Memorial Message from Lyla Rowley Wrobel '57...
Judi Dulin Mulligan '57 passed away the morning of Friday, February 15, 2013. If asked to describe Judi in one phrase, her friends would call her "the life of the party"!
Judi grew up in Burbank on Grinnell Dr. with her older brother Tom '56. She attended Emerson Elementary School, John Muir Jr High, and graduated from Burbank High School. She went on to graduate from LaVerne University with a degree in Early Childhood Education. She is survived by her husband Bob, son Daryl, and daughters Kathy and Karin.
Judi loved life! She was especially fond of babies (both human babies and kittens)! Most of all, she loved the area surrounding Sedona, Arizona. Last year, Judi and Bob took a road trip to visit his family in Kentucky. Upon their arrival, Judi was hospitalized, and eventually passed away from cancer. Her friends will miss her creative spirit.
TRIBUTE
Judith D. Mulligan was born on January 17, 1940 and passed away on Friday, February 15, 2013.
Judith was a resident of Upland, California.
http://www.tributes.com/show/Judith-D.-Mulligan-95344545
Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Gladys Johnson Haynes, BHS '46, Passed Away March 3, 2013
Received the following sad news today... thank you, Alan...
Passing of Gladys Johnson Haynes, BHS '46
Gladys Johnson Haynes passed away early Sunday morning, March 3, 2013, at her home in Burbank. She was 84. About two years ago she was diagnosed with cancer. She also had diabetes. Only a few weeks before her death her health worsened significantly. She had had help from Hospice for only about two weeks when she passed away.
Gladys worked for many years for the Burbank Board of Education before her retirement. Her husband, Jim Haynes, worked for the Burbank Unified School District for many years before his retirement from JBHS. Both Gladys and Jim were in the BHS '46 Class.
Gladys is survived by her husband of more than 60 years, Jim Haynes; her 3 children, Julie, Kathy, and Bob; 7 grandchildren; and 2 great-grandchildren.
Memorial Service for Gladys Johnson Haynes will be:
Saturday, March 30, 2013
11:00 A.M.
Tujunga United Methodist Church
9901 Tujunga Canyon Blvd.
Tujunga, CA 91042
(818) 473-4185
Interment of Cremated Remains will be on Monday,
April 1, 2013 at Glen Haven Memorial Park
Glen Haven Memorial Park
13017 Lopez Canyon Rd.
Sylmar, CA 91342
818-899-5211
Alan Landros
MARCH 17, 2013 UPDATE
Obituary from the Burbank Leader
http://www.burbankleader.com/community/obituaries/tn-gnp-gladys-ann-haynes-july-28-1928-march-3-2013-20130312,0,2209349.story
Gladys Ann Haynes July 28, 1928 - March 3, 2013
March 12, 2013 | 10:43 a.m.
Loving wife of 64 years, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and friend to many. Gladys was a resident of Burbank for all of her life. She worked at the Burbank YMCA prior to staying at home and raising her three children. Once the children had grown up Gladys worked at the Burbank Adult School. Gladys and her husband James Haynes traveled extensively after their retirements from Burbank Unified School District. Gladys loved life and her family. She was the most giving and generous person to all who knew her. Gladys will forever be missed by husband James C. Haynes Jr., children Julie DeRosa; Kathy Patenaude; Robert Haynes; grandchildren Jamie; Nicole, Carson, Robert Jr., William, Brandon, Cori; greatgrandchildren Sierra and Carson James. We will all miss
her love, knowledge, and sound advice.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Yesterday's Senior Bulldog Luncheon
Thanks Pam Kirkwood for posting this great photo of alumni from the 1960's!
Pam wrote...
Here is the pic from yesterday's St. Patrick's Day Luncheon at the Elks.
Standing L - R: Tom Veatch '65, Harold Maxham '63, Don Ray '67, Mickey DePalo '64, Pam Zipfel Kirkwood '64, Chuck Milam '63, Carol Smallenburg '65, John Coyle '65, Trudie Lombard Hentze '65, Cheryl Sellers Stram '64, Sam Licursi '64, Rich Shaw '63, Rita Cardenas '65, Mike Cummings '64, Nancy Kilner Varney '64, Bill Kinzel '66
Bottom L - R: Loanne Walker Ginchereaux '68, Cathy Nicholls Coyle '67, Cecilia Aguirre '68, Sallie Shelton '68, Santa Vessella Calderon '65, Jon Kirkwood '64
Missing: Janice Carlotta Robb
Thanks to Tom Allison BHS '49 for taking this picture.
Pam wrote...
Here is the pic from yesterday's St. Patrick's Day Luncheon at the Elks.
Standing L - R: Tom Veatch '65, Harold Maxham '63, Don Ray '67, Mickey DePalo '64, Pam Zipfel Kirkwood '64, Chuck Milam '63, Carol Smallenburg '65, John Coyle '65, Trudie Lombard Hentze '65, Cheryl Sellers Stram '64, Sam Licursi '64, Rich Shaw '63, Rita Cardenas '65, Mike Cummings '64, Nancy Kilner Varney '64, Bill Kinzel '66
Bottom L - R: Loanne Walker Ginchereaux '68, Cathy Nicholls Coyle '67, Cecilia Aguirre '68, Sallie Shelton '68, Santa Vessella Calderon '65, Jon Kirkwood '64
Missing: Janice Carlotta Robb
Thanks to Tom Allison BHS '49 for taking this picture.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
History Isn't Boring!
