LAKEPORT, Calif. – Richard “Dick” Eugene Hazelton died in Lakeport, Calif., on March 19, 2016.

He was born on Nov. 5, 1926, in Elyria, Ohio, to Ruth and Joesph Hazelton and according to Dick, “At birth, I weighed 8 pound, 8 ounces and I was very cute.”

He grew up on the edge of town in Elyria with his Mom, Dad and brother Bob with no electricity, no running water and no indoor plumbing and a Sears Roebuck catalog in the outhouse. They had goats, chickens, rabbits, pigeons and turkeys.

When he turned 6 years old, the family moved into town. At age 10, Dick contracted rheumatic fever and was bedridden for one year and had to relearn how to walk again.

At 16, Dick quit high school to go to work. He first went to work at a factory and then on the iron ore boat freighters on the Great Lakes when he was 17 years old.

At 18, he joined the U.S. Army were he learned Morse Code and spent two years in communications, ending up in Okinawa in the Pacific then on to Korea near the end of World War II.

He was discharged from the Army as a technical sergeant and went back to Elyria and got on the G.I. Bill to learn how to be an auto body repairman and painter.

He got a job at Harry Brown Motors and there he met Donna Mae Brown, the boss' daughter, who he married one year later.

Dick decided he didn’t want to straighten out cars the rest of his life so he went back to high school as a freshman and always said his 15-year-old classmates didn’t like him!

After high school, he enrolled in the National Radio and Television School in Cleveland, Ohio, to become a broadcast engineer.

Dick and Donna had five children, Beckie, Cyndi, Gary and twins Mark and Clark (five kids in 4 1/2 years!).

Dick built two homes for his family, all by himself from bare land to completion including masonry, carpentry, wiring, plumbing, sheet rock and roofing. He also built an 18-foot wooden boat complete with a cabin, two bunks, toilet and stove.

In 1954 Dick got a job with Honeywell as a field engineer. He started in Cleveland and then was transferred to Los Angeles. After one year he was transferred to San Diego to start a new office.

After 10 years of marriage, Dick and Donna divorced.

In 1962, Dick married Eileen and they lived in the San Francisco and Sacramento area for 30 years.

Dick’s children spent their summers with them. They adopted a 3-year-old orphaned Korean child they named Julie.

Eileen and Dick divorced after 22 years of marriage. Dick retired from Honeywell in 1986 after 32 years and then moved to Lakeport.

It was after retirement that Dick met his soulmate Diane, in Kelseyville, a neighboring town of Lakeport. Throughout their 20-year marriage, Dick and Diane enjoyed traveling all over the United States and Europe until sadly, cancer took her life on Feb. 8, 2007.
 
Dick was a member of the Friends of the Museum of Lakeport, Historical Society, Lakeport Community Players, Lake County Rose Society, American Legion, Lions Club and the Kelseyville Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include his five children, Beckie of Rock Springs, Wyo., Cyndi (Ralph) Westberg of Payson, Utah, Gary (Kris) Hazelton of Estes Park, Colo., Mark (Sirena) Hazelton of Sycamore, Ill., and Clark (Sharon) Hazelton of Roswell, Ga.; as well as many, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Dick said “I have had a long and wonderful life, I was happy to be a father and or friend to all whom may be reading this.”

A memorial service will be held Monday, April 4, at the Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary, 1625 N. High St. Lakeport.

For further information call Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary at 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611 or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Richard Abbott Thibodeaux of Kelseyville passed away on Saturday, March 19, 2016, in Lakeport at the age of 67.

He was born on Oct. 22, 1948, in San Francisco.
 
Growing up in a military family, Richard lived in a few places including San Francisco; El Paso, Texas; Rye, New York; Fort Lawton, Okla.; San Francisco (again); Fairbanks, Alaska; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Lewis, Wash.; San Francisco (once more); Soda Bay, Calif.; and finally Kelseyville, the place he would make his home.

While living in Alaska, he was a member of the Ski Patrol. He graduated in 1966 from Queen Anne High School in Washington.

Richard served his country in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970. And in 1970 he married Linda Piper, and together they had three wonderful children, Michelle, Matthew and Monica. He worked as a water master for Dunken Pumps Inc. in Lakeport.

One in a million, Richard was a very generous man and an awesome father. He enjoyed being comical and making people laugh. He liked strumming on his guitars, riding motorcycles, playing card games with friends, collecting coins, vacationing with his wife, watching his grandchildren play sports, and walking the dogs (Dino and Wee-wee).

Richard is survived by his wife of 45 years, Linda; sisters, Diana and Mylene; children, Michelle, Matthew and Monica; grandchildren, Alisha (Matt), Brandon, Steven and Adrian; and great-grandchild, Zaylen. He was preceded in death by his parents, Abbott and Norma Thibodeaux.

A memorial service will be held at Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary, Lakeport, on Saturday, April 2, at 11 a.m., followed by a celebration of life at the Legion Hall on Gaddy Lane in Kelseyville. Please no black clothing unless it’s revealing skin or Harley Davidson-related. Beards, blunts, boobs and leathers are welcome.

