All Obituaries

Hazel Pendergraft, 95, of Sun City West, Arizona, passed away on Sunday, April 4, 2021.  Private family services are being held.

Theresa Lee Fredericks, 69, peacefully went to be with the Lord on March 27, 2021 after a four-month battle with Glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer.  Terri had a special gift of brightening any conversation.  Her outgoing personality was contagious to everyone she met.    Terri was born in Youngstown, Ohio on February 24, 1952, the daughter of Walter Charles Humphrey and Virginia Ann Humphrey.  After moving to California, she graduated from Reseda High...

Violet E. (Vi) Hess, 90, of Glendale, AZ, peacefully departed this life on March 21, 2021. Vi was born December 7, 1930 to Clifford and Esther Sullivan in Riverside, CA. Soon after, the family moved back to AZ. Upon graduating from Phoenix Union High School in 1948, Vi married Elmer D. Hess. While in her early years of marriage, Vi was actively involved with the Fire Bells, an organization through the Phoenix Fire Department that helped families who had lost their homes to fires. In 1956,...

Patsy E. Trueblood , went to be with Lord on March 18, 2021 surrounded by family in her home. Patsy is survived by her loving husband Richard Trueblood, 7 children, 23 grandchildren, 64 great grandchildren and 6 great great grandchildren, 3 sisters, 1 brother, and many other family and friends. She will be missed. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Cindy. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Regency Mortuary.

Mary Lou Marcinko, 82 years old, of Torrance County, New Mexico passed away on March 11, 2021 in Glendale, Arizona. She was born in New Mexico on March 23, 1938 and was the daughter of Adolph and Deluvina Hoehne.  Mary Lou lived in many western states in support of her Air Force husband, John, before settling down in Southern California to raise their family. Mary Lou and John bought land in New Mexico to retire and be near family. They were married for 55 years until his...

William Kelly “Beau” Clements, 65, of Glendale Arizona passed away Saturday, March 6, 2021 at a hospice group home in Phoenix Arizona from a stroke. He had been in failing health for several years.   William was born in Richland Center on May 27, 1955, the fourth of six children born to William LaVerne Clements and Florence “Pat” Arlene Lloyd Clements.  William attended St. Mary School in Richland Center, WI through...

Franklin Eugene Jewell passed away on March 6th, 2021 after a near five-month battle from Glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer. He died at his home in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 63, surrounded by his loving family. Frank was born on February 8th, 1958 in San Diego, California. He grew up in the suburb of Santee, California and enjoyed fishing and riding his dirt bike through the canyons. He had his first job at the age of 16 at Chevron Auto, where he learned to be an auto...

Wes Jorgensen, 86, Lt Col USAF, retired, of Surprise, AZ, and living at the Memory Support in the Colonnade, "checked out" on March 5, 2021, of plain old age. He was born May 17, 1934, in Gilroy, CA, a second son to Bessie and Hans Jorgensen. As one of 3 children, he grew up in the country in Morgan Hill, CA, during WWII and learned the hard way, milking cows before school, riding a used bike to a one-room schoolhouse, and then getting the farm animals in before dark, doing his...

Donna Marie Parat age 83 of Litchfield Park, Az. was carried by the wings of her guardian angel into the waiting arms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday February 27th, 2021. She was born in Evanston, Ill. on June 15, 1937, the daughter of the late Elsie and Mathew Ledenbach. Donna was strong in her faith in Christ and always believed and trusted her guardian angel was on her shoulder guiding her through her life’s journey. She will fondly be remembered as an extremely...

Veronica Plumb, 70, of Phoenix died February 26, 2021, in Mesa, AZ from long-term complications of Covid-19. She was born in Casper, Wyoming, and raised by Wilkins and Marianne Spencer. She grew up in Casper, Santa Barbara, CA, and Reno, NV. She briefly lived in Rexburg, ID, Bountiful, UT, and Hawthorne, NV, before coming to the Valley of the Sun where she would meet, and marry, Roger Plumb. Veronica loved recycling, couponing, watching HGTV, playing Canasta, and spending time with her...