect painted glass art and fashionable handbags. Her needlework was intricate, along with the never-conforming art she made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7809163-181/remembering-northern-california-fire-victims?sba=AAS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her obituary\u003c/a> in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Barbara Jane Gardiner moved to Redwood Valley with her husband Eugene Vincent Gardiner about 1980. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9 at 1 a.m., she called her stepson, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mendovoice.com/2017/10/names-of-deceased-redwood-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, to tell him that fire had surrounded her home. She was with her caregiver, Elizabeth Charlene Foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster was 64 years old. The two lived together on Tomki Road in Redwood Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the county sheriff’s department, Gardiner told her stepson that she and Foster were waiting for the fire department to evacuated them from their home. They didn’t survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her signature smile and high-pitch, jolly laugh will echo in the hearts of those who loved her,” said Barbara Jane Gardiner’s Ukiah Daily Journal obituary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"grabow\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mike Grabow 'Instantly Made People Feel Better About Themselves'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Grabow, 40, and his French bulldog, Stax, died when the Tubbs Fire hit their neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Grabow, 40, and his French bulldog, Stax, died when the Tubbs Fire hit their neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rachael Ingram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The morning before the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa, Mike Charles Grabow was in a local bar giving away hope bracelets. He'd bought them for friends as a way to donate to breast cancer research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grabow's sister, Lindsay Osier, said he often gave generously to those around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Mike Grabow\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>“He was always giving money to charities and wherever he could find ways to help out,” Osier said. “He didn’t require anything back. It was all freely given.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grabow was 40 when he died. Osier misses her brother’s hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hugs that he gave me would take all of the problems away,” she said. “He just instantly made people feel better about themselves and encouraged you to be a better human being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628765\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 437px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11628765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607.jpg 437w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607-160x232.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607-240x348.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607-375x543.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Grabow, 40, passed away when the Tubbs Fire hit his Santa Rosa neighborhood early the morning of Oct. 9. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lindsay Osier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grabow lived in Northern California for the past five years and had a tight-knit circle of friends. They remember his energy and his love of craft beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll remember him for how much he loved everyone around him and how fully he lived his life,” said Rachael Ingram, one of his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in his life, Grabow lived in the Pacific Northwest. He eventually moved back to Idaho, where he was born and lived for most of his adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He loved the outdoors and found lots of opportunities to enjoy it around Boise. Osier said that when Grabow was young, his grandfather took him fishing a lot, and that is when he was truly the happiest. Grabow also liked to snowboard, hunt and golf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for work, he showed his independence by being self-employed in jobs that allowed him to be outside, such as landscaping and construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends and family of Mike Grabow, 40, celebrate his life at Cooperage Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa on Oct. 25, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rachael Ingram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 26, friends and family celebrated Grabow at one of his favorite places to grab a beer, Cooperage Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa. They raised money for fire relief efforts in his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge community of people that are missing him right now,” Ingram says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"grant\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Retired Navy Pilot Arthur Tasman Grant ‘Would Do Anything to Help Somebody Out’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like his wife, Suiko Grant, Arthur Tasman Grant loved spending time with his granddaughter, Sloane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 236px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arthur-Grant-e1509496770485.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur Grant of Santa Rosa as a young man.\" width=\"236\" height=\"133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627332\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arthur-Grant-e1509496770485.jpg 236w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arthur-Grant-e1509496770485-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Grant of Santa Rosa as a young man. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Trina Grant)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The retired Navy lieutenant and Pan Am Airlines captain also relished sitting in the sun watching the birds ride the updrafts, having a beer and sharing his stories about all the years he spent flying airplanes. “Those little things, and his garden, which really was his realm,” says Grant’s daughter, Trina Grant, of her father’s many favorite pastimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant was 95 at the time of his death in the Tubbs Fire. He and his wife, who also died in the blaze, fled to the wine cellar of their hilltop Santa Rosa home to escape the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is survived by daughters Tasman Grant of San Francisco and Trina Grant of Denver, as well as his granddaughter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Arthur Tasman and Suiko Grant\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627316\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/The-Grants-e1509494914613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"123\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/The-Grants-e1509494914613.jpg 217w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/The-Grants-e1509494914613-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina, Suiko and Arthur Grant at Trina and Arthur's home in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Trina Grant)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grant grew up in Point Arena on a dairy farm. He had 12 siblings. He joined the Navy during World War II, where he trained as a fighter pilot. After retiring from the military, he worked for Pan Am for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trina Grant remembers her father’s innate kindness. “He would do anything to help somebody out,” Trina Grant says.” In addition to being an accomplished aviator, Trina Grant said, her father was an extraordinary artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cooking wasn’t among his many skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trina Grant fondly remembered the time she was home from college, grievously sick, at age 18. This was before cellphones. Her mom was away, and she needed her father’s help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me two hours to drag myself along the floor from the bed to the phone, whereupon I finally called him,” Trina Grant said. “He leapt into action, bringing me microwaved mushroom soup that was barely lukewarm and not particularly appetizing. But he came and brought it to me with such good intention, that despite how horrid the soup was, at that moment, it was the best meal I’d ever had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family asks that donations be made to veterans support organizations or to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/arthursuikotrinagrant-979411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur and Suiko Grant Memorial Fund\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp> \u003ca id=\"halbur\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Donna and Leroy Halbur Were Always Prepared for an Extra Guest\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634271\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna and LeRoy Halbur, Aug. 4, 2017. \u003ccite>(Michelle Halbur)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Donna Mae Kearney was born Aug. 10, 1937, in Iowa City, Iowa. Four days later, LeRoy Halbur came into the world in Roselle, almost due east and 200 miles across the state. They died together, Oct. 9, at their home in the Larkfield area of Santa Rosa, at the age of 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between, they married, had careers, two sons and two grandchildren. Over the years they welcomed many people into their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They first met in Iowa, after Leroy was out of the Army and Donna had graduated from college, which she had left a Catholic religious order to attend. They married on Aug. 12, 1967. Some 40 years ago, they moved into the hillside house on Angela Drive, next to a vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Donna and Leroy Halbur\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>LeRoy was a CPA and worked for over 30 years at the real estate company Codding Enterprises, becoming a vice president. Donna, with her degree in education, worked as a substitute teacher in elementary schools and later as a reading specialist. He was the serious financial guy, she the creative free spirit, says their son, Tim Halbur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were both Depression-era kids,” he says. “So they always had a full pantry and full freezer and were ready to feed people.” LeRoy, too, had Catholic roots, and he practiced rather than preached a life of service. Three nights a week, he delivered food to the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple loved to travel and once a year took the family on a big trip -- Mongolia, the Nile, China. At home, they played pinochle. That was the family game. “Every time we got together, it was the rhythm of our house,” says Halbur. “Eat a meal, clear the table, play some games.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Donna and LeRoy celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, and for the occasion Tim created a video tribute, in which you can see snapshots of their life together. The song is Glenn Miller’s“ Moonlight Serenade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1VRk8JTd-0&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are survived by their two sons, Tim and David Halbur; their daughters-in-law, Michelle Halbur and Amy Heibel; their grandsons, Travion Jackson and Rowan Halbur; and siblings, Jolene, Linda, Ken, Duane and Glen Halbur; and Cecil, Paul and Marcella Kearney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"hannah\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Roseann Hannah, Cascade Fire Victim, 'Prided Herself on Being a Great Mom'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11636684\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut.jpg 171w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut-160x187.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\">\u003c/a>Roseann Hannah died in Yuba County's Cascade Fire on Oct. 9. She and her fiance, Stanley Coolidge, loved adventuring together. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Engaged-couple-who-loved-motorcycle-rides-die-12312065.php#next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, they would ride Coolidge's motorcycle from his home in the community of Loma Rica up the coast to Oregon or to the beach in Mendocino County, where Hannah enjoyed spending time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper tribute said Hannah was visiting \u003ca href=\"#coolidge\">Coolidge\u003c/a> in Loma Rica when they both died in the Cascade Fire. She was 53 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah lived in Grass Valley with her 26-year-old twin sons, Jeffrey and Jordan Hannah. Her \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=187076628\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obituary\u003c/a> said she was a loving mother and friend who \"loved her boys and doing things with them and for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her two sons, Hannah is survived by a grandson, Aleczander Hannah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"hanson\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Christina Hanson Shared Her Smile with Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/brittney-frankie-846-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Hanson of Santa Rosa was known as the life of every party. Here she is on the dance floor enjoying a family wedding with her father, Michael Hanson, left, and cousin, Shane Riordan, right. Christina Hanson died in the Tubbs Fire on Oct. 9, a month shy of her 28th birthday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Hanson of Santa Rosa was known as the life of every party. Here she is on the dance floor enjoying a family wedding with her father, Michael Hanson, left, and cousin, Shane Riordan, right, Christina Hanson died in the Tubbs Fire on Oct. 9, a month shy of her 28th birthday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christina Hanson shared one thing with everyone — her smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your smile was infectious,\" wrote Santa Rosa resident Meg Barry in one of many \u003ca href=\"http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/ChristinaHanson/homepage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tributes\u003c/a> posted online for the 27-year-old Hanson. \"You made my babies laugh, and we relaxed in the sunshine sharing jokes with one another. It was one of those moments where I felt like we’d known each other for a long time even though we’d just met.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Christina Hanson\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Hanson was well known in her community and was close with her spiritual family at Spring Hills Community Church in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson died Oct. 9 at her home on Wikiup Bridge Way in Santa Rosa, a month shy of her 28th birthday. Hanson's apartment in the Mark West Springs neighborhood was overrrun by the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days she was listed among the missing as her family and friends circulated photos asking for help in locating her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was a much loved volunteer at Primrose, a local adult assisted living center specializing in memory care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had a connection with seniors her whole life,\" said her cousin, Brittney Vinculado. \"Maybe it was because of her own mobility issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson was born with \u003ca href=\"http://spinabifidaassociation.org/what-is-sb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spina bifida\u003c/a>, a spinal condition that affected her mobility and caused her to spend a lot of time in the hospital as a child. She was also very close to her grandmother, Vera Hanson, who passed away earlier this year, and Vinculado said talking and enjoying time with elders came naturally to Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Michael Hanson, lived in a separate apartment on the property. He was badly burned in the fire and his family believes he was trying to rescue his daughter when he was overcome by smoke and collapsed outside. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/The-fight-after-the-fires-Loved-ones-keep-vigil-12332531.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is still recovering\u003c/a> from his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire came down the road and it was in the middle of the night, so people were sleeping and unaware and no evacuations had started. And they were one of the first neighborhoods hit,\" said Vinculado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629026\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_5174-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Hanson, 27, of Santa Rosa always had a smile to share with friends and family. She was especially close with her grandfather, Richard Hanson, left, and father Michael Hanson, right.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanson was very fond of animals and for many years was seen with her guide dog, Zulu, at the side of the wheelchair she used to help her move around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently she adopted Joey, a terrier mix. The dog managed to make it out of the fire with minor burns on his paws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school Hanson enjoyed playing basketball on an adaptive sports team. She was known for her love of singing, especially anything by Celine Dion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had a great sense of humor and a very positive attitude,\" Vinculado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson was a talented craftswoman, especially with intricate work involving her hands. She loved making beaded jewelry to give as gifts for friends and family. She also learned American Sign Language, and her family says she was very good at interpreting for people with hearing impairments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the online tribute page, Christine O'Neil Frazier wrote: Your wit and wisdom touched everyone. You taught us all how to be better people. The world needed your love and kindness, but heaven needed you more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Hanson is survived by her father, Michael Hanson of Santa Rosa; her stepmother, Jennifer Watson of Santa Rosa; a grandfather, Richard Hanson of Oakley; and a grandmother, Rose Diaz of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family suggests donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children.\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"hung\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>At 101 Years Old, Tak-Fu Hung Could Still Command a Room\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Tak-Fu Hung was a remarkable man. He would have turned 102 on Nov. 25, but instead, his family held his funeral on that day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung died in his Fountaingrove home, on the eastern side of Santa Rosa, a victim of the Tubbs Fire. According to accounts by his family (in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7649296-181/101-year-old-santa-rosa-man-now?artslide=0&sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003c/a>, he couldn’t get out of his house fast enough as the flames approached. He told his wife of 46 years to flee, and he perished in the fire. She sustained burns but survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1915, Hung held the rank of general with the Chinese Nationalist army defeated by Chinese Communist forces after World War II. Hung fled to Hong Kong and then Taiwan, where he worked as a civil engineer, before moving to the Bay Area, according to his family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They described him to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7649296-181/101-year-old-santa-rosa-man-now?artslide=0&sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> as a man who loved his children and grandchildren and “was really good at commanding a room.” He only recently began using a cane to walk, and “liked a party” according to his daughter, Anne O’Hara. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is survived by his wife, six children, 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"kirven\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Monte Kirven Helped Save the Peregrine Falcon\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_10561-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Monte Kirven holding a peregrine falcon. Kirven was a lifelong falconer and lover of the outdoors. He died in the Tubbs Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627460\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monte Kirven holding a peregrine falcon. Kirven was a life-long falconer and lover of the outdoors. He died in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sitting around a dinner table with Monte Kirven meant an evening of entertaining tales. Maybe he’d talk about the time he scaled cliffs to reach peregrine falcon nests in his efforts to conserve the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or he’d talk about the trips he led to Baja California in Mexico to see gray whales -- including the time he had to patch a car tire using a lighter, tequila and a tooth from a plastic comb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes he’d talk about his time in the military, or the birding trips he led to Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Monte Kirven\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Whatever his tale, whatever his task, Kirven approached all things with passion and intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirven died in his home in the Mark Springs West neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9, when the Tubbs Fire consumed his house. He was 81.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirven’s love for nature began during his childhood in rural Indiana, where he spent much of his time outdoors. He fished and hunted from a young age. He later turned these passions into his academic focus: He majored in biology at the University of Mississippi, got a master's degree focusing on Caspian and elegant terns at San Diego State University, and later got a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1961, he married Valerie Quate and they had three children, raising them mostly in San Diego. His daughter, Kathleen Groppe, recalls a childhood full of adventure. She says her father always spearheaded wildlife rescue projects -- and used their house as a base camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers injured ducks, falcons and other birds. Sometimes the animals would be in the backyard, other times they’d take up residence in the bathtub. The goal was to release them back to the wild, but if that couldn’t happen, Kirven would pass the healed animals off to the San Diego Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groppe remembers his passion for falcons especially. He worked with them tirelessly and always had one or two of the birds. These experiences sparked Groppe’s own academic pursuits in ecology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_6253-e1509576539433-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627504\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monte Kirven with his children and former wife at daughter Kathleen Groppe's 1992 wedding. From left to right: Brian Kirven, Valerie Quate, Kathleen Groppe, Monte Kirven, and Kenneth Kirven.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Notably, Kirven was part of a team of scientists who helped show that the use of insecticide DDT led to the thinning of peregrine falcon eggshells. DDT was subsequently banned in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in 1978, there were only 19 known pairs of these falcons in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirven’s former employer, the Bureau of Land Management, quotes him saying: “Humans brought these birds to near extinction, and we have a moral obligation to bring them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To rebuild the population, Kirven and colleagues would take peregrine falcon eggs from nests, and replace them with porcelain fakes. The real eggs were hatched at UC Santa Cruz, and then cautiously returned to their home nests and mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessing these nests often required scaling steep cliffs, which Kirven did enthusiastically. Through these efforts, the American peregrine falcon was removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the years, Kirven became increasingly passionate about environmental conservation and efforts to curb climate change. He funneled this energy into teaching undergraduates at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s ironic, his daughter Kathleen Groppe notes, that something he worked to combat -- climate change -- could have contributed to his demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Monte-800x1226.jpeg\" alt=\"Monte Kirven displays the trout he caught at the White Tail Ranch in Montana.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monte Kirven displays the trout he caught at the White Tail Ranch in Montana.