Robert "Bob" Frank Erb, BHS 1962

Robert "Bob" Frank Erb

April 2, 1944 - February 4, 2023

Robert F. (Bob) Erb passed away in Chino Valley, Arizona, on Feb. 4, 2023. He was born in Glendale, California, on April 2, 1944 to Frank and Ruby Erb. 

Bob served in the United States Air Force from 1963 to 1967. He then worked as a sheet metal worker from 1971 to 1999. He and his wife, Elaine moved to Chino Valley in 1999 to enjoy their retirement. 

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Elaine and daughter Sandra Erb of Merced, California. 

Services are planned at Heritage Funeral Home in Chino Valley at 480 W Palomino Rd, Chino Valley, AZ 86323 at 11 a.m. Thursday Feb. 9, followed by Graveside Services at Chino Valley Cemetery.

Shirley Arlene Weiher Newstrom, BHS 1938

Shirley Arlene Weiher Newstrom, BHS 1938

August 30, 1920 - July 18, 1996

Published in the Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 20, 1996

Lincoln City – Shirley Newstrom, 75, died Thursday. Born in Olwein, Iowa, she moved to the San Fernando Valley, California as a child and graduated from Burbank High School.

She was a property manager. She enjoyed dancing and Western history. Her husbands are deceased.

Survivors include her sons, Russell Bronson of Utah and John Pacheco of Arizona; daughters, Arlene Bellucci of Nevada and Karen Cabral of California; brother, Neil S. Weiher of California; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Pierce Brothers Valhalla, North Hollywood, California. Interment will follow in Valhalla Cemetery. Arrangements are by Pacific View mortuary.   

Andrew Charles Campbell, Former BHS Teacher

Andrew Charles Campbell, Former BHS Teacher

June 15, 1952 - December 19, 2023 Andrew Campbell, playwright, cultural leader, world traveler and amazing friend, left us on December 19 after a valiant 18-month battle with ALS. His beloved family and friends will remember forever his legacy of kindness.

Andrew was born June 15, 1952 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Margaret and Alva Campbell. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he acted on stage in Minnesota and Illinois, taught school in Northern California and spent a summer in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from UCLA. Following a career in corporate America, he transitioned into the nonprofit and government sector. He was the director of organizational development for ten years with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission before becoming the first full-time arts administrator for the City of West Hollywood, where he lived for more than 30 years. After thirteen years working for the City, he retired in March of 2020. He loved conducting walking tours of his neighborhood, pointing out architecture, public art, the homes of famous residents and regaling his listeners with historical tidbits.

In his embrace of the world, Andrew traveled to Canada, Central and South America, Europe and Morocco. He was especially fond of the Amalfi Coast. Biking with friends around Wolfgangsee in the Lake District of Austria, he led the group in selections from The Sound of Music: a line of single-file bikers, Andrew in the lead, straight back, traditional bikes, blue skies and adults acting like the Von Trapp children.

His plays ranged from the dark humor of The Last Day of Lottie Love to the tender romance of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald in The Feast of Youth. A member of Playwrights Ink for more than 35 years, Andrew was the first person everyone asked to read their new book or a play, because he'd deliver kind, intelligent, constructive criticism that made success feel possible. He'd listen without judgment and cared in a way that made the air in the room breathable. As an artist, arts administrator and friend, he always created a safe place for artists.

Lest he appear too saintly, Andrew saved his most creative invective for hapless Los Angeles motorists. His imitations of pretentious or self-involved people were shocking in their hilarious accuracy. His family enjoyed his holiday visits to Phoenix, including feasts on the patio and treasure-hunting in the Melrose district for mid-century modern finds (especially lamps).

Andrew was predeceased by his parents, sister Arlene List, and his life partner, actor/writer/singer Donald Snell. He is survived by his sisters Margaret Mary Campbell and Joy Schumacher, brothers Rick Campbell (Nita) and Alvin Campbell, nephews Steve Campbell (Sue), Carey Schumacher (Cheri), David Campbell (Diane), Jeff Campbell (Beth), Aaron Campbell (Kelly), Jeremy Campbell (Nicole), Tanner Campbell and nieces Pam Wykoff (Jeff), Susan Cyr (Stephen), Jani Sage (Derek), Hollie Yeager (Mike) and Nicole Campbell. A celebration of life will be held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills on January 20 at 11 a.m. Gifts in memory of Andrew may be
made to Hospice of the Valley, Phoenix.

We can't imagine our lives without Andrew, but we know he'll live in our hearts for all time, reminding us to be kind to each other every day (except for "that %&*#@ in the Tesla!").

Published by Los Angeles Times on Dec. 23, 2023.

Donald Erwin Rowland, BHS 1959

Donald Erwin Rowland, BHS 1959

Don Rowland, a 7th generation Californian descended from Spanish explorers, Mountain Men and early Anglo pioneers, died December 20, 2022, at home with family by his side. 

