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Judy and RonOctober 4, 1919 - August 11, 1988Robert M. Ward
In MemoriamSeptember 24, 2019REANEY, Thomas M.
Thomas M. Reaney, 87,
passedaway peacefully
Tuesday, September 24,
2019 after a brief illness
in Palm Desert, California.
Tom married the true love of his life,
Frances Zummo, 63 years ago. He was
blessed with five children, Mary Faith
Hocking (Doug), Thomas J. Reaney
(Jane),LydiaDurkin (Bob),Anne
Brantley (Mitch) and Therese Cook
(Robert). He was proud grandfather
of Mary Frances Hocking (Franny),
Thomas A. and Betty Frances Reaney,
Margaret (Maggie), Michael and Chloe
Durkin, Chase and Katie Brantley and
Jackson Cook.
He was the son of the late Margaret
(Kelly) and Thomas E. Reaney and the
beloved “brother Tommy” to his three
sisters, Sister Mary Faith Reaney O.P.,
Mary Beirne and Kathleen Mastrorocco.
Tom attended Central Catholic
High School and Geneva College on
a basketball scholarship and was a
graduate of Duquesne University
in Pittsburgh. He served in the U.S
Army during the Korean War. He
was employed for 25 years with CBS
Records in California.
Tom’s claim to famewashis
outstanding athleticism both in
basketball and later in golf but his true
love was for his family.
He was also a person who was
extremely comfortable in his own
skin and truly did not care what
other people thought of him. He was
a straight shooter and always said
exactly what was on his mind.
A celebration of life Memorial mass
will be held Saturday, November 2 at
11 am at Sacred Heart Church in Palm
Desert. Contributions in his memory
may be made to The Dominican
Sister of Peace, 2320 Airport Drive,
Columbus, OH 43219.
FitzHenry-Wiefels Palm Desert has
been entrusted with arrangements.Originally from Wellington NZ,
passed away peacefully at home in the
wine country in Northern California on
September 18, 2019. She was in the
company of her husband of 71 years.
She lived a long and wonderful life in
which she approached every day with
her eternal optimism. It was a life well
lived. Dudleigh will be missed by her
family and friends.
Haere rā.MUDGWAY, Dudleigh
VictoriaJuly 17, 1926 - October 1, 2019LANE, William G.
Bill was born in Ponca City, OK.
He later moved to San Diego with
his parents Gladys and Ernest. Bill
graduated from San Diego High School.
He went onto Woodbury College where
he earned a bachelor of science with a
major in interior design. He later went
on to set up a successful interior design
business in West Hollywood under the
name Lane McCook. He is survived by
his partner Robert of 13 years.
Service for Bill will take place at
Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego,
on October 9th from 10 to 11:30 AM.
All are welcome.July 27, 1917 - September 5, 2019CHANG, Hara Woo
Hara was born in Lihue, Kauai, lived
in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Whittier,
California.She was predeceased by her
beloved husband, Yee Poom Chang and
her son, Howard Chang. She is survived
by her sons, Gary (Sunny) Chang, Keith
(Teri) Chang; and daughter-in law,
Judie Chang; grandchildren, Kevin,
Heather, Holly, Kyle, Kenny, Bryan; and
eighteen great-grandchildren; and
many relatives. A memorial service
was held on September 28, 2019.OBITUARY NOTICES
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Search obituary notice archives: legacy.com/obituaries/latimesDecember 9, 1927 - October 2, 2019ZASLOVE, Alan Louis
Alan Louis Zaslove, 91, of Sherman
Oaks, CA, passed away peacefully on
October 2nd, 2019. Born in New York
City, on December 9th, 1927, son of
the late Joseph and Sadie Zaslove.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy
Gordon-Zaslove, his daughters Mara
Zaslove and Diana Zaslove Kahn,
son Mark Zaslove, and stepchildren
Lesley Ford and Michael Ford, and his
grandchildren Alyssa, Benjamin, Evan,
and Cole.
