KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Leigh Ann McCullough entered into rest on March 16, 2016, in Kelseyville.

Leigh was born on May 12, 1955, in Wichita, Kansas, to Thomas and Sue (Tripp) Haney.

Leigh leaves behind her husband, Richard; daughter Summer and son-in-law Matt Seret of Benicia; step-daughter, Lecia McCullough of New York City; granddaughter, Molly Seret of Benicia; mother, Sue Tripp of Tuolumne; and brother, Dr. Michael M. Haney of Austin, Texas.

Leigh Ann had a great love for books and her favorite pastime was to be in her garden tending all the beautiful things she planted, somewhat like she tended her family and friends.

She included this quote in her last message to family ...

Fredrick Nietzsche, whose doctrine of eternal return asks this: “What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: This life you now live and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more?”

Donations can be made to Heifer International. www.heifer.org .

Memorial services will follow at a later date with family and close friends.

On March 19 in Santa Barbara, Calif., after a cruise to Hawaii, his beloved birthplace, Orville Tyler Magoon passed into history. He was surrounded by his wife and children.

His life was one dedicated to our planet and its coastal treasures and to the people who surrounded him.

After his retirement from the Army Corps of Engineers in 1983 as a coastal engineer, he continued to dedicate his life to finding solutions to coastal issues, all the time managing the family estate winery in Northern California's Lake and Napa counties, called Guenoc and once owned by Lillie Langtry, British actress and legend.

Guenoc and Langtry Estates vineyards and winery was producing more than 100,000 cases of Lake County wine by 1999, on the property extending from Butts Canyon Road near Middletown across the line into Napa County.

Magoon was a member of the Lake County Grape Growers Association, Les Amis du Vin, Supreme Grand Knight of the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Vine, the Order of Military Wine Tasters and chairman of the Meritage Association. Magoon was affiliated with the Middletown Merchants Association, the Rotary Club of Middletown and the Lake County Historical Society.

Orville balanced his time between coastal engineering and managing the winery, which was producing award-winning wines, including the Genevieve Chardonnay named for Orville’s mother and which was honored in The Wine Spectator.

In 2004 he retired from Guenoc to San Francisco with his wife, Karen. There he continued to work for better understanding of our beaches, with particular concern directed to sandmining and “sand rights,” the importance of not interfering with the dynamics of sand movement to the detriment of coastal and beach stability. For his experience with and efforts to understand tsunamis, he was interviewed for the KQED broadcast, “Scary Tsunamis.”

Orville Magoon received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii in 1951 and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1952.

After 30 years of experience in the field of coastal planning, design, construction and rehabilitation of coastal structures, Magoon retired as chief of the Coastal Engineering Branch of the Planning Division of the US Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division in July 1983.

Orville Magoon served on the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses Committee on Waves, on a number of National Aeronautics and Space Administration panels involved with remote sensing and satellite imagery of coastlines, and the National Academy of Engineering.

He was president of the Coastal Zone Foundation as well as vice chair of the Coastal Engineering Research Council for 40 years and as president of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association for 10 years.

In 1978 a series of Coastal Zone conferences was initiated by Orville, seeking solutions to coastal issues and held biannually, hosting up to 1,500 people. He continued to organize international, focused conferences on topics such as coastal structures, coastlines of the world, sand rights, California and the world ocean, ocean wave measurement and analysis resulting in over sixty of volumes of written proceedings.

Orville Magoon received several national and international awards during his career including the Jim Purpura National Coastal Engineering Award from FSBPA and the Murrough P. O'Brien Award from ASBPA.

He also received the William Wisely, Arthur M. Wellington Prize, International Coastal Engineering Award and the Moffat-Nichol Awards from ASCE in recognition of his service to the coastal engineering and coastal zone management.

His contributions to the profession were recognized with Distinguished Member of ASCE and Honorary Member of JSCE.

Recognizing his devotion to students, Texas A&M University established the Orville T. Magoon Scholarship in 2003 which is given annually to one or more students who exhibit a strong interest in the field of coastal engineering and sustainability.

In recognition of his eminence in his profession, the American Society of Civil Engineers created the Orville T. Magoon Sustainable Coasts Award in 2014 which is given annually. This award is given to a leader who promotes the concept of sustainability in coastal engineering research, design, construction and management.

He was recognized by his friends and colleagues as a tireless mentor, leader and friend to everyone.

Orville loved gathering mushrooms; he loved nature and animals; cats were drawn to him as well as anyone who ever met him.

Orville Magoon is survived by his brother Eaton Harry Huha “Bob” Magoon Jr. of Hidden Valley Lake, Calif.; children, Melissa, Marshall and their spouses Brian and Jena, as well as Mary and Matthew, grandson Spencer and great grandson Bradley; and Orville’s wife Karen, her children Aaron and Bridget, Aaron’s spouse Yvonne, and grandchildren, Uli, Matti and Mori.

Two memorial celebrations of Orville’s life are planned, the first on Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 1187 Franklin in San Francisco, and the second on Saturday, June 18, at 1 p.m. at the Bay Club Santa Clara, 3250 Central Expressway, Santa Clara.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Orville T. Magoon Sustainable Coasts Award in c/o American Society of Civil Engineers, ATTN:  Jane Alspach, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA  20191; please mark the contribution for Permanently Restricted Fund.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Richard “Dick” Eugene Hazelton died in Lakeport, Calif., on March 19, 2016.

He was born on Nov. 5, 1926, in Elyria, Ohio, to Ruth and Joesph Hazelton and according to Dick, “At birth, I weighed 8 pound, 8 ounces and I was very cute.”

He grew up on the edge of town in Elyria with his Mom, Dad and brother Bob with no electricity, no running water and no indoor plumbing and a Sears Roebuck catalog in the outhouse. They had goats, chickens, rabbits, pigeons and turkeys.

When he turned 6 years old, the family moved into town. At age 10, Dick contracted rheumatic fever and was bedridden for one year and had to relearn how to walk again.

At 16, Dick quit high school to go to work. He first went to work at a factory and then on the iron ore boat freighters on the Great Lakes when he was 17 years old.

At 18, he joined the U.S. Army were he learned Morse Code and spent two years in communications, ending up in Okinawa in the Pacific then on to Korea near the end of World War II.

He was discharged from the Army as a technical sergeant and went back to Elyria and got on the G.I. Bill to learn how to be an auto body repairman and painter.

He got a job at Harry Brown Motors and there he met Donna Mae Brown, the boss' daughter, who he married one year later.

Dick decided he didn’t want to straighten out cars the rest of his life so he went back to high school as a freshman and always said his 15-year-old classmates didn’t like him!

After high school, he enrolled in the National Radio and Television School in Cleveland, Ohio, to become a broadcast engineer.

Dick and Donna had five children, Beckie, Cyndi, Gary and twins Mark and Clark (five kids in 4 1/2 years!).

Dick built two homes for his family, all by himself from bare land to completion including masonry, carpentry, wiring, plumbing, sheet rock and roofing. He also built an 18-foot wooden boat complete with a cabin, two bunks, toilet and stove.

In 1954 Dick got a job with Honeywell as a field engineer. He started in Cleveland and then was transferred to Los Angeles. After one year he was transferred to San Diego to start a new office.

After 10 years of marriage, Dick and Donna divorced.

In 1962, Dick married Eileen and they lived in the San Francisco and Sacramento area for 30 years.

Dick’s children spent their summers with them. They adopted a 3-year-old orphaned Korean child they named Julie.

Eileen and Dick divorced after 22 years of marriage. Dick retired from Honeywell in 1986 after 32 years and then moved to Lakeport.

It was after retirement that Dick met his soulmate Diane, in Kelseyville, a neighboring town of Lakeport. Throughout their 20-year marriage, Dick and Diane enjoyed traveling all over the United States and Europe until sadly, cancer took her life on Feb. 8, 2007.
 
Dick was a member of the Friends of the Museum of Lakeport, Historical Society, Lakeport Community Players, Lake County Rose Society, American Legion, Lions Club and the Kelseyville Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include his five children, Beckie of Rock Springs, Wyo., Cyndi (Ralph) Westberg of Payson, Utah, Gary (Kris) Hazelton of Estes Park, Colo., Mark (Sirena) Hazelton of Sycamore, Ill., and Clark (Sharon) Hazelton of Roswell, Ga.; as well as many, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Dick said “I have had a long and wonderful life, I was happy to be a father and or friend to all whom may be reading this.”

A memorial service will be held Monday, April 4, at the Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary, 1625 N. High St. Lakeport.

For further information call Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary at 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611 or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .

Thomas John Martin Jr. – 'Nano'
Oct. 30, 1922-March 24, 2016

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Thomas is survived by his wife of 33 years. He was a member of the Big Valley Rancheria and Native Dancer.

He leaves behind many relatives who dearly loved him.

There will be a viewing at Big Valley Rancheria Gym, 1002 Osprey Court, Lakeport, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 2.

Burial will take place on Sunday, April 3, at 1 p.m. at St. Mary's Cemetery.

Arrangements by Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – On March 24, 2016, Dottie (Dorothy) Lucetta Flanagan passed away from advanced lung disease.

She was a loving wife to her husband of 40 years, David Flanagan; loving mother to her two daughters and sons-in-law, Jennie (Eric) Halvorsen and Sabrina (Warren) Mendenhall; loving Nana of eight beautiful grandchildren, Bran Bran, Ty Ty, Honey, Lovey, Sweetie, Wy Wy, Boo Boo and unborn grandson, Bae Bae.

Dottie was a loving daughter, sister, aunt, cousin and friend to many.  She will be greatly missed and loved.

Rest in peace.

A celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at the Odd Fellows Hall, Main Street, Upper Lake.  All are welcome.

Cremation arrangements by Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary.

Terri Lenore Thatch
Jan. 7, 1954-March 7, 2016

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Terri Lenore Thatch passed away at the age of 62 on March 7, 2016, at her home in Yuba City.

Beloved mother, grandmother and sister, Terri is survived by her three children, Rebecca Holton, Jeffrey Sutton and James Sutton; four grandchildren, Taylor Holton, Jacob Holton, Kayla Sutton and Austin Sutton; and sisters Sally Hightower and Diana Skaggs.

Terri was a passionate health care professional, working her way through college as a single mother to become a licensed psychiatric health care technician. 

Terri’s mission was to serve behavioral health and geriatric patients to provide a better quality of life for her patients and their families. 

Terri’s interests and hobbies were art and food festivals, sightseeing, interior decorating, reading, politics, antiquing, needlepoint and her beloved cats. 

A family favorite for two generations has been the personalized handmade Christmas stockings Terri made for each of her children and grandchildren, which will continue to be a cherished annual family tradition.

In lieu of gifts or flowers, please consider a monetary donation in Terri’s memory to a domestic violence advocacy center. 

A private celebration of life will be determined at a future date by Terri’s family.