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Sandra L.Yarritu O'Brien, BHS 1976

Burbank Daily Review, Tuesday, February 6, 1979

Sandra Yarritu O'Brien, who was employed at Totco Corp. in Glendale, died Saturday, February 3, 1979. She was 21. Born in Mercedes, Texas, she was a Burbank resident for 15 years.

She is survived by her husband, John S. O'Brien, Jr., two sons, Robert Shannon and Patrick Michael O'Brien of Burbank, her father Homer H. Yarritu, of San Jose, California, parents Libby and Oscar Sanchez of Burbank, two brothers, Randy and Michael, one sister, Lillie Libby Sanchez, all of Burbank, paternal grandmother, Gabriela Yarritu, of Donna, Texas, and maternal grandfather, Simon Almaraz.


Visitation is 6 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, February 6 at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, California. Services will be 10 a.m., February 7 at the United Methodist Church, 100 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank.

Note: In 2010 the Burbank High Athletic Hall of Fame inducted  the 1975 CIF Champion girls’ softball team. Not only because they have won our only girls’ C.I.F. championship. They were the pioneers of female sports in the City of Burbank. Without them our sports at both schools would not be at the level that they are today. Sandy Yarritu was among the honorees and the award was accepted by her family.

She was killed in an automobile accident.

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