The Beach Reporter Obituaries

Palos Verdes Estates, California

Richard ("Dick") Franklin Miller, 82, passed away peacefully on January 12, 2019. He was born on February 10, 1936, in Alhambra, California, to his parents James and Clara. Dick attended Caltech, Northwestern University and the University of Southern California, earning...

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Martha Louise Van Liere (nee McRae) passed away peacefully at the age of 97 on 7 November, 2018 at her home in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She was born on July 1, 1921 in Florala, Alabama, the daughter of Amanuel Thomas (A.T.) McRae and Ina Pearl (Adams) McRae, where she...

Manhattan Beach, California

Richard passed away peacefully at home at the age of 81 after silently enduring Parkinson's Disease for 35 years. He was born in Detroit, Michigan where he proudly attended Catholic Central High School. He then went to the University of Michigan where he received a Degree in...

Torrance, California

In loving memory of our mother, Dorothy Jean Laduke Neil . She passed away peacefully at her home in Manhattan Beach, California. She, and her older brother, Art, were born on a farm in Vinland, Kansas, to Edith and Raymond Laduke. Eventually they moved to Lecompton,...

Hermosa Beach, California

Charles Scott Johnston was born on May 2, 1961 and raised in Hermosa Beach and a resident of Redondo Beach for the past twenty years. CJ/ Charlie was passionate about many things including life, family, friends, fitness and rescuing many German Shepherds over the years. He...

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Ed Perry embraced the adventure of entrepreneurship. He died suddenly on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 at age 77, closing out a full week of work, a morning personal best on the golf course, an afternoon watching college football and a quiet dinner at home in Rancho Palos Verdes,...

Hermosa Beach, California

Cetha Walkington Ericson August 20, 1951 - November 20, 2018 Cetha Walkington Ericson was born in Palos Verdes, California on August 20, 1951 to parents Virginia Parsons and Marine Corps Major Floyd Duke Walkington. On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at the age of 67, she passed...

Hermosa Beach, California

Longtime Manhattan Beach resident John Heil died peacefully on Nov. 9th, surrounded by his loving family. He had a long and fulfilling life, growing up the oldest of 5 children in a working class East Boston tenement, going on to have a successful career, family, and...

Manhattan Beach, California

Joan passed away October 13, 2018 at our home in Indian Wells, California. She is survived by Dave Hornbecker, her husband of 42 years, her brother Robert Koerner and his wife Jennifer from Mableton, Georgia and her brother John Koerner and his wife Melissa from Long Beach,...

Palos Verdes, California

Dorothy (Dot) Ringer passed peacefully while surrounded by loved ones in her Paso Robles home on Wednesday October 17th, 2018. She was born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1938 to Mother Edith Canfield and Father Walter, to be joined two years later by younger sister Carol. She...

Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Dorothy L. Van Nice (nee Costley) passed away suddenly, quickly and painlessly in her sleep on Tuesday, 9 October 2018. Loving and beloved, Dee was a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, sister-in-law, aunt and friend. She is survived by her husband Bob , children Dan...

Torrance, California

Thomas H. Kilpatrick, 83, of Torrance, California, died at home on August 18, 2018. He was born on December 2, 1934 to H. Cecil Kilpatrick and Bessie Smith Kilpatrick in Washington, DC. After early education in St. Albans School, Thom received a BA in journalism from George...