Funeral services will be held today for Ernest Loebbecke, a founding chairman of Los Angeles United Way and a resident of Arcadia. He died of cancer Monday at the age of 87.
Fordyce Johnson, a former Arcadia resident, died late last month at his home in San Diego from the complications of old age. The 93 year old was former chief of staff at Methodist Hospital.
Memorial services for William Ingoldsby will be held December 15, 1995. Ingoldsby, 48, died November 21 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was a graduate of Arcadia High School.
For years, long-time Arcadia resident Kurt W. Rose designated $50 a year to the Methodist Hospital Foundation. Mr. Rose, who died last year at the age of 91, left $4.2 million to the Methodist Hospital Foundation, the largest individual contribution in the hospital's 95-year history.
Dennis A. Lojeski was tearfully remembered as friends and family gathered Sunday to dedicate a baseball field in Eisenhower Park to the former mayor and city councilman, who died in August at age 52.
The Arcadia Rotary Club has dedicated the conference room of the newly remodeled and expanded library in memory of the Methodist Hospital chaplain, Paul Johenk, who died in 1993. The article includes a profile of Johenk.
Longtime San Gabriel Valley pediatrician "Bud" Koch died Friday of cancer in his Ventura home. He was 72. Koch worked on staff of the Arcadia Methodist Hospital from 1956 -1981.
Dr. Paul Johenk, 79, the retired chaplain and director of the department of religion and medicine at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, has died of natural causes. Arcadia's Citizen of the Year in 1975 and member of numerous organizations, he is profiled.
Joan Hallett, secretary to the City Librarian, died Tuesday at Huntington Memorial Hospital. She was struck by a car on Saturday and never regained consciousness. Joan had worked at the Arcadia Public Library nearly 40 years.
Dennis Lojeski, the city councilman and former mayor who won his narrowest election victory just four months ago, died Sunday of a brain aneurysm. He was 52.
William Howard "Bill" Lewis, 50, a longtime Arcadia resident and community leader, died Friday at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia following a heart attack.
Services were held Tuesday in Arcadia for Robert John Pierson, who died of AIDS-related illness on March 21, at the age of 41. Pierson, who grew up in Arcadia, authored "The Beach towns: A walker's guide to LA's Beach Towns" and was co-author of "LAbyrinth: A student's guide to Los Angeles." At the time of his death he was living in West Hollywood and teaching at USC.