••• In Memoriam Thomas Palmiotto 80 Carlos Gonzales 63 John Anderson 76 Mony Tat 99 Faith Curry 64 Nadine White 63 Gerald Ellis 68 Barabara Bashor 84 Earl Pettaway 75 Linda Pfannenstein 72 Yem Ya 83 Sabrina Del Rosario 61 Harolyn Nicholas 79 Cecil Spencer 71 Lucia Ferraro 65 Virgil Saunders 82 Helen Cook 105 Lawrence Seymour 76 Jacquelyn Bradney 72 Craig Hunt 62 Florence Batalon 86 Richard Schmid 56 Curtis Keil 81 Earl Pettaway 75 Anna Salisbury 70 Sharon Savoy 81 Oscar Walton 70 Carlene Brown 77 Karen Burks 69 Renee Bucher 82 Barbara Sutton 52 Gus Frudakis 72 Elizabeth Ann King 97 Cyril Gibson 96 Lawrence Seymour 78 Margaret Lawrence 95 Lois Crawford 83 Juanita Luna 90 Jesus Garcia De La Cruz 58 Jesus Quintero 86 Rita Cruz 89 Priscilla Obinma 84 John Zvonec 71 Renate Feliz 84 Families assisted by McKenzie Mortuary, 562-961-9301 –paid obituary

In Memoriam Juan Hurtado 64 Honofre Goluya 87 Wendell Welch 89 Mary Ann Saupe 78 Faith Curry 64 Sheryl Huff 68 Anna Pearson 97 Michael Jablonski 69 Saratu Kashalla 76 Jean Cote 72 Violet Schwabenland 99 Nestor Godoy 84 James WIlliams 74 Jose Roman Moreno 81 Families assisted by McKenzie Mortuary, 562-961-9301

••• In Memoriam Hilda Franklin 99 Ferdinand Plourde Jr. 83 Rhonda Clark 65 Carmen Sandoval 81 Patricia Cohen 81 Marshall Phillips 93 Sam Sor 89 Scott Strong 67 Robert Bartholomew 85 Catherine Rodgers 55 Margaret Buck 71 Arlynne Kamsika 79 Dorothy Camacho Gogue 74 Jennifer Harrison 76 Douglas Love 73 Evangelina Morales 63 Myrna Wigod 89 Lucy Romero 96 Joseph Tchinski 74 Simon Bueno Martinez 74 Susan Tyler 65 Jaime Staana 66 Robert Cash 90 Anne Stephenson 98 Richard Zumel 78 Salimathar Nambi 81 Margarita Hernandez 71 Wynell Yow 71 Claudio Gonzalez 77 Lawrence Palmer 59 Families assisted by McKenzie Mortuary, 562-961-9301

Lorelei I. Horan 1938-2022 Lorelei Horan, a devout traditional Catholic and recent resident of Leisure World Seal Beach, passed away in her home with several of her children at her side on Nov. 30. Lorelei was born in Denver, Colorado. She is predeceased by three of her five siblings, and is survived by her brother John Evans (Karen Evans) and sister Michelle Smith. She is also survived by her children, Michael Horan (Kimberly Horan), Mary Chris Horan, Lori Horan Soule (Duncan Soule), Briana Harrison (Mark Harrison), Theresa Horan, John Horan (Tonya Horan) and James Horan (David Clarke). Her grandchildren: Meghan Amen (Andy Amen), Shawna Montelongo (Loren Montelongo), Brielle Novy (Jesse Novy), Michael Horan, Jr., William Harrison, Miles Ybaben, Shane Horan (Kylie Horan), Hayden Horan and Fallyn Horan. Her great-grandchildren: Adalynn Amen and Emily Montelongo. As a child, Lorelei lost her mother at age 4 and the family began moving around the country from that time on, staying briefly in states such as New Mexico and Oregon until they settled in the Compton, California, area and later Anaheim. She was raised by her paternal grandmother and later a stepmother who gave her three more siblings. She had another great tragedy when she was about 10 and her big brother, Billy (12), drowned at Lake Arrowhead, California. She attended Anaheim High School. She met her first husband, John Horan, and married him in 1958 when she was 20 years old. They had seven children together before they divorced when the youngest was a 1-year-old. Despite not having job history, an education or any savings, she kept the family together through devastating financial problems. From this groundwork, she raised the children, started college, and then began working at Yamaha. It was at Yamaha that she worked her way out of the secretary pool and got on an engineering track. This kind of work allowed her to expand to aerospace and defense contracts, and her work-life culminated with working as a job shopper doing computer-aided design work all over the country and in parts of Canada. She and her second husband, Martin Brux, lived in a motorhome during these years, where she was able to explore while traveling, all before the word “workcation” was coined or that lifestyle was fully mainstream. Always an adventurous spirit, Lorelei loved adventure and travel. She was always the first person to say “yes” to any escapade or chance to explore something new. She has traveled to Peru, Australia, Spain, Mexico, and the United Kingdom several times. It was her great pleasure to take her entire family on a cruise to celebrate her 80th birthday where the family visited the Cayman Islands, Belize, Honduras and Cozumel. Lorelei had written a book comprised of a collection of her letters while traveling and proudly offered this to her family earlier this year when she turned 84. It is titled “Courage to Travel.” Lorelei continued traveling in retirement, but also developed her skills as a master quilter. She had been sewing since she was a girl—starting out by sewing doll clothes for herself and other children in the neighborhood, and graduating to sewing baby clothes. She left many examples of her quilting art as she gave these away freely as gifts. Lorelei was a remarkable woman. She was raised by an actual pioneer woman (literally, her grandmother was a woman who came across the prairie in a schooner) but managed to shatter the glass ceiling during the time before the Women’s Movement.