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Published: Saturday, October 14, 2017 @ 12:40 PMUpdated: Saturday, October 14, 2017 @ 12:39 PMBy: The Associated Press
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BLADE 7184: 01/02/12 | whose dog is thisA attending at some of those who were dead in the blazes:
VERY GENEROUS OF SPIRIT
LeRoy and Donna Halbur, both 80, had aloof acclaimed their 50th bells anniversary, and for years Leroy delivered aliment for the beggared three times a week.
They had no adventitious to abscond a bonfire that destroyed their Santa Rosa home aboriginal Monday, said their beforehand son, Tim Halbur.
"The apprehension came up appealing quickly. It was all countryside abaft them," Tim Halbur said. "My mom was activate in the car in the garage. My dad was about on the driveway. He allegedly had gotten her into the car, and he went alfresco to analysis on conditions."
Tim Halbur said his parents were adherent to community, accompany and family. An ardent apple traveler, LeRoy Halbur was an conductor at Resurrection Catholic Abbey in Santa Rosa. He volunteered with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Sonoma County, carrying commons appropriate up to the ceremony afore the fires.
Donna Halbur wrote children's books and was a above elementary academy teacher.
"What I appetite you to apperceive is that they were actual acceptable of spirit and they agitated that spirit to the community," their son said.
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DOING GOOD BY OTHERS
Roy Howard Bowman, 87, and his wife, Irma Elsie Bowman, 88, lived a activity agilely accomplishing acceptable for others.
The Mendocino County brace provided money to advice barrage a Spanish-speaking admiral at the Assembly of God abbey in Ukiah, recalled Sylvia McGuire Nickelson, who met the Bowmans at church.
"They both were beautiful, central and out," Nickelson told the San Francisco Chronicle . "I aloof admired them."
"Anybody who bare a additional chance, the Bowmans were their advocate," said Felice Lechuga-Armadillo, who with her ancestors would host the Bowmans for Sunday dinners. "Anyone who bare help, they stepped advanced — but quietly."
The brace were activate in the fire-ravaged bits of their home in the alien Redwood Valley, about 60 afar (95 kilometers) arctic of Santa Rosa, on Monday.
Roy Bowman was a U.S. Navy adept and above federal employee. Irma Bowman admired to broil and "would acquaint us to allege able-bodied of added people," said Lechuga-Armadillo.
Roy Bowman had a achievement beforehand this year. Irma Bowman told Lechuga-Armadillo's mother that if he had another, she capital to accept one as able-bodied — "because she didn't appetite to be on this Earth afterwards him," Lechuga-Armadillo said.
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'THE HORSE LADY'
Valerie Lynn Evans had a angry adulation of animals.
Evans, 75, kept horses, goats, dogs, a mule and a beacon at her Santa Rosa home. She'd sometimes advance the mule bottomward the street, acceptance association to augment it, said her longtime neighbor, Tracy Long.
"We knew her as the horse lady," Continued told the San Francisco Chronicle.
As bonfire approached their homes backward Sunday, Brian Strehlow, a acquaintance above the street, offered to help.
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Evans died while aggravating to save her dogs.
Evans' neighbors said they believed that her husband, son and a daughter-in-law were able to escape, but that they hadn't been able to ability them aback the fire.
Evans kept a ample accumulating of books on horses. Long, whose home was damaged by fire, said she occasionally sees pages from Evans' library alarming forth the street.
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TIMID AND GIGGLY
At 14, Kai Shepherd was amid the youngest victims of the wildfires.
After bonfire swept over a mountain, the Shepherds had approved to drive bottomward to escape. Their acquaintance Paul Hanssen activate their two broiled cartage blocking the road, doors still open from aback they had allegedly alone them and fled on foot.
Hanssen activate the mother, Sara Shepherd, and her 17-year-old daughter, Kressa, lying on the ground, added than bisected their bodies burned. Kai Shepherd was added bottomward the abundance and did not survive.
First responders activate Kai's father, Jon Shepherd, separately, on the mountain. He was additionally abominably austere but alive. Kai Shepherd's parents and sister are actuality advised at bake centers.
His sister, Kressa Shepherd, a Ukiah Aerial Academy junior, had to accept both legs amputated below her knees.
Family acquaintance Irma Muniz remembers Kai Shepherd was afraid and giggly afterwards she met him aftermost year while cutting a Christmas agenda photo of the ancestors assuming in the dupe of Redwood Valley, a association of about 1,800 almost 70 afar (113 kilometers) arctic in Mendocino County
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'SHE WAS MY LIFE'
George Powell woke to a bank of blaze already address bottomward on his Santa Rosa home and anon yelled to his 72-year-old wife, Lynne Anderson Powell: "Get out!"
Lynne Powell affective her bound collie, Jemma, which consistently slept abutting to her, a laptop and asked for the best way to get off their abundance afore jumping in her car.
George Powell larboard 15 account afterwards afterwards attractive his three dogs. George Powell now realizes aback he raced bottomward the abundance he collection accomplished his wife's car that had gone off the alley and into a abyss in the abundant smoke.
After analytic for her all night and the abutting day, a detective alleged to acquaint him a anatomy austere above acceptance was activate accomplish from her car. Central was a dog additionally austere to death.
"If I had known, I would accept gone bottomward there with her, alike if it meant I would accept died with her," George Powell, 74, said. "I don't apperceive how I'm activity to cope. She was my life." He repeated: "She was my life."
The brace had been affiliated for 33 years. He was a photojournalist and she was a able flutist, spending abundant of her career arena for the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, which operated until 2011.
The two met while she was on vacation in Los Angeles, area George Powell freelanced for newspapers. He said it was "love at aboriginal sight" and he confused to New Mexico to be with her. Afterwards they retired, they acclimatized in arctic California so his wife could booty affliction of her crumbling parents.
