d. June 1, 2013 Ruth Catherine Taylor passed away on June 1, 2013, at the age of 97. She was preceded in death by Charles, her beloved husband of 69 years. Ruth and Charles reared two children, Alan and Eileen, who were born in Cohasset, Minn. They operated the Arrowhead Café in Grand Rapids, Minn. [...]

Feb. 14, 1983 — June 1, 2013 With great sadness we say goodbye to Kyle Austin Wecker. His unexpected death at home in Ithaca, N.Y., came far too soon. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, he was 30 years old. After living in Texas, Florida, California and New Jersey, he moved back to California, settling in Davis. [...]

d. May 19, 2013 After a long battle with illness, Gloria Cuciz Zurborg passed away on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at the age of 80. Gloria grew up in the Los Gatos area where she worked in caning factories and later at Stanford Press in her late teens. Later Gloria went to work at Lockheed Missiles [...]

Feb. 11, 1929 — May 15, 2013 Robert Louis Canary passed away unexpectedly on May 15, 2013, at age 84 of acute myocardial infarction. Robert was born Feb. 11, 1929, with his twin sister Betty (Elizabeth) to Edward and Elizabeth Canary in Johnstown, Pa. In July 1969, Robert retired honorably from the U.S. Air Force after [...]

Feb. 11, 1913 — May 19, 2013 Woodrow Wilson Middlekauff was born Feb. 11, 1913 in Hagerstown, Md. He passed away May 19, 2013 in Davis, Calif. at the age of 100. He graduated from Juniata College in Huntington, Pa. in 1935 and earned a Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University in 1941. While at [...]

Jan, 28, 1929 — May 28, 2013 Neal Frazier Peek, 84, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, May 28, 2013. His wife Jerrie died in June of last year and Neal has been waiting to join her and continue their love on another playing field. He was born in Chico to Hazel and Reese [...]

Nov. 8, 1937 — April 22, 2013 Marlene Bloomberg died on April 22, 2013, in her home in Davis at the age of 75 after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She was born in Paris and moved to New Haven, Conn., where she taught French and Latin for several years. In 1966, she moved [...]

d. May 14, 2013 John Robert Owens, UC Davis Professor Emeritus and long time Davis resident, died peacefully on May 14 shortly before his 87th birthday. Owens was a member of the UC Davis faculty and of the campus Political Science Department for 31 years before retiring in 1990.  He specialized in American politics and [...]