For further information contact Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary at 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611 or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Vivian Jane (Gaddy) Marschall of Kelseyville passed away at the age of 88 on Saturday, March 19, 2016, in Lakeport.

Born March 20, 1927, in Kelseyville, she was the last surviving child of George and Vera (Renfro-Fultz) Gaddy. The Gaddy family were pioneers in Lake County and homesteaded the Gaddy Ranch in 1853.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 70 years, Raymond H. Marschall. She is survived by her three children, Pamela, James and John; six grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

At her request private services were held at Kelseyville Cemetery on Friday, March 25.

In her honor, family requests donations be made to her great-granddaughter, Annie, who is currently battling leukemia. To donate online please visit The Blake Family Fire Family Foundation link at https://www.firefamilyfoundation.org/news-events/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/364/the-blake-family .

To donate by mail, send your check to: Fire Family Foundation "The Blake Family" 815 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041.

For further information please contact Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary, 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611, or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .

Terri Lenore Thatch
Jan. 7, 1954-March 7, 2016

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Terri Lenore Thatch passed away at the age of 62 on March 7, 2016, at her home in Yuba City.

Beloved mother, grandmother and sister, Terri is survived by her three children, Rebecca Holton, Jeffrey Sutton and James Sutton; four grandchildren, Taylor Holton, Jacob Holton, Kayla Sutton and Austin Sutton; and sisters Sally Hightower and Diana Skaggs.

Terri was a passionate health care professional, working her way through college as a single mother to become a licensed psychiatric health care technician. 

Terri’s mission was to serve behavioral health and geriatric patients to provide a better quality of life for her patients and their families. 

Terri’s interests and hobbies were art and food festivals, sightseeing, interior decorating, reading, politics, antiquing, needlepoint and her beloved cats. 

A family favorite for two generations has been the personalized handmade Christmas stockings Terri made for each of her children and grandchildren, which will continue to be a cherished annual family tradition.

In lieu of gifts or flowers, please consider a monetary donation in Terri’s memory to a domestic violence advocacy center. 

A private celebration of life will be determined at a future date by Terri’s family.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Virginia passed away on March 17, 2016, the day after her 87th birthday, in the compassionate care of Sutter Lakeside Hospital staff and surrounded by her loving family. 

She suffered a fall in her home where she had lived very privately over the past several years following a series of health setbacks and illnesses.

Known as Ginny to friends and family, she was very vivacious and adventurous, and quite wild at times.

She was born in Oakland, Calif., to parents Marian Ehmann and Gerald Brook Trayner, and grew up in Piedmont.

As a girl, she enjoyed playing in golf tournaments at Claremont Country Club and horseback riding with her father in the Oakland hills.

Virginia was an heiress to the Ehmann Olive Co., which was founded by her great-grandmother, Freda Ehmann in Oroville, Calif.

She attended and graduated from Anna Head School for Girls in Berkeley and then went on to Cal Berkeley where she was in Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

She married her college sweetheart, John M. Grubb, and settled in Piedmont. Children Catherine Rose, John Grubb and Marianne Grubb were born there.

They shared a great many vacations with their mom to beautiful places including Pebble Beach, Lake Tahoe and Oahu.

She loved fast cars, and at one time she had a two seater Lotus Elite while pregnant along with her three young kids in tote.

Virginia remarried, moved out to Lafayette and had a son, Tony Wiest. It was a short marriage, and in 1968, she married again, this time to a childhood friend, John Wiest, becoming stepmother to his two children Jessica and Jack Wiest.

After John’s death, and then her mother’s, she moved to Lakeport in 1992 to be closer to family and grandsons.

Virginia always kept a lovely garden and was very talented in needlework and interior decorating. She loved watching her sons and grandsons play sports, and her swimming pool was always a popular place. 

Everyone who knew her can still picture her by a pool, with a cup of coffee, listening to a Giants game, and surrounded by a sun-bronzed gaggle of kids with chlorine-bleached hair.

Virginia leaves behind her children; grandsons, Franklin Ley, John Grubb, Casey Grubb, Colton Grubb, Trevor Wiest, Brett Wiest and Danny Stueven; and granddaughter, Jerrica Stueven. She also has five wonderful great-grandsons, Logan, Johnny, Jeremiah, Brookes and Morgan. Virginia is survived by her sister, Barbara Maxfield, of Calistoga.

As requested, there will be no service but family will have a celebration of life gathering this summer which will be announced at a later date.

In lieu of donations, please share your love freely with and be grateful for your family and parents while you have them. Never let anger or grudges get in the way of love.

Arrangements by Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary, 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611 or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Pamela Marie Plank, a longtime resident of Lake County, was born in Compton, Calif. After battling kidney cancer for many years, she went in peace on March 22, 2016.

Pam married Jim Plank in Lynwood, Calif., on Oct. 25, 1969.

She is the mother of Mike and Jeff Plank, grandmother of Devon Plank and great-grandmother of Emmett.

Pam was very active in the Red Cross for many years and Lakeport Senior Center where she ran the bingo fundraiser. She was also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Visitation will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday, March 26, from 9 to 10 a.m. Funeral service will follow at 10:30 a.m.

For further information please contact Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary at 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611, or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .