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Eastern Sierra News for February 01, 2026

 

 

 

 

Richard Leroy Williams: 1945-2016

Richard Leroy Williams 1945-2016 Richard was born in Lee Vining, CA on August 22, 1945 and raised by his grandmother Vina Williams. In 1959, Alice and Art Dumas became his foster parents and moved him to Big Pine, CA where they finished raising him. He attended Big...

Phyllis Joan Myers: 1941-2016

Phyllis Joan Myers, a resident of Bishop CA for 14 years, passed away on December 1, 2016 at home after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Phyllis was the youngest of 3 children and was born in Eglantine Arkansas on April 16, 1941 to John Wirte Hunt and Inez Hunt. In...

Norma Dorothy McFadden: 1927-2016

Norma Dorothy McFadden 1927-2016 Norma Dorothy McFadden, age 89, resident of Big Pine, CA for 5 years, born in Pittsburgh, PA on April 3, 1927 passed away on November 25, 2016 at the Bishop Care Center. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa, passed on 11/25/2016 at the age of 89...

Tommie lone Longest: 1916-2016

Tommie lone Longest 1916-2016 Tommie lone Longest, age 100, passed away peacefully, at the Bishop Care Center on November 22, 2016. She was born in Kildare, Texas on January 16, 1916 to Thomas and Sarah Porter. As a young child, her family relocated to Los Angeles...

Patricia Rae Vance: 1944-2016

Lifelong Big Pine resident, Patricia Rae Vance, age 72, born in Bishop, California on June 4, 1944 to parents Norma and Willard Spratt, passed away peacefully on October 29, 2016 at home with her family by her side. Patricia, known to many as “Patsy” or “Patty”,...