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond nature, Kirven had an extraordinary love of people. He’d host dinners after returning from fishing or hunting to share his goods. The evening before his death, he threw a celebratory party for friends and workers who had just finished construction of his new roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made them steaks and turkey with stuffing, and he opened a fancy bottle of wine to share. He went to sleep that night content, having lived another day to its fullest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monte Kirven is survived by daughter Kathleen Groppe of Lancaster, Texas; sons Kenneth Kirven of San Diego and Brian Kirven of Point Reyes Station; sister Marcia Gray of Helena, Montana; ex-wife Valerie Quate of Poway (San Diego County); and grandchildren Patrick Kirven, Caroline Groppe, Andy Arredondo and Chinzia Pinnamonti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"lewis\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sally Lewis, a Napa Native With a Pioneer Spirit, and Her Caregiver, Teresa Santos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A native of the Napa Valley, Sally Lewis died on Oct. 8, when a fire engulfed her Soda Canyon home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis lived with a pioneer spirit that fit her surroundings. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/families-and-friends-of-napa-s-fire-victims-remember-the/article_2ebb83a4-9bfb-59e9-80d4-e3132bc57cfb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>, she was an active fisher and hunter. Lewis raised two daughters by herself after the sudden death of her husband. She took over his school bus business and became one of just two female auto dealers in California at the time, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis is survived by two daughters, Windermere Tirados and Dixie Lewis. Tirados told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-fire-takes-Sally-Lewis-90-12282443.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that her mother was “a down-to-earth person who loved everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle reports that the Soda Canyon Road home where Lewis died at the age of 90 was constructed by her grandparents in 1920 and had been her home for most of her life. In the last year of her life, Lewis received in-home care from Teresa Santos, a native of the Philippines who lived in Fairfield. She also died in the fire at the age of 50 years old. Her family told the Chronicle they wanted privacy to grieve and little was reported about her life and work, but Tirados called her a \"fantastic\" woman who took good care of her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"mccombs\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Family Mourns the Loss of Veronica McCombs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636875\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 123px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11636875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28559_veronica-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"180\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica McCombs died in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Veronica McCombs was the oldest of six children, and her siblings say that her imprint on them \"will live on forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Veronica-McCombs-67-died-in-Tubbs-Fire-12280409.php#photo-14354955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported that McCombs died in her home on Oct. 9 during the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. She was 67 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=187196889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary\u003c/a>, her siblings write that \"throughout her life, Veronica was always there to listen and help her family, siblings, and others who needed the wisdom and care that she gave unconditionally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCombs' family is mourning the loss of what her son, Brandon McCombs, calls the family's \"foundation\" (according to his statement to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Veronica-McCombs-67-died-in-Tubbs-Fire-12280409.php#photo-14354955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chronicle\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She devoted her life to the love and care of our family and her community,\" Brandon McCombs wrote. \"As a family we are grieving deeply and she will be missed forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"mcreynolds\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Carmen Colleen McReynolds: 'Gutsy and Self-Reliant'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Colleen McReynolds \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonathan Gabriel Coke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Carmen Colleen McReynolds was born on Jan. 30, 1935, her father, Joseph McKinley, wasn't present. He had to be quarantined after contracting tuberculosis. He wouldn't meet Carmen until she was 9 months old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My grandfather is an important part of my aunt's story,\" says Gabriel Coke, McReynolds' nephew. It was her father, according to Coke, who inspired McReynolds to become a doctor. \"My grandfather became a doctor after his own mother died of tuberculosis, and my Aunt Carmen went on to be a doctor because of my grandfather. She looked up to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McReynolds graduated from medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver. She worked as an internist for Kaiser until 1995, when she retired and moved to the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Carmen Colleen McReynolds\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>\"She was very gutsy and self-reliant,\" remembered Coke. \"She liked to have friends that were also independent. She loved to play the guitar and the piano. She was a big Hank Williams fan, she knew how to shoot a rifle, and she rode a motorcycle until she was in her 70s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McReynolds, 82, was so tough that her family held out hope that, even with her failing health, maybe she had escaped the Tubbs Fire that swept her neighborhood and destroyed her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a week after the fire, a search team found McReynolds' remains in her garage, inside her 1973 Mercedes convertible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coke said his aunt was a trailblazer and a dignified woman who valued her independence. She was married for seven years in the 1960s, he said, but later divorced. McReynolds cared a lot for her family, and although he didn't see her often in later years, Coke said she was always a strong presence in their lives. \"She came to my wedding in France,\" Coke said. \"That meant a lot to me because she was very frugal. She spent money on experiences, she wasn't frivolous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After McReynolds' death. Coke learned that she was deeply committed to charities like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.earlebaum.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earle Baum Center\u003c/a> for the blind. \"There's still so much I'm learning about her extraordinary life.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"paiz\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Firefighting 'Was His Passion': Garrett Angel Paiz\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Angel Paiz, a volunteer firefighter from Noel, Missouri, was killed on Oct. 16, 2017, when his water truck crashed in Napa County as he helped fight the Northern California fires.\" width=\"720\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-240x209.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-375x327.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-520x454.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Angel Paiz, a volunteer firefighter from Noel, Missouri, was killed on Oct. 16 when his water truck crashed in Napa County as he helped fight the Northern California fires. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the time he was a boy, there were two things Garrett Angel Paiz wanted to be when he grew up: a cowboy and a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his death on Oct. 16, while helping to battle the Northern California fires in Napa County, Paiz, 38, had fulfilled those dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A cowboy he became by working several ranches across the United States, herding cattle, branding and roping,\" said his big sister, Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz of Palm Springs. \"Anything a cowboy did, Garrett did. He was also a trail supervisor in Mammoth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Garrett Angel Paiz\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Paiz served as a volunteer firefighter in Noel, Missouri, too, and was assisting with fires in Washington state when he was called to help fight the Northern California blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627396\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Angel Paiz traveled throughout the country helping to fight wildfires. \" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Angel Paiz traveled throughout the country helping to fight wildfires. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He loved to help and did whatever was needed,\" his sister said. \"Firefighting was not a job. It was his passion. Serving others was his passion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on Oct. 16, Paiz was driving a tanker truck designed to bring water to the scene of the fire when the rig crashed on the Oakville Grade in Napa County. His truck went down an embankment, turning over and landing on its roof. Authorities aren't certain what caused the accident but say fatigue might have been a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz was born in Indio, California, and raised in the town of Mecca. He came from a large family that loved to spend time together and play pranks on one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will always remember my baby brother as the funny kid who was always up to something,\" said Cinthia Paiz. \"You just never knew what he would get into next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz graduated from Coachella Valley High School and studied agriculture at College of the Desert in Palm Desert. He came from a long line of men and women who served as first responders and in the armed forces, said his brother, Carlos Paiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627395 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-1020x1388.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Angel Paiz fulfilled his dream of being cowboy at a young age.\" width=\"640\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-1020x1388.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-160x218.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-800x1088.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-1180x1605.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-960x1306.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-240x327.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-375x510.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-520x707.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717.jpg 1811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Angel Paiz fulfilled his dream of being cowboy at a young age. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that helping others is paramount in life. Standing up for others is just what you do,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz is survived by his wife, Bobbie Paiz of Noel, Missouri; parents, Judi and Armando Paiz of Coachella; sister, Cinthia Paiz; brother, Carlos Paiz of Coachella; and a daughter, Terri Ann Paiz of Tehachapi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Paiz said there were three things he wanted people to do to honor his brother: \"Love your family, follow your dreams and serve your community.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"picciano\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sandra Picciano, Cascade Fire Victim, Loved Animals and Always Helped Her Neighbors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those who lived near Sandra Picciano in the Yuba County hamlet of Loma Rica remember her as a compassionate woman who always lent a helping hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She helped out with neighbors, taking them to doctor appointments and checking on them when they were sick,\" said Nadine Webb, Picciano's neighbor of 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Neighborly-woman-dies-in-Cascade-Fire-trying-to-12335627.php#photo-14357930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Picciano was 77 years old and had no living relatives. She did have several horses, which she cared for through their old age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Cascade Fire started to blaze, Picciano was quick to leave her home. Authorities said she was killed when she crashed into a tree along the road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Loma Rica neighbor, John Billingsley, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article178046466.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that the smoke from the fire that night was so thick \"you could just see a little bit in front of your hood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"powell\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lynne Anderson Powell Thrived on Music, Quilting and Her Dogs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/20861810_111117646276007_5886828533173973108_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/20861810_111117646276007_5886828533173973108_o-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11633685\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne Anderson Powell woke up every morning at 5 a.m, no matter what. Her border collies, four of them total, needed to go hiking. So she and her husband, George, would take them for a walk in the hills of northeast Santa Rosa, near their home on Blue Ridge Trail, right up to the day before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne and George were married for 33 years. They met at a holiday party thrown by someone at El Camino Community College in Southern California, where her mother, artist Jean Jenkins, taught. George was a staff photographer there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Lynne Anderson Powell\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>George said they had an instant connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just incredible,” he said. They married just weeks after meeting, over Presidents Day weekend in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne played the flute throughout her life, starting at age 7. She majored in flute performance and music education at Carnegie Tech (later renamed Carnegie Mellon) in Pittsburgh. She was a roommate with lifelong friend Joan Sextro, and they took part in each other’s weddings. Sextro said she always admired Lynne’s strength, honesty and kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lynne was a very upfront person,” said Sextro. “You know where you stand with her, yet she was a very kind, warm person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she and George met and fell in love, Lynne was first chair flute in the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. George joined her in Albuquerque so that she could continue to play. After 17 years in the symphony, Lynne began working an office job at Sandia National Laboratories, also in Albuquerque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple retired to Eugene, Oregon, but soon moved to Northern California to be closer to Lynne’s aging parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne was devoted to her dogs and trained them for agility trials. She was also an avid quilter, a hobby well-suited to her meticulous and intelligent nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was the most brilliant person on the planet — there was nothing she couldn’t figure out,” said George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year and a half, Lynne had been undergoing intensive treatment for salivary gland cancer. Even though the chemotherapy and radiation took a heavy toll, George remembers her strong determination in the face of discomfort. “She was my rock. She took care of me, no matter how much pain she was in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sextro said Lynne was just beginning to get back to normal life, after her cancer treatments, making her death “a double sadness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the fire, the couple woke to smoke and the red glow of the Tubbs Fire sweeping toward their house. George told Lynne to leave with her dog, who slept next to her. He would follow in another car with his three dogs. They planned an escape route, but Lynne did not make it to their meeting place. Apparently blinded by smoke and flames, she drove off the road and crashed down a ravine. Her car and body, along with the body of her dog, were found days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he had known Lynne was down in the ravine, George would have tried to find her and would have been satisfied to die next to her, he said. The fire destroyed their home, her quilting studio and George’s photography collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George said he’d like people to know “how loving and kind she was.” When a new person moved into the neighborhood, he said, “she’d be the first person to welcome them and ask what she could do for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne was 72 when she died. George remembers her as being the best spouse he could have hoped for. “She’s still with me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"ress\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Box of Chocolates and an Infectious Smile: The Big Heart of Marilyn Ress\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once a week, Marilyn Ress would board a city bus from her home at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park and ride 35 minutes to the Montgomery Village Shopping Center on the east side of Santa Rosa. From there, Ress would walk into See’s Candies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would easily buy $100 worth of peanut brittle, chocolate and gift cards,” said manager Susan Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the gift cards and candies were not for herself. Ress bought them as gifts for others. One box of chocolates would go to the bus drivers who took her around town. One would go to her doctor’s office. Another would end up with a neighbor who was having a bad day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would even give chocolates to the landscapers,” said her best friend, Cynthia Conners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress died in the Tubbs Fire. She was 71.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Marilyn Ress\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Conners said Ress was the epitome of selflessness. “I never saw her do anything for herself, not even go to the salon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress was known to pay for strangers' groceries and cups of coffee. Once, on a trip to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco with Conners, Ress paid for several drivers’ tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She handed the toll booth clerk a $50 bill and said, 'Pay for all the cars behind us that this covers,' ” Conners said. “She lived and breathed ‘pay it forward.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conners and Ress met in the late 1970s, when they both worked at Santa Rosa’s Creekside Hospital. Ress was a certified nursing assistant and Conners was the activities director. Conners said Ress had a goofy sense of humor and an infectious smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress grew up in the Sonoma County town of Penngrove and attended Petaluma High School. She led a simple life with her two cats at Journey’s End. Conners would sometimes take her on rides through the Sonoma County countryside or to the coast. They would go to Fosters Freeze, where Ress would order her favorite meal: a chili cheeseburger, fries and a vanilla malt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress spent holidays with Conners. A more recent tradition involved hours of holiday cooking in Conners’ small apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’d get a list of people that had nowhere to go on Thanksgiving and then show up at my house and tell me I was cooking dinner,” Conners said. “I didn’t have a choice. I had to make fresh cranberries, stuffing, turkey, I mean the whole nine yards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress would then deliver foil-wrapped meals, two plates at a time, to her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conners and Ress talked over the phone at least once a week. So when she didn’t hear from Ress the week of the fires, she knew something was wrong. But Conners believes Ress is at peace now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just have a funny feeling that she would be happy in heaven,” Conners said. “I can just see her smiling and dancing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"rippey\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Together All the Time': Sara and Charles Rippey\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11637438\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-160x143.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-800x717.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-1020x914.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-1180x1057.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-960x860.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-240x215.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-375x336.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-520x466.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara and Charles Rippey in 1946. \u003ccite>(submitted photo via Napa Valley Register)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charles Rippey -- nicknamed “Peach” as a child for his fuzzy cheeks -- and his wife, Sara Rippey, celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in March. Four months later, Charles celebrated his 100th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just three months after that, he died, apparently trying to reach his wife as flames engulfed their home in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father certainly wouldn’t have left her,” his son, Mike Rippey, told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Sara and Charles Rippey\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Charles Rippey grew up in Hartford, Wisconsin, where he met Sara in grade school. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/families-and-friends-of-napa-s-fire-victims-remember-the/article_2ebb83a4-9bfb-59e9-80d4-e3132bc57cfb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>, the two attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, together. Charles graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Register reported the couple married in 1942, just before Charles joined the Army for World War II service in North Africa, France, Italy and Germany. After the war, Charles and Sara Rippey had three daughters and two sons, and Charles went on to work for the Firestone tire company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rippey spent 30 years with Firestone, the Register reports, leading three different divisions and working in Sweden, Argentina and across the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, when most of their adult children moved to California, the elder Rippeys followed, with Charles going to work with Southern California's Norris Industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rippeys' children say their parents delighted in each other's company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Sunday night they went dancing,” Mike Rippey told the Register. “They loved to do stuff together; they’d always come home laughing and giggling. Neither ever vacationed alone or went anywhere alone. They were together all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That remained true until their final moments, when Charles apparently tried to reach Sara, who had been partially paralyzed since suffering a stroke in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with the AP, Mike Rippey said his brother discovered their parents’ bodies in the remains of their home in Napa. His father, Rippey said, appeared to be heading to his mother’s room when he was overcome by smoke and flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’d survived and she was gone, he would be the most miserable person alive,” Mike Rippey said in an interview with the Register. “If you had asked them if they wanted to go out together, they would have said yes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"robinson\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Loving Mom, Generous Artist: Sharon Robinson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627679\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 525px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22448120_10210923817400136_3298257612672619342_n-2-e1510879015873.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Rae Robinson, 79, of Santa Rosa.