••• In Memoriam Ermelinda ….
••• In Memoriam Ermelinda Hernandez 96 Florida Ward 97 Darrin Mason 55 Ana Rodriguez 66 Thomas Duncan 76 Halina Chiocki 75 Families assisted by McKenzie Mortuary, 961-9301 —Paid obituary
17 March 2021
10 March 2021
Obituaries
Galia Ann Ell 1937-2021 Galia Ann Ell was born of Russian ancestry in Kobe, Japan, on Sept. 5, 1937, to Olga and Anatoli Bendersky. She lived her early childhood years in Tientsin, China, with her family until the Japanese invasion. Her father, who was the distributor for Warner Bros. films for all of Asia, was wrongfully executed when she was around 9 years old. She and her mother fled to America with the help of her second father, Irving Layton, and they settled in Hollywood.
03 March 2021
24 February 2021
••• Laura P. Lewis 1949-2021
Valley, California, in June 2020, where she passed away from a short illness on Jan. 21.
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Laura P. Lewis 1949-2021
Laura P. Lewis, born Laura P. Armstrong on Jan. 24, 1949, to Bill and Corrine Armstrong in Long Beach, California. She graduated from Long Beach City College with a bachelor’s in education. She married Terry Lewis on June 8, 1968, and they had three children, Jeffery, Amber and Joelle, along with seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.
The two lived in LW from 2013-2020 and were active in the Rolling Thunder and the RV clubs. They moved to Apple
••• Bert Robert Sellers Jr. 1936-2020
Bert Robert Sellers Jr. passed away Dec. 30, 2020. Bert was born Sept. 20, 1936 in Hickory, North Carolina, to Bert and Mable Sellers. Bert joined the Navy after high school from 1955-1959. He did his basic training at Great Lakes, Illinois, and was on the heavy Cruiser USS Columbus CA74 untill 1958. His home port was in Long Beach, California, which is where he meet his first wife, Vicki, and they were married in June 1958 for 20 years.
