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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21146
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Barnes, John F.
Item ID
21375AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36476
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 14, 2023
Pages
p. A7
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 14, 2023
Pages
p. A7
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Barnes, John
Rocha, Isidro "Chilo"
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30866
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 7, 2008
Pages
p. News 4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 7, 2008
Pages
p. News 4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Barnes, Donald A.
Item ID
31054AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34580
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 28, 2016
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 28, 2016
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Barnes, Alice Jane O'Connor
Item ID
34772AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mark Verge resigns as Santa Anita Park CEO. No replacement has been named. George Haines will remain the track's General Manager.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33260
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Haines, George
Santa Anita Park--2011-2022--employees
Verge, Mark
Item ID
33457AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16956
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 1999
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 1999
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Barnes, David
Babich, Ruth Jean
Item ID
14384AN
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John Shear, a 90-year-old paddock guard at Santa Anita Park, has been hospitalized for putting himself between a 6-year-old girl and a charging race horse called See and Sage. The girl was not hurt but Shear had several broken bones.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32344
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2011
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2011
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-employees
Shear, John
Item ID
32542AN
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Santa Anita Park track honors retired paddock captain John Shear. He is 100 years old. A plaque was unveiled that honors his commitment to customer service and safety, located just outside the Seabiscuit Walking Ring. Friday was declared John Shear Day. His job was ensuring the safety of the horses and the people around them in the area where horses are saddled and paraded before being taken onto the track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36062
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
p. A3
Pages
October 2, 2021
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
p. A3
Pages
October 2, 2021
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Santa Anita Park employees
Shear, John
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Celebrating ponies and palaces. Santa Anita Park fetes paddock captain John Shear on his 99th birthday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35645
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 27, 2020
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 27, 2020
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Nonagenarians
Santa Anita Park employees
Shear, John
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John Shear is turning 93 years old. He is celebrated as an everyday hero. He is a Santa Anita Park racetrack worker whose quick response saved a toddler's life on March 12, 2011. He was hurt then, but is surviving.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33706
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 12, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--People--employees
Shear, John
Item ID
33901AN
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32486
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2011
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2011
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Sanchez, Danny (Santa Anita Park retired gardener)
Item ID
32685AN
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28817
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2004
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2004
Pages
p. A4
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Fuson, George, Jr.
Lemieux, Gardner John
Item ID
29009AN
Collection
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26988
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 10, 2003
Pages
p. A6
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 10, 2003
Pages
p. A6
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Perry, Ann Norman
LaBar, John George
Item ID
27187AN
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Santa Anita Park honors longtime Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants scout George Genovese today by naming the 10th and final race "Happy 90th George Genovese."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32816
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2012
Pages
p. C2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2012
Pages
p. C2
Subjects
Genovese, George
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Item ID
33013AN
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Santa Anita Park will reduce its work force by merging departments. More than 100 full-time and seasonal positions will be affected--including some layoffs and some full-time positions becoming part-time positions, said Greg Avioli, CEO and President of Stronach Entertainment, the track's parent company. The shift to off-track betting and account wagering has brought less revenue to the race track.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32559
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 6, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 6, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Avioli, Greg
Economy
Employees
Haines, George
Horse racing industry
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020
Item ID
32758AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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John Shear (pictured), a 5-foot, 110-pound, 90-year-old paddock supervisor at Santa Anita Park, nearly lost his life when he threw himself in the path of a runaway horse on March 12 to protect a little girl he didn't know. He has worked seasonally for Santa Anita Park for nearly 50 years. He sustained a fractured pelvis and other injuries but is recuperating at home now. He is a hero.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32386
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020--employees
Shear, John
Item ID
32584AN
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Paddock guard John Shear, a hero who was injured saving a girl from a runaway horse, has returned to work at Santa Anita Park. He turns 91 years old next month. He is a 5 foot tall, 110 pound Sierra Madre resident and sustained a fractured pelvis, internal bleeding and other injuries when he had a head-on collision with horse "Sea and Sage" on March 12, 2011.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32700
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Heroes
Santa Anita Park--2011-2020--employees
Shear, John
Item ID
32897AN
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Newspaper Index
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John Shear is gone but never forgotten at Santa Anita Park. Retired Paddock Captain John Shear died Tuesday at a rehabilitation facility in Arcadia. He was 102 years old.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36603
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
p. B4
Pages
December 15, 2023
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
p. B4
Pages
December 15, 2023
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Centenarians
Deaths
Obituaries
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
Santa Anita Park employees
Shear, John
Wilson, Art
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mailbag topic-George "The Iceman" Woolf was a Canadian jockey famous for riding the great Seabiscuit to victories in 1938. The 35-year-old was unseated from his horse Please Me during a race on January 3, 1946, suffered a concussion and died the next day. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Gene Autry sane at his funeral.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36439
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Woolf, George
Horses and horse racing
Jockeys
Santa Anita Park
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34916
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 25, 2017
Pages
p. A18
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 25, 2017
Pages
p. A18
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Domney, James M. (former Arcadia City Librarian)
Item ID
35106AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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