Search for celebrities on Ancestry.com!June 18, 2004
James Correia Jr.
James Correia Jr., a 26-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, died Sunday of liver disease at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. He was 61.
Born July 13, 1942, in Sacramento to James Sr. and Jennie Correia (Lopes), he grew up with three brothers and a sister.
A graduate of Sacramento High School, he worked in retail before being accepted to the CHP Academy. In August 1965, at age 23, he pinned on badge No. 4026 and started his career at his first post, the South Los Angeles office.
"He joined the CHP because he really liked helping people. He was kind, lighthearted, giving. If somebody needed him, he was there," said his brother, Robert Correia of Merced, who followed him into the patrol.
Later posted to Santa Ana and Santa Rosa, he was selected for many special details, including the Watts and Santa Barbara riots and for protective services for dignitaries, including escorting governors.
Married and divorced three times, he had three children and was known in the family for always making time for his children, nieces and nephews.
"His job was making sure everybody was happy. He regularly visited his brothers' houses. We'd play cards, pinochle or dominoes," his brother said.
As a CHP officer, Correia won several medals at the California Police Olympics as a track and field participant.
He will be remembered by his family for his fiercely independent will, his distinctive laugh and his ability to make people feel at ease.
He retired out of Santa Rosa in 1992 and then took a job working security for Wells Fargo Bank until 2002. His final years of retirement were enjoyed in Cotati and the Santa Rosa area.
He was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by three children, Michelle Kim of Roseville, Jennifer Correia of Pennsylvania and Jason Correia of Santa Rosa. He is also survived by brothers Robert of Merced and John and David, both of Sacramento, and sister Diana L. Ross of Woodland, as well as two grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
A memorial service is today at noon in Sacramento at St. Elizabeth Parish.
Ann Daniels
Memorial services for Ann Daniels, a lifelong Mendocino County resident and educator, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Blessed Sacrament Church, 5750 South Highway 1, Elk.
Born Anna Alta Walker on Oct. 19, 1918, in Glenblair, she died May 25 in Fort Bragg of congestive heart failure. She was 89.
"She was a wonderful, caring, giving person," said her son, Donald Daniels of Elk. "She loved people. She particularly loved children."
The daughter of Russian immigrants, she was reared in Elk, graduated from Mendocino High School and attended San Francisco State University.
She was a teacher in one-room schools in Elk and Rockport before her marriage to lumberman Warren Daniels. When they moved inland to be near his mill site in Willits, she taught school there, too. While her husband oversaw a new sawmill he'd built in Elk, she was teaching in Manchester.
During the 1950s, she taught beginning and advanced first-aid classes through the Red Cross.
Later, after being widowed in 1960, she joined the Willits School District, serving first as a district supervisor and then as the district's county supervisor, traveling throughout Mendocino County to assist teachers with procedures and policies. She retired after 17 years as a supervisor.
"Her major thing in life was teaching and supervising school," said her son. "But she was also an adventurer. She took flying lessons in the late '50s and early '60s. She wanted to fly around the country by herself but she never got to solo."
Nevertheless, she traveled extensively, "always with an academic or historic interest in the places she would go," said her son. "She had been around the world three times."
Remaining in Elk, she was one of three citizens who were instrumental in the planning and funding of the Elk Firehouse-Greenwood Community Center. She launched the tradition of the lighted outdoor Christmas tree in Elk, planned and organized the celebration of the centennial of the Elk Post Office, and worked with California State Parks and Recreation to turn the historic Elk Post Office into a museum and visitors center.
Her community activism included forming the Elk Volunteer Docent Council and training many docents to ensure the visitors center would remain open. Memberships included the Greenwood Civic Club, Eastern Star and Delta Kappa Gamma.
In addition to her son Donald Daniels of Elk, she is survived by her daughter Joan Daniels of Willits and her son Percy Daniels of Boonville; her stepson, Richard Daniels of Ukiah; her sister, Violet Grant of Millbrae; and three grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial donations to the Mendocino County Museum, 400 Commercial St., Willits, or to the American Heart Association or other favorite charity.
