RIVERSIDE COUNTY CALIFORNIA TRANSCRIBED OBITUARIES
last update 10-24-2010
ALLUMMBAUGH, NORMAN HERSCHEL
 Obit: Norman Herschel Allumbaugh, 92, of Hemet, CA., passed away Saturday, May
8, 2004, at Hemet Valley Medical Center in Hemet, CA. Norman was employed by
National Distillers as a marketing executive in the Southern California area for
thirty years. At the age of 70 he started his second career with Perrier Water
Co. in Southern California. Norman was a Past Exalted Ruler of the Elks Lodge
888 in Long Beach, CA. He was the son of the late William Allumbaugh and the
late Maggie (Skiles) Allumbaugh. He is survived by his wife, Doris D. (Wells)
Allumbaugh; sons, Byron Allumbaugh of Newport Beach, Ca, Steven Allumbaugh of
Menifee, CA and stepson, Richard Broos of Hemet, Ca; one step daughter, Donna Grayson of Atlanta, GA; seven grandchildren; and fifteen great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are being handled by Miller-Jones Mortuary-Sun City, 26770 Murrieta
Road, Sun City, CA. Funeral service will be at Miller-Jones, Sun City at 11
a.m., Wednesday, May 12, 2004.Interment will be at Menifee Valley Memorial Park
in Sun City, CA. [Long Beach Press-Telegram  Submitted By Ida Maack Recu]
ATKINS, EVELYN ADELIA
Death Claims Girl Eighteen Years Old
Miss Evelyn Adelia Atkins, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Atkins, passed away Monday morning, June 24, at the family home on North Montrose Avenue, San Jacinto, following a lengthy illness. Miss Atkins was a native daughter of San Jacinto, born here September 27, 1916.Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at the Harford Funeral Home, with Rev. N. Zilich, pastor of the First Christian Church of Hemet, officiating. Vocal numbers were sung by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Scholes. Interment was in the Valley Cemetery, pallbearers being Billy Murray, Arthur Mathews, Joe Elliott, Jimmy Ryan, Harold Webster, and Lloyd Martindale. Besides her parents, Miss Atkins leaves two brothers, Kenneth William Atkins and Robert Thomas Atkins, of San Jacinto; a sister, Mrs. Edith M. Land of Hollister; her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Kennedy of San Jacinto and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hampton of San Diego, and an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. William Kneen of Los Angeles. [Hemet News, June 28, 1935. Submitted by Kathie Marynik]
ATKINS, KENNETH W.
WITH THE BOYS IN THE SERVICE
Word of the death in Germany of Kenneth Atkins, former San Jacinto High School student, was received this week by his grandfather, S. E. Kennedy and his aunt, Mrs. William Kneen, both of San Jacinto. The 23-year-old soldier died in an army of occupation hospital from chest wounds received in battle during the invasion. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Atkins, formerly of San Jacinto, now living in San Diego.[Submitter’s note: Death date was Jan. 10, 1946.The News [Hemet Friday, February 1, 1946. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
McERLANE, PATRICK
Death of Patrick McErlanePatrick McErlane died Sunday afternoon at 4:20 o’clock. Mr. McErlane had been sitting for some time. The end was peaceful and that was a comfort to his devoted nieces – Miss Mary McErlane and Miss Dora McErlane. For eighteen years Miss Mary McErlane has paid the most devoted attention to the old gentleman’s declining years. Three years ago, Mr. McErlane had a stroke of paralysis, and Miss Mary sent for her sister Miss Dora, and the devotion of the two ladies to the uncle they loved so much has endeared them to our Petaluma friends. Patrick McErlane was born the 16th day of March, 1822, at Limerick County, Derry, Ireland. On May 13th, 1847, having left England, he arrived at New York. In New Hamburg of New York State, he worked for his cousin in a large grocery and dry good store. Next he decided to reach California. He sailed to Panama and found that his ticket from that region to this state was a fake. At Panama, he secured a passage to San Francisco for $130. After being out sixty days in an unfavorable wind – they could not get passage on the regular steamer – this captain made for San Blas on the Mexican coast which they reached five days later. Next they were obliged to put in at Honolulu. After leaving San Blas, an awful tragedy occurred. A young German was cooling some