\" width=\"525\" height=\"538\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Rae Robinson, 79, of Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cathie Merkel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharon Robinson, a 79-year-old artist and antiques collector, died in when the Tubbs Fire engulfed her Santa Rosa neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath of the fires, Robinson's daughter, Cathie Merkel, searched for her mom. She posted recent photos of her on Facebook, along with a photo of the lot where Robinson's home had been reduced to ashes. Robinson’s car remained in what was left of the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After days of searching, Merkel posted a message on her \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cathie.merkel?fref=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a> to let loved ones know Robinson had not survived:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“To my dear friends, thank you all for your efforts in trying to find my mom. We received the news today that she did not make it out of her home the night of the fire. During the next few days I won’t be returning any messages as we deal with the effects of this tragedy. We know she found peace in her passing. Thank you for understanding, stay safe.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nothing was left but the car and ashes after the Tubbs Fire engulfed Sharon Robinson's home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nothing was left but the car and ashes after the Tubbs Fire engulfed Sharon Robinson's home. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cathie Merkel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merkel told \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/11/hundreds-missing-in-wine-country-fires-here-are-some-of-their-stories/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> that she visited her mother shortly before the fire with her daughter, who suffers from terminal brain cancer. “It was a very happy visit, very friendly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was really a warm and lovely woman, absolutely,” Jeri Sprague, a former neighbor of Robinson who knew her for decades, told the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-wildfires-Sharon-Robinson-79-named-12280042.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"rogers\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lee Chadwick Rogers, 72\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lee Chadwick Rogers, 72, died in her Sonoma County home on Cavedale Road as the Nuns Fire burned near the town of Glen Ellen. She lived east of Highway 12 near Mountain Terraces Winery and Vineyard. \u003ca id=\"schwartz\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marnie Schwartz Devoted Herself to Activism and Teaching\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marnie Schwartz passed away in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marjorie Schwartz was her real name, but everyone called her Marnie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And everyone remembers that she called them \"sweetie.\" Denise Harrison, a friend of Schwartz, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Marjorie-Schwartz-teacher-killed-in-Tubbs-Fire-12367366.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, \"I don't ever remember her calling me 'Denise.' I remember her calling me 'sweetie.' I can hear it in my head now: 'Hi, sweetie.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Marjorie Schwartz\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Schwartz, 68, died in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz' spirit will live on in the memories of those she taught, which spanned students in Walnut Creek, San Rafael, Santa Rosa and English-language learners, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7578851-181/family-former-santa-rosa-teacher?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was also active in her religious community, serving as president of the Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa at one point, according to the Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi George Gittleman told the paper that Schwartz loved to study and discuss Jewish texts of all kinds, and she was very literate, well-read and well-educated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"shepherd\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Touch Football and a Middle School Crush: After the Fire, 8th-Graders Remember Classmate Kai Shepherd\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"Kai Logan Shepherd, 14, was the youngest person to die in the Northern California Wildfires in October.\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-1180x954.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-960x777.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-240x194.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-375x303.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-520x421.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kai Logan Shepherd, 14, was the youngest person to die in the October wildfires. But in the weeks after the tragedy, he was still a presence among his classmates at Redwood Valley's Eagle Peak Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eagle Peak's Spirit Week, which features a different dress-up theme every day, was delayed by three weeks after the fire that devastated the Mendocino County community and killed nine people, including Kai's 17-year-old sister, \u003ca href=\"#kressa\">Kressa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eagle Peak Principal Dan Stearns, shuffling down a school hallway on wear-your-pajamas-to-school day in slippers and a plaid bathrobe, says he remembers Kai as a kid \"constantly running from group to group, interacting, laughing, joking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Kai Shepherd\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Stearns stops at a classroom on the second floor where a group of eighth-grade students are hunched over their laptops, scrolling through photos: Kai at the beach, Kai playing baseball, Kai goofing around with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School was closed for a week after the fire, but the first day back, students asked their digital media teacher if they could make a dedication page for Kai in the yearbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been working nonstop on it since then,\" says Elizabeth DeVinny, who taught Kai in her honors English class last year. \"They've been gathering photos and even asking if they could have extra space, because they have so much that their classmates want to say and their teachers want to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3030-e1510177623777.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3030-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janeane Higdon (left) and Joshua Harding work on the yearbook dedication page for Kai. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kai loved sports. One of his best friends, Brenton Wheeler, took a video of Kai competing in a wrestling match last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After he was done wrestling ... he kinda ... he smiled. Even though he lost, he smiled, and, kept his chin up,\" Brenton remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning or losing, he always walked off the mat with a smile, says Shane Stearns, another of Kai's friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three boys played touch football every morning on the blacktop at school, he says. Kai was the quarterback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He would get frustrated easily, but ...,\" Brenton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He'd always be laughing when he was arguing, though,\" Shane finishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629205\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Brenton-and-Shane-e1510177341493.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Brenton-and-Shane-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Stearns, foreground, and Brenton Wheeler, friends of Kai's, edit photos of Kai they plan to use in the yearbook. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kai had other dimensions, and Janeane Higdon, 13, wants to show the side of him that she knew in the yearbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the outside, I know he was very athletic. But on Instagram, he’d just act like a totally different person. He would talk about nerd stuff like Magic and video games,\" she says. \"Deep down inside, I think he was a nerd.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, students put together an altar for Kai. It has a baseball and football on it. And a box of Kai's favorite cereal: Golden Grahams. Janeane draped a special necklace over the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629206\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Eagle Peak Middle School built an altar in Kai's memory for Day of the Dead. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We had matching shark-tooth necklaces from Six Flags,\" she says, the kind that are sold in pairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janeane kept one, and gave the other one to Kai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had a crush on Kai last year,\" she says. \"So I brought him back a necklace. And he wore it, I think, twice. And then he put it on his shelf, I’m pretty sure he told me. So I had one of his best friends deliver it to him, 'cause I was kind of scared to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started messaging over Instagram. Janeane wrote poems about him in her honors English class, including an ode to Kai’s blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey make me get butterflies.\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\naround you they make me feel shy.\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey make me feel high.\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey make me love the plain dull sky\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthoughts of you preoccupy my mind\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey’re prettier than a dragon’s eye….\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629207\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janeane Higdon looks at a selfie she took during Spirit Week last year. She is in the front with red hair. Kai is in the back row on the left. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janeane gave a couple of her poems to Kai, and he told her he liked them because they reminded him of rap music. She was never really sure, though, what Kai thought about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brenton and Shane did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember Kai kinda liked Janeane, too, at one point,\" Shane says. \"I remember him talking about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kai would say, 'It's kinda nice knowing that Janeane likes me,' \" Brenton says. \"And how he kinda liked her back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janeane didn’t know this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It kinda makes me sad now. Because we could have gotten closer,\" she says. \"And now that he's dead, I know that we won't be able to replay that.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"kressa\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ukiah High School Students Mourn the Death of Kressa Shepherd and Celebrate Homecoming in the Same Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-self-portrait-e1510283178339.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-self-portrait-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629956\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa Shepherd took this self-portrait in a photography class at Ukiah High School. \u003ccite>(Kressa Shepherd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homecoming is not a day at Ukiah High School; it's a weeklong series of events. After a wildfire tore through Redwood Valley in October, the school district postponed the football game and festivities to give the town some time to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks later, the night before the rescheduled events were about to start, high school junior Kressa Shepherd died in the hospital. She was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mood is definitely complicated and complex,” said Gordon Oslund, the school principal, as he watched students milling in the courtyard. “It’s people trying to figure out, how do you deal with a community tragedy and then carry on and have a community celebration all at the same time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kressa and her parents were found in the road near their home the night of the fire and flown to hospitals for treatment of severe burns. Kressa’s \u003ca href=\"#shepherd\">younger brother, Kai,\u003c/a> 14, died before help arrived. Both of Kressa’s legs were amputated in the hospital, and she suffered cardiac arrest and multiple infections before she also died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Kressa Shepherd\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>On the morning of the big football game, Nov. 3, students packed the bleachers in the gym for a homecoming rally, one of several held throughout the week. The juniors wore all shades of pink, their class color. Hanging on the wall above them, gold balloons shimmered in the fluorescent light, spelling out K-R-E-S-S-A and K-A-I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629957\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juniors cheer at a homecoming rally at Ukiah High School. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some of Kressa’s friends, the ones who made it to school that week, the whole scene was just weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just like, ‘Wow, like how can you be happy right now?’ ” said Sasha Wilkins, a sophomore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class period right before, she had been to a grief circle for Kressa’s friends and classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was weird being in a group of everyone having such strong emotions, of being sad and down. And then going to another group of people who's so excited and so happy,” Wilkins said. “But then I realized not everyone's thinking about that all the time, but that's OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ukiah high, Kressa went to a Waldorf school. From fourth grade through eighth, she was in the same class with the same teacher and the same 23 kids. The high school counselors gathered them, and the class of sophomores below hers, to talk and share memories of Kressa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkins remembered feeling intimidated last year about becoming a sophomore. She was confiding in her friends about it when Kressa walked by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She overheard that and came up to me later and we just sat down and talked about it, and she comforted me,” she said. “She was like, ‘Yeah I was really nervous as well, but it's going to be OK and it's not as hard as you think it is.’ It was a wonderful moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629958\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Voltaire-person-of-the-year-e1510283675349.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Voltaire-person-of-the-year-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629958\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa turned in this homework assignment to her history teacher last year. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kressa’s teachers embodied the mixed emotions of the week. Some cried openly in front of their classrooms, then dressed up days later in purple and gold for homecoming. Across the board, they remember Kressa as a star student who kept a 4.0 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s the rock in the classroom,” said Meagan Davis, her English teacher. “To have at least one student in the class be there for you. You look up and you see them fully enveloped in what you're teaching – she was that student in my class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A peacemaker, is how Liz Johnson, Kressa's U.S. history teacher, described her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had a lot of compassion for multiple points of view,” Johnson said. “She had a deeper understanding of the world around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629959\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-drawing-e1510283824939.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-drawing-e1510283804287-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629959\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa was working on a series of illustrations when she died. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gordon Oslund)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And she was a natural-born artist, according to her art teacher, Rose Easterbrook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to be an illustrator someday, and she truly could have done that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kressa had been working on a series of drawings of a young girl with blond hair frolicking in a meadow. She carried them everywhere with her. For her photography class, she took a similar picture of her cousin picking flowers, and photo-shopped fairy wings into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was her: innocent and sincere,” said Lech Slocinski, her photography teacher, as he hung a collection of Kressa’s black-and-white prints in the school lobby. “There was nothing fake about her. Everything was just real. And kind. And it shows in her pictures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629960\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-cousin-e1510283977514.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-cousin-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629960\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa took this picture of her cousin for her photography class in high school. \u003ccite>(Kressa Shepherd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her work often portrayed a calm world, he said, removed from madness and conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the kind of scene the school tried to recreate in her memory the night of the homecoming game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This evening, we pay tribute to the lives of Ukiah High School junior, Kressa Shepherd, and her brother, Kai Logan Shepherd,” principal Gordon Oslund said to the crowd, asking them to join him in a moment of silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the marching band came on, before the football players took the field, and before screaming erupted in the stands, more than a thousand people stood up and went completely quiet.\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"southard\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Even at 71, Daniel Martin Southard Hadn't Lost His Love of Football\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637203\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11637203\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut.jpg 458w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut-240x262.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut-375x409.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Southard was 71 when he died in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel Martin Southard, 71, one of those who died in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, was known for his love of football. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187361346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a>, when he graduated Southern California's Crescenta Valley High School in 1964, he received special awards in athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That love of sports athleticism and love of the sport never left him. The\u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187361346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Press Democrat \u003c/a>reports that he went on to become a personal trainer and eventually bought a Gold's Gym in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Southard's son Derek told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/11/hundreds-missing-in-wine-country-fires-here-are-some-of-their-stories/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News in San Jose\u003c/a> that his father \"was just a very loving guy. He was very sweet and very kind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"stelter\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Steve Stelter 'Would Find the Funny in It'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 693px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627298 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Dad-and-Janet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"539\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Stelter and Janet Costanzo were longtime partners and lived together in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley. Both died in the fire that swept the area early the morning of Oct. 9.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A photograph of Steve Stelter shows him wearing a shirt of \"Beavis and Butt-Head,\" who are themselves wearing \"Ren & Stimpy\" costumes. It helps to be familiar with the crude hilarity of these shows to better understand what Stelter’s daughter, Reeah Winkle, means when she says her dad was playful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But along with his love of irreverent, fart-joke humor was his witty, softer side, she said. “If there was a hard situation, he would find the funny in it,” said Winkle, who gave him the shirt as a birthday present. “You could laugh with him even when you were having a hard time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Steve Stelter\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Aunt-Shelia-Dad-Mac-and-Me.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Stelter (center) loved being a grandfather. He poses with daughter, Reeah Winkle, left, and sister, Shelia Garoni, right, while holding Winkle's son, Mac. Stelter died on Oct. 8 in Redwood Valley.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winkle laughs thinking about memories she has of her dad: trips to the movies or the flea market or an amusement park. Winkle said that even though she didn’t live with her dad, he was very present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the kind of person that if you needed anything, he was there to help you any way he could,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stelter helped neighbors clear iced-over driveways on cold winter days. He helped family with plumbing problems or with cars that needed fixing (his specialty). He was a handyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would be right over to fix it,” said Winkle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stelter drove trucks for a number of companies, but it was at Pacific Bell that he met his longtime partner, Janet Costanzo, who also died in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair lived on a large parcel where they’d take their dogs for walks and where Steve could shoot his guns and work on cars, Winkle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627301\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627301 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Dad-1-800x1065.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Steve Stelter poses for the camera.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve’s brother, Doug Stelter, eventually moved into a trailer on their property. The three of them would eat dinner together most nights: more meat and fewer vegetables, said Doug Stelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d all sit around and watch TV,\" he said. \"They liked '[American] Pickers.' \" And \"Deadliest Catch\" was also a favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve loved the holidays, too. Winkle remembers fireworks on the Fourth of July, trick-or-treating on Halloween and how her father loved being around family for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But more than anything, he loved being a grandpa to his two grandchildren, Winkle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d be down on the ground playing with them,” she said. “He was that kind of grandfather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Stelter, 56, is survived by his brother Doug, his daughter Reeah Winkle, and his grandchildren, Mac and Sunny Mortensen.\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"stephenson\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Margaret Stephenson Spread Joy With Huge Heart and Love of Parties\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638786\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Stephenson, left, celebrated her 86th birthday in March with friend Drew Wallace. (Courtesy of Mandi Hamilton)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margaret Stephenson, 86, was a vibrant and tenacious British transplant to Mendocino County's Redwood Valley who lived alone on 2 rural acres, loved animals and never shied away from a good party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was very proud of her British heritage and a person that loved to celebrate festivities,” said Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, who received Halloween and Christmas cards from her every year. “I can’t imagine ever not having fun if Margaret was at an event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson was the last victim found after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Margaret Stephenson\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Stephenson moved to Mendocino County in the 1970s with her husband, Raymond, who took a job as a manager at Mendo Mill & Lumber Co.. She briefly worked as a schoolteacher but devoted most of her life to helping her husband and maintaining their land. The couple were married roughly 60 years. They had no children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She and her husband came over with nothing, essentially,” said Mandi Hamilton, who became Margaret’s insurance agent and close friend after her husband died in 2015. “They worked hard, joined clubs and became an integral part of community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She spoke so openly of her husband, Raymond, and how much she loved him,” Hamilton added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after she met Stephenson, Hamilton said, the two of them hit it off and began calling each other every morning. About six months before the fire, Stephenson was diagnosed with cancer, but was responding well to treatment and remained very independent. Last summer, Hamilton taught her how to drive her husband's truck, which she had previously refused to touch. And to boost her spirits, Hamilton also recently gave her a cat, which she instantly fell in love with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"thomas\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tamara Latrice Thomas, a San Francisco Native Who Perished in Assisted-Care Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tamara Latrice Thomas, 47, was a native of San Francisco who split her time between her hometown and a board-and-care facility in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, one of the areas ravaged by the Tubbs Fire early Oct. 9. