Family, friends and firemen personnel from around Los Angeles County came together Thursday to honor and celebrate the life of firefighter specialist Tory Carlon, who was killed at Fire Station 81 in Agua Dulce. The service was live-streamed on the L.A. County Fire Department’s (LACoFD) Facebook page, with thousands tuning in to watch several speeches by colleagues, family and friends.  ...

Real Life Church held memorial services for Cheri Fleming on Friday, a longtime philanthropist in the Santa Clarita community who has supported numerous nonprofit organizations. Cheryl Anne “Cheri” Fleming, 69, of Valencia, passed away from natural causes on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020 at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, CA, following a brief illness resulting from a brain ...

Jerry Dean Bloom, head of the Santa Clarita Valley Salvation Army location, died April 18 of cancer at the age of 76. A 1960 graduate of Hart High School, Bloom joined the United States Navy with permission from his mother at age 17. Bloom served as an ordained minister for 59 years, and would later begin his service in the ...

Charles “Chuck” Sturkey Sr., the director of operations at Los Angeles Residential Community Foundation (LARC) Ranch, died in early January. Born on Dec. 28, 1939, in Savannah, Georgia, Sturkey was well established in the Santa Clarita Valley’s philanthropic communities as a giving activist. “He was one of the finest men I knew. I don’t even know how I got so ...

Two years to the day after the Saugus murder-suicide that took their lives, the Birnkrant family is remembered for their unwavering kindness and loving personalities. Just before 7 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station responded to the 28800 block of Startree Lane in Saugus, after friends of the family requested a welfare ...

A celebration of life was held Thursday night for Heidi Levy, a campus supervisor at Bowman High School who was killed last Friday after being struck by a car on Copper Hill Drive.   Dozens of family, friends and community members gathered at Bowman High School Thursday to celebrate the life of Heidi Levy, a woman who worked at Bowman ...

A “celebration of life” has been set for Aspen Pittman, a music industry innovator and inventor, after a fatal Bouquet Canyon crash this month. Pittman died in the hospital after a crash on Aug. 9 on Bouquet Canyon Road, where he was trapped inside a vehicle for over 30 minutes, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office. “It ...

Wayne Crathorne, a former long-time William S. Hart Union High School District employee, has died at the age of 84, leaving a community of educators, faculty and students in mourning. Following several years of declining health, Crathorne died on July 20, according to Bob Webber, a friend and former Hart District administrator. Crathorne is expected to be buried in Idaho, ...

Tow truck drivers from across Southern California gathered Saturday to honor a driver who was killed as a result of a hit-and-run incident in May. On Saturday morning, friends, family and a group of tow truck drivers gathered at Forest Lawn in Burbank for the funeral of Erwin Geremillo, who was killed after a reported hit-and-run collision in Castaic back ...

Family, friends and members of the community gathered at Valencia United Methodist Church on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the life of Santa Clarita founder Carl Boyer III. Boyer was born in Philadelphia in 1937. He attended Nether Providence High School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania; Maryville College in Tennessee; The Edinburgh University in Scotland; Trinity University in Texas, where he achieved a ...