June 17, 2004
Dean Dunnicliff
Dean E. Dunnicliff, former publisher of the Healdsburg Tribune and the Rohnert Park Clarion, died June 9 at his Roseville home of complications of congestive heart failure, lymphoma and leukemia.
His death came 13 days before his 85th birthday.
Born and raised in Dixon, Dunnicliff was an Eagle Scout and a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and his master's from Stanford University.
During World War II, Dunnicliff served in the Pacific Theater as a captain in the Army.
Before moving his family to Healdsburg in 1962, Dunnicliff spent 13 years as editor and co-publisher of the Dixon Tribune. The newspaper had been in the Dunnicliff family since 1913.
"He was a workaholic," said his son, Steven Dunnicliff of Healdsburg.
Through their newspapers, Dunnicliff and his wife and co-publisher, Maryalice, endeavored to improve their communities, paying special attention to schools and humanitarian needs.
"He was the kind of guy who motivated others to get things done," his son said.
In Healdsburg, Dunnicliff was a force behind the construction of Healdsburg General Hospital and served on the hospital's board of directors for 13 years. He headed a number of city commissions, including those on economic development, traffic safety and beautification.
As a director of Shared Ministries, he was instrumental in the construction of a senior retirement complex. He led the Sonoma County branch of the American Cancer Society and the Sonoma County chapter of the American Red Cross. He served on the Sonoma County Human Resources Commission, co-founded the Sonoma County Drug Abuse Council, and was named a "Citizen of the Year" by the Healdsburg Boys Club.
"He was quiet and worked behind the scenes," Steven Dunnicliff said. "He was a community booster. He frequently would prod people to get a project going, such as the construction of the Healdsburg Hospital."
In addition to publishing the Healdsburg Tribune and the Rohnert Park Clarion, Dunnicliff Printing also printed most of the weekly newspapers in the area and college schedules from the Golden Gate to the Oregon border.
In addition to his wife and son, Dunnicliff is survived by two other sons, Greg Dunnicliff of Stockton and Jeff Dunnicliff of Vashon Island, Wash.; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
A service is set for 11 a.m. Saturday at the family home in Roseville.
Gloria Tauzer
Gloria Tauzer, a gracious hostess noted for her elegant table settings, "led a magnificent life," according to her husband of 51 years, Clarence Brook Tauzer of Santa Rosa.
"She was possessed of a naturalness in the human pursuit of love," he said. "There is no higher calling."
Tauzer died June 10 in Sequim, Wash., of Alzheimer's disease and complications from abdominal surgery. She was 73.
Born March 11, 1931, in Oakland, Gloria Elizabeth Wright attended school in Palo Alto, graduating from high school in 1950. She studied and practiced fashion modeling from 1950 to 1952, when she marriage Clarence Tauzer and they moved to San Leandro.
The Tauzers relocated to Santa Rosa in 1955, where he was hired as a history teacher at Santa Rosa Junior College. Clarence Tauzer eventually became one of SRJC's best-known administrators as dean and vice president for academic affairs.
Between 1980 and 1995, Gloria Tauzer operated a catering service, specializing in wedding receptions and cocktail parties.
She was "genuinely fond of people," her husband said.
Her affiliations included the Symphony League of Santa Rosa, the Volunteer Bureau of Sonoma County Auxiliary, parent-teacher associations, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and St. Rose Catholic Church.
"Her love of family and friends extended into the larger community," her husband said.
When her health required home care in 2003, she moved to Sequim, Wash., to live with her daughter, Terry Ann Smith.
"Gloria had a very fond association with the SRJC faculty," said her husband. "Her ashes will be distributed at the college's Shone agricultural farm."
