Deborah Jean Banta, a Redlands High School graduate who was active in the Brownies, Girl Scouts, YMCA and Kimberly Juniors, died on Sept. 7, 1947. She was 72.

James “Jim” Donald Thomas, professor emeritus of political science at California State University, San Bernardino, died on Aug. 26, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family in Redlands after a battle with myeloid leukemia. He was 90.

Joan E. Nelson, former personnel manager at Harris Co. in Redlands and an active member of the Redlands Chamber of Commerce, died on Sept. 9, 2019. She was 85.

Betty Jean Gable, who served on the Redlands Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, died of lymphoma on Sept. 5, 2019, at home with family at her side. She was 88.

Geraldine May Starbuck of Highland, a former teachers aide in Redlands who once helped her husband assist female federal prisoners, died on Sept. 1, 2019, in Loma Linda. She was 89.

Joe Villalpando, an All-American football player who played at Redlands High School, died on Aug. 31, 2019, after a stroke and respiratory failure. He was 65.

Larry “Boe” Tappen, a former employee of the Redlands and Yucaipa school districts, died in the Badlands on Sept. 13, 2019. He was 79.

Donna Mae Kragness died on Aug. 28, 2019, in Redlands. She was 75.

Patricia Ann Saenz, worked at Crafton Hills College for 20 years, died on Aug. 23, 2019, at home in San Bernardino. She was 81.

Richard “Pat” Buron Casey, a U.S. Navy veteran who owned the A&W Root Beer in Mentone for 32 years, died peacefully at his home in Redlands on Wednesday September 4, 2019. He was 89.

Founder and owner of Tri-City Acoustic and longtime civic activist Ronald John Jeffrey died on Sunday, Sept. 6.  He was 76.

Betty Jean Gable, who served on the Redlands Parks and Recreation Advisory Commissio, died of lymphoma on Sept. 5, 2019, at home with family at her side. She was 88.

Russell Carl Anderson, who once boasted “I cut steel with fire,” died from heart failure on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, in his Calimesa home. He was 58.

Jennifer Lynn Riddles, a veterinary assistant at Loma Linda Animal Hospital, died on Aug. 18, 2019. She was 56.

Corina Cecelia Cruz Ruba, a Redlands native and 2009 graduate of Redlands East Valley High School, died on July 29, 2019, in her home in Highland. She was 29.

Marilyn Maxine Drolet, who raised nine children while working at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, died on Aug. 21, 2019, in her Redlands home surrounded by her family. She was 88.

Jennifer Lynn Riddles, a veterinary assistant at Loma Linda Animal Hospital, died on Aug. 18, 2019. She was 56.

Ella Marie Harty, a pioneer in special education in the Yucaipa public school system, died on Tuesday, Aug. 6. She was 91.

Joanne (Jo) Geneiveve Matney, who worked in food service at Redlands High School for 16 years, died on Saturday, July 20, 2019, at Redlands Community Hospital. She was 80.

Janet M. Hornby, a former teacher and lifelong dog lover, died on July 11, 2019, in Redlands, after being diagnosed with kidney disease. She was 77.

Helen “Sue” Margaret Fritz Chambers, a onetime employee of Esri, died on June 23, 2019. She was 96.

Dolores Z. Poore, who taught at the old Kingsbury Elementary School, died on July 10, 2019, in Redlands after a brief illness. She was 90.

Ray Alexander, a U.S. Marine veteran once named Redlands’ Realtor of the Year, died on June 21, 2019. He was 95.

Venita Rae Waitman, who lived in Redlands for 64 years, died on June 7, 2019. She was 79.

Lawrence “Larry” Gene Philibert, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, died on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at home in Redlands after an illness. He was 72.

Venita Rae Waitman, who lived in Redlands for 64 years, died on June 7, 2019. She was 79.

Harold “Hal” Youmans Reynolds Jr., a Redlands native and longtime telephone service maintenance supervisor, died on June 15, 2019, surrounded by his family.

Joan Marcum McAdam, a retired elementary school teacher who was raised on a citrus grove on Pioneer Avenue in Redlands, died on June 1, 2019, in Newport. She was 72.

Margaret Carolyn Wright, the first woman elected to the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District board, died on May 30, 2019, at Brightwater Senior Living in Highland.

Helen Tarasenko Sprengel-Lutz, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary and author of “God’s Miracle,” died on Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Loma Linda.

Linda Burrows, a teacher, caregiver and volunteer, died on April 20, 2019, after a long battle with cancer. She was 87.

A mother and her son, Luz and Reginald Dablo, have died within four days of each other.

Nancy Beth Varner of Redlands, a former registered nurse who helped launch the Believe Walk as she battled cancer for 13 years, died on Saturday, June 1, 2019. She was 67.

Charles D. “Chuck” Obershaw, known to many in Redlands as an area car dealer and philanthropist, died May 23 at his home in San Bernardino. Services were held on May 30 with burial at Mt. View Cemetery.

Leonard Bailey, MD, the renowned Loma Linda University Health surgeon who garnered international media attention in 1984 for transplanting a baboon’s heart into a human infant known as “Baby Fae,” the research from which spawned human-to-human infant heart transplants and other cardiac treat…

Patricia Miller, a former Redlands resident who was once a roller-skating carhop at Hudlow’s drive-in, died on March 22, 2019, in Oak Harbor, Wash. She was 91.

Roger Duncan Moore, the son of the former owners of the Redlands Daily Facts who went on to become a renowned computer developer and then a philanthropist in Toronto, died on March 21, 2019.He was 79.

Col. Daniel J. Rehm died peacefully at home in Redlands on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, surrounded by his family. He was 87.

Albert Alaniz, a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran, died on surrounded by his family at his home on April 28, 2019, in Redlands. He was 87.