The following email was sent to me by Christine Cullen-Bartlett, BHS '68 and it is SO interesting, I had to post... THANKS CHRIS!
Have you ever wondered where phrases like “Piss Poor” and “Raining Cats and Dogs” came from? Well here ya go!!
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".
But worse than that were the really poor folks who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the “lowest of the low”.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"
Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained, it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly
vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old“. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat“.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a “wake“.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, “saved by the bell” or was “considered a dead ringer“.
And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring?!?
Have you ever wondered where phrases like “Piss Poor” and “Raining Cats and Dogs” came from? Well here ya go!!
They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor".
But worse than that were the really poor folks who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the “lowest of the low”.
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.. However, since they were starting to smell . ...... . Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"
Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained, it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof... Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly
vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old“. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat“.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a “wake“.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive... So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, “saved by the bell” or was “considered a dead ringer“.
And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring?!?
Friday, February 22, 2013
Lena Hobbs Peckham, BHS '40 (1921-2013)
Lena Myrl Hobbs Peckham, BHS '40
September 5, 1921 - February 12, 2013
Lena Myrl Hobbs was born September 5, 1921. As a young girl she moved with her family to Burbank. They lived at Verdugo and Glenoaks. Lena went through school in Burbank, and graduated from BHS in 1940. She later met Willard Peckham who had moved to Southern California from Wisconsin. They were married in May of 1941. They had three daughters, Linda (BHS '60), Nancy (BHS '64), and Janice (BHS '72). In the 1940's Willard became a Burbank Police Officer. In the early 1950's he changed from BPD to the Burbank Fire Department where he remained until his retirement in 1972, at the Bel Aire Station at the top of Uclan Dr. for many years before he retired. From 1952 until 1972 Lena and Willard lived at Hilton Dr. and Eton in Burbank. During her years in Burbank Lena attended the Burbank Foursquare Church, First Baptist Church of Burbank at Fairmount and Glenoaks, and lastly Calvary Bible Church at Main St. and Alameda.
In September 1972 Lena and Willard moved to Northern California to Clearlake Oaks, where they lived for the next 40 years. Their home was on Clearlake, and their back yard went down to their dock where they kept their boat. During those years they also took many trips around the country in their motorhome. This past November they moved about thirty miles to Lucerne, CA, to live next door to their youngest daughter, Janice, and her husband.
Lena Myrl Hobbs Peckham passed away at home in Lucerne, CA on Tuesday afternoon, February 12, 2013, at age 91. Her husband, daughter, and son-in-law were with her when she passed away. This May she and Willard would have had their 72nd wedding anniversary. Willard is now age 95, and remains in good health.
Lena is survived by her husband, Willard H. Peckham, daughters Linda Peckham Christian of Portland, OR, Nancy Peckham Burris of Cloverdale, CA, and Janice Peckham Jennings of Lucerne, CA, nine grandchildren, twenty-seven great-grandchildren, two half-sisters, five nieces, and one nephew. She was a sweet, sweet lady who will be missed by her large and loving family and her many friends.
Alan Landros
Monday, February 11, 2013
BHS '68 45th Reunion Oct 13, 2013
BHS CLASS 1968 SAVE THE DATE!
45th Reunion at the Castaway
1250 E Harvard Rd, Burbank, CA 91501
October 13, 2013
Time TBD
Contact: Annette Dinoflo Bennett
Email: harenett@aol.com
Class '68 Senior Photos
Class '68 Website
Class '68 Memorial
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Class '64 Gals Met at Bob's
From Pam Kirkwood on Facebook:
Great times today for the BHS GIRLS VALENTINE'S Luncheon At Bob's Toluca Lake...
Top row...LEFT TO RIGHT...Carole Collins '63...Julie Naugle Modglin '64. BOB THE BIG BOY, Mary Lou Johnson Anderson '64, Carole Wells Payne '63, Jo Ritcher Andreae '63
Bottom row...LEFT TO RIGHT...Pam Zipfel Kirkwood '64, Chris Taylor Higgins '64, Nancy Kilner Varney '64, Christine Perez Turner '62, Tammy Stepanow Klinger '64...
Many thanks to Tammy for getting this whole day organized...We had so MUCH fun...and believe me...between the 10 of us, we had enough BIG BOYS, fries and Cokes of various flavors (plus, one table got FUDGE CAKE) to satisfy ALL of you, (Virtually, of course)...
Friday, February 8, 2013
Jerry Snell, BHS '64, Passed Away
Gerald Dale Snell
September 15, 1946 - January 2, 2011
Parents: Doc and Evelyn Snell
Sibling: Keith Snell, BHS '69
Received this email today from Jon and Pam Kirkwood - very sorry to hear...
In doing research for our BHS Class of '64 50th Reunion, we were informed of the passing of our classmate, Jerry Snell. Jerry passed suddenly from an illness, 2 years ago. Jerry and his wife Sharon resided in the Reno area. He is forever missed by his wife and family...
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