In addition to her husband and daughter, she is survived by three sons, Scott Peter Tauzer and James Wright Tauzer, both of Santa Rosa, and Charles Brooking Tauzer of Sebastopol; a brother, James Franklin Wright, of Sequim, Wash., and six grandchildren.
At her request, there were no funeral services, although a private gathering of family and friends is planned for Saturday in Santa Rosa. Arrangements were made by Drennan-Ford Funeral Home in Port Angeles, Wash.
The family suggests memorial donations to the Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa 95401.
Max Rosenberg, 89
LOS ANGELES -- Max Rosenberg, a veteran movie producer best known for cult horror classics such as "Tales From the Crypt," "The House That Dripped Blood" and "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" as well as the early rock 'n' roll movies "Jamboree" and "Rock, Rock, Rock!" has died. He was 89.
Rosenberg, president of Rearguard Productions, died Monday in a Los Angeles hospital after a brief illness, said Julie Moldo, the film company's vice president.
In a more than 60-year movie career, Rosenberg produced about 75 movies, the majority of them modestly budgeted horror, supernatural and science fiction tales.
Rosenberg and his partner, Milton Subotsky, were probably best known for their anthology horror films -- featuring four or five stories revolving around a central theme -- made after they formed Amicus Productions in England in 1962.
June 16, 2004
Stanley Badger
Sebastopol native Stanley Richard Badger, known to his family as "the life of the party," traveled the world as a merchant seaman, sharing his adventures through colorful oil paintings that still hang in some Santa Rosa bars.
He died Friday of pneumonia at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vallejo. He was 78.
Badger was born July 25, 1926, to Joseph and Esther Badger. The youngest of eight children, Badger was raised with a deep sense of local history, said his son, Chris Badger of Windsor. Badger Road in Santa Rosa is named for the family, and his father was one of two Sebastopol postmen in the 1940s.
Badger made his own mark in the county, playing baseball at Analy High School and Santa Rosa Junior College, where he won the American Legion award for outstanding athlete in 1945.
That same year, Badger joined the U.S. Merchant Marine. He would return home several months at a time, working as a carpenter and playing baseball. In the 1950s, he was a second baseman in the Santa Rosa fast-pitch leagues, and played end for the Santa Rosa Bone Crushers semi-professional football team.
A merchant mariner for 30 years, Badger "traveled all over the world twice," said his daughter, Lori Weber of Vallejo. The friendly, good-natured sailor would give paintings of the ships and people he saw on his travels to Santa Rosa bars.
"There was never a dull moment with him," said his son, Chris Badger. "One of his goofiest moments was when he shot a bar owner's stuffed bird with an arrow. He thought it looked better that way."
An avid hunter and fisherman, Badger enjoyed taking his three sons on duck hunting trips and fishing for trout and steelhead.
"He was always on the street with us, playing ball," said Chris Badger. "He had the ability to make a friend in 30 seconds, everywhere he went, he knew everybody."
In addition to his daughter and son, Badger is survived by his twin siblings Paul Badger of Danville and Edith Lorenzen of Sebastopol; sons Ron Badger of Colorado and Lance Badger of Windsor; and daughter Kathy Lopes of Las Vegas.
No services are planned, but his life will be celebrated at a family reunion in August.
Gerald McConnell, illustrator
Gerald McConnell, a veteran pulp novel artist turned publisher, died suddenly Monday at his New York office, his family confirmed Tuesday. He was 73.
McConnell had been recovering from a recent surgery, according to his son, Kevin McConnell, publisher of the Ukiah Daily Journal.
McConnell began producing artworks for Pocket Books in 1953, with a focus on Western-styled pulp novel covers.
McConnell won the Society of Illustrators' Hamilton King Award in 1981 for his pencil drawing of Grand Central Terminal. He also taught at the Pratt Institute and published several of his own books on three dimensional art before becoming publisher and owner of Madison Square Press.
Memorial services will be held at the Society of Illustrators on Thursday.
McConnell is survived by his wife Mary, three children and a sister.
