Denzil Leon (Mike) Claypool recently came to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. The following information was shared by his family. Mike was born on April 9, 1937, in Beaumont, Texas, to his parents, Denzil and June Claypool. Like many families during the depression and WWII era, the family moved many times, […]
For a couple of months our patient, diligent caregivers and volunteers dealt with a balky two-year-old LG oven that would change temperatures, randomly, at its whim. It made baking our popular cookies and other goodies an extra labor of love. After lots of digging, we learned that the electronic control board on our balky LG […]
John (Jack) Graham has come to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. Jack was born in Memphis, TN, the first of four children of John Mark Graham Sr. and Eleanor Ball Evans. He was followed by Betty, Robert and Jayne. In his youth, music and playing the trombone were favorite interests. He […]
Ruth Simon Geller has come to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. Born and raised in Westphalia, Michigan, Ruth is the fourth child of Eleanor and Florian Simon. Ruth attended Pewamo-Westphalia High School and earned a BS in Business from Aquinas College while working for General Motors. After retiring from General Motors, […]
Join us for our fourth annual Honor and Remember gathering. We look forward to welcoming family members and friends of past Caring House residents, plus volunteers, donors, staff and the broader community. February 23, 2020 starting at 4 pm. RSVP (encouraged but not required): honor@yourcaringhouse.org or 310-796-6625 ext. 1.
December is the birth month for twenty-four of the men and women we have been privileged to serve during the last days or weeks of their lives. We join their families and friends in honoring and remembering them — and list their birthdays in The Caring Calendar. Do you have a special person or group […]
Emiko Oku Takemoto has come to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. Emiko was born in Osaka, Japan, the third child of to Kumakichi and Shizuko Oku. Growing up in Osaka and then Nagata-mura in Wakayama prefecture, she attended Wakayama Kenritsu Kokawa High School in Kokawa city. A bright student, she was […]
Beverly “Bev” Ann Wheeler O’Donnell has come to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. Bev was born in Los Angeles, the first of two children to Gertrude and Vincent Wheeler. She was reared in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. Her grandparents lived in a small house adjacent to her parents. An endearing […]
Evelyn Maldonado recently came to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. Her children have shared the following remembrance of Evelyn. Evelyn Maldonado was born in New York City. The eldest of six children, she loved her mother Maria to no end and adored her father Hexon. Evelyn was literally the glue that […]
Harue Anne Sugiyama has come to live with us at Caring House. We are honored. Anne was the born in Stockton, CA. In the early 1940s she was in her twenties when she and her family were sent to the Gila River Concentration Camp. It was there that she met Tad Sugiyama. During WWII, both […]