coffee, pouring it from one tin cup to another. The cups were his own property. A Kentuckian demanded one of the cups. In a scuffle, the handle of one of the cups was torn off and in a rage the Kentuckian shot the German through the heart, killing him instantly. Much indignation was felt at the cold-blooded murder. The passengers held a meeting and turned the murderer over to the captain. The latter was afraid of a mutiny and turned his prisoner back to the passengers. A jury decided to hang the murderer. Mr. McErlane wanted the prisoner put in irons and dealt with by a proper court of justice when the shore was reached. They hanged the prisoner to a yardarm but afterwards admitted that Mr. McErlane was right. At Honolulu about fifty passengers, among whom was Mr. McErlane, chartered a vessel for San Francisco. After being out fifty-one days, they sighted Bolinas in Marine County and as the ship was in some danger, the first officer, Mr. McErlane, and others, took a small boat and landed at Bolinas. They walked ten miles to Olema where Mr. McErlane got employment at a sawmill. He left Bolinas in 1852 after spending much time in farming and milling. In 1855 Mr. McErlane married Margaret Cronin in San Francisco. For years he had a hotel in San Francisco, In April 1868 he came to Cherry Valley where he planted a fine orchard and remained until the day of his death. Mrs. McErlane died in 1873. Two children were born of the union, one died at the age of two weeks. A son, Charles McEnlane, died in 1904, aged 47 years. Besides other relatives, he leaves his two nieces, daughters of his brother Charles who traveled so much with him. The ladies, as has been previously stated, live at the home in Cherry Valley. The funeral will take place Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock from the home, thence to St. Vincent’s Church where a requiem high mass will be celebrated. The loved one will rest in Calvary. [NEWSPAPER: unknown, 2-26-1908. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
KENNEDY, EUNICE ADELIA
EUNICE A. KENNEDY, PIONEER RESIDENT, DIES AT S. J. HOME – Funeral Held Monday For Wife of First American in ValleyMrs. Eunice Adelia Kennedy, 80, resident of San Jacinto since 1907, died Saturday morning at her home at 289 Brown Avenue. She was the wife of Samuel E. Kennedy, who arrived in the San Jacinto Valley with his father in 1867 or 1868 and were the first persons not of Spanish or Mexican extraction to settle here.Funeral services were conducted Monday morning at the Harford Funeral Home at Hemet by the Rev. N. Zilich of Yucaipa, former pastor of the First Christian Church of Hemet, of which Mrs. Kennedy was a member. Interment was in the San Jacinto Valley Cemetery.Besides her husband, Mrs. Kennedy leaves two daughters, Mrs. Echo L. Atkins of San Diego and Mrs. Violet M. Kneen of San Jacinto and four grandchildren. Mrs. Kennedy, born December 19, 1861, in Dubuque County, Iowa, came west to Oregon as a girl with her parents in a covered wagon. In 1867, S. H. Kennedy and his son, Sam Kennedy, left the San Jacinto Valley to a ranch at Oregon City, 12 miles south of Portland. There, in 1890, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were married and remained six more years, operating a loom in a woolen mill. In 1896, they moved to Sacramento where for a year they had a vineyard.Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy then settled on a dairy ranch at Watts Station south of Los Angeles and remained there nine years. After spending one more year in Sacramento, they came to the San Jacinto Valley and until 1937 lived on a dairy ranch between Montrose and San Jacinto streets. The Rev. Mr. Zilich was assisted by the Rev. L. C. Anderson, present pastor of the church. Vocal selections were by Mrs. Frazier M. Sallee and Mrs. Thomas Handcock. Pallbearers were John H. Parker, Alfred A. Nolte, E. L. Gregg, Frank M. Hunter, Otis Smith, and Harvey Graves. [Hemet News, August 21, 1942. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
KENNEDY, GLADYS A.
Death Of Gladys Kennedy
After a lingering illness, the death of Gladys Kennedy occurred Monday morning at 3 o’clock, and on Tuesday afternoon the funeral services were held, Rev. A. T. Felix officiating. The little girl was 13 years of age, and in her untimely death the sorrowing parents and family have the deepest sympathy of the community.