Howard Solomon, free speech advocate
Howard Solomon, the mild-mannered owner of the Cafe au Go Go nightclub in Greenwich Village who became an unlikely First Amendment crusader when he was arrested with the comedian Lenny Bruce on obscenity charges in 1964, died June 3 at his home in Crestline. He was 75.
The cause was a heart attack, said his son, Jason Solomon.
At the height of the 1960s music scene, Solomon's basement club on Bleecker Street played host to dozens of influential music stars, including John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, B.B. King and Joni Mitchell. Renowned for its fine brick-wall acoustics and groovy coffee concoctions (no alcohol was served), the club was the site for numerous recordings particularly by blues performers who favored the club.
But perhaps no performance was better remembered than Bruce's appearance on April 3, 1964, just two months after the club's opening. Bruce, who had already been charged with obscenity and narcotics charges in California and obscenity charges in Chicago, was arrested before he even hit the stage for his 10 p.m. slot.
Howard Solomon and Elly Solomon, then his wife, joined Bruce in handcuffs. They soon learned that vice officers had attended and recorded two of Bruce's shows at the cafe earlier in the week to make their case.
Bruce, then 38, pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on $1,000 bail. Solomon, then 35, was charged with allowing an obscene act to be performed in his club; he also pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance.
The next day, Bruce returned to the cafe and played to a partisan crowd, who watched him gently thumb his nose at authority by spelling out the dirty words in his act rather than pronouncing them. Three days later, Bruce was again arrested on obscenity charges.
The case went to trial that summer before a three-judge panel. The defense for Bruce, who was ill with pleurisy, called more than a dozen artists and critics to the stand to defend his act and Solomon's right to present it, but to no avail.
On Nov. 4, 1964, the panel reached a guilty verdict, voting 2-1 against both Bruce and Howard Solomon; Elly Solomon was acquitted.
Bruce was later sentenced to four months in jail, while Howard Solomon faced a $1,000 fine or 60 days in jail. Both men continued to fight the convictions in court, though Bruce's fight ended in 1966, when he died at 40 of a morphine overdose.
Solomon won an appeal in 1965, and in 1968 his conviction was overturned by a state appellate court. That decision was later upheld by New York's highest court.
Solomon sold the Cafe au Go Go in 1969 and moved to Florida, where he worked quietly as a real estate developer in Miami before retiring to California in the early 1990s.
In addition to his son Jason, of West Hollywood, and his former wife, of Crestline, Solomon is survived by another son, Sheppard Solomon, of London; a daughter, Candace Solomon, of New York City; a sister, Iris Poland, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; and a grandson.
One of Solomon's contemporaries, Manny Roth, the onetime owner of the Cafe Wha?, said Solomon's stand was an inspiration.
"We had crusaders down there, but he wasn't one of them," Roth said. "But Howard went to bat for Lenny."
June 11, 2004
Louisa M. Turner
Louisa M. Turner, a long-time member of Hessel Church, was surrounded by friends when she died Thursday at her Sebastopol home. She was 77.
"She lived meagerly but was exceedingly generous," said the Rev. Rich Cundall, pastor of Hessel Church. "Through her experiences in World War II, she early on developed a compassion for people."
Known as Lou by friends and family, Turner was born in London and was one of 11 children in her family. She had vivid memories of World War II, when she and her siblings hid in the family bomb shelter while nightly Blitzkrieg devastation reigned.
"She had so many stories of the war and they were amazing," Cundall said. "She used to talk about how she had seen so many churches bombed out that she wanted just once to see one built. She was very committed to our building project."
In 1949, Turner moved to California, where she met -- and two weeks later marriage -- John Turner, who was her husband for 48 years. They lived in Mariposa before moving to Sebastopol some 40 years ago.
"She was a ranch hand and a homemaker," Cundall said. "She had completed elementary school in England, but the war stopped her education at that point. She was a hard-working lady who took lots of odd jobs to get by. She worked in nursing homes and had been on the staff at our church for about six years."