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7593757-181/pge-sued-in-santa-rosa?artslide=1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported\u003c/a> Thomas, who was paralyzed, died after being unable to get out of her second-floor bedroom at the Crestview Court Residential Care Home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED was unable to reach Thomas's family members for comment, but the Press Democrat reported her brother is suing PG&E for wrongful death, alleging the utility failed to maintain power lines that could have sparked the wind-whipped fire. The case was filed in Sonoma County Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages for pain and suffering. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"tunis\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Linda Tunis Was Close to Her Daughter Until the End\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In January 2017, Linda Tunis moved from Florida to Santa Rosa to be closer to her daughter, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their time together in California was cut short. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tubbs-Fire-claims-life-of-Linda-Tunis-a-recent-12271331.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Linda Tunis called her daughter early the morning of Oct. 9 as the Tubbs Fire began burning her mobile home. “I was telling her I love her when the phone died,\" Jessica Tunis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an obituary published in \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=187042018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Boston Globe\u003c/a>, Tunis loved going to the beach, playing bingo, traveling and going to the theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\u003c/div>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We look back on the tragedy that visited so many communities and remember those who died, the lives they lived and the people they touched. \r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1514846821,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":445,"wordCount":14839},"headData":{"title":"Remembering Those Lost in Northern California's October Fires | KQED","description":"We look back on the tragedy that visited so many communities and remember those who died, the lives they lived and the people they touched. \r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Remembering Those Lost in Northern California's October Fires","datePublished":"2017-12-31T16:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-01T22:47:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"236","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"236","found":true},"name":"KQED News Staff","firstName":"KQED News Staff","lastName":null,"slug":"kqed","email":"faq@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":[],"title":null,"bio":null,"avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"futureofyou","roles":["author"]}],"headData":{"title":"KQED News Staff | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/kqed"}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28698_fire_memorials_final01-qut-1020x546.jpg","width":1020,"height":546,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28698_fire_memorials_final01-qut-1020x546.jpg","width":1020,"height":546,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":["featured","North Bay wildfires","obituaries","tcr","the-california-report-featured"]}},"disqusIdentifier":"11631064 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11631064","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/31/remembering-those-lost-in-northern-californias-october-fire-catastrophe/","disqusTitle":"Remembering Those Lost in Northern California's October Fires","path":"/news/11631064/remembering-those-lost-in-northern-californias-october-fire-catastrophe","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A beloved volunteer at an adult assisted-living center. A dad who would always \"find the funny\" in tough situations. A volunteer firefighter who died far from home while battling a blaze in the North Bay. A couple who had celebrated 75 years together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were among the 44 people who perished in the series of monstrous, wind-driven wildfires that brought death and destruction to huge swaths of Northern California, devastating communities in Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties. On this final day of 2017, as we look back on the year and a tragedy that touched so many, we remember those who died, the lives they lived and those they touched along the way. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside id=\"top\" class=\"aligncenter noborder\">\n\u003ch2>Click on the person's name to read more about the victims of the fires\u003c/h2>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd width=\"50%\">\n- \u003ca href=\"#aycock\">Karen Aycock\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#azarian\">Michel Azarian\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#berriz\">Carmen Caldentey Berriz\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#bowman\">Roy and Irma Bowman\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#chaney\">George Chaney and Edward Stone\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#collinsswasey\">Carol Collins-Swasey\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#coolidge\">Stanley Coolidge\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#costanzo\">Janet Costanzo\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#culp\">David Culp\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#dornbach\">Michael Dornbach\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#evans\">Valerie Lynn Evans\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#gardiner\">Barbara Jane Gardiner and Elizabeth Charlene Foster\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#grabow\">Mike Grabow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#grant\">Arthur Tasman Grant and Suiko Grant\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#halbur\">Donna and Leroy Halbur\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#hannah\">Roseann Hannah\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#hanson\">Christina Hanson\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#hung\">Tak-Fu Hung\u003c/a>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd width=\"50%\">\n- \u003ca href=\"#kirven\">Monte Kirven\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#lewis\">Sally Lewis and Teresa Santos\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#mccombs\">Veronica McCombs\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#mcreynolds\">Carmen McReynolds\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#paiz\">Garrett Paiz\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#picciano\">Sandra Picciano\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#powell\">Lynne Anderson Powell\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#ress\">Marilyn Ress\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#rippey\">Charles and Sara Rippey\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#robinson\">Sharon Robinson\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#rogers\">Lee Chadwick Rogers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#schwartz\">Marnie Schwartz\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#shepherd\">Kai Shepherd\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#kressa\">Kressa Shepherd\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#southard\">Daniel Southard\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#stelter\">Steve Stelter\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#stephenson\">Margaret Stephenson\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#thomas\">Tamara Latrice Thomas\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"#tunis\">Linda Tunis\u003c/a>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"aycock\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Karen Aycock: 'She Had a Big Heart, Was Always There to Help'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Karen Aycock, a former construction worker who lived alone in Santa Rosa in her Coffey Park home with her cats, died in the Tubbs Fire that devastated the neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Aycock’s niece, Victoria Rilling, learned of her aunt’s death, she felt “heartbreak, utter dismay,” she told \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7519692-181/victims-identified-in-deadly-sonoma?artslide=0\">The Press Democrat\u003c/a>. She was also thankful for the efforts to locate Aycock. “They didn’t give up. Their perseverance is phenomenal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aycock volunteered with animal rescue groups and her cats meant the world to her, Chad Hinden, a former roommate, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-wildfires-Karen-Aycock-54-dead-in-12280011.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. She was shy “but she had a big heart,” he said. “If you needed anything, she’d always be there to help you.”\u003ca id=\"azarian\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Michel Azarian: A Creative, Globetrotting Engineer With ‘the Kindest Heart’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 576px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11633811\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian.jpg 576w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-240x279.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-375x436.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/michelazarian-520x604.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Azarian, photographed during a recent trip. Azarian lived outside Santa Rosa and died Nov. 26 as the result of burns suffered during the Tubbs Fire in October. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Khachik Papanyan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michel Azarian, 41, died on Nov. 26 at UC Davis Medical Center from extensive burns he suffered when the Tubbs Fire trapped him outside his home on the outskirts of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who knew him describe Azarian as a natural engineer -- his mind was the right mix of creative and analytical. His talents brought him from tragedy in war-torn Lebanon to the United States, Silicon Valley and eventually Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian’s father and uncle were killed in the mid-1980s during the Lebanese civil war, his friend Khachik Papanyan said in a phone interview. The family business was destroyed in a bombing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian helped his mother rebuild and worked in a shop selling bedding in his hometown of Zahle, Lebanon, but he dreamed of attending the American University of Beirut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Michel Azarian\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>He found out the only way he’d have a shot at getting in was an exceptionally high SAT score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a smart enough guy where he was able to get an amazing score on the test and get admitted,” Papanyan said. “However, that wasn’t enough. They didn’t have enough funds to cover the tuition for the first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian sold land left to him by his father, invested, and sold again, eventually generating enough money to cover his first year’s tuition. He majored in electrical engineering and started earning scholarships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, Azarian was recruited to work for National Instruments in Austin, Texas, where he met Papanyan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to an event, actually a lecture about Greek architecture, and somehow I think I asked a question related to Armenia,” Papanyan said. Azarian, whose father was Armenian, approached Papanyan after the lecture. “That’s how we struck our friendship in Austin, and we’ve been best friends since then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian spent eight years in Austin, designing radio technology and other wireless circuitry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was extremely gifted when it came to problem-solving,” said Papanyan, who worked for Dell at the time. “The regular puzzles it would take me a day to solve, he could solve it in the blink of an eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of work, Azarian’s passions led him away from circuit boards and into nature. Papanyan said his friend was elated when he got a new job -- for Linear Technology -- and moved to San Jose in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He loved to travel. He loved photography. He loved hiking quite a bit,” Papanyan said. He added that Azarian told him he’d hiked almost every weekend in Silicon Valley and “never had to repeat a trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he left a community of friends in Texas, including one associated with the Armenian Church of Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those of you who had the pleasure of knowing Michel, he had the kindest heart and an incredible lust for life,” wrote Mihran Aroian, parish council chairman for the church, in an announcement of Azarian’s death. “He was also an active globetrotter and a brilliant photographer. He had a robust appreciation both for the quiet beauty in nature, along with fun adventures and laughter with friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azarian’s Instagram feed contains a mix of landscape photography, vibrant natural close-ups and some urban/architectural shots. Papanyan said the bulk of Azarian’s photos are believed to have been stored on his home computer, destroyed in the fire.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BYH4U11F9tM"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>He moved to Santa Rosa about two years ago, Papanyan said, and took a new job with Keysight Technologies there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papanyan said he wasn’t sure whether Azarian was at home on Oct. 8, the night the fires hit Santa Rosa, or if he was outdoors and trapped by the wind-whipped wall of flames that roared across the hills from Calistoga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, he couldn’t get out, and appears to have tried to take shelter in a small clearing near his home. That’s where he was discovered the next day, with severe burns on more than half his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just amazing that he was able to survive the whole night being surrounded by the firestorm,” Papanyan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus began some six weeks of hospital visits to Azarian’s bedside at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Azarian couldn’t talk -- his throat was blocked by a ventilator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way he could communicate was with his hand,” Papanyan said. “He would actually write out the letters and we would try to decode what he was saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family friend went to Lebanon to bring Azarian’s mother to his bedside. She had been with him for the past few weeks, Papanyan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keysight Technologies helped support his mother’s room and travel, according to friends and high-ranking executives, who joined her in Azarian’s hospital room many times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He died Sunday, according to information from Cal Fire, UC Davis Medical Center and the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was an intelligent, fun-loving, nature-loving guy that always had a broad smile on his face, was always there for his friends,” Papanyan said. “He’s now in the heavens, and he will be with us in our memories forever. It was an honor, a great honor, knowing him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"berriz\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Carmen Caldentey Berriz: Beloved Mother and Grandmother\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carmen Caldentey Berriz, 75, died in the arms of her husband, Armando Berriz, a man from whom she’d been inseparable since they met in Cuba when they were young. The couple, married 55 years, had been on vacation with family in Santa Rosa when the Tubbs Fire erupted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When their car got stuck on a fallen tree as they fled, the pair decided to seek shelter in a swimming pool at the vacation home where they’d been staying. Carmen held onto Armando, who was keeping them afloat by hanging onto the sides of the pool, KTVU reported. She died in the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything they did was as a team,\" daughter Monica Ocon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/woman-dies-in-husbands-arms-seeking-shelter-in-pool-during-santa-rosa-fire\">KTVU\u003c/a>. \"They had this bond and this strength that literally lasted a lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berriz, from Apple Valley in San Bernardino County, is survived by her husband; daughter Monica Ocon and her son-in-law, Luis Ocon; daughter Carmen T. Berriz; son Armando J. Berriz and daughter-in-law Catherine Berriz; and seven grandchildren, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Carmen-Berriz-died-in-her-husband-s-arms-trying-12277372.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to her every day,” Monica Ocon told the Chronicle. “It’s an amazing bond that I had with her. I will forever try to be like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"bowman\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'They Were Holding Each Other': Roy and Irma Bowman of Redwood Valley\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/bowmans1-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11629165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/bowmans1-2-1020x934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"586\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma and Roy Bowman in 2015 with a plaque commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The past two years were not the easiest of Roy and Irma Bowman's more than half-century together. Roy needed triple-bypass heart surgery early in 2016, a procedure that required a long convalescence. Family members had to persuade Irma to leave his bedside to eat and sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She would spend the night there if we wouldn't have made her go home,\" said Elizabeth Bowman, who is married to the Bowmans' son, Gary, and lives in Medford, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Irma and Roy Bowman\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Roy Bowman suffered a stroke that put him back in the hospital and left him struggling to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew who we were and would try to say our names,\" said Elizabeth Bowman. \"The fact he couldn't talk was very rough on him. He would get agitated, so he worked very hard on regaining his speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bowmans — Irma was 88, Roy was 87 — were still emerging from that crisis last month when a wildfire charged across a nearby ridge and toward their home in a development set amid vineyards and oak woodlands in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley, north of Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 22 homes in the development burned in the fire early Oct. 9. The Bowmans were among nine people killed or fatally injured in a 1.5-mile-long corridor along Tomki and West roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They must have been in bed,\" Elizabeth Bowman said. \"The fire marshal told us that they were holding each other when they found their remains.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bowmans are remembered as intensely devoted to their family, to their churches and to each other. They had been members of the Assembly of God congregations in both Ukiah and Redwood Valley and were well-known and loved for their usually unadvertised generosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were very dedicated to the Lord and very dedicated to their church,\" said the Rev. Jack McMilin, pastor of the Redwood Valley Assembly of God. \"Any time there was a need or any time there was a campaign for something, they always wanted to be involved as far as supporting it financially.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMilin said that at a memorial service for the Bowmans, members of the congregation talked about how the couple had helped them with various needs -- in one case, for instance, paying the tuition for a family that was otherwise unable to send its children to a local religious school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I pass away, I'd like to be that well spoken of,\" McMilin said. \"It was pretty amazing the things people said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roy Howard Bowman was born in 1930, the descendant of Oregon pioneers, and graduated from Oregon State University in 1954 with a bachelor of science degree in general agriculture. He served in the Air Force, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After his military service, he worked as a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He's listed as the author and editor of several Soil Conservation Service studies of California counties, including San Diego, Santa Cruz, Placer and eastern Mendocino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irma Elsie Wobschall was born to a German-American family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1929. She emigrated to San Diego by 1950, married, had two sons, and divorced. She later studied art at Palomar Junior College, in the northern San Diego County town of San Marcos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Bowman said Irma met Roy at a square dance in San Marcos. They dated for a year or so and were married June 13, 1965. After the wedding, Roy formally adopted Irma's sons — Gary and Mark — \"and gave them his name,\" Bowman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that her late mother-in-law was a creative force — a skilled visual artist and an accomplished baker and chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Elizabeth and Gary Bowman married, \"She made our wedding cake -- a four-tier wedding cake. It was wonderful -- she was very artistic and could bake anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Bowman said the family is still grappling with its grief over the deaths — a process she doesn't expect to end anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to take time,\" she said. \"It's going to take a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"chaney\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>George Chaney and Edward Stone Loved Traveling and Collecting Art\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Napa Valley resident Don Judah said he was out on his deck sometime between 9:30 and 10 p.m. on Oct. 8 when he noticed fire coming down the ridgeline across the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told my wife, 'Call George to get his ass out of there now,' \" Judah said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judah's wife, Margaret, called their good friend George Chaney, 89, who lived with his lifelong partner, Edward Stone, 79, on Atlas Peak Road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area has a history of fires. Chaney’s shed had burned down in swept the countryside in 1981, but his house survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Judah got through to Chaney on the phone. He told her he couldn’t see anything. She said he and Edward would come to their house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen minutes later, she phoned again to see if he’d left the house yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He says, ‘Margaret, my house is on fire,' ” Don said. Then the line went dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don and Margaret tried to get up the hill to see if they could help Chaney and Stone, their friends of nearly half a century, get out. Within a mile of their house, the fire was so intense the two had to turn back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Oct. 12, Don got word from officials that George Chaney and Edward Stone had died in their home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about George Chaney and Edward Stone\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Originally