The only child of Norman Joseph Rowland and Virginia Sprague Rowland, he was born in Los Angeles in 1942, graduated from Burbank High School in 1959 and the University of Redlands in 1963. While at U.of R., he joined Pi Chi fraternity and formed treasured lifetime friendships. He also met Jean Pearce Rowland, his wife of nearly 60 years. He graduated from UCLA School of Dentistry in 1973, moved his family to Camarillo in 1976 to join Anderson, Arstein, Good, and Rowland, now known as Rosewood Dental. 

Don enjoyed living in Camarillo for 46 years and was active in the community. He helped start and served as Director of the Cosmos Track club for many years while coaching his daughters. He also coached his son’s Roadrunners football team and CYBA baseball teams. Don often joked about flunking retirement when he returned to UCLA School of Dentistry to teach and also to travel extensively through-out the Southwest to research and write his book, John Rowland and William Workman, Southern California Pioneers of 1841. 

Don is survived by his wife, Jean and their children, Laura (Victor) Luna, Dawn (Steve) Maxwell, Wendy (Jim) Sparks and Daniel Rowland; grandchildren Samuel Luna, Jacob Sparks, Mackenzie Sparks, Joshua Rowland and Caleb Rowland. He was preceded in death by his eldest granddaughter, Sarah Luna, PhD. Donations can be made in Don’s memory to the Sarah Luna, EIS ’16 Memorial Scholarship Fund at give.cdcfoundation.org. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Published in Ventura County Star, January 18, 2023

Clysta Gaylene Cooper Monsour, BHS 1967

Clysta Galene Cooper Monsour, BHS 1967

Clysta Monsour, 70, of Meridian, died November 2, 2019. Funeral Home: Cremation Society of Idaho

Published by Meridian Press, Meridian, Idaho from Nov. 6 to Nov. 8, 2019. 

Goldie Elmyra Trout Peterson, BHS 1915

Goldie Elmyra Trout Peterson, BHS 1915

Published in the Record Searchlight, Redding, California, Wednesday, January 25, 1995

Goldie Peterson – WEAVERVILLE, Services for Goldie E. Peterson, 98, of Weaverville will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at McDonald-Files Funeral Chapel. Burial will be at Grand View Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Mrs. Peterson died Sunday, January 22, 1995, at Anderson Care Center. Born January 15, 1897, near Little, Nebraska, she moved to Weaverville in 1985 from Burbank. She was a teacher.

Survivors include daughter Phyllis Harr of Burbank, California; brothers Allen Trout of Sonora, California and John Trout; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity Scholarship Foundation.

Lynda Spaulding Romero, BHS 1964

Lynda Spaulding Romero, BHS 1964

Lynda Spaulding Romero passed away on July 20, 2022. Her sister Sue Spaulding Allen wrote on Facebook: “Yesterday I lost my big sister Lynda. One of the kindest, most generous and loving people whom we got to call. She loved my children and grandchildren and they all loved her. My heart is heavy and will miss her beyond words. Soar high Lynda. I love you.” 

Lynda was a sweetheart and we will always remember her beautiful smile. Our sympathies go out to her husband Robin Romero ’63, her children, and her entire family. Bon Voyage, sweet Friend. 

From Pam and Jon Kirkwood ’64. No other details at this time.

Stanley Adams Cornutt, BHS 1924

 Stanley Adams Cornutt, BHS 1924

 Published in the Reno Gazette – Journal, Reno, Nevada, Wednesday, August 26, 1992

Stanley A. Cornutt, Aircraft and engine repairer

YERINGTON - Stanley Adams Cornutt, 85, died August 24, 1992, at White Pine Care Center, East Ely, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was born September 5, 1906, in Chadwick Ranch, midway between Myrtle Creek and Riddle, Oregon. He moved to Smith Valley in 1956 from Bridgeport, California.

Cornutt attended schools in Oregon until 1922, when he moved to Southern California. He graduated from Burbank High School in 1924. He worked for Union Oil Company until 1927, and then went into the service station business until 1934, when he went into automotive machine trade.  

Later he worked as an aircraft engine mechanic instructor with Aero Industries Technical Institute, a private firm under contract to the Army Air Corps. He spent most of the war years there. He attended Oregon State College, Corvallis for two years and established a mechanics school at Corvallis Airport, teaching there until 1948.

He and his late brother, Wilfred, built a sawmill business in Bridgeport and operated it until 1956, when it burned. In Smith Valley, Cornutt worked as an equipment operator for two years and worked at Anaconda Copper Corp, as a mechanic, machinist and truck driver, retiring in 1972. He also worked at Leviathan Sulphur Mine and did aircraft and engine repair work, at the Yerington Airport, quitting in 1990 for health reasons.

