1972 Obituaries
Maria Aguilar Gifford
March 16, 1954 - July 16, 1986
Richard Bredeson
September 19, 1953 – December 19, 2019
Lawrence Bluteau
May 21 1954 - November 27, 1974
Philip Bronson
July 18, 1954 - December 25, 1979
Cecil Glen Carpenter
Glen lost his brave fight
against cancer on July 31, 2011. Glen loved
woodworking, entertaining, helping others, and any
time with family. He easily made friends and was a
mentor and father figure for many. He and his
family were proud of his work with the California
Highway Patrol for the last 10 years.
Cheryl Craig Brown
September 11, 1954 - December 9, 2014
Cheri passed away suddenly and
unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm. She was born in
Alton, Illinois. The family moved to San Diego
when she was only six months old, so she was
always a California girl at heart. Cheri met her
husband Don in Merced, California. They were
married in San Diego, and later moved to Caldwell,
Idaho to raise their children and be among their
extended family.
John Davey
March 2, 1954 - September 29, 2012
John passed away from a heart
attack. He attended Carver, Horace Mann and
Crawford. We worked together in the San Diego
shipyards and would spend our two-week Christmas
shutdown fishing for steelhead trout in
the Pacific Northwest. Tired of the
city life, John left San Diego in 1993 and
made Chewela, Washington his home, to be closer to
his sons, Jon and Christopher. Fishing and hunting
became his new 9-5 routine. He was the last
survivor of the Davey family on Bark street.
His parents, older brother Homer his older sister
Kay and younger sister Cheryl all preceded him in
death. We were close friends for 50 years --
Harvey Noble
Yvonne Evjen Piscopo
May 29, 1954 - November 7, 2015
“Vonnie” was born in Portland,
Oregon. When she was six years old, the family
moved to San Diego, where she attended Central
Elementary School until the family moved to the
community of San Carlos. She continued her school
days at Gage Elementary, Pershing Middle School,
and Patrick Henry High School. She later
transferred to Crawford to be with her future
husband Phil Piscopo '71. Phil was introduced to
Vonnie at a pool party on Hughes Street near
Crawford when she was fourteen. That eventful
moment started a youthful love affair that
continued into their adult years when they were
married on March 1st, 1975 and became Phillip and
Yvonne Piscopo. Together they started a home, as
Phil developed his landscaping business and Vonnie
managed the home, assisted with the business
accounting, and worked at Kaiser Permanente
Hospital in the x-ray file department, a job that
she held for 23 years.
Tony Flores
Tony
passed away December 13, 2020 according to the
Crawford Alumni Association
Hollis Gentry
1959 to September 5, 2006
Read the
Union-Tribune Obituary
Danny Griggs
October 3, 1954 - February 23, 2015
Valerie Harmon
February 12, 1954 - December 17, 2003
My beautiful
wonderful sister. As all who knew and loved her,
she was an angel for homeless cats. She helped
everyone that she could. She told everyone she
met, “Please spay or neuter your pet”. She helped
people whenever they were in need. Everyone who
knew her knew we were extremely close. She was an
excellent violinist for the San Diego Community
Orchestra and worked for the Black Angus
Restaurant for over 20 years. Valerie was an angel
here on earth and she will be an angel in Heaven.
My sister my friend, I love you so. We all love
you. Earth will not be the same.
Dennis
Hendrick
December 23, 1953 - October 4, 2017
Raymond Hong
December 10, 1953 - December 4, 2017
Some of you
may remember my brother as a Cheerleader, tennis
player and wrestler -- Lisa Hong Hom ’75
Sylvia Horstman Timmons
My sister Sylvia passed
away January 2, 2014 at her home in Clear Lake,
California. She had been ill for several years
from pulmonary hypertension and had both lungs
replaced three years ago. She is survived by her
husband Sam and son Ben -- Valerie Horstman
Morgan ’74
John Kendall
March 8, 1954 - January 29, 1979
Hendrik "Rik"
Kranenburg
Rik died of a heart attack on
January 17, 2020, while hiking in Grenada.