Card of Thanks
We desire to express our appreciation of the kindness and sympathy our friends have shown us in our bereavement in the death of our beloved daughter, Gladys. Also for the many floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy [Samuel E. and Eunice A. Kennedy]  [San Jacinto Register, Thursday, June 1, 1911. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
KENNEDY, SAMUEL EDWARD
MEMBER OF FIRST WHITE FAMILY IN VALLEY PASSES – Widely Known Resident Came Here in 1867 With Father from Iowa
The valley lost one of its very earliest pioneers last week when Samuel E. Kennedy, 86, passed away Thursday night at the Bourbonnais rest home in Hemet where he had been a patient for some time. Funeral services for Mr. Kennedy were conducted Monday afternoon at the Harford Funeral Home by the Rev. A. T. Goodwin, pastor of the Union Church of San Jacinto. Mrs. Thomas Handcock and Mrs. Frazier M. Sallee, both of San Jacinto, sang two duets during the funeral service, “Ivory Palaces” and “Good Night Here, Good Morning Up There.” Interment was in the family plot in the San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, where Mr. Kennedy’s wife was buried four years ago. Pallbearers were Albert Carlson, Thomas Handcock, Harvey Graves, R. W. Meyer, Ben Thomas, and Y. J. Allen.Mr. Kennedy is survived by two draughts, Mrs. Violet M. Kneen of San Jacinto and Mrs. Echo L. Atkins of San Diego, and by three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.Born in Jackson County, Iowa, on April 1, 1860, Mr. Kennedy came to San Jacinto with his father, S. H. Kennedy, in 1867. He and the members of their party are believed to be the first people not of Spanish or Mexican extraction to settle in the valley. In addition to the father and son and other members of their immediate family, the pioneer party included also the families of Joseph Kennedy and Duke Worthington. The Estudillo and Pico families owned land in the valley at that time but did not live here. It was not until a year later, Mr. Kennedy has recounted to friends, that the family of Pancho Pico came here to live.Mr. Kennedy was only one year old when a wagon train, captained by his father, came to California from Iowa in 1861. The Kennedys lived in Sacramento for about six years, until 1867, when the elder Kennedy purchased 2100 acres of the original Estudillo grant here, at 45 cents an acre, and began to raise cattle. On the Kennedy ranch was built the first frame structure in the valley. The Kennedys also built the first schoolhouse here in 1868. Located west of the intersection of Young Street and DeAnza Drive, the schoolhouse was constructed of cottonwood timbers, and young Sam was among its first students. It was not until 1872 that San Jacinto’s first store was built, Mr. Kennedy often recalled.Ducks and geese by the thousands reared their young in the seven-mile long San Jacinto Lake, and herds of antelope sped across the lush grass of the valley when Mr. Kennedy was a boy of seven. With a memory that was remarkably clear up to within a short time of his death, Mr. Kennedy has described how the entire valley was clothed in tall, nutritious grass that changed into scrubby brush in the foothills, and that the only trees were scattered clumps of cottonwood, with an occasional sycamore.In 1876 the elder Kennedy sold his land and moved to Oregon City, 12 miles south of Portland. While in Oregon, Sam spent 13 years operating a loom in a woolen mill. Mr. Kennedy was married in 1890, and he and his wife, Eunice Adelaide Kennedy, moved to Sacramento six years later where they had a vineyard. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy then settled on a dairy ranch at Watts Station, south of Los Angeles, and remained there for nine years. After spending one more year in Sacramento, they came back to the San Jacinto Valley and until 1897 operated a dairy ranch between Montrose and San Jacinto streets. Mrs. Kennedy passed away on August 15, 1942.Mr. Kennedy occupied his later years in writing songs and poems, and tinkering with various inventions. Notable among these was the Kennedy roller scraper and a motor tricycle which ran indefinitely on a gallon of gasoline and which carried him all over the valley on business connected with the sale of various garden tools which he had perfected. [Hemet News, December 27, 1946. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
KNEEN, WILLIAM
WILLIAM KNEEN FUNERAL TODAY
William Edger Kneen, 59, a resident of the valley for the past 13 years, died shortly after noon Tuesday in the Hemet Community Hospital where he had been taken the previous evening. Funeral services will be held this morning (Friday) at 10 AM in the Harford Funeral Home. The Rev. A. Red Goodwin, pastor of the San Jacinto Union Church, will be in charge.Mr. Kneen was a World War I veteran, and military honors will be paid following the funeral at graveside rites in the San Jacinto Valley Cemetery. Valley veterans’ organizations will officiate. Mr. Kneen was born in Crawford, Nebraska, February 11, 1892, and came to California 39 years ago. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Violet N. Kneen, and a sister, Mrs. Edith Crawford of Tustin. [Hemet News, July 27, 1951. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
McERLANE, PATRICK
Death of Patrick McErlane