A fine artist, animator/director/
producer, Alan was 15 when he got
his first job in animation at Warner
Brothers. He then went to the
prestigious Chouinard Art Institute,
while at the same time, began work
at the pioneering UPA studio. He
later worked at every studio from
Hanna-Barbera to Disney, on such
notable titles as “A Charlie Brown
Christmas,” “The Jetsons,” “Tom Terrific,”
“The Smurfs,” “Duck Tales,” and “Chip
& Dale’s Rescue Rangers,” with his
last work being at Universal on “The
New Woody Woodpecker Show.” On
a parallel path, his fine art career was
strong into the late ‘70s, and he was
head of the drawing department at
Otis Art Institute.
A memorial service will be held at
11 AM on Monday, October 7th, 2019
at Groman Eden Mortuary & Eden
Memorial Park, 11500 Sepulveda Blvd.,
Mission Hills, CA. Family and friends
are welcome, with refreshments after
the service at a nearby location. In lieu
of flowers, donations may be made to
the Parkinson’s Foundation.April 20, 1931 - September 26, 2019TOTTEN , Sybil Audrey
Sybil Audrey Totten fondly known as
“Syb’s” or simply “SSSSS” by John, her
predeceased husband of 61 years, was
born on April 20, 1931 on the family
farm in Good Easter, Essex, England,
to Reginald and Edith Matthews.
Sadly, on September 26, 2019 without
warning and a total surprise to all,
Sybil, possessor of boundless energy
and enthusiasm, passed on.
Sybil, to the end was a whirlwind
of energy possessing an enthusiasm,
zeal, zest for life that all who knew
her aspired to replicate. She and John
travelled the world, leaving no stone
unturned. Sybil valued, nurtured, and
treasured every acquaintance, friend
and family member wringing the joy
out of every moment; nothing in her
life was done half-hearted. Sybil’s
childhood did not foretell this life filled
with adventure and passion.At the
age of 2, either due to a head injury
or illness, Sybil began to experience
biweekly grand mall epileptic seizures.
Her parents and two brothers, Tommy
and Geoffrey, brothers she adored and
remained close to all of their lives,
understandably became extremely
protective of Sybil. She was not
allowed to swim, a lifelong regret,
which as an aside did not stop her
from rafting down Alaskan rapids
well into her 60’s. It was regularly
communicated to Sybil that because
of her illness she would never marry
or have children. However, early on it
became very evident to all that Sybil
was not going to let epilepsy, nor the
premature death of her father, when
she was 14, define her. Like all of her
peers in those days she went off to
boarding school where she excelled at
all type of sport but particularly field
hockey. She lived through World War II
and the devastating bombings during
the Battle of Britain. In the early 50’s,
Sybil went to work for the Marconi
Corp where in 1954 she met John
Totten a handsome Australian and 6
months later took his name. After a
short honeymoon, John and Sybil with
nothing more than a few pounds in
their pockets left England for a new
life in Canada. Very quickly thereafter
in 1955 Robert was born and in 2-year
intervals Bruce and Steven. Following
her new husbandaway from her
doting family thousands of miles, with
limited resources while continuing
to experience biweekly seizures
exemplifies Sybil’s quiet courage.
Sybil and John successfully built
a new life in Toronto sharing their
passionsfordancing, tennis and
friends; but, after 10 years the road
called again. John and Sybil, tiring of
the Toronto cold bundled their family
of 5 plus cat into a 14-foot trailer and
travelled across the USA relocating to
Los Angeles.
Though Sybil’s heart never left her
family in England, whom she visited
and spoke with often, her Los Angeles
roots grew deep. Sybil was a doer
and the scheduler of all activities. In
the 1970’s Sybil was awarded San
Fernando Valley Lady of the Year. In the
1980’s once an empty nester she went
to work as a travel agent; a vocation
she dearly loved. If you became Sybil’s
friend it was for life, every relationship
was valued and maintained. She and
John often said “we never give up
friends they have to give up on us”.