He was a leader in the globalization of the
financial markets, serving in senior positions
at Standard & Poor’s and McGraw-Hill for
more than 30 years. Born in New Zealand in
1955 to Johanna and Hendrik Kranenburg, Dutch
emigrants, Rik was raised and naturalized in San
Diego. His family was proud to be “American by
Choice.” He graduated from Crawford, then
continued his education at UC San Diego, UC
Berkeley ’76 and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson
School where he received an MPA in 1978.
He started his professional career at the
Federal Reserve Bank in New York. In 1980, he
joined S&P, and in 1984 moved to London,
opening S&P’s first office overseas,
creating the launchpad for the globalization of
credit ratings, a transformation that moved
capital around the world, the lead economic
story of the 1980s. From 1989 to 1999, he led
S&P’s growing international businesses from
New York. The international business he founded
now accounts for almost half of the revenues for
S&P Global, a $71 billion company. He led
S&P’s other major operation, data services,
from 1999 to 2005, setting the foundation for
S&P’s most important business today.
Throughout his life, he maintained an
exceptionally wide and deep circle of friends. A
big man with a bigger heart, he and his wife,
Linda, loved a house full of their friends and
family. Their house in Bridgehampton, bought
soon after they married, was the home of their
heart, and they filled it with laughter, love
and guests too numerous to count. He was a
competent golfer, a charmingly terrible dancer,
a dedicated vegetable gardener and an ardent,
albeit alarming, bicyclist. And he passionately
loved his boat (often too small for his chosen
adventures), yet another place he could
entertain his dear friends.
Terence Lattman
December 15, 1953 - April 1972
Genise Lundy
(No photo in yearbook)
March 9, 1954 - February 9, 2006
Genise passed away at home due
to complications of diabetes. She was under the
loving care of her family: attentive husband Karl
Dutcher, loving daughters Teresa and Christina,
younger brother Chuck, older brother George,
nephew Chuck, niece Debbie, and dear friend
Barbara. Genise came to San Diego as an infant and
went to Carver, Horace Mann and Crawford High; a
California girl, she loved the beach, camping,
playing slots, being with her family. Up until her
last days she went to the beach, visited family,
and even cooked mostaciolli! She didn't want to
leave us, but "was ready to go with God." She's
watching over us, and we'll forever feel her
presence.
Edward Lutchansky
September 4 1954 - June 12, 2011
Eddie was born
in Detroit to Herman and Betsy
Lutchansky, and grew up in San Diego. Eddie
was a tax accountant by day, but at night -- going
by the name Eddie Chance -- he was an accomplished
Blues musician. He played the Republican National
Convention, and even taught his harmonica
technique to Stevie Wonder. Eddie is
survived by former wife Tajima, and daughters Silk
and Rachael of Japan; siblings Miriam Glassman,
Michael, Dan, and Robin. Eddie will be laid
to rest in Japan.
Gary Malone
December 15, 1953 - August 18, 2011
I just learned today of Gary's
passing. He attended Oak Park, Horace Mann and
Crawford. He will be missed by all who knew him -- Russ Damron '71
Alison McCullough Gonzales
February 28, 1954 - July 30, 1980
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Robert Olson
Bob died June 3, 2023 according to the Crawford High Foundation
Sigrid Overstreet Carlson
February 12, 1956 - January 6, 2017
Attorney, mother, and beloved
wife, Sigrid -- a resident of Huntington Beach --
passed away following a battle with cancer. She
was born in Nashville, TN and grew up in San
Diego. She was a passionate advocate of immigrant
rights, an enthusiastic traveler and explorer. A
graduate of the University of California in San
Diego, she went on to study law at UCLA. As an
attorney she was committed to the defense of the
rights of the less powerful, working in legal aid,
homeowner defense, worker's compensation and
immigration law. In her free time she taught
English language and naturalization classes for
new immigrants.
