Passages

Constance Milhomme Wright 1931-2020

Connie Wright’s son Alex posted the following to Facebook: Sadly this week Topanga has lost a colorful giant and longtime community leader. At 5’1” Connie Wright was an amazing force to be…

Peter S. Traynor 1942 – 2019

Peter was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on January 20, 1942. At age twenty, he fled the cold and convention and headed to San Francisco with $300 in his pocket, determined to make…

Lisa Patt—1955-2019

Many will remember Saturday, November 16, for the dramatic fire in the afternoon, and a huge noise and vision of yellow fixed-wing water tankers soaring close overhead to start the airdrops. That…

Robert Walker Jr.—1940-2019

Robert Walker Jr., the longtime owner of Tops Gallery in Malibu, has died. He was 79. The son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones had a long film and television career…

Myrna Faith Saxe-Morris 1934-2019

Myrna Saxe died in her sleep on the evening of June first, 2019. She was at peace. She was born on September 19, 1934, in Chicago. The family moved to San Francisco…

Beverly Weinger, 1923-2019 Memorial May 19

(Memorial for Weinger will be at Corazon on May 19, 10 a.m. to noon.) Beverly Mona Weinger passed away peacefully at age 96 on April 16, 2019, in Nashville, TN. She had…

Old Bill—1911-2019

Old Bill, the peripatetic Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) became part of my family in 1921, when my dad, Bob, was nine years old, and found him cruising down his street near…

Evelyn Jensen, 1938 – 2019

Longtime Topanga resident Evelyn Jensen passed away on March 30, with her family by her side. At the age of 19, Evelyn Bernbach met the love of her life and future husband,…

Claire Humphrey Memorial

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of longtime Topanga resident Claire Elizabeth Humphrey. Claire passed in the early hours of March 16, 2019. She died peacefully holding her…