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NORTH COAST, Calif. – Joy King’s daughters invite family and friends to attend Joy’s memorial service.
You might remember Joy as a checker at Safeway. She delighted in getting to know families that would come through her line. Following children from toddlers sitting in the cart until long after graduating high school. Joy loved attending local sports games cheering on these same kids she met on her job.
Please come to hear and share more memories of Joy on Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. at the Church of Latter-day Saints located at 1337 South Dora, Ukiah.
We will continue celebration of Joy’s life with lunch immediately following services.
Find joy in each day, we love you mom
Jennifer King
Hali King-Koozer
Robyn K. Stevenson
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Tom passed away surrounded by loving family members on Aug. 24, 2018, after a brief illness.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, of Clearlake; son, Robert Sr. (Debi) of Clearlake; Rick’s widow, Carol, of Sparks, Nev.; son, Tom of Blue Lakes, Calif.; and son, Tim (Leslie) of Anchorage, Alaska; three stepchildren, Sue (Rick) Hall of Snohomish, Wash., Robert Bise Jr. of Lakeport, Calif., and Karen (Josh) Sheppard of Clearlake; along with 21 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents, Bernard and Louise; his son, Rick; and his first wife, Lee Malley.
Tom was born May 20, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio, the seventh of nine children born to Bernard Malley and Louise Hughes Malley.
The family moved to San Francisco when Tom was 15. While living in San Francisco he met and married Leila “Lee” Bouscaren in 1949.
In 1966 they moved to Clearlake where they raised their sons. After Lee’s death in 1989, Tom married Betty Compton Bise.
Tom retired after a 37-year career with Safeway, but he did not slow down.
After retirement, Tom directed his formidable energy toward helping his community and to attending as many family and Lower Lake High school events as possible.
He was very instrumental in the restoration of the Lower Lake Museum. He was on the Lower Lake Cemetery board for several years and, along with a friend, built the rock wall at the entrance to the cemetery.
He was very involved in his church, Lower Lake Methodist, and spent countless hours on various church projects.
He was an avid San Francisco Giants fan and was thrilled to be able to have his 90th birthday party at a Giants game at AT&T Park.
Tom will be most remembered for his wonderful smile, his kindness and his love of his family.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 1, at 1 p.m. at Jones and Lewis Memorial Chapel, 16140 Main St., Lower Lake.
There will be a gathering with refreshments to follow at the Brick Hall in Lower Lake.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Lower Lake Methodist Church, P.O. Box 516, Lower Lake, CA 95457.
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Richard Douglas Howard
June 23, 1944 - May 19, 2018
Richard Douglas Howard passed away May 19, 2018 at Napa Valley hospital after a heart attack at home in Lower Lake, Calif.
He was surrounded by friends and family including his loving wife of over 30 years, Marie Howard.
Richard was born June 23, 1944 to our mother Claudia Louise Batten in Troy, NC.
Adopted by our father Donald Rex Howard at a very early age, he and mom left North Carolina as a military family and moved half a world away to Japan. He adapted quickly which began his love of travel and exotic places, the family moving back to the USA in 1956 with his newly adopted brother, Chuck.
Together they all moved to Northern California which to this day is where their heart remains and where they returned to even after residing so many places all over the U.S. and the world.
In 1972 sister Gina was adopted and brought into our loving family, herself moving from halfway around the world and being instilled with the travel bug as well.
Richard started his adult life quickly after high school, getting married, entering the Army and starting a family.
He was stationed at Fort Polk, LA, also serving temporary duty in Vietnam at the beginning of the war. He was in motor pool which fit his love of cars that extended during his entire lifetime and served as driver for the base commander.
After his honorable discharge, he and the family moved back to the beloved Bay Area where he found employment in auto body work. This trade became a core skill in his hobby of classic car restoration and chopper rebuilding and he became a sought-after expert on both with some of his work being displayed at the Oakland Roadster Show and in national magazines in the 1970s.
Richard’s sense of entrepreneurship led him on many paths at different stages in his life: his own auto body shop in Berkeley; co-owner of a commercial fishing vessel; caretaker of a luxury mansion in Sausalito; dry dock rigging in Hawaii; and co-founding a small engineering company that developed a cable cleaning tool still in use on the Golden Gate Bridge today.
During these ventures he discovered his love of two important things in his life. The first and foremost was meeting his wife Marie who became his life partner at his side on many of these journeys.
The other was his love of the sea as he became enamored with boats as much as he did with cars. Perhaps his and Marie’s greatest adventure was delivering a 75-foot double-masted schooner from Sausalito to its new owner in Singapore, a trip that lasted several weeks across the open sea. It was the ultimate test of his seamanship and he loved it.
Richard is survived by wife, Marie; daughters, Debbie, Diane and Ellie; sons, Tommy and Brian; grandchildren, Shannon, Chris, Vanessa, Naudia and Dylan; and the light of his life, great-granddaughter, Katelynn.
We were fortunate that we were able to enjoy his daughter’s wedding last September in Idaho and a nice local family vacation two weeks before his passing near his home in Lower Lake that leaves us with positive thoughts of a man who loved life, cars, the sea and most of all his family. We will miss him greatly until we all meet again.
Condolences can be sent to Marie Howard, P.O. Box 1763, Lower Lake, CA 95457.
“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings”
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Sept. 22, at 1 p.m. at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave., in the North Room. A celebration of life with food and refreshments will follow until 4 p.m. The Vet Building shares the parking lot with the Sonoma County Fairgrounds and with other events at the building. There may be an attendant, parking is free if you tell them you’re attending an event at the Vet Center. Do not pay for parking. Parking is best for this at the northwest corner of the building, signs will be evident to direct you inside.
Flowers not necessary, just come and share your treasured memories of Richard.
