A memorial service is set to be held over the weekend in Santa Clarita in honor of Matthew Ryan Colley, who died a few days before his 29th birthday in June. Matthew’s memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, allowing friends and family to say their farewells to a young man who left the world too soon. A resident of Canyon ...

A GoFundMe has been set up to help fund the funeral and memorial of 20 year old Caleb Romero from Canyon Country, who was killed in a traffic collision earlier this week. “Caleb was a beautiful human. Caleb was the sweetest, most fun loving man out there. He dreamed big and never said “No” to a challenge,” said Nicolas Ortiz, ...

The City of Santa Clarita is accepting name submissions for the Youth Grove in Central Park, which commemorates youth who have lost their lives in traffic incidents. The submissions for names to be added to the grove, which are due July 30, must be for youth ages 24 and younger who lived or attended school in the Santa Clarita Valley ...

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 ...