Cornutt was a member of Mason Valley Lodge 34 I.O.O.F., Chapter 1099, A.R.R.P,, Yerington Senior Citizens, Civil Air Patrol and Lion County Search and Rescue, He helped established the Yerington Senior Center.

He was preceded in death by a son, Stephen Lewis, Sr. and one brother. Surviving are his widow, Nevila of Yerington; son Daniel of Ely; and four grandchildren.  A memorial service is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Community Methodist Church.

Cremation is under the direction of Wilson-Bates Mortuary, Ely. Private inurnment will be later. A memorial is being established with Lou Gehrig’s disease, 21021 Ventura Blvd., Suite 321, Woodland Hills, California, 91364

Joyce Trainor Howard, BHS 1958

Joyce Trainor Howard, BHS 1958

Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Friday February 8, 1991

SR woman dies in Mexico air crash

A Santa Rosa woman who makes an annual charity trek to Mexico is reported to have died Wednesday in a plane crash in mountains south of Guadalajara. Joyce Howard, who with her husband, Clayton, live in actor Harry Morgan’s home above Rincon Valley, was killed along with four other people, according to family friends. Friends said she died when their light plane crashed while making medical stops to villages in the area of Lake Chapala. There was only one seat left on the mercy aircraft, so Mrs. Howard took it. She left her husband behind.

Clayton Howard, a retired sales manager for National Controls, reported his wife’s apparent death in a telephone conversation to friend Jean Schulz in Santa Rosa.

The propeller-driven plane crashed close to Jocotic, a village near the border with Jalisco state, state Attorney General Pedro de Leon Sanchez told reporters. De Leon said investigators on the scene believe the plane had run out of fuel or developed mechanical trouble.

Cmdr. Manuel Rodriguez, a duty officer at the Zacatecas state judicial police, said the other victims were tentatively identified as Conroy Frederick Donesky, around 52, no hometown; Alfred C. Moody, around 65, of Neblack, Texas; John Henry Gunn, no age or hometown and John Heary, around 30, a medical surgeon from Fort Worth, Texas.

Howard was reported to be working with the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara to arrange for the return of his wife’s body. Efforts to reach Howard were unsuccessful Thursday.

According to Schulz, the Howards have traveled to Mexico for about the past five years, mixing vacation with volunteer charity work including distribution of clothing Mrs. Howard gathered or made herself over the course of the year. The couple drove down to Lake Chapala, Schulz said, and this year planned to help a medical relief program.

Schulz said Mrs. Howard was invited to accompany a medical team that each Wednesday hop scotches from village to village in the mountains surrounding the lake. She speculated Mrs. Howard wanted to make the flight so she could deliver clothing to the mountain villages.  Howard who is a pilot, said he put his wife on the aircraft and watched it take off in good weather.

Schulz said the Howards have lived in Santa Rosa for about 12 years. Howard is a college friend of Harry Morgan and he and his wife have lived in Morgan’s upper Rincon Valley home for the past several years. 

Mrs. Howard was active in Sonoma County charity events and operated her own cottage industry painting coffee mugs and making clothing. She also volunteered at Charles Schulz Redwood Empire Ice Arena.

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Obituary - Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Tuesday, February 12, 1991

Joyce Howard – Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Burbank, California for Joyce Howard, the Santa Rosa woman who was killed in a plane crash in Mexico last week.

Howard, 50, was traveling with her husband, Clayton Howard, when she joined a trip by a flying medical service out of Guadalajara on Wednesday. The small aircraft, carrying five passengers, crashed into a mountain. There were no survivors.

She was a native of Rochester, New York, and moved to Burbank as an infant with her family. She and her husband lived in Rincon Valley. She worked for Charles M. Schulz Studios in Santa Rosa.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by her parents, John and Mary Trainor; a son, Louis Franco; a daughter, Tamara Quist; a brother, Robert Trainor; a sister Joanne Jansa; and one grandchild, all of the Los Angeles area.

The rosary will be recited today at 7 p.m. at Valley Funeral Home in Burbank. Burial will be at Forest Lawn in Hollywood Hills. A special celebration is pending at the Redwood Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, where a memorial bench will bench will be installed in the garden of the complex. Howard was a volunteer and staff member at the Ice Arena.

 

Robert William Strawn, BHS 1960

Robert William Strawn, BHS 1960

May 4, 1941 - January 28, 1960

Published in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California

Sunday, January 31, 1960

Robert Strawn, beloved son of Mrs. Beverly Strawn and Glen H. Strawn, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Miksak; Mrs. Clorine Hill and Eugene L. Strawn.

Services at 2 p.m. Monday, Bethany United Presbyterian Church, 2707 North Glenoaks, Burbank. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California. Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge.

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