from Texas, Chaney moved to Napa in 1958 to work as a radiologist at the newly opened \u003ca href=\"https://www.thequeen.org/\">Queen of the Valley Medical Center\u003c/a> in Napa. Don met Chaney in 1960, when Chaney hired him to work in the radiology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an excellent physician and radiologist,\" Don remembered. \"He just had a manner about him that was always kind of calm. He wasn’t a volatile person at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said Chaney's leadership helped keep Queen of the Valley's radiology department on the cutting edge of medical imaging technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew where we were going, and he wanted to do the best he could for the patients,\" Don said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaney's partner, Stone, worked for Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Chaney and Stone retired, Don said, they spent a lot of time traveling together to Europe, Asia and Africa. Don and his wife often joined them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know they really enjoyed travel,\" he said. \"I would say the two enjoyed classical music and artwork. George had an Asian art collection with Chinese screens and Japanese sculptures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don said the pair had excellent senses of humor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing about most of the dear friends I have is there’s a bond you have,\" Don said. \"Humor is what hangs us together and keeps us together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"collinsswasey\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Carol Collins-Swasey Remembered for Her 'Wicked Sense of Irreverent Humor'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carol Collins-Swasey was known by close family and friends as an independent, strong-willed woman with a “wicked sense of irreverent humor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in typical fashion, she insisted on writing her own obituary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t want them saying a bunch of flowery crap about her,” said Staci Peyer-Reupke, a close friend. “She just wanted it to be funny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are reading this, I am dead,” she wrote in the obituary that her family incorporated into a \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?n=carol-h-collins&pid=187019168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger one\u003c/a> published in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. “And no, I did not look this good when I checked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Carol Collins-Swasey\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey, 76, a Santa Rosa real estate agent and former journalist, died on Oct. 9 in her Hemlock Street home near Coffey Park in the Tubbs Fire that devastated her neighborhood. Her husband of 27 years, Jim Swasey, was out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in January 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky, Collins-Swasey grew up with three brothers, and bounced between her divorced parents’ homes in Georgia and Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the obituary the family published, one brother remembered her as \"a bit glamorous and a bit demanding, but always magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey went on to study journalism at the University of Iowa, and after working briefly as a journalist in Los Angeles, headed north, She eventually settled in Santa Rosa, where she lived for the remaining 30 years of her life, working as a Century 21 residential real estate agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was blessed with some talents and was successful in several professional fields,” she said in her obituary notes. But she added: “I never stayed long with anything -- jobs, houses, husbands or friends -- until moving to Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey was an avid traveler and a committed community volunteer, most recently helping out at Sutter Hospice Thrift Store on Sundays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friend Peyer-Reupke, a regular at the thrift store, said she was drawn to Collins-Swasey’s giving nature and fun-loving personality. “I think that’s what I’m really going to miss the most,” she said. “She once told me she didn’t want a memorial service when she died. She wanted a party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins-Swasey underscored that wish in her obituary notes: “Instead of feeling obligated to attend a memorial service -- and there won't be one -- contribute to a charity of your choice, and give a friend an extra hug today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her husband and brothers, Collins-Swasey is survived by a son and multiple stepchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"coolidge\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stanley Coolidge, a Noted Attorney Who Loved Riding a Motorcycle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636547\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 130px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28508_stanleycoolidge-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28508_stanleycoolidge-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"152\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11636547\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Coolidge loved volunteering and riding his motorcycle. He passed away at age 78 in the Cascade Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Appeal Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> Stanley Coolidge leaves behind a legacy as a noted attorney, loving father and grandfather, short story writer and prolific volunteer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his obituary in Marysville's \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187076634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appeal Democrat\u003c/a>, Coolidge was 78 when he died at his Yuba County home in Loma Rica on Oct. 9 during the Cascade Fire. His obit reports that he was with his fiancee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=187076628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roseann Hannah\u003c/a>, who also died in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Stanley Coolidge\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Born in San Francisco on May 17, 1939, Coolidge, who went by \"Stan,\" earned his law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall and was admitted to the bar in 1965. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coolidge had three children. One son, Andrew Coolidge, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.krcrtv.com/news/father-of-chico-city-councilman-presumed-dead-in-fire/635873925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KRCR News\u003c/a> that he and his father spoke nearly every other day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fire was a complete tragedy,\" Andrew Coolidge told the television station. \"It was fast and it was terrible and I know a lot of people are concerned about the property damage, but when you're dealing with losing someone close to you, losing a loved one, it really makes all of that other stuff very much not important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Coolidge's \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187076634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary\u003c/a> tells the story of a man who dedicated his life to volunteering and giving back to others. According to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187076634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary\u003c/a>, he also loved to ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and was a longtime member of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theamericansmc.com/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Americans Motorcycle Club\u003c/a>, which raises funds to cure childhood cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A joint service was held for Coolidge and \u003ca href=\"#hannah\">Hannah\u003c/a> on Nov. 3 at Veterans Memorial Hall in Yuba City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"costanzo\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Friends Were Like Family to Janet Costanzo\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Janet Kay Costanzo was warm, smart, spunky and a real trailblazer, her friends said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to work a man’s job so she could make a man’s wage,\" said Reeah Winkle, who was 8 years old when she met Costanzo. “And that’s what she did. She drove trucks at Pac Bell, just like my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costanzo lived in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley with \u003ca href=\"#stelter\">Steve Stelter\u003c/a>, Winkle’s father. Both died in the October wildfires that swept through Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Janet Kay Costanzo\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Costanzo, 71, was found inside her home in Redwood Valley. Stelter, 56, was found near a vehicle. The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said it appears he was attempting to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costanzo had lived in the valley for about 10 years and it suited her outdoorsy personality, Winkle said. “She was a very smart woman; she knew a lot about everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Winkle’s first memories of Costanzo was the time she was allowed to ride her horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was around horses all of her life,” said Robert Costanzo, who dated Janet in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers Janet as a “warm, friendly, outgoing person.” The two lived together in her mother’s house on Coolidge Avenue in Oakland. She took Robert’s last name in order to get health insurance at the time, he said. She kept the name for the rest of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 646px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627604 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s.jpg 646w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-160x154.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-240x231.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-375x361.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-520x501.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/1970s-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet Costanzo and Robert Costanzo dated in the 1970s. The two never married but Janet took his last name in order to get health insurance. Robert remembers Janet as warm, friendly and outgoing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Robert Costanzo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her dad lived in Southern California on several acres of land and had a few horses, Robert recalls. “She used to like to do dressage and trail rides,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Costanzo also bred cats. She had a parrot and two dogs, Riot and Annie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Stelter moved from Oakland to her aunt’s property in Redwood Valley roughly 10 years ago. \"They had a lot of land up there,” said Steve's brother, Doug Stelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug moved into a trailer on the property about five years ago. The three of them would go on walks together, watch television -- \"American Pickers\" and \"Deadliest Catch\" were favorites -- and they would take turns cooking dinner and then eat together almost every night, said Doug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was a good person,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were taken from our lives too soon,\" said Winkle. \"We love them very much and they remain in our hearts.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"culp\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Vietnam Vet David Culp Leaves an Empty Spot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"326\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11637505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut.jpg 242w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut-160x216.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28581_David-Culp-qut-240x323.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire victim David Culp was a member of the Foothill Lions Club. \u003ccite>(Foothill Lions Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Patrick Culp, 76, a Vietnam veteran, died on Oct. 10 in the Cascade Fire that swept through his Loma Rica neighborhood in Yuba County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People came by and told him it’s getting too close, he had to leave, but being the stubborn vet that he was, he decided to stay with his equipment, figuring he could stop it,” Mike Saala, a friend, told \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/10/19/yuba-county-mourns-4-killed-by-devastating-cascade-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Sacramento\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp piloted UH-1 “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War, according to an obituary on the website of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.foothill-lions.net/index_files/Page682.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foothill Lions and Lioness Club\u003c/a> in Marysville. He was a regular at the club on Thursday nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He will be missed ... there will be a vacant spot,” Saala said. \u003ca id=\"dornbach\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Michael Dornbach Was Searching for His ‘Little Piece of Heaven’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11631075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11631075\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-1020x750.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-960x706.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut-520x383.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27977_Uncle-Michael-qut.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Dornbach, 57, died Oct. 9 in Calistoga. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Maria Triliegi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Dornbach came to California with his family when he was just 10 years old. They settled in the small West Marin town of Inverness, where he learned how to fish for salmon on Tomales Bay. His mother, Maria Triliegi, said he became a great fisherman, always winning the jackpot in any competition he entered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triliegi remembered how much her son loved the water. Not just the ocean, but lakes and rivers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why he was so anxious to get his little piece of heaven,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dornbach, 57, lived in San Pedro but came to Northern California in October, searching for that piece of heaven. The family was hoping to buy a small piece of land close to the Klamath River, someplace where he could build a cabin, fish, plant a garden and watch the stars at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triliegi said he wanted to live out in the open, like the guys in his favorite movie, “Lonesome Dove.” But he didn’t want to be all alone out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cabin would have enough room for his mom and family members to come and stay,” Triliegi said. “His family was everything to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dornbach was staying with family on an 18-acre property in rural Calistoga when the October Tubbs Fire tore through and claimed his life. Triliegi said. “My biggest sadness is that the land he loved so much, in the finality of it all, took him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dornbach is survived by his mother; a brother, Joshua Triliegi; a sister, Laura Dornbach; as well as aunts, uncles and cousins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"evans\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Valerie Lynn Evans: 'A Real Cowboy-Type Girl'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie Lynn Evans, right, with her son, Houston Evans Jr.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Valerie-Evans-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Lynn Evans, right, shares a treat with her son, Houston Evans Jr. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Victoria Evans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Valerie Lynn Evans loved horses. She grew up around them as a child and continued to raise and show horses as an adult. That was one reason she was so happy in her home on Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa -- she had space for her horses and plenty of beautiful places to ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was a real cowboy-type girl,” said her husband, Houston G. Evans Sr., who himself spent time working as a rodeo cowboy. In fact, that’s how the two met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Nov. 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was shot. Houston was scheduled for a rodeo in Las Vegas that was canceled because of the assassination, so he drove to Los Angeles to see if he could work a rodeo there instead. He approached a group of people talking out front, one of whom he knew, and met Valerie. They went to a party together and were soon dating, marrying a few years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Valerie Lynn Evans\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours of Oct. 9, the couple woke to a fire outside their window. Houston said they had only a few minutes to get out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valerie wanted to save the horse trailer parked in the yard, so her husband, who is 88 years old and suffers from gout, went down the road to get the tractor. When he turned around, the house was an inferno. He rushed back, but Valerie wasn’t where she said she’d be waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost knew instantly that she went back into the house to get the dogs,” Houston said. He fled, barely escaping with his own life. Their son, Houston Evans Jr., and his wife, Victoria, used their knowledge of the back roads around his parents' house to find a way around closures, eventually reaching Evans Sr., who had taken cover behind a shed down the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t seen anything like this since I was in the war,” the elder Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valerie, who was 75 when she died, loved their home in Santa Rosa, working “every kind of dirty lousy job you can think of to pay for this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She operated a Caterpillar tractor at the dump and drove trucks for several companies in the area. She even worked as a dispatcher in Santa Rosa, a job her husband said she had to quit. “It was too much for her to handle, people getting killed and murdered. It would give her nightmares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising and showing horses was Valerie’s passion. The couple traveled all over the country to compete in horse shows, often bringing home ribbons and trophies. She loved to ride in the beautiful countryside around Santa Rosa and in the Southern California mountains when the couple lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She enjoyed life,\" her husband said. \"She enjoyed friends; she enjoyed nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valerie Lynn Evans is survived by her husband, Houston G. Evans Sr.; a son, Houston G. Evans Jr.; and her daughter-in-law, Victoria Evans. The family plans to hold a memorial service for Valerie sometime in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"gardiner\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Barbara Jane Gardiner and Elizabeth Charlene Foster: A Creative Soul and Her Caregiver\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The walls and halls of Barbara Jane Gardiner’s Mendocino County home in Redwood Valley were her museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11635940\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 324px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11635940\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101.jpg 324w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101-160x233.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/JaneGardiner1.eps_20171101-240x349.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo is from the Ukiah Daily Journal obituary page\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gardiner was a creative soul, according to her obituary in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ukiahdailyjournal/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-jane-gardiner&pid=187113806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukiah Daily Journal\u003c/a>. From the beaded earrings to the knitted crafts, her personality was as vibrant as the colors she chose in her personal art pieces. She collect painted glass art and fashionable handbags. Her needlework was intricate, along with the never-conforming art she made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7809163-181/remembering-northern-california-fire-victims?sba=AAS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her obituary\u003c/a> in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Barbara Jane Gardiner moved to Redwood Valley with her husband Eugene Vincent Gardiner about 1980. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 9 at 1 a.m., she called her stepson, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mendovoice.com/2017/10/names-of-deceased-redwood-fire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, to tell him that fire had surrounded her home. She was with her caregiver, Elizabeth Charlene Foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster was 64 years old. The two lived together on Tomki Road in Redwood Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the county sheriff’s department, Gardiner told her stepson that she and Foster were waiting for the fire department to evacuated them from their home. They didn’t survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her signature smile and high-pitch, jolly laugh will echo in the hearts of those who loved her,” said Barbara Jane Gardiner’s Ukiah Daily Journal obituary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"grabow\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mike Grabow 'Instantly Made People Feel Better About Themselves'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Grabow, 40, and his French bulldog, Stax, died when the Tubbs Fire hit their neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27896_22489993_10208498866384214_2692149478615782517_n-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Grabow, 40, and his French bulldog, Stax, died when the Tubbs Fire hit their neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rachael Ingram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The morning before the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa, Mike Charles Grabow was in a local bar giving away hope bracelets. He'd bought them for friends as a way to donate to breast cancer research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grabow's sister, Lindsay Osier, said he often gave generously to those around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Mike Grabow\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>“He was always giving money to charities and wherever he could find ways to help out,” Osier said. “He didn’t require anything back. It was all freely given.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grabow was 40 when he died. Osier misses her brother’s hugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hugs that he gave me would take all of the problems away,” she said. “He just instantly made people feel better about themselves and encouraged you to be a better human being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628765\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 437px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11628765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607.jpg 437w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607-160x232.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607-240x348.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27895_23115093_10210794951373989_1858367344_n-qut-e1510955812607-375x543.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Grabow, 40, passed away when the Tubbs Fire hit his Santa Rosa neighborhood early the morning of Oct. 9. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Lindsay Osier)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grabow lived in Northern California for the past five years and had a tight-knit circle of friends. They remember his energy and his love of craft beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll remember him for how much he loved everyone around him and how fully he lived his life,” said Rachael Ingram, one of his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in his life, Grabow lived in the Pacific Northwest. He eventually moved back to Idaho, where he was born and lived for most of his adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He loved the outdoors and found lots of opportunities to enjoy it around Boise. Osier said that when Grabow was young, his grandfather took him fishing a lot, and that is when he was truly the happiest. Grabow also liked to snowboard, hunt and golf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for work, he showed his independence by being self-employed in jobs that allowed him to be outside, such as landscaping and construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22780678_10208545187702218_6620350318759447796_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends and family of Mike Grabow, 40, celebrate his life at Cooperage Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa on Oct. 25, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rachael Ingram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 26, friends and family celebrated Grabow at one of his favorite places to grab a beer, Cooperage Brewing Co. in Santa Rosa. They raised money for fire relief efforts in his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a huge community of people that are missing him right now,” Ingram says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"grant\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Retired Navy Pilot Arthur Tasman Grant ‘Would Do Anything to Help Somebody Out’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like his wife, Suiko Grant, Arthur Tasman Grant loved spending time with his granddaughter, Sloane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627332\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 236px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arthur-Grant-e1509496770485.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur Grant of Santa Rosa as a young man.\" width=\"236\" height=\"133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627332\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arthur-Grant-e1509496770485.jpg 236w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Arthur-Grant-e1509496770485-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Grant of Santa Rosa as a young man. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Trina Grant)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The retired Navy lieutenant and Pan Am Airlines captain also relished sitting in the sun watching the birds ride the updrafts, having a beer and sharing his stories about all the years he spent flying airplanes. “Those little things, and his garden, which really was his realm,” says Grant’s daughter, Trina Grant, of her father’s many favorite pastimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant was 95 at the time of his death in the Tubbs Fire. He and his wife, who also died in the blaze, fled to the wine cellar of their hilltop Santa Rosa home to escape the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is survived by daughters Tasman Grant of San Francisco and Trina Grant of Denver, as well as his granddaughter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Arthur Tasman and Suiko Grant\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627316\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/The-Grants-e1509494914613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"123\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11627316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/The-Grants-e1509494914613.jpg 217w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/The-Grants-e1509494914613-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina, Suiko and Arthur Grant at Trina and Arthur's home in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Trina Grant)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grant grew up in Point Arena on a dairy farm. He had 12 siblings. He joined the Navy during World War II, where he trained as a fighter pilot. After retiring from the military, he worked for Pan Am for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trina Grant remembers her father’s innate kindness. “He would do anything to help somebody out,” Trina Grant says.” In addition to being an accomplished aviator, Trina Grant said, her father was an extraordinary artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cooking wasn’t among his many skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trina Grant fondly remembered the time she was home from college, grievously sick, at age 18. This was before cellphones. Her mom was away, and she needed her father’s help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me two hours to drag myself along the floor from the bed to the phone, whereupon I finally called him,” Trina Grant said. “He leapt into action, bringing me microwaved mushroom soup that was barely lukewarm and not particularly appetizing. But he came and brought it to me with such good intention, that despite how horrid the soup was, at that moment, it was the best meal I’d ever had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family asks that donations be made to veterans support organizations or to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcaring.com/arthursuikotrinagrant-979411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur and Suiko Grant Memorial Fund\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp> \u003ca id=\"halbur\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Donna and Leroy Halbur Were Always Prepared for an Extra Guest\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634271\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Halbur2-1020x680-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna and LeRoy Halbur, Aug. 4, 2017. \u003ccite>(Michelle Halbur)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Donna Mae Kearney was born Aug. 10, 1937, in Iowa City, Iowa. Four days later, LeRoy Halbur came into the world in Roselle, almost due east and 200 miles across the state. They died together, Oct. 9, at their home in the Larkfield area of Santa Rosa, at the age of 80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between, they married, had careers, two sons and two grandchildren. Over the years they welcomed many people into their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They first met in Iowa, after Leroy was out of the Army and Donna had graduated from college, which she had left a Catholic religious order to attend. They married on Aug. 12, 1967. Some 40 years ago, they moved into the hillside house on Angela Drive, next to a vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Donna and Leroy Halbur\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>LeRoy was a CPA and worked for over 30 years at the real estate company Codding Enterprises, becoming a vice president. Donna, with her degree in education, worked as a substitute teacher in elementary schools and later as a reading specialist. He was the serious financial guy, she the creative free spirit, says their son, Tim Halbur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were both Depression-era kids,” he says. “So they always had a full pantry and full freezer and were ready to feed people.” LeRoy, too, had Catholic roots, and he practiced rather than preached a life of service. Three nights a week, he delivered food to the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple loved to travel and once a year took the family on a big trip -- Mongolia, the Nile, China. At home, they played pinochle. That was the family game. “Every time we got together, it was the rhythm of our house,” says Halbur. “Eat a meal, clear the table, play some games.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Donna and LeRoy celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, and for the occasion Tim created a video tribute, in which you can see snapshots of their life together. The song is Glenn Miller’s“ Moonlight Serenade.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i1VRk8JTd-0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i1VRk8JTd-0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>They are survived by their two sons, Tim and David Halbur; their daughters-in-law, Michelle Halbur and Amy Heibel; their grandsons, Travion Jackson and Rowan Halbur; and siblings, Jolene, Linda, Ken, Duane and Glen Halbur; and Cecil, Paul and Marcella Kearney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"hannah\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Roseann Hannah, Cascade Fire Victim, 'Prided Herself on Being a Great Mom'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11636684\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut.jpg 171w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28510_Roseann-qut-160x187.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\">\u003c/a>Roseann Hannah died in Yuba County's Cascade Fire on Oct. 9. She and her fiance, Stanley Coolidge, loved adventuring together. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Engaged-couple-who-loved-motorcycle-rides-die-12312065.php#next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, they would ride Coolidge's motorcycle from his home in the community of Loma Rica up the coast to Oregon or to the beach in Mendocino County, where Hannah enjoyed spending time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper tribute said Hannah was visiting \u003ca href=\"#coolidge\">Coolidge\u003c/a> in Loma Rica when they both died in the Cascade Fire. She was 53 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hannah lived in Grass Valley with her 26-year-old twin sons, Jeffrey and Jordan Hannah. Her \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=187076628\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obituary\u003c/a> said she was a loving mother and friend who \"loved her boys and doing things with them and for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her two sons, Hannah is survived by a grandson, Aleczander Hannah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"hanson\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Christina Hanson Shared Her Smile with Santa Rosa\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/brittney-frankie-846-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Hanson of Santa Rosa was known as the life of every party. Here she is on the dance floor enjoying a family wedding with her father, Michael Hanson, left, and cousin, Shane Riordan, right. Christina Hanson died in the Tubbs Fire on Oct. 9, a month shy of her 28th birthday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Hanson of Santa Rosa was known as the life of every party. Here she is on the dance floor enjoying a family wedding with her father, Michael Hanson, left, and cousin, Shane Riordan, right, Christina Hanson died in the Tubbs Fire on Oct. 9, a month shy of her 28th birthday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christina Hanson shared one thing with everyone — her smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your smile was infectious,\" wrote Santa Rosa resident Meg Barry in one of many \u003ca href=\"http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/ChristinaHanson/homepage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tributes\u003c/a> posted online for the 27-year-old Hanson. \"You made my babies laugh, and we relaxed in the sunshine sharing jokes with one another. It was one of those moments where I felt like we’d known each other for a long time even though we’d just met.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Christina Hanson\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Hanson was well known in her community and was close with her spiritual family at Spring Hills Community Church in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson died Oct. 9 at her home on Wikiup Bridge Way in Santa Rosa, a month shy of her 28th birthday. Hanson's apartment in the Mark West Springs neighborhood was overrrun by the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days she was listed among the missing as her family and friends circulated photos asking for help in locating her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was a much loved volunteer at Primrose, a local adult assisted living center specializing in memory care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had a connection with seniors her whole life,\" said her cousin, Brittney Vinculado. \"Maybe it was because of her own mobility issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson was born with \u003ca href=\"http://spinabifidaassociation.org/what-is-sb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spina bifida\u003c/a>, a spinal condition that affected her mobility and caused her to spend a lot of time in the hospital as a child. She was also very close to her grandmother, Vera Hanson, who passed away earlier this year, and Vinculado said talking and enjoying time with elders came naturally to Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Michael Hanson, lived in a separate apartment on the property. He was badly burned in the fire and his family believes he was trying to rescue his daughter when he was overcome by smoke and collapsed outside. He \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/The-fight-after-the-fires-Loved-ones-keep-vigil-12332531.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is still recovering\u003c/a> from his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire came down the road and it was in the middle of the night, so people were sleeping and unaware and no evacuations had started. And they were one of the first neighborhoods hit,\" said Vinculado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629026\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11629026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_5174-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Hanson, 27, of Santa Rosa always had a smile to share with friends and family. She was especially close with her grandfather, Richard Hanson, left, and father Michael Hanson, right.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanson was very fond of animals and for many years was seen with her guide dog, Zulu, at the side of the wheelchair she used to help her move around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently she adopted Joey, a terrier mix. The dog managed to make it out of the fire with minor burns on his paws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school Hanson enjoyed playing basketball on an adaptive sports team. She was known for her love of singing, especially anything by Celine Dion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She had a great sense of humor and a very positive attitude,\" Vinculado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson was a talented craftswoman, especially with intricate work involving her hands. She loved making beaded jewelry to give as gifts for friends and family. She also learned American Sign Language, and her family says she was very good at interpreting for people with hearing impairments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the online tribute page, Christine O'Neil Frazier wrote: Your wit and wisdom touched everyone. You taught us all how to be better people. The world needed your love and kindness, but heaven needed you more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Hanson is survived by her father, Michael Hanson of Santa Rosa; her stepmother, Jennifer Watson of Santa Rosa; a grandfather, Richard Hanson of Oakley; and a grandmother, Rose Diaz of Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family suggests donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children.\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"hung\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>At 101 Years Old, Tak-Fu Hung Could Still Command a Room\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Tak-Fu Hung was a remarkable man. He would have turned 102 on Nov. 25, but instead, his family held his funeral on that day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung died in his Fountaingrove home, on the eastern side of Santa Rosa, a victim of the Tubbs Fire. According to accounts by his family (in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7649296-181/101-year-old-santa-rosa-man-now?artslide=0&sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003c/a>, he couldn’t get out of his house fast enough as the flames approached. He told his wife of 46 years to flee, and he perished in the fire. She sustained burns but survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1915, Hung held the rank of general with the Chinese Nationalist army defeated by Chinese Communist forces after World War II. Hung fled to Hong Kong and then Taiwan, where he worked as a civil engineer, before moving to the Bay Area, according to his family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They described him to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7649296-181/101-year-old-santa-rosa-man-now?artslide=0&sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a> as a man who loved his children and grandchildren and “was really good at commanding a room.” He only recently began using a cane to walk, and “liked a party” according to his daughter, Anne O’Hara. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is survived by his wife, six children, 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"kirven\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Monte Kirven Helped Save the Peregrine Falcon\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_10561-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Monte Kirven holding a peregrine falcon. Kirven was a lifelong falconer and lover of the outdoors. He died in the Tubbs Fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627460\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monte Kirven holding a peregrine falcon. Kirven was a life-long falconer and lover of the outdoors. He died in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sitting around a dinner table with Monte Kirven meant an evening of entertaining tales. Maybe he’d talk about the time he scaled cliffs to reach peregrine falcon nests in his efforts to conserve the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or he’d talk about the trips he led to Baja California in Mexico to see gray whales -- including the time he had to patch a car tire using a lighter, tequila and a tooth from a plastic comb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes he’d talk about his time in the military, or the birding trips he led to Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Monte Kirven\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Whatever his tale, whatever his task, Kirven approached all things with passion and intensity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirven died in his home in the Mark Springs West neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 9, when the Tubbs Fire consumed his house. He was 81.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirven’s love for nature began during his childhood in rural Indiana, where he spent much of his time outdoors. He fished and hunted from a young age. He later turned these passions into his academic focus: He majored in biology at the University of Mississippi, got a master's degree focusing on Caspian and elegant terns at San Diego State University, and later got a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1961, he married Valerie Quate and they had three children, raising them mostly in San Diego. His daughter, Kathleen Groppe, recalls a childhood full of adventure. She says her father always spearheaded wildlife rescue projects -- and used their house as a base camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers injured ducks, falcons and other birds. Sometimes the animals would be in the backyard, other times they’d take up residence in the bathtub. The goal was to release them back to the wild, but if that couldn’t happen, Kirven would pass the healed animals off to the San Diego Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groppe remembers his passion for falcons especially. He worked with them tirelessly and always had one or two of the birds. These experiences sparked Groppe’s own academic pursuits in ecology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_6253-e1509576539433-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627504\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monte Kirven with his children and former wife at daughter Kathleen Groppe's 1992 wedding. From left to right: Brian Kirven, Valerie Quate, Kathleen Groppe, Monte Kirven, and Kenneth Kirven.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Notably, Kirven was part of a team of scientists who helped show that the use of insecticide DDT led to the thinning of peregrine falcon eggshells. DDT was subsequently banned in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, in 1978, there were only 19 known pairs of these falcons in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirven’s former employer, the Bureau of Land Management, quotes him saying: “Humans brought these birds to near extinction, and we have a moral obligation to bring them back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To rebuild the population, Kirven and colleagues would take peregrine falcon eggs from nests, and replace them with porcelain fakes. The real eggs were hatched at UC Santa Cruz, and then cautiously returned to their home nests and mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessing these nests often required scaling steep cliffs, which Kirven did enthusiastically. Through these efforts, the American peregrine falcon was removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the years, Kirven became increasingly passionate about environmental conservation and efforts to curb climate change. He funneled this energy into teaching undergraduates at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s ironic, his daughter Kathleen Groppe notes, that something he worked to combat -- climate change -- could have contributed to his demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Monte-800x1226.jpeg\" alt=\"Monte Kirven displays the trout he caught at the White Tail Ranch in Montana.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monte Kirven displays the trout he caught at the White Tail Ranch in Montana.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond nature, Kirven had an extraordinary love of people. He’d host dinners after returning from fishing or hunting to share his goods. The evening before his death, he threw a celebratory party for friends and workers who had just finished construction of his new roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made them steaks and turkey with stuffing, and he opened a fancy bottle of wine to share. He went to sleep that night content, having lived another day to its fullest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monte Kirven is survived by daughter Kathleen Groppe of Lancaster, Texas; sons Kenneth Kirven of San Diego and Brian Kirven of Point Reyes Station; sister Marcia Gray of Helena, Montana; ex-wife Valerie Quate of Poway (San Diego County); and grandchildren Patrick Kirven, Caroline Groppe, Andy Arredondo and Chinzia Pinnamonti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"lewis\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sally Lewis, a Napa Native With a Pioneer Spirit, and Her Caregiver, Teresa Santos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A native of the Napa Valley, Sally Lewis died on Oct. 8, when a fire engulfed her Soda Canyon home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis lived with a pioneer spirit that fit her surroundings. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/families-and-friends-of-napa-s-fire-victims-remember-the/article_2ebb83a4-9bfb-59e9-80d4-e3132bc57cfb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>, she was an active fisher and hunter. Lewis raised two daughters by herself after the sudden death of her husband. She took over his school bus business and became one of just two female auto dealers in California at the time, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis is survived by two daughters, Windermere Tirados and Dixie Lewis. Tirados told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-fire-takes-Sally-Lewis-90-12282443.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> that her mother was “a down-to-earth person who loved everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle reports that the Soda Canyon Road home where Lewis died at the age of 90 was constructed by her grandparents in 1920 and had been her home for most of her life. In the last year of her life, Lewis received in-home care from Teresa Santos, a native of the Philippines who lived in Fairfield. She also died in the fire at the age of 50 years old. Her family told the Chronicle they wanted privacy to grieve and little was reported about her life and work, but Tirados called her a \"fantastic\" woman who took good care of her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"mccombs\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Family Mourns the Loss of Veronica McCombs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636875\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 123px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11636875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28559_veronica-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"180\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica McCombs died in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Veronica McCombs was the oldest of six children, and her siblings say that her imprint on them \"will live on forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Veronica-McCombs-67-died-in-Tubbs-Fire-12280409.php#photo-14354955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported that McCombs died in her home on Oct. 9 during the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. She was 67 years old. