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Richard Knerr, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., the toy company that made the Hula Hoop, Slip 'N Slide, Silly String and Frisbee, died at Arcadia Methodist Hospital after suffering a stroke in his Arcadia home. He was 83.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30891
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Deaths
Knerr, Richard - biography
Obituaries
Toy makers
Wham-O Inc. - history
Item ID
31079AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia physician Edward N. Horner died on Monday at the age of 69.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1744
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 29, 1991
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 29, 1991
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Horner, Edward N.
Item ID
1743AN
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Newspaper Index
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Ex-police chief William M. Cahill, who served as Arcadia's chief of police between 1947 and 1951, died at age 101.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2238
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 28, 1987
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 28, 1987
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Police - Cahill, William M.
Item ID
2212AN
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Newspaper Index
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Renn'e Galindo, who served as a coach in Arcadia Pinto-Pony Baseball for 20 years, died.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1653
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 12, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 12, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Galindo, Renn'e
Item ID
1652AN
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Newspaper Index
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Ling Yu, 53, of Arcadia, and her sister Meichun Cheng Huang, 58, of Irvine, were sentenced to 37 months in prison for using their toy company, Angel Toy Company to launder money for Colombian drug cartels. Federal prosecutors said the toy company was a financial conduit for drug cartels in a scheme commonly known as the black market peso exchange.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32822
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2012
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2012
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Angel Toy Company
Crime and Criminals
Huang, Meichun Cheng
Yu, Ling
Item ID
33019AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arthur Tucker, former Arcadia school administrator, died September 15 after a long bout with cancer. Tucker served as Principal at Holly Avenue, Highland Oaks and Camino Grove Schools.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2957
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 20, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 20, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Tucker, Arthur L.
Item ID
2884AN
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Newspaper Index
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Robert Zook, co-founder of Douglass and Zook Mortuary in Monrovia, has died at the age of 78. His is the second oldest business in Monrovia. The article includes a biography.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29794
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2005
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2005
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Zook, Robert ("Bob")
Business and Industry
Douglass and Zook Mortuary
Deaths
Item ID
29979AN
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Newspaper Index
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The man who died in a Pasadena police Taser gun incident was 36-year old Richard Baisner of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30606
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Baisner, Richard
Deaths
Pasadena Police
Taser stun guns
Weapons
Item ID
30794AN
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Arcadia 16-year-old Roger A. Lewis, who was struck by a car while bicycling, has died. The accident occurred over the weekend at Santa Anita Avenue and Duarte Road. The driver who struck Lewis was driving a 2008 Chrysler Sebring. Lewis was a former student at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33257
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 25, 2012
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Deaths
Lewis, Roger A.
Traffic Accidents
Item ID
33454AN
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Thirty-year Arcadia resident, volunteer and community activist Lois Vanlandingham died on April 11, at the age of 64.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3551
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 18, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 18, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Vanlandingham, Lois
Item ID
3432AN
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Newspaper Index
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The orchid houses at the Arboretum received $844,000 from the will of Huber S. Spahr, a Los Angeles teacher who died 2 years ago at age 63.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3645
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 15, 1994
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 15, 1994
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
3520AN
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Newspaper Index
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Obituary and article about Mary K. Jillson Waite, 50-year Arcadia resident, who died June 28, 1979 at the age of 72.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3561
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1979
Pages
p. D-1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 5, 1979
Pages
p. D-1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Waite, Mary K. Jillson
Item ID
3441AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia resident Henry"Red" Austin, who helped start the private Highpoint Academy in Pasadena and worked as a dentist in Alhambra for more than 25 years, died Thursday at the age of 69.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper560
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Austin, Henry "Red"
Item ID
560AN
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Newspaper Index
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Roy R. Long, a 50-year Arcadia resident who opened Roy Long's Men's Shop in 1947, died on November 5 at the age of 88.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper7989
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 1996
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 1996
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Long, Roy
Item ID
7952AN
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Stuart Hamblen, a country-gospel singer and former Arcadia resident who raced his horses at Santa Anita Park has died at the age of 80.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1680
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Hamblen, Stuart
Item ID
1679AN
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A 61-year-old construction worker who died after being run over by a bulldozer while working to level a vacant residential lot in Arcadia last month was identified as Sirpriano Dorame-Martinez of South Gate. The accident took place April 15 in the 900 block of Monte Verde Drive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34554
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Deaths
Dorame-Martinez, Sirpriano
Item ID
34746AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 55-year-old Arcadia man was shot dead at Chantry Flat Campground on April 28, 2011. His name has not been released. He died at Huntington Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32387
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chantry Flat Campground
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Shootings
Item ID
32585AN
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Newspaper Index
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Lyman Cozad, who served as city manager of Arcadia from 1966 to 1977, died earlier this month. He was 86.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper20244
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2001
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Cozad, Lyman
Item ID
20477AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dr. Herbert Speizer, the first podiatrist to establish a practice in Arcadia, has died at age 70.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6696
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 1996
Pages
p. A4 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 1996
Pages
p. A4 photo
Subjects
Speizer, Herbert
Item ID
6505AN
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Newspaper Index
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More details surface on the death of Arcadia man Richard Baisner, who died after Pasadena police shocked him with a Taser gun.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30615
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 10, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 10, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Baisner, Richard
Deaths
Pasadena Police
Taser stun guns
Weapons
Item ID
30803AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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