Archived Obituaries

Mass: Thurs. 8/4/2011 10:00 A.M. at Sacred Heart Church.

Passed away peacefully on April 8, 2009

Gene went home to be with his LORD at the age of 75. His active life was cut short by cancer. He was born and lived his life in Morgan Hill, CA. Gene is the loving father to Eugene M. Pourroy Jr., Debra Ann Isenberg, and Cyndy K. Pourroy. He will also be missed by his sister, two brothers, 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. After 27 years of service, Gene retired in 1987 as a Lieutenant from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department. He spent his retirement years fishing, camping and enjoying life with family and friends.

Vivian Viola Estes Selph of San Martin, CA passed away Tuesday, June 15, 2010, of coronary failure. Vivian was born in Ardmore, OK on 4/06/1921 to Roy and Lilly Estes. Vivi (as most friends and family called her) had eight siblings: Clarence, Tommy, Bertha, Velma, Wilmer, Beatrice, Lyndell, and Opal. Vivi married Alvia Selph on July 1, 1936, and had seven children: Shirley, Lloyd, Juanita, Barbara, Debbie, Dawna, and Diana.

Passed away at her Hollister home at the age of 68.

Passed away in her daughter's home in Hollister at the age 64.

Chet Wolfe, longtime resident of Morgan Hill, passed away at his home on Saturday, May 7, 2011.

Frank J. Lucchelli passed away Sunday afternoon at the age of 88 at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital. Born in Watsonville, he had lived in San Juan Bautista all his life. Frank was a former Chief of Police of San Juan Bautista for 30 years and then became Welfare fraud investigator for the San Benito County District Attorney's office . In the 1950s and 1960s Frank had been mayor of San Juan Bautista, Fire Chief and Scout master for the Boy Scouts.

Jesse Garcia passed from this life on April 27, 2012 shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. He was preceded in death by his father Pablo Garcia, sister Stella Nunez, and brother David.