Sybil valued her tennis friends, her
bridge friends, her pickleball friends,
her Mayflower Club friends, her Village
friends, her travel friends and then
most of all her family. Sybil was the
glue that kept our family together,
never missing a birthday or special
event and bragging to anyone who
would listen about her grandchildren
and great grandchildren.
Sybil’s husband, John, predeceased
her after 61 years of marriage. Sybil
will be deeply missed by all who
knew her but particularly by her sons
Robert, Bruce and Steven, her current
and past daughters-in-law Kimberly,
Myra, Honey Bee and Debra; her
grandchildren Jennifer, Jessica, Rachel,
Michael, Sabrina, Kristine, Marilyn and
Siena and her great-grandchildren
Benjamin, Layla and Lucas.
Services to be held 10:00 am on
Tuesday, October 8th at St. Columba’s
Episcopal Church, 1251 Las Posas Rd.
Camarillo.fencing so that we could fully
enclose the remainder of our
campuses.”
Many in the community,
however, see the closed cam-
pus as a loss worthy of pro-
test. Fremont offers the only
large play area within walk-
ing distance of their homes.
On Wednesday, Perez
and dozens of other parents,
students and community
members took to the streets,
picketing in front of the
school with signs that read
“Keep Fremont Free” and
“Save Our Fremont Com-
munity Playground.” They
marched, chanting “Don’t
fence us off ” and “What do
we want? Play space! When
do we want it? Every day!”
The discord in Long
Beach comes as two move-
ments collide. School lead-
ers are acting to address
compelling safety issues,
while public health re-
searchers and community
activists push for more open
space for play and exercise
and stronger neighborhood
ties to campuses, especially
in low-income neighbor-
hoods.
Opening schools up to
the neighborhood helps
families feel comfortable
and moves them to become
involved, said Jeff Vincent,
director of the Center for Cit-
ies and Schools at UC Berke-
ley, a policy research center
focused on developing fam-
ily-friendly cities centered
on high-quality school ac-
cess. But the “hardening of
schools” that’s happening
as a result of school safety
initiatives post-Parkland
might deter such involve-
ment, he said.
“If you look at move-
ments in education and
school improvement ...there’s been a focus on fam-
ily connections and even
community connections —
that those things, when
done well, raise achieve-
ment,” Vincent said. “So how
do you have a hard or safe
school from a shooter and
yet still retain community
connections and parents
can sort of flow in and out?”
Across the country, in ur-
ban and rural school dis-
tricts, educators and city of-
ficials are working to find
ways to keep schools open
on the weekends and after
school, recognizing that
safety is paramount.
In Los Angeles, Mayor
Eric Garcetti committed to
opening 25 community
school parks by 2025 “to pro-
vide access to school yards
over the weekends in neigh-
borhoods where green space
is not yet in walking distance
from most families.”
Cities have come on
board in part because it’s
less expensive to take on
some of the cost of keeping a
school open than it is to
build a park, said Cesar De
La Vega, an analyst at Oak-
land-based ChangeLab So-
lutions, a public policy and
health equity nonprofit.
Darla Nash, a Fremont
parent, supports the dis-
trict’s decision to enclose
schools. In 2012, after the
shooting at Sandy Hook Ele-
mentary School that killed
26 people, including 20 chil-
dren, the community “said
through tears they would do
anything in their ability to
protect their children,” Nash
said. Her son learned to ride
a bike at Fremont, but she
would rather have a school
that’s always closed than
one where officials have not
done everything possible to
secure the campus. Parentscan take their kids to the
park less than a mile away,
she said.
But what about the kids
whose parents work late or
on the weekends, or don’t
have bikes, or are too young
to travel that far alone,
countered Jyoti Nanda, a
mother who was one of the
protest organizers.
“They don’t have parents
to drive them to Lagoon
Park; they’re latchkey kids,”
Nanda said.
Parks are least available
per capita for African Ameri-
cans, Latinos and low-
income residents in L.A.
County, according to a 2016
report from the county’s
public health office. The chil-
dren of Fremont are not the
most heavily affected by a
lack of park access, but there
is a need.