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=187196889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituary\u003c/a>, her siblings write that \"throughout her life, Veronica was always there to listen and help her family, siblings, and others who needed the wisdom and care that she gave unconditionally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCombs' family is mourning the loss of what her son, Brandon McCombs, calls the family's \"foundation\" (according to his statement to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Veronica-McCombs-67-died-in-Tubbs-Fire-12280409.php#photo-14354955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chronicle\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She devoted her life to the love and care of our family and her community,\" Brandon McCombs wrote. \"As a family we are grieving deeply and she will be missed forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"mcreynolds\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Carmen Colleen McReynolds: 'Gutsy and Self-Reliant'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638311\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/22489832_1425225550925577_6703254919008924703_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Colleen McReynolds \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jonathan Gabriel Coke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Carmen Colleen McReynolds was born on Jan. 30, 1935, her father, Joseph McKinley, wasn't present. He had to be quarantined after contracting tuberculosis. He wouldn't meet Carmen until she was 9 months old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My grandfather is an important part of my aunt's story,\" says Gabriel Coke, McReynolds' nephew. It was her father, according to Coke, who inspired McReynolds to become a doctor. \"My grandfather became a doctor after his own mother died of tuberculosis, and my Aunt Carmen went on to be a doctor because of my grandfather. She looked up to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McReynolds graduated from medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver. She worked as an internist for Kaiser until 1995, when she retired and moved to the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Carmen Colleen McReynolds\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>\"She was very gutsy and self-reliant,\" remembered Coke. \"She liked to have friends that were also independent. She loved to play the guitar and the piano. She was a big Hank Williams fan, she knew how to shoot a rifle, and she rode a motorcycle until she was in her 70s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McReynolds, 82, was so tough that her family held out hope that, even with her failing health, maybe she had escaped the Tubbs Fire that swept her neighborhood and destroyed her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nearly a week after the fire, a search team found McReynolds' remains in her garage, inside her 1973 Mercedes convertible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coke said his aunt was a trailblazer and a dignified woman who valued her independence. She was married for seven years in the 1960s, he said, but later divorced. McReynolds cared a lot for her family, and although he didn't see her often in later years, Coke said she was always a strong presence in their lives. \"She came to my wedding in France,\" Coke said. \"That meant a lot to me because she was very frugal. She spent money on experiences, she wasn't frivolous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After McReynolds' death. Coke learned that she was deeply committed to charities like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.earlebaum.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earle Baum Center\u003c/a> for the blind. \"There's still so much I'm learning about her extraordinary life.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"paiz\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Firefighting 'Was His Passion': Garrett Angel Paiz\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Angel Paiz, a volunteer firefighter from Noel, Missouri, was killed on Oct. 16, 2017, when his water truck crashed in Napa County as he helped fight the Northern California fires.\" width=\"720\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-240x209.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-375x327.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz3-e1510697723437-520x454.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Angel Paiz, a volunteer firefighter from Noel, Missouri, was killed on Oct. 16 when his water truck crashed in Napa County as he helped fight the Northern California fires. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the time he was a boy, there were two things Garrett Angel Paiz wanted to be when he grew up: a cowboy and a firefighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his death on Oct. 16, while helping to battle the Northern California fires in Napa County, Paiz, 38, had fulfilled those dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A cowboy he became by working several ranches across the United States, herding cattle, branding and roping,\" said his big sister, Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz of Palm Springs. \"Anything a cowboy did, Garrett did. He was also a trail supervisor in Mammoth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Garrett Angel Paiz\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Paiz served as a volunteer firefighter in Noel, Missouri, too, and was assisting with fires in Washington state when he was called to help fight the Northern California blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627396\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Angel Paiz traveled throughout the country helping to fight wildfires. \" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz2-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Angel Paiz traveled throughout the country helping to fight wildfires. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He loved to help and did whatever was needed,\" his sister said. \"Firefighting was not a job. It was his passion. Serving others was his passion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early on Oct. 16, Paiz was driving a tanker truck designed to bring water to the scene of the fire when the rig crashed on the Oakville Grade in Napa County. His truck went down an embankment, turning over and landing on its roof. Authorities aren't certain what caused the accident but say fatigue might have been a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz was born in Indio, California, and raised in the town of Mecca. He came from a large family that loved to spend time together and play pranks on one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will always remember my baby brother as the funny kid who was always up to something,\" said Cinthia Paiz. \"You just never knew what he would get into next.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz graduated from Coachella Valley High School and studied agriculture at College of the Desert in Palm Desert. He came from a long line of men and women who served as first responders and in the armed forces, said his brother, Carlos Paiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627395 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-1020x1388.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Angel Paiz fulfilled his dream of being cowboy at a young age.\" width=\"640\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-1020x1388.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-160x218.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-800x1088.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-1180x1605.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-960x1306.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-240x327.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-375x510.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717-520x707.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Paiz1-e1510955224717.jpg 1811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrett Angel Paiz fulfilled his dream of being cowboy at a young age. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cinthia Ann-Marie Paiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that helping others is paramount in life. Standing up for others is just what you do,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz is survived by his wife, Bobbie Paiz of Noel, Missouri; parents, Judi and Armando Paiz of Coachella; sister, Cinthia Paiz; brother, Carlos Paiz of Coachella; and a daughter, Terri Ann Paiz of Tehachapi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Paiz said there were three things he wanted people to do to honor his brother: \"Love your family, follow your dreams and serve your community.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"picciano\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sandra Picciano, Cascade Fire Victim, Loved Animals and Always Helped Her Neighbors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those who lived near Sandra Picciano in the Yuba County hamlet of Loma Rica remember her as a compassionate woman who always lent a helping hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She helped out with neighbors, taking them to doctor appointments and checking on them when they were sick,\" said Nadine Webb, Picciano's neighbor of 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Neighborly-woman-dies-in-Cascade-Fire-trying-to-12335627.php#photo-14357930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Picciano was 77 years old and had no living relatives. She did have several horses, which she cared for through their old age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Cascade Fire started to blaze, Picciano was quick to leave her home. Authorities said she was killed when she crashed into a tree along the road. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Loma Rica neighbor, John Billingsley, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article178046466.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> that the smoke from the fire that night was so thick \"you could just see a little bit in front of your hood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"powell\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lynne Anderson Powell Thrived on Music, Quilting and Her Dogs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/20861810_111117646276007_5886828533173973108_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/20861810_111117646276007_5886828533173973108_o-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11633685\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne Anderson Powell woke up every morning at 5 a.m, no matter what. Her border collies, four of them total, needed to go hiking. So she and her husband, George, would take them for a walk in the hills of northeast Santa Rosa, near their home on Blue Ridge Trail, right up to the day before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne and George were married for 33 years. They met at a holiday party thrown by someone at El Camino Community College in Southern California, where her mother, artist Jean Jenkins, taught. George was a staff photographer there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Lynne Anderson Powell\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>George said they had an instant connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just incredible,” he said. They married just weeks after meeting, over Presidents Day weekend in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne played the flute throughout her life, starting at age 7. She majored in flute performance and music education at Carnegie Tech (later renamed Carnegie Mellon) in Pittsburgh. She was a roommate with lifelong friend Joan Sextro, and they took part in each other’s weddings. Sextro said she always admired Lynne’s strength, honesty and kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lynne was a very upfront person,” said Sextro. “You know where you stand with her, yet she was a very kind, warm person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she and George met and fell in love, Lynne was first chair flute in the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. George joined her in Albuquerque so that she could continue to play. After 17 years in the symphony, Lynne began working an office job at Sandia National Laboratories, also in Albuquerque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple retired to Eugene, Oregon, but soon moved to Northern California to be closer to Lynne’s aging parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne was devoted to her dogs and trained them for agility trials. She was also an avid quilter, a hobby well-suited to her meticulous and intelligent nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was the most brilliant person on the planet — there was nothing she couldn’t figure out,” said George.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past year and a half, Lynne had been undergoing intensive treatment for salivary gland cancer. Even though the chemotherapy and radiation took a heavy toll, George remembers her strong determination in the face of discomfort. “She was my rock. She took care of me, no matter how much pain she was in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sextro said Lynne was just beginning to get back to normal life, after her cancer treatments, making her death “a double sadness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the fire, the couple woke to smoke and the red glow of the Tubbs Fire sweeping toward their house. George told Lynne to leave with her dog, who slept next to her. He would follow in another car with his three dogs. They planned an escape route, but Lynne did not make it to their meeting place. Apparently blinded by smoke and flames, she drove off the road and crashed down a ravine. Her car and body, along with the body of her dog, were found days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he had known Lynne was down in the ravine, George would have tried to find her and would have been satisfied to die next to her, he said. The fire destroyed their home, her quilting studio and George’s photography collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George said he’d like people to know “how loving and kind she was.” When a new person moved into the neighborhood, he said, “she’d be the first person to welcome them and ask what she could do for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynne was 72 when she died. George remembers her as being the best spouse he could have hoped for. “She’s still with me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"ress\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Box of Chocolates and an Infectious Smile: The Big Heart of Marilyn Ress\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once a week, Marilyn Ress would board a city bus from her home at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park and ride 35 minutes to the Montgomery Village Shopping Center on the east side of Santa Rosa. From there, Ress would walk into See’s Candies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would easily buy $100 worth of peanut brittle, chocolate and gift cards,” said manager Susan Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the gift cards and candies were not for herself. Ress bought them as gifts for others. One box of chocolates would go to the bus drivers who took her around town. One would go to her doctor’s office. Another would end up with a neighbor who was having a bad day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would even give chocolates to the landscapers,” said her best friend, Cynthia Conners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress died in the Tubbs Fire. She was 71.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Marilyn Ress\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Conners said Ress was the epitome of selflessness. “I never saw her do anything for herself, not even go to the salon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress was known to pay for strangers' groceries and cups of coffee. Once, on a trip to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco with Conners, Ress paid for several drivers’ tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She handed the toll booth clerk a $50 bill and said, 'Pay for all the cars behind us that this covers,' ” Conners said. “She lived and breathed ‘pay it forward.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conners and Ress met in the late 1970s, when they both worked at Santa Rosa’s Creekside Hospital. Ress was a certified nursing assistant and Conners was the activities director. Conners said Ress had a goofy sense of humor and an infectious smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress grew up in the Sonoma County town of Penngrove and attended Petaluma High School. She led a simple life with her two cats at Journey’s End. Conners would sometimes take her on rides through the Sonoma County countryside or to the coast. They would go to Fosters Freeze, where Ress would order her favorite meal: a chili cheeseburger, fries and a vanilla malt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress spent holidays with Conners. A more recent tradition involved hours of holiday cooking in Conners’ small apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’d get a list of people that had nowhere to go on Thanksgiving and then show up at my house and tell me I was cooking dinner,” Conners said. “I didn’t have a choice. I had to make fresh cranberries, stuffing, turkey, I mean the whole nine yards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ress would then deliver foil-wrapped meals, two plates at a time, to her neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conners and Ress talked over the phone at least once a week. So when she didn’t hear from Ress the week of the fires, she knew something was wrong. But Conners believes Ress is at peace now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just have a funny feeling that she would be happy in heaven,” Conners said. “I can just see her smiling and dancing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"rippey\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Together All the Time': Sara and Charles Rippey\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11637438\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-160x143.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-800x717.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-1020x914.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-1180x1057.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-960x860.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-240x215.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-375x336.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Sara-and-Charles-Rippey-520x466.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara and Charles Rippey in 1946. \u003ccite>(submitted photo via Napa Valley Register)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Charles Rippey -- nicknamed “Peach” as a child for his fuzzy cheeks -- and his wife, Sara Rippey, celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in March. Four months later, Charles celebrated his 100th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just three months after that, he died, apparently trying to reach his wife as flames engulfed their home in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father certainly wouldn’t have left her,” his son, Mike Rippey, told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Sara and Charles Rippey\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Charles Rippey grew up in Hartford, Wisconsin, where he met Sara in grade school. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/families-and-friends-of-napa-s-fire-victims-remember-the/article_2ebb83a4-9bfb-59e9-80d4-e3132bc57cfb.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napa Valley Register\u003c/a>, the two attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, together. Charles graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Register reported the couple married in 1942, just before Charles joined the Army for World War II service in North Africa, France, Italy and Germany. After the war, Charles and Sara Rippey had three daughters and two sons, and Charles went on to work for the Firestone tire company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rippey spent 30 years with Firestone, the Register reports, leading three different divisions and working in Sweden, Argentina and across the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, when most of their adult children moved to California, the elder Rippeys followed, with Charles going to work with Southern California's Norris Industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rippeys' children say their parents delighted in each other's company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Sunday night they went dancing,” Mike Rippey told the Register. “They loved to do stuff together; they’d always come home laughing and giggling. Neither ever vacationed alone or went anywhere alone. They were together all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That remained true until their final moments, when Charles apparently tried to reach Sara, who had been partially paralyzed since suffering a stroke in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with the AP, Mike Rippey said his brother discovered their parents’ bodies in the remains of their home in Napa. His father, Rippey said, appeared to be heading to his mother’s room when he was overcome by smoke and flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’d survived and she was gone, he would be the most miserable person alive,” Mike Rippey said in an interview with the Register. “If you had asked them if they wanted to go out together, they would have said yes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"robinson\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Loving Mom, Generous Artist: Sharon Robinson\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627679\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 525px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627679\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22448120_10210923817400136_3298257612672619342_n-2-e1510879015873.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Rae Robinson, 79, of Santa Rosa.\" width=\"525\" height=\"538\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Rae Robinson, 79, of Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cathie Merkel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharon Robinson, a 79-year-old artist and antiques collector, died in when the Tubbs Fire engulfed her Santa Rosa neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath of the fires, Robinson's daughter, Cathie Merkel, searched for her mom. She posted recent photos of her on Facebook, along with a photo of the lot where Robinson's home had been reduced to ashes. Robinson’s car remained in what was left of the garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After days of searching, Merkel posted a message on her \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cathie.merkel?fref=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a> to let loved ones know Robinson had not survived:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“To my dear friends, thank you all for your efforts in trying to find my mom. We received the news today that she did not make it out of her home the night of the fire. During the next few days I won’t be returning any messages as we deal with the effects of this tragedy. We know she found peace in her passing. Thank you for understanding, stay safe.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nothing was left but the car and ashes after the Tubbs Fire engulfed Sharon Robinson's home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/22339056_10210918337023130_7427437482030700905_o.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nothing was left but the car and ashes after the Tubbs Fire engulfed Sharon Robinson's home. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cathie Merkel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Merkel told \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/11/hundreds-missing-in-wine-country-fires-here-are-some-of-their-stories/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> that she visited her mother shortly before the fire with her daughter, who suffers from terminal brain cancer. “It was a very happy visit, very friendly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was really a warm and lovely woman, absolutely,” Jeri Sprague, a former neighbor of Robinson who knew her for decades, told the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-wildfires-Sharon-Robinson-79-named-12280042.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"rogers\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lee Chadwick Rogers, 72\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lee Chadwick Rogers, 72, died in her Sonoma County home on Cavedale Road as the Nuns Fire burned near the town of Glen Ellen. She lived east of Highway 12 near Mountain Terraces Winery and Vineyard. \u003ca id=\"schwartz\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Marnie Schwartz Devoted Herself to Activism and Teaching\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11636960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11636960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Marnie.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marnie Schwartz passed away in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marjorie Schwartz was her real name, but everyone called her Marnie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And everyone remembers that she called them \"sweetie.\" Denise Harrison, a friend of Schwartz, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Marjorie-Schwartz-teacher-killed-in-Tubbs-Fire-12367366.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, \"I don't ever remember her calling me 'Denise.' I remember her calling me 'sweetie.' I can hear it in my head now: 'Hi, sweetie.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Marjorie Schwartz\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Schwartz, 68, died in the Tubbs Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz' spirit will live on in the memories of those she taught, which spanned students in Walnut Creek, San Rafael, Santa Rosa and English-language learners, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7578851-181/family-former-santa-rosa-teacher?