Tina Partovich Jacobs Zerkel
January 16, 1954 - September 19, 2003
Marti Penter Dries Westerfield
July 20, 1954 - August 20, 2006
Marti, a resident of Lakeside,
was born in San Diego and was an office manager
for a lighting manufacturer. Survivors include her
husband, Mark Westerfield; daughter, Katie Dries
of Redondo Beach; stepfather, Charles Miller of El
Cajon; stepsister, Kayla Carol of Idaho;
stepbrothers, Steven Clark of Pismo Beach, Roger
Clark of San Marcos and George Clark of Lakeside.
Cynthia Pollard
Russell Reichert
July 7, 1954 - March 24, 2011
Brent Schmieder
July 22, 1954 – October 1981
John Schroeder
John died in June of 1998 from
his third round of cancer over thirteen years. The
first was lung, second brain and third, and fatal,
was spinal. He worked as a grocery manager with
the local major markets in San Diego, had three
children including a set of twins from a previous
marriage. He was married for thirteen years to my
sister Loretta Farmer who was also of the Crawford
class of 1972 -- Ken
"Farmer" D'Angelo '66
Robert Seiley
August 5,1954 - February 28, 1980
Robert was a smart,
upbeat, charismatic individual. He had a ton of
personality and was well liked by many of his
classmates at Crawford. I met him in first grade
and we remained friends until the time of his
death. He was the best friend I have ever had -- Tim Barringer ‘72
LuEllen Shewmaker Blum
November 20, 1954 - August 27, 2014
Fellow Colts: it is my
sad duty to relate to you the news of the recent
passing of my sister in Broomfield,
Colorado. Cancer. John, her husband of
over 22 years, was with her, along with her
brother, Scott '74, and John's brother Jim, a
retired pastor, who was such a comfort to them,
and for which we are all very grateful. Our
family, Colorado, and the world are greatly
diminished; and I've lost the very best of little
sisters -- Terry Shewmaker '68
Lu Ellen had a lifetime
passion for figure skating and for several years
skated with a masters synchronized skate team that
competed successfully at the national level.
She also earned her pilot's license.
In recent years, she was a flight attendant
with Frontier Airlines. Crawford friends who
remember her bubbly, sociable nature will be glad
to know that she always remained that way
-- Scott Shewmaker ’74
Raymond Sliwa
December 4, 1953 - December 11, 2013
Raymond, a San Diego native, is
survived by his sons Brandon and Chad Silwa.
Alan Swede
April 29, 1954 - February 4, 2008
My youngest brother died of a
heart attack. He was a very private person and
none of us -- including my sister in law, knew he
had a heart problem. He is survived by his wife
Carol, daughter Amanda, father Martin Swede,
brother Earle Swede and myself. He lived in San
Diego until just six months before his death, when
he and his family moved to Los Osos near San Luis
Obispo. So many of us spend our days too busy to
spend time with those we love or too proud to say
how much we love them. My brother is gone now and
I'll never have the chance to tell him how much he
was loved or how much he'll be missed. But,
somehow I know he knows -- Frances Swede
Zamir '62
Gary died of cancer on
November 4, 2014. He graduated from UCSD in 1976.
He moved to Honolulu after college, working first
in the photography industry, and later in the golf
industry. He enjoyed success in business. He loved
Japan, learned Japanese and traveled there often
for business. He traveled the world playing golf .
He collected classic golf clubs and books on golf.
He loved and collected music, and played guitar.
He also loved the NFL, and the world of Wall
Street. He is survived by his sister, Pamela
Bosworth; and his brothers, Stephen and Marshall
Mike Whitman
September 11, 1953 - July 22, 1976
Dwight Willis
August 14, 1954 - May 30, 1979
My brother Dwight “Ike” Willis
died in Los Angeles from complications relating to
Diabetes -- Steve
Shockome ‘73
Paul Woods
(No photo in
annual)
May 6, 1954 -
September 4, 1980
Stephanie Woods Gaydosh
May 29, 1954 - September 14, 1979
Jack Zinke
(No photo in yearbook)
October 2, 1954 – August 12, 1997
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