Fremont’s school com-
munity is mostly white and
Latino, and about 1 in 5 stu-
dents are eligible for free or
reduced-price lunch, a pov-
erty marker. The school is
nestled in a suburban neigh-borhood of single-story
homes and small apartment
complexes, many of which
don’t have open space.
The Trust for Public
Land rates Long Beach high
in terms of access to parks —
most residents of all races,
age groups and income lev-
els are within a 10-minute
walk of a park, according to
the nonprofit land protec-
tion organization. Part of
the Belmont Heights neigh-
borhood near Fremont,
however, is rated as high
need in the group’s 2019 anal-
ysis.
Fifth-grade Fremont
teacher Kristal Cheek said
she feels safer knowing that
there will be one entrance to
the school but also enjoys
working on a campus where
community members know
one another and treat the
school like a park.
“There’s two sides to it,”
Cheek said. “I mean, there’s
safety issues while we’re in
school.”
Schools across the coun-
try have taken a similar ap-
proach to Long Beach since
the shooting in Parkland,
Fla., said Ken Trump, presi-
dent of National School
Safety and Security Serv-
ices, a consulting agency.
Many, especially in Flor-
ida, are erecting fences
around campuses, installing
buzzers and instituting a
“single point of entry.” These
might work for some
schools. But Trump sug-
gests investing in training
front-office staff and said
there’s no safety reason re-
lated to mass shootings to
block playground access
during non-school hours.
“What’s your real drive
here?” he asked. “Is it really
security, or is it security
theater?”FREMONT ELEMENTARYfamilies protest plans to limit public access to the campus. Though schools have
tightened security, researchers and activists say open campuses offer play space and can boost community ties.Brian van der BrugLos Angeles TimesCampuses raising fences
[School,from B1]
‘How do you havea hard or safe
school from
a shooter and
yet still retain
community
connections and
parents can sort
of flow in and
out?’
— Jeff Vincent,
director of the Center for Cities
and Schools at UC BerkeleyDoing so would take about
18 minutes from Terminal 4,
the farthest area from the
lot.
LAX will join other air-
ports that have nixed curb-
side ride-hailing in an at-
tempt to alleviate traffic.
In June, San FranciscoInternational Airport
moved all domestic terminal
pickups for Uber and Lyft to
a central parking lot. Similar
changes are also scheduled
to take place at Boston Lo-
gan International Airport.
LAX officials said more
information on the move will
be released Friday morning.LAX to ban curbside
pickups by Uber, Lyft
LAXhas seen worsening congestion amid rising pas-
senger volume and increased use of ride-hailing apps.Irfan KhanLos Angeles Times[Airport,from B1]Los Angeles School Po-
lice officers have taken two
people into custody in a little
over two weeks after author-
ities said they were carrying
loaded weapons on or near
separate campuses.
The latest incident oc-
curred Wednesday, when a
loaded gun was found inside
a backpack during a random
metal detection search atCrenshaw High School.
Neither police nor school
officials were immediately
available to confirm whether
the bag where the gun was
found belonged to a student.
After police discovered
the weapon, the suspect
fled, authorities said. Offi-
cers and a K-9 unit searched
the person’s residence and a
nearby abandoned property
where the suspect was said
to have been hiding.
A resident then told offi-cers the suspect wanted to
surrender.
“An arrangement was
made between LASPD and
the citizen for the subject to
surrender at the local police
station. The subject was
safely taken into custody
and arrested for possession
of a stolen firearm.”
The incident comes less
than a month after a student
was arrested near the cam-
pus of Cesar E. Chavez
Learning Academies in SanFernando with a loaded .45-
caliber handgun.
An L.A. School Police of-
ficer conducting a safe
school passage patrol on
Sept. 13 stopped two boys
who appeared to be holding
an open alcoholic beverage.
One of the boys admitted to
having a gun in addition to
narcotics.
School police were not
immediately available to
comment further on either
arrest.L.A. School Police make 2nd
arrest in weeks involving guns
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