Obituaries

Apr 16, 2020

Apr 15, 2020

Donald Arthur Schmidt, 83, passed away peacefully Wednesday April 15, 2020 at Yavapai Regional Medical Center with his daughter Leah by his side. He was born May 5, 1936 in Mineola, New York and was the eldest son of the late Arthur and Emma Lunning Schmidt. He was raised in Mineola, NY and completed his college studies at Hartwick College,...

Apr 14, 2020

Apr 13, 2020

Apr 13, 2020

Apr 11, 2020

Chung Wu, age 100, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 11, 2020, in Prescott, Arizona. He was born on December 13, 1919, in Fuzhou, China, the sixth of eight children born to Zhe-An Wu and Shi-Ge Chen.  Chung studied Chinese classics and calligraphy and planned to study medicine. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1947 as a graduate student and...

Apr 10, 2020

On Friday, April 10, 2020, Gerald Paul Couch passed away at the age of 77 after a battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Jerry was born on July 9, 1942, to Paul and Theresa Couch.  When Jerry was 17, he enlisted in the United States Air Force.  He served as a flight engineer on the C123s delivering strategic equipment to the radar...

Apr 10, 2020

Brian Douglas Bader, 42, of Humboldt, Arizona, passed away April 10, 2020, from complications of a very serious automobile accident.  Brian was born December 22, 1977 in San Bernardino, California, to Douglas William Bader and Seanna Barbara Sovereign. Brian was baptized at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in San Bernardino.  Brian attended school at Our Lady of Assumption, and...

Apr 9, 2020

Apr 9, 2020

Eager to be part of the Wilson family, Barbara Jean interrupted a family picnic on Father’s Day, 1938. With her parents home closer than the hospital, she was delivered by a cousin, a registered nurse, who luckily was at the picnic. When the doctor arrived, he saw no reason for mother or baby to be transferred to the hospital.  Like...

Apr 7, 2020

Constance Lee Gummeson, age 82, passed from this earth on April 7, 2020, in Prescott, Arizona. Connie was born in Jacksonville, IL, to John and Florence Mullenix. As a small child, she and her mother relocated to Southern California. She was an only child until her mother remarried and, in her teens, Connie became big sister to Nancy and Mary....

Apr 7, 2020

On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, Raymond J. Johnson, loving husband and father of four children, passed away at age 94. Ray was born on September 23rd, 1925 in Duluth, MN. On June 25, 1949, he married Lynn Johnson. They raised three sons, Scott, Bruce and Mark, and one daughter, Kathy. He is preceded in death by his beloved wife Lynn...

Apr 5, 2020

Apr 5, 2020

Esther Lucille (Shamy)Leitner - June 10, 1927-April 5, 2020Born in Toledo, Ohio on June 10, 1927 to George Shamy and Wilma Landin.  Esther married Blaine Leitner of Toldeo, they moved with three children to Phoenix in 1959.  Esther is preceeded in death by her sons, Edward Leitner and Donald Leitner; Grandsons, Erik Kincaid and John Leitner.  Esther is survived by...

Apr 1, 2020

Apr 1, 2020

Jeanine “Jean” Kiesling (nee Nelson), died on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Prescott Valley, AZ due to complications of congestive heart failure.  She was 78. Jean was born on April 8, 1941 in Mankato, Minnesota to her parents, Peter and Rosetta Nelson.  She graduated from Lake Crystal High School in 1959 and became an LPN (licensed practical nurse).  She married...

Mar 29, 2020

Gail Marie Kentch, beloved wife, mother, sister, and friend to all who met her, passed away at her home in Black Canyon City, Arizona on March 29th, 2020, at the age of 78, after a grueling battle with Breast Cancer. Gail Fitzgerald was delivered by a midwife at her home in Seligman, Arizona to Victor Winslow Fitzgerald and Desolea Joan...

Mar 28, 2020

Boyd Davis Johnson passed away on March 28, 2020 in Skull Valley, AZ. He was born on August 2, 1957 Chicago, IL and is preceded in death by his father, Ray Prescott Johnson, Jr. and mother, Alice Boyd McGreevy, his step-father Raymond Charles McGreevy, his brother, Ray Prescott Johnson, III, his sister, Beverly Jean Boa Hendrickson, his brother, George Robert...

Mar 28, 2020

Donald Lee “Don” Howell. Lt. Col. USAF Ret.Donald Lee Howell age 89 passed away on March 28, 2020. He is survived by his wife Lois of 54 years and his daughters Donna (Kim) Bryan of Kansas and Wilma (David) Moore of Las Vegas, NV from his first marriage to Jean Sumner, and 10 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Don graduated...

Mar 24, 2020

David E. Seelye of Prescott, AZ passed away peacefully on March 24, 2020, at the age of 73.  Dave was born to Thelma and Douglas Seelye on September 13, 1946 in Watertown, NY. As a veteran, he proudly served in the US Army and then earned degrees in Economics and Chemistry from the University of Buffalo.  Dave worked for the...