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Obituary/death notice. Victoria Duarte Cordova, the great-great-granddaughter of the Mexican corporal who founded the city of Duarte, died January 20 of natural causes. She was a scholar of local history. She was 92.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 22, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 22, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Cordova, Victoria Duarte
Grand Lady of Duarte
Item ID
29556AN
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Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice. Former Arcadia Unified School District superintendent died Sunday at his Carlsbad home.

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See also obit in Los Angeles Times (May 1, 2004),
Date
May 13, 2004
Pages
p. B11
Pasadena Star News
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See also obit in Los Angeles Times (May 1, 2004),
Date
May 13, 2004
Pages
p. B11
Pasadena Star News
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Ryan, Edward Vernon, Jr.
Arcadia Educators
Schools - Superintendent
Item ID
28429AN
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Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice. Four-time Arcadia mayor Charles Gilb, 83, died at his Arcadia home from malignant melanoma.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31009
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 21, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 21, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Civic leaders
Gilb, Charles - biography
Mayors
Item ID
31204AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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.

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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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Jack Laidlaw and his daughter Jessica Laidlaw will ride the Trader Joe's float in the Rose Parade. Jack Laidlaw is a film and art teacher at Arcadia High School. His home at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park was lost in the Sayre fire in November, 2008.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2009
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School teachers
Educators
Floats
Laidlaw, Jack
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade - 2009
Trader Joe's grocery store
Item ID
31546AN
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Newspaper Index
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Disney animation pioneer Ward Kimball died Monday, July 8, at Arcadia Methodist Hospital.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 9, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 9, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Kimball, Walt
Item ID
24161AN
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Local businessman Clayton Schubert of Arcadia died March 28. He was a longtime community volunteer and founder of Space Bank Ltd. in Pasadena.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2003
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2003
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Schubert, Clayton
Item ID
25510AN
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Newspaper Index
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Richard Robert Russo, convicted in the murder of his wife Carmen, hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell at Wasco State Prison. He died Sunday, October 15, 2006.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Russo, Carmen
Russo murder
Russo, Richard Robert
Suicide
Item ID
30427AN
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Newspaper Index
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Teacher Brandon Michael Landreth, 30, of Pasadena, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Pasadena Superior Court. He allegedly confessed to his ex-wife that he shot 25-year old Justo Cesar Morales to death at his parents' Canyon Road home in Northern Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Landreth, Brandon Michael
Morales, Justo Cesar
Murders
Item ID
31173AN
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Newspaper Index
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A Scots or Scottish pioneer Hugo Reid, came to Southern California in 1832, from Scotland. He was the first private owner of Rancho Santa Anita and an elementary in Arcadia carries his name.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 25
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 25
Subjects
Reid, Hugo--biography
Item ID
33507AN
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Obituary/death notice. William Christian Norgaard, a Danish baker who made this area his home, has died at the age of 106. Biography and photo. See hard copy in VF "Deaths."

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2008
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2008
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p. A4
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Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Norgaard, William Christian - biography
Item ID
31279AN
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Dr. William "Bill" Kaplan, the first geneticist at City of Hope, died November 6 of heart failure. During his retirement, Kaplan helped direct volunteers who ran Arcadia Public Library's bookstore.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2002
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2002
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Kaplan, William D "Bill" (Dr)
Arcadia Public Library-2000-2009
City of Hope
Item ID
24988AN
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Frank Guzman, who was shot by deputies after barricading himself inside his trailer, died of his wounds.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 4, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 4, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Shooting
Santa Anita Village Mobile Home Park
Guzman, Frank
Item ID
25580AN
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A statue of Arcadia pioneer Hugo Reid and his family, including the dog, will be dedicated in a ceremony at the Arcadia Historical Museum.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28423
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Hugo Reid family statue - dedication
Silverlake Conservation
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Item ID
28617AN
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Bradbury resident Richard Dootson, founder of the Arcadia-based Dootson School of Trucking, died from a heart attack and brain hemorrhage on Tuesday, May 24, 2005. He was 79 and famous for his wacky television commercials.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Dootson, Richard
Dootson School of Trucking
Obituary / death notice
Business and Industry
Item ID
29724AN
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Newspaper Index
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Frank Kurtz fatally ran over his wife Rose in the driveway of their Arcadia home when he accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 9, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 9, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Kurtz, Frank
Kurtz, Rose
Item ID
24162AN
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Senior citizens competed in the Senior Olympics powerlifting event held at the home gym of Arcadia personal trainer Harry Sneider as part of the California Senior Games Championships. The highlight of the games was seeing 89-year-old Eugene Mailin lift 140 pounds, winning gold in his weight division. Other participants named were 53-year-old Val Olotoa and 75-year-old Ernie Smith. Legendary competitor Beatrice Maullin died two weeks before the games began.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 1, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 1, 2009
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Mailin, Eugene
Maullin, Beatrice
Olotoa, Val
Senior Olympics
Smith, Ernie
Sneider, Harry
Sports competitions
Weight lifting
Item ID
31745AN
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Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice. Restaurateur Sue Campoy, who owned and operated Julienne in San Marino, CA, has died of breast cancer. She died on March 4, at the age of 70. She was born in Arcadia on February 10, 1939.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 7, 2009
Pages
p. A3
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Campoy, Sue
Julienne (restaurant) - San Marino, CA
Item ID
31594AN
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Newspaper Index
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Fuller ethics professor Lewis Smedes died at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia on Thursday, Dec. 19th. Dr. Smedes was a pioneer in forgiveness research and the author of more than 15 books.

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Newspaper
Los Angeles Times
Date
Dec. 21, 2002 LATimes
Dec. 22, 2002 Star News
Pages
p. B16
Pasadena Star News
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Los Angeles Times
Date
Dec. 21, 2002 LATimes
Dec. 22, 2002 Star News
Pages
p. B16
Pasadena Star News
Subjects
Smedes, Lewis
Item ID
25029AN
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Newspaper Index
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Profile and biography of jockey George Woolf, also known as Iceman. Woolf rode race horse Seabiscuit to fame in 1938. He died in 1946. There is a statue in his memory at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33305
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Jockeys
Statuary
Woolf, George
Item ID
33501AN
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Newspaper Index
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