Darlene L. Zeck, age 82 of Cave Junction, Ore., passed away on March 10, 2012, in Cave Junction, Ore. She was born December 14, 1929, in Minnesota.

She lived in Crescent City most of her life, was married for 62 years to Jack G. Zeck, and had two children James A. Zeck and Jack L. Zeck, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

— Submitted by Family

John David Poyneer II, 69, of Brookings, died Feb. 12, 2012, in Brookings.

He was born May 24, 1942, on Widbey Island, Wash., to John David I and Rebecca Poyneer.

John was a long-time resident of the Crescent City/ Brookings-Harbor area.

Kathel Diane Maire, age 52, was called home by our lord on Feb. 29, 2012, in Mentone, Calif.

She was born September 29, 1959, in Torrance, Calif., to Raymond and Edith Cowan, the sixth of six children. She had been a resident of Crescent City since 1981.

Kathy graduated from Northview High in Covina, Calif., in 1977. After high school she married John Slagle and had her first child. Kathy and John decided to make their home in Crescent City to be closer to her parents in 1981. After her second child, John moved back home and Kathy stayed. In 1984 Kathy met, then married, Edwin Maire and gave birth to her third child in December 1992.

Former Crescent City resident, George Norman Ziegler, 89, of Grants Pass, died on Monday, March 5, 2012.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, March 19, 2012, at Chapel of the Valley – L.B. Hall Funeral Home. Grants Pass Funeral Alternatives is handling arrangements.

Contributions may be made to The American Cancer Society or HASL Independent Abilities Center, 305 NE E St., Grants Pass, OR 97526.

Isabel Claire (Murphy) Berry was born on her parents’ ranch (the Murphy Ranch) near Slough House, Sacramento County, Calif., and died at her home in Penngrove, Sonoma County, Calif., following a brief illness at the age of 94. She graduated from Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove, Calif., in 1935 and then worked her way through  UC Berkeley in the last years of the Great Depression, graduating in 1942. She went on to earn a Master’s Degree and continued on a path of life-long learning. She became a middle school teacher, retiring in 1980 after  23 years of teaching. She moved to Crescent City, with her husband, George T. Berry Jr., a descendant of an early pioneer family of Del Norte County in 1946, and began her teaching career there. After taking 11 years off to raise her two sons, she then resumed teaching at Crescent Elk School in 1963.

Grace “Gracie” Marie Bolen, 69, passed away on February 27, 2012. She was born on October 6, 1942, in Battle Mountain, Nev., to Bertha Van Doorn Miller and Robert Miller. Grace lived most of her life in Del Norte County. She was born to a large family and raised on a farm. Grace worked as both a postmaster and flagger. She  enjoyed gardening most, was a great cook, an animal lover and artist. Grace made her house a home and opened it to many, including hundreds of foster children.

Karen Kay Claussen died March 5, 2012, after a long battle with cancer. Born December 22, 1945, in Tucumcari, New Mexico, She traveled all over the world with her family before graduating from UC Berkeley in 1970. She moved to Crescent City in 1992, where she established a successful tax and translation business.

Karen was preceded in death by her parents Bonnie and Gertrude Claussen.