The two aggregate a adulation of bound collies and entered in activity runs with their dogs. She was an ardent quilter. The blaze took everything, including her quilts and his life's photo archive.
Lynne Powell did not appetite a canonizing account or obituary. But George Powell said he may authority a appropriate cafeteria with accompany to bless her life.
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TOGETHER IN LIFE AND DEATH
Charles Rippey, 100, and his wife, Sara, 98, are the oldest victims of the wine country wildfires articular so far.
Their bodies were activate by one of their sons who had fabricated his way accomplished aegis and activate the home in Napa area they had lived for 35 years absolutely gone. Alone two begrimed metal chairs, a ceramics tea set of white and bendable washes of dejected and added baby bits remained to affirm to the couple's continued activity together.
Charles Rippey — who was accepted by his appellation "Peach" aback he was a toddler — appeared to be branch to the allowance of his wife, who had had a achievement in contempo years.
Mike Rippey said his ancestor would accept never larboard his mother. The brace met in brand academy and afresh acclaimed their 75th bells ceremony with their bristles children.
"Those of us in the ancestors consistently would, you know, admiration what would appear if one of them died and the added one was still larboard because we knew that, you know, there's no way they would anytime be blessed whoever was the aftermost one and so they went together," Rippey, 71, said as he stood amid the broiled charcoal of their home.
The brace abounding the University of Wisconsin and affiliated in 1942 afore Charles Rippey served as a U.S. Army architect in Apple War II. He again became an controlling with the Firestone annoy company.
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DEDICATED TO HELPING OTHERS
Christina Hanson, 27, acclimated a wheelchair and spent her activity committed to allowance others admitting her own hardships, her ancestors said.
Kelsi Mannhalter had acquaint on amusing media allurement bodies to chase for her accessory afterwards the blaze Monday ravaged Santa Rosa area Hanson lived.
Mannhalter afterwards accepted on Facebook that Hanson did not survive aback the bonfire captivated her home.
"Just surreal," Mannhalter posted. "I adulation you so abundant and am activity to absence you candied cousin. I can't say it enough."
Her ancestor was activate burst on the artery in advanced of his home with catechize burns and was taken to a hospital in San Francisco. Hanson had approved abominably to ability him as bonfire amidst her accommodation about 1:30 a.m. Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Hanson was built-in with a analgesic birthmark and absent her mother at 9 to lupus.
Still, her focus was consistently on others, her stepmother, Jennifer Watson, told the newspaper, anecdotic her as "a actual happy, amusing and absolute person."
Hanson volunteered two canicule a ceremony at an Alzheimer's residential affliction ability in Santa Rosa, area she would absorb residents.
She additionally accomplished herself assurance accent and interpreted for the audition impaired.
"She admired allowance bodies and admired her family," said Watson, who was with her stepdaughter the day afore she died.
Her ancestors wrote in an online obituary that Hanson "was accepted her angel wings."
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In the 55 years they were married, Carmen Caldentey Berriz had spent endless hours in her bedmate Armando's arms.
In his accoutrements was area the 75-year-old took her aftermost animation on Monday, as he captivated her afloat in a pond basin as walls of blaze austere about them, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Carmen had accepted Armando was the one aback she was 12, and the two anachronous for years afore marrying in 1962. By the time Carmen angry 75, their ancestors had developed to accommodate two daughters, a son, their children's spouses and seven grandchildren.
The Berrizes were three canicule into a vacation at a Santa Rosa rental abode with ancestors aback son-in-law Luis Ocon woke aboriginal Monday morning and saw the blaze activate to beat the neighborhood.
They fled to their cars.
Luis, Monica Ocon, and their babe fabricated it through the blubbery smoke and bonfire and pulled over, watching for Carmen and Armando's car to appear abaft them. It never came.
Armando Berriz's car had gotten ashore on a collapsed tree. He told his wife they had to run aback to the abode to booty apartment in the backyard pool.
As bonfire broiled the bassinet lounges a few anxiety away, Carmen clung to Armando, who kept them both afloat by blind assimilate the brick abandon of the pool.
Armando Berriz captivated on for hours, alike as the brick austere his hands, alike as his wife chock-full breathing. He let go alone afterwards the bonfire had austere out, laying Carmen on the accomplish of the basin with her accoutrements anxiously beyond over her chest.
He absolved 2 afar to acquisition firefighters.
"Everything they did was as a team," babe Monica Ocon said. "They had this band and this backbone that actually lasted a lifetime."
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ONE LAST PHONE CALL
Linda Tunis confused from Florida to the Journey's End Mobile Home Esplanade in Santa Rosa to be afterpiece to her family. Aback the arctic California wildfires bound overtook the park, the 69-year-old woman phoned her daughter.
She was trapped, she told her daughter, Jessica Tunis. She was amidst by fire, and activity to die.
Jessica Tunis screamed at her mom to run to safety, to abscond the afire home.
"I was cogent her I adulation her aback the buzz died," Jessica Tunis told the San Francisco Chronicle.
After three canicule of achievement and dread, Jessica's brother Robert Tunis activate his mother's charcoal in the bits area her abode already stood.
Linda Tunis was assuming and sweet, Jessica Tunis said Wednesday. She was additionally angrily independent, an attitude that wasn't abject by her bloom problems. She had declining anamnesis because of a stroke, and had absent the afterimage in one of her eyes because of aerial claret pressure.
She admired bingo and the beach, allotment to move California mostly because it brought her nearer to her close family, Jessica Tunis said.
"My mother's charcoal accept been activate at her home at Journey's End. May she blow in peace, my candied Momma," Jessica Tunis acquaint on Facebook beforehand this week.
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