Ruth Ann Walls
Dec. 3, 1915 - July 28, 2006
Ruth Ann walls, 90, of San Diego died Friday. She was born in Haileyville, Okla., and was a secretary for Pacific
Telephone.
Survivors include her nieces, Sherry Pio, Gayle Miller of Arcadia and Debbie Lurwill of Lakeside and
nephew Jeff
Walls of Hidden Valley Lake.
Services: Greenwood Mortuary
Entombment: Greenwood Bible Mausoleum.
San Diego Union - Tribune, Wednesday, August 2, 2006 pg.B5 [contributed by: Candi Horton, 2007
LAUGHLIN WATERS Federal Judge, former Assemblyman 87
Laughlin E.
Waters, a former state assemblyman who briefly ran for governor, has died. He
was 87.
He died Monday at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of natural causes, officials said.
Judge
Waters was named a U.S. District judge in 1976 by
President Ford and served
for 10 years before taking senior
status, which cuts a judge's caseload in half.
Judge Waters was known
for handing down tough sentences in violent and drug-related crimes. He also
handled infringement cases and contract disputes, presiding over matters to
revamp special education in
Los Angeles school and allow street entertainers in
Venice Beach to continue
their performances.
Born in
Los Angeles, Judge waters led a rifle company onto
Utah Beach in
Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. His efforts in France earned him the
Bronze Star and a
Purple Heart with cluster.
Before serving on the federal bench, Judge Waters was elected to the California
Assembly in 1946.
Judge Waters left the
Legislature seven years later and was named by President Eisenhower as
U.S. attorney for what was then California's Southern District, based in Los
Angeles.
In 1965, Judge Waters announced he would seek the Republican
nomination for governor. But several months after announcing his decision, he
withdrew from the race because he thought former
San Francisco Mayor
George Christopher could defeat conservative
Ronald Reagan in the primary.
In the Nixon administration, Judge
Waters was named consultant to international conferences in London and Prague
and was appointed a member of the White Huse Conference on Aging.
He is
survived by his wife, Voula; son Laughlin Jr.; and four daughters, Maura,
Deirdre, Megan and Eileen. San Diego Union-Tribune (California)
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Wadham Rites Set; Son of Ex-Mayor
James Edward Wadham Jr., 57, son of a former San Diego mayor, died Thursday in a Los Angeles rest home. Services will be held at 1 PM tomorrow in Johnson-Saum & Knobel Mortuary. Interment will be in Greenwood Memorial Park. Wadham was the son of James Edward Wadham Sr. who was mayor of San Diego from 1911 to 1916. He was a native of San Diego and served as San Diego personnel manager for Standard Stations, Inc. for 19 years. He was a member of the San Diego Rowing Club and the Delta Sigma fraternity. Wadham is survived by his widow, Irene; a son, James Edward III; and a daughter, Jacqueline Wadham. [San Diego Union, Monday, 8-6-1962. Submitted by K. Marynik]