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was also active in her religious community, serving as president of the Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa at one point, according to the Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rabbi George Gittleman told the paper that Schwartz loved to study and discuss Jewish texts of all kinds, and she was very literate, well-read and well-educated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"shepherd\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Touch Football and a Middle School Crush: After the Fire, 8th-Graders Remember Classmate Kai Shepherd\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"Kai Logan Shepherd, 14, was the youngest person to die in the Northern California Wildfires in October.\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-1180x954.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-960x777.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-240x194.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-375x303.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/KaiMain-520x421.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kai Logan Shepherd, 14, was the youngest person to die in the October wildfires. But in the weeks after the tragedy, he was still a presence among his classmates at Redwood Valley's Eagle Peak Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eagle Peak's Spirit Week, which features a different dress-up theme every day, was delayed by three weeks after the fire that devastated the Mendocino County community and killed nine people, including Kai's 17-year-old sister, \u003ca href=\"#kressa\">Kressa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eagle Peak Principal Dan Stearns, shuffling down a school hallway on wear-your-pajamas-to-school day in slippers and a plaid bathrobe, says he remembers Kai as a kid \"constantly running from group to group, interacting, laughing, joking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Kai Shepherd\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Stearns stops at a classroom on the second floor where a group of eighth-grade students are hunched over their laptops, scrolling through photos: Kai at the beach, Kai playing baseball, Kai goofing around with his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School was closed for a week after the fire, but the first day back, students asked their digital media teacher if they could make a dedication page for Kai in the yearbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been working nonstop on it since then,\" says Elizabeth DeVinny, who taught Kai in her honors English class last year. \"They've been gathering photos and even asking if they could have extra space, because they have so much that their classmates want to say and their teachers want to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3030-e1510177623777.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3030-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janeane Higdon (left) and Joshua Harding work on the yearbook dedication page for Kai. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kai loved sports. One of his best friends, Brenton Wheeler, took a video of Kai competing in a wrestling match last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After he was done wrestling ... he kinda ... he smiled. Even though he lost, he smiled, and, kept his chin up,\" Brenton remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning or losing, he always walked off the mat with a smile, says Shane Stearns, another of Kai's friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three boys played touch football every morning on the blacktop at school, he says. Kai was the quarterback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He would get frustrated easily, but ...,\" Brenton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He'd always be laughing when he was arguing, though,\" Shane finishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629205\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Brenton-and-Shane-e1510177341493.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Brenton-and-Shane-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Stearns, foreground, and Brenton Wheeler, friends of Kai's, edit photos of Kai they plan to use in the yearbook. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kai had other dimensions, and Janeane Higdon, 13, wants to show the side of him that she knew in the yearbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the outside, I know he was very athletic. But on Instagram, he’d just act like a totally different person. He would talk about nerd stuff like Magic and video games,\" she says. \"Deep down inside, I think he was a nerd.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, students put together an altar for Kai. It has a baseball and football on it. And a box of Kai's favorite cereal: Golden Grahams. Janeane draped a special necklace over the box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11629206\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3051-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Eagle Peak Middle School built an altar in Kai's memory for Day of the Dead. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We had matching shark-tooth necklaces from Six Flags,\" she says, the kind that are sold in pairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janeane kept one, and gave the other one to Kai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had a crush on Kai last year,\" she says. \"So I brought him back a necklace. And he wore it, I think, twice. And then he put it on his shelf, I’m pretty sure he told me. So I had one of his best friends deliver it to him, 'cause I was kind of scared to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started messaging over Instagram. Janeane wrote poems about him in her honors English class, including an ode to Kai’s blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Because your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey make me get butterflies.\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\naround you they make me feel shy.\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey make me feel high.\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey make me love the plain dull sky\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthoughts of you preoccupy my mind\u003cbr>\nBecause your eyes are as blue as the sky,\u003cbr>\nthey’re prettier than a dragon’s eye….\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629207\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_3041-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janeane Higdon looks at a selfie she took during Spirit Week last year. She is in the front with red hair. Kai is in the back row on the left. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janeane gave a couple of her poems to Kai, and he told her he liked them because they reminded him of rap music. She was never really sure, though, what Kai thought about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brenton and Shane did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember Kai kinda liked Janeane, too, at one point,\" Shane says. \"I remember him talking about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kai would say, 'It's kinda nice knowing that Janeane likes me,' \" Brenton says. \"And how he kinda liked her back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janeane didn’t know this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It kinda makes me sad now. Because we could have gotten closer,\" she says. \"And now that he's dead, I know that we won't be able to replay that.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"kressa\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ukiah High School Students Mourn the Death of Kressa Shepherd and Celebrate Homecoming in the Same Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-self-portrait-e1510283178339.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-self-portrait-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629956\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa Shepherd took this self-portrait in a photography class at Ukiah High School. \u003ccite>(Kressa Shepherd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Homecoming is not a day at Ukiah High School; it's a weeklong series of events. After a wildfire tore through Redwood Valley in October, the school district postponed the football game and festivities to give the town some time to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks later, the night before the rescheduled events were about to start, high school junior Kressa Shepherd died in the hospital. She was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mood is definitely complicated and complex,” said Gordon Oslund, the school principal, as he watched students milling in the courtyard. “It’s people trying to figure out, how do you deal with a community tragedy and then carry on and have a community celebration all at the same time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kressa and her parents were found in the road near their home the night of the fire and flown to hospitals for treatment of severe burns. Kressa’s \u003ca href=\"#shepherd\">younger brother, Kai,\u003c/a> 14, died before help arrived. Both of Kressa’s legs were amputated in the hospital, and she suffered cardiac arrest and multiple infections before she also died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Kressa Shepherd\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>On the morning of the big football game, Nov. 3, students packed the bleachers in the gym for a homecoming rally, one of several held throughout the week. The juniors wore all shades of pink, their class color. Hanging on the wall above them, gold balloons shimmered in the fluorescent light, spelling out K-R-E-S-S-A and K-A-I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629957\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Ukiah-Homecoming-Rally-e1510283499991-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juniors cheer at a homecoming rally at Ukiah High School. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For some of Kressa’s friends, the ones who made it to school that week, the whole scene was just weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just like, ‘Wow, like how can you be happy right now?’ ” said Sasha Wilkins, a sophomore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class period right before, she had been to a grief circle for Kressa’s friends and classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was weird being in a group of everyone having such strong emotions, of being sad and down. And then going to another group of people who's so excited and so happy,” Wilkins said. “But then I realized not everyone's thinking about that all the time, but that's OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Ukiah high, Kressa went to a Waldorf school. From fourth grade through eighth, she was in the same class with the same teacher and the same 23 kids. The high school counselors gathered them, and the class of sophomores below hers, to talk and share memories of Kressa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkins remembered feeling intimidated last year about becoming a sophomore. She was confiding in her friends about it when Kressa walked by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She overheard that and came up to me later and we just sat down and talked about it, and she comforted me,” she said. “She was like, ‘Yeah I was really nervous as well, but it's going to be OK and it's not as hard as you think it is.’ It was a wonderful moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629958\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Voltaire-person-of-the-year-e1510283675349.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Voltaire-person-of-the-year-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629958\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa turned in this homework assignment to her history teacher last year. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kressa’s teachers embodied the mixed emotions of the week. Some cried openly in front of their classrooms, then dressed up days later in purple and gold for homecoming. Across the board, they remember Kressa as a star student who kept a 4.0 GPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s the rock in the classroom,” said Meagan Davis, her English teacher. “To have at least one student in the class be there for you. You look up and you see them fully enveloped in what you're teaching – she was that student in my class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A peacemaker, is how Liz Johnson, Kressa's U.S. history teacher, described her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had a lot of compassion for multiple points of view,” Johnson said. “She had a deeper understanding of the world around her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629959\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-drawing-e1510283824939.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-drawing-e1510283804287-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629959\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa was working on a series of illustrations when she died. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gordon Oslund)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And she was a natural-born artist, according to her art teacher, Rose Easterbrook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wanted to be an illustrator someday, and she truly could have done that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kressa had been working on a series of drawings of a young girl with blond hair frolicking in a meadow. She carried them everywhere with her. For her photography class, she took a similar picture of her cousin picking flowers, and photo-shopped fairy wings into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was her: innocent and sincere,” said Lech Slocinski, her photography teacher, as he hung a collection of Kressa’s black-and-white prints in the school lobby. “There was nothing fake about her. Everything was just real. And kind. And it shows in her pictures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11629960\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-cousin-e1510283977514.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Kressa-cousin-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11629960\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kressa took this picture of her cousin for her photography class in high school. \u003ccite>(Kressa Shepherd)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her work often portrayed a calm world, he said, removed from madness and conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the kind of scene the school tried to recreate in her memory the night of the homecoming game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This evening, we pay tribute to the lives of Ukiah High School junior, Kressa Shepherd, and her brother, Kai Logan Shepherd,” principal Gordon Oslund said to the crowd, asking them to join him in a moment of silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the marching band came on, before the football players took the field, and before screaming erupted in the stands, more than a thousand people stood up and went completely quiet.\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"southard\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Even at 71, Daniel Martin Southard Hadn't Lost His Love of Football\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11637203\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11637203\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut.jpg 458w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut-240x262.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28572_DanSouthard-qut-375x409.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Southard was 71 when he died in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy The Press Democrat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel Martin Southard, 71, one of those who died in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, was known for his love of football. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187361346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat\u003c/a>, when he graduated Southern California's Crescenta Valley High School in 1964, he received special awards in athletics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That love of sports athleticism and love of the sport never left him. The\u003ca href=\"http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?pid=187361346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Press Democrat \u003c/a>reports that he went on to become a personal trainer and eventually bought a Gold's Gym in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Southard's son Derek told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/11/hundreds-missing-in-wine-country-fires-here-are-some-of-their-stories/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News in San Jose\u003c/a> that his father \"was just a very loving guy. He was very sweet and very kind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"stelter\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Steve Stelter 'Would Find the Funny in It'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 693px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627298 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Dad-and-Janet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"539\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Stelter and Janet Costanzo were longtime partners and lived together in the Mendocino County community of Redwood Valley. Both died in the fire that swept the area early the morning of Oct. 9.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A photograph of Steve Stelter shows him wearing a shirt of \"Beavis and Butt-Head,\" who are themselves wearing \"Ren & Stimpy\" costumes. It helps to be familiar with the crude hilarity of these shows to better understand what Stelter’s daughter, Reeah Winkle, means when she says her dad was playful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But along with his love of irreverent, fart-joke humor was his witty, softer side, she said. “If there was a hard situation, he would find the funny in it,” said Winkle, who gave him the shirt as a birthday present. “You could laugh with him even when you were having a hard time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Steve Stelter\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Aunt-Shelia-Dad-Mac-and-Me.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Stelter (center) loved being a grandfather. He poses with daughter, Reeah Winkle, left, and sister, Shelia Garoni, right, while holding Winkle's son, Mac. Stelter died on Oct. 8 in Redwood Valley.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Winkle laughs thinking about memories she has of her dad: trips to the movies or the flea market or an amusement park. Winkle said that even though she didn’t live with her dad, he was very present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the kind of person that if you needed anything, he was there to help you any way he could,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stelter helped neighbors clear iced-over driveways on cold winter days. He helped family with plumbing problems or with cars that needed fixing (his specialty). He was a handyman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would be right over to fix it,” said Winkle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stelter drove trucks for a number of companies, but it was at Pacific Bell that he met his longtime partner, Janet Costanzo, who also died in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair lived on a large parcel where they’d take their dogs for walks and where Steve could shoot his guns and work on cars, Winkle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627301\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627301 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Dad-1-800x1065.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1065\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Steve Stelter poses for the camera.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Steve’s brother, Doug Stelter, eventually moved into a trailer on their property. The three of them would eat dinner together most nights: more meat and fewer vegetables, said Doug Stelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d all sit around and watch TV,\" he said. \"They liked '[American] Pickers.' \" And \"Deadliest Catch\" was also a favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve loved the holidays, too. Winkle remembers fireworks on the Fourth of July, trick-or-treating on Halloween and how her father loved being around family for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But more than anything, he loved being a grandpa to his two grandchildren, Winkle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’d be down on the ground playing with them,” she said. “He was that kind of grandfather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Stelter, 56, is survived by his brother Doug, his daughter Reeah Winkle, and his grandchildren, Mac and Sunny Mortensen.\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"stephenson\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Margaret Stephenson Spread Joy With Huge Heart and Love of Parties\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11638786\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Stephenson-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Stephenson, left, celebrated her 86th birthday in March with friend Drew Wallace. (Courtesy of Mandi Hamilton)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Margaret Stephenson, 86, was a vibrant and tenacious British transplant to Mendocino County's Redwood Valley who lived alone on 2 rural acres, loved animals and never shied away from a good party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was very proud of her British heritage and a person that loved to celebrate festivities,” said Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, who received Halloween and Christmas cards from her every year. “I can’t imagine ever not having fun if Margaret was at an event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson was the last victim found after the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdetails>\n\u003csummary>\u003cstrong>Read more about Margaret Stephenson\u003c/strong>\u003c/summary>\n\u003cp>Stephenson moved to Mendocino County in the 1970s with her husband, Raymond, who took a job as a manager at Mendo Mill & Lumber Co.. She briefly worked as a schoolteacher but devoted most of her life to helping her husband and maintaining their land. The couple were married roughly 60 years. They had no children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She and her husband came over with nothing, essentially,” said Mandi Hamilton, who became Margaret’s insurance agent and close friend after her husband died in 2015. “They worked hard, joined clubs and became an integral part of community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She spoke so openly of her husband, Raymond, and how much she loved him,” Hamilton added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after she met Stephenson, Hamilton said, the two of them hit it off and began calling each other every morning. About six months before the fire, Stephenson was diagnosed with cancer, but was responding well to treatment and remained very independent. Last summer, Hamilton taught her how to drive her husband's truck, which she had previously refused to touch. And to boost her spirits, Hamilton also recently gave her a cat, which she instantly fell in love with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/details>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"thomas\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tamara Latrice Thomas, a San Francisco Native Who Perished in Assisted-Care Home\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tamara Latrice Thomas, 47, was a native of San Francisco who split her time between her hometown and a board-and-care facility in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, one of the areas ravaged by the Tubbs Fire early Oct. 9. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7593757-181/pge-sued-in-santa-rosa?artslide=1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported\u003c/a> Thomas, who was paralyzed, died after being unable to get out of her second-floor bedroom at the Crestview Court Residential Care Home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED was unable to reach Thomas's family members for comment, but the Press Democrat reported her brother is suing PG&E for wrongful death, alleging the utility failed to maintain power lines that could have sparked the wind-whipped fire. The case was filed in Sonoma County Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages for pain and suffering. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#top\">Return to top\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003ca id=\"tunis\">\u003cbr>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Linda Tunis Was Close to Her Daughter Until the End\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In January 2017, Linda Tunis moved from Florida to Santa Rosa to be closer to her daughter, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their time together in California was cut short. 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