Friends used words like spunky and feisty to describe her personality.
"She had a unique personality, kind of outspoken but with a great sense of humor," Cundall said. "She loved to laugh. She prized loyalty and was very committed to her friends."
Turner's sole survivor is her brother, John Cox of England.
There will be a memorial service at 9 a.m. Saturday at the church she called home, Hessel Church, 5060 Hessel Ave., Sebastopol.
Memorial gifts to the church building fund are suggested.
Clausen, saved Marines in Da Nang
Mike Clausen Jr., 56, who died in a Dallas hospital May 30 of liver failure, received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for valor, for rescuing a platoon of Marines trapped in a minefield during the Vietnam War.
In the Marine Corps, Clausen liked to disobey authority; he had repeatedly been demoted after every promotion.
"I will come home a live private before coming home as a dead sergeant," he had said.
On Jan. 31, 1970, he seemed to have forgotten his credo.
That day, he was serving with Medium Helicopter Squadron 263, part of a mission to extract members of a Marine platoon near Da Nang that had wandered into a minefield while attacking the enemy.
They were under heavy fire and frozen in their places, fearing that they would trip a mine.
Clausen was crew chief of his CH-46 helicopter and guided the pilot to a safe landing in a spot that had been cleared by a mine explosion.
The pilot told him not to leave, but Clausen ignored him -- six times, as he repeatedly left the safety of the helicopter to help carry back one dead and 11 wounded Marines to the aircraft. He then tried to lead the eight remaining Marines to the copter.
On one trip, while he carried a wounded man, a mine went off, killing a corpsman and wounding three other Marines.
"Only when he was certain that all Marines were safely aboard did he signal the pilot to lift the helicopter," read his Medal of Honor citation.
Manning, played opposite Bogart
Irene Manning, a lyric soprano and actress who charmed audiences with her performances in 1940s musical films like "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Shine On, Harvest Moon" and "The Desert Song," died on May 28 at her home in San Carlos. She was 91.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said her stepdaughter Peggy H. Schafer of Pleasanton.
Trained as a classical singer, Manning had a fleeting but stellar career as a leading lady. She appeared glamorously in westerns, on Broadway and entertained wounded soldiers in World War II.
Still billed as Hope Manning, she made her Broadway debut in 1939 in "Susanna, Don't You Cry," a bouquet of Stephen Foster songs arranged into a musical for the American Lyric Theater at the Martin Beck. The show soon closed, but she received good reviews, and Warner Brothers signed her for "Yankee Doodle Dandy," a blockbuster musical of 1942 with James Cagney as the producer and songwriter George M. Cohan. Manning portrayed the diva Fay Templeton and sang "Mary Is a Grand Old Name" and "So Long, Mary." Because the movie is a perennial on television, it is probably her most famous film role.
She played opposite Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Shot," a hard-boiled gangster movie of 1943, and in a version of "The Desert Song" also in 1943, with Dennis Morgan.
Kramer, prolific writer, rabbi
LOS ANGELES -- Rabbi William Mordecai Kramer, scholar and longtime editor of the Western States Jewish History magazine, as well as an actor, lawyer, professor, and prolific writer and speaker, died Tuesday. He was 84.
Kramer died at UCLA Medical Center of complications of diabetes and congestive heart failure, said his friend, attorney Barry Fisher.
A wordsmith in his sermons, writings and public events, the rabbi became a favorite with government entities and organizations that traditionally begin meetings with prayer. Illustrating his adaptability and humor, he offered the following prayer in 1956 when an over-scheduled Los Angeles City Council pleaded "keep it short": Hear a prayer for men of high station -- Who serve the city, first in the nation -- May they know its spiritual elation -- To praise the Lord and pass the legislation. Amen.
That won him a quick invitation to return the following week, when he reduced his prayer to two lines: I pray for the Council and the standard of its acts; Raise them, Father, and lower the tax.