Patrick McErlane died Sunday afternoon at 4:20 o’clock. Mr. McErlane had been sitting for some time. The end was peaceful and that was a comfort to his devoted nieces – Miss Mary McErlane and Miss Dora McErlane. For eighteen years Miss Mary McErlane has paid the most devoted attention to the old gentleman’s declining years. Three years ago, Mr. McErlane had a stroke of paralysis, and Miss Mary sent for her sister Miss Dora, and the devotion of the two ladies to the uncle they loved so much has endeared them to our Petaluma friends. Patrick McErlane was born the 16th day of March, 1822, at Limerick County, Derry, Ireland. On May 13th, 1847, having left England, he arrived at New York. In New Hamburg of New York State, he worked for his cousin in a large grocery and dry good store. Next he decided to reach California. He sailed to Panama and found that his ticket from that region to this state was a fake. At Panama, he secured a passage to San Francisco for $130. After being out sixty days in an unfavorable wind – they could not get passage on the regular steamer – this captain made for San Blas on the Mexican coast which they reached five days later. Next they were obliged to put in at Honolulu. After leaving San Blas, an awful tragedy occurred. A young German was cooling some coffee, pouring it from one tin cup to another. The cups were his own property. A Kentuckian demanded one of the cups. In a scuffle, the handle of one of the cups was torn off and in a rage the Kentuckian shot the German through the heart, killing him instantly. Much indignation was felt at the cold-blooded murder. The passengers held a meeting and turned the murderer over to the captain. The latter was afraid of a mutiny and turned his prisoner back to the passengers. A jury decided to hang the murderer. Mr. McErlane wanted the prisoner put in irons and dealt with by a proper court of justice when the shore was reached. They hanged the prisoner to a yardarm but afterwards admitted that Mr. McErlane was right. At Honolulu about fifty passengers, among whom was Mr. McErlane, chartered a vessel for San Francisco. After being out fifty-one days, they sighted Bolinas in Marine County and as the ship was in some danger, the first officer, Mr. McErlane, and others, took a small boat and landed at Bolinas. They walked ten miles to Olema where Mr. McErlane got employment at a sawmill. He left Bolinas in 1852 after spending much time in farming and milling. In 1855 Mr. McErlane married Margaret Cronin in San Francisco. For years he had a hotel in San Francisco, In April 1868 he came to Cherry Valley where he planted a fine orchard and remained until the day of his death. Mrs. McErlane died in 1873. Two children were born of the union, one died at the age of two weeks. A son, Charles McEnlane, died in 1904, aged 47 years. Besides other relatives, he leaves his two nieces, daughters of his brother Charles who traveled so much with him. The ladies, as has been previously stated, live at the home in Cherry Valley. The funeral will take place Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock from the home, thence to St. Vincent’s Church where a requiem high mass will be celebrated. The loved one will rest in Calvary. [Unknown newspaper, 2/26/1908. Submitted by Kathie Marynik.]
WIESNER, HELEN
HELEN WIESNER, 83, died Friday at Ramona Manor Nursing Center in Hemet. A native of Austria, Mrs. Wiesner lived in Nuevo 10 years. She was a waitress at the Horse Shoe Club in Gardena for 30 years. Mrs. Wiesner was a parishioner of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Sun City. She is survived by a daughter, Sandra La Mance of Nuevo; a son, Harry of Texas; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother, Frank Halvachs of Illinois. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today at Riverside National Cemetery. Miller-Jones Mortuary in Perris is handling arrangements. [Riverside Press Enterprise 12-4-2002. Submitted by BLCW]
WIESNER, NORMA
Norma E. Wiesner, 76, died Saturday of heart disease at Alta Vista Healthcare in Riverside. Private family services will be held. Burial will be private. Acheson and Graham Garden of Prayer Mortuary in Riverside is handling arrangements. Mrs. Wiesner was born in Savannah, Ga., and lived in Riverside for 50 years. She was a saleswoman for The Press-Enterprise and retired in 1965. She was an accomplished musician and dancer who performed with the San Francisco Company ballet. She also enjoyed gardening. Mrs. Wiesner is survived by three daughters, Emilie Gorham and Anne Craven of Riverside and Elizabeth Wiesner of Walnut Creek; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. [Riverside Press Enterprise 8-25-1997. Submitted by BLCW]
WOODERSON, SHILAH VENICE
Services for Shilah Venice Wooderson, 83, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Miller-Jones Mortuary in Hemet. She died of kidney failure Friday at Manor Care Health Services in Hemet. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale. Mrs. Wooderson, who was born in Fairport, Iowa, lived in Hemet 14 years. She was a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening, flowers, animals and playing in a weekly neighborhood card game. Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Owen, and a sister, Juanita Brewer of Burbank. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Hemet Hospice, 890 W. Stetson Ave., Suite B, Hemet, 92543. Press-Enterprise, The (Riverside, CA)
Date: April 18, 1999
Edition: HEMET-SAN JACINTO Submitted by BLCW
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