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4A Wednesday, March 2, 2016 thecalifornian.com The Salinas Californian Lawrence Larry" Palma March 26, 1944 Jan. 28, 2016 LAS VEGAS, NV Lawrence "Larry" Palma, 71, passed away Jan. 28, 2016, at his home in Las Vegas NV. He was born March 26, 1944, in Salinas. Lawrence is survived by his wife, Marilyn Palma; his son, Lawrence Palma his daughter, Laurene Palma; his sisters, Delores Rivera, Irene Goward, Phyllis Tobias and Vicki Vallez; his brother, Robert Palma; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Margarito Palma and Pauline Cordova; and brothers, Jimmy Palma, Margarito Palma Jr. and Gilbert Palma. A Memorial Service and Luncheon will be held in his honor at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 2016, at Crossroads Christian Church, 1035 Rogge Salinas, CA 93906. John Michael Mustain Oct, 20, 1942 Feb.

27, 2016 SALINAS John Michael Mustain, 73, of Salinas, passed away Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. He was born Oct. 20, 1942, in San Francisco. John was the Owner of Central State Oil.

He was a member of the Salinas Elks Lodge, Native Sons, Early Riser Prayer Group, past member of the Salinas Golf and Country Club. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clifford and Hazel Mustain; daughter, Amy Mustain, and son, Michael Mustain. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Mustain of Salinas; daughter, Erica (Blaine) Foose of Auburn, AL; granddaughters, Abigail and Emily Foose, of Auburn, AL; sister, Susan Williams of Albuquerque, NM; brother-in-law, Michael Dever of Auburn, nieces, Victoria (Robert) Frey of Austin, TX, Kyla Dever, and Erin Dever of Auburn, AL. A Memorial Mass will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 2016, at Madonna Del Sasso Church, 320 East Laurel Salinas, CA 93906.

Donations can be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675 or S.P.C.A., 1002 Monterey Salinas Highway, Salinas, CA 93908. Funeral arrangements by Struve and Laporte. Online condolences to www.struveandlaporte.com STRUV pTRUVf. JJlaporte If LAPORTE fu Maurice Schoenbrun Feb.

19, 1920 -Feb. 26, 2016 SALINAS Maurice Schoenbrun died peacefully Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, just one week following his 96th birthday. Maurice was born Feb. 19, 1920 in New hip York City, the son ot Phillip and Rose, and grew up there, in Cleveland and in Spring Valley, NY with his sisters, Pearl and Marshall Ray Cook Aug.

1,1940 -Feb. 28,2016 SALINAS Marshall "Buddy" Ray Cook, 75, passed away Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016. Marshall was born Aug. 1, 1940, in Texas.

Marshall spent his early years growing up in east Texas, Tyler and Rusk. He achieved his GED. At 18, he enlisted in the United Barbara Frances Hambey March 30, 1923 Jan. 11, 2016 SALINAS California native and life-long Central Coast resident, Barbara Frances Hambey passed away on January 11, 2016, at age 92. Born Barbara Frances Mascovich on March 30, 1923, to parents Frances Monish (of Hawaii) and Nicholas Peter Mascovich (of South Dakota), her early childhood memories were made on a ranch where Gilroy Gardens is now located.

Instead of calling for Barbara, her mother would either call for the draft horse where Barbara might be taking her nap or call for the ranch dog to bring Barbara in from playing in the vineyard. Riding on Mount Madonna with "Grandpa" Shermie and splashing in the Uvas River with older brothers, Nick and Bud, were favorite activities of young Barbara. The Mascovich family moved to Prunedale in the 1930s, where Barbara attended Prunedale Elementary School (the original schoolhouse) and was a member of Prunedale 4-H club (achieving All-star status). Younger sister Rosalie and brother Jerry joined the family who provided Barbara with many opportunities to be the loving, doting older sister. A loyal Salinas High School Cowboy, class of 1941 (she attended reunions as along as she was able, through her 65th reunion), Barbara worked at Penny's on Main Street, Salinas after she graduated.

She excelled in art in high school and continued to be creative in calligraphy, painting, and handicrafts throughout her life. The Mascovichs were members of the Prunedale Grange. At the social gatherings at the Grange, Barbara met the Hambeys, another Prunedale family, and son Richard III (Dick). Barbara and Dick were married in 1943 while Dick was on leave from military service. After the war, the couple moved, remodeled, and expanded Dick's grandparent's home on the family property on San Miguel Canyon Road.

Two daughters (Barbara Jane and Beverly) were raised, family gatherings were hosted, and parties were enjoyed in the home that the couple lovingly made. Barbara and Dick were active in the Prunedale Methodist Church, Echo Valley PTA, and North County politics. Barbara was an active member of the North Monterey County Mothers' Club and the Prunedale Progressive Garden Club (having lunch with members and then their daughters well into her 80s). As a leader in the Echo Valley 4-H Club, she shared her talents food preservation, cooking, sewing, horticulture, and nature and community awareness. Barbara and family enjoyed vacationing in the Tahoma area of Lake Tahoe.

Barbara sketched, worked on holiday gift projects, took nature walks, enjoyed boating, sang and laughed around the fire at night, read on the beach, and played Canasta into the late night with life-long friends made over the many years spent at the Lake. In 1971, Dick passed away, and Barbara continued the management of the ranch, raising their youngest daughter, and continuing many of the family traditions that had been enjoyed. When family and friends presented Barbara with the opportunity to travel, she rose to the adventure with her usual enthusiasm. Auto trips to visit family in Tennessee in the 50s were full of wonderful stories to be retold. Barbara and daughter Barbara Jane loved their Buick backseat time on these long trips! Lots of giggles and whispered secrets were shared! Barbara's enumerable visits to New England to visit daughter Beverly and son-in-law Russell in the 80s led to many adventures including exploring the Freedom Trail of Boston, back roads of Vermont, and rugged coastline of Maine.

All were well documented in the pages of her journal and her amazing photo albums. When granddaughter Breanna was born, Barbara's trips East were filled with more joy and even more pictures. Her Boston family returned to live in California in the early 90s, which meant that Barbara's trips changed to more frequent adventures to share in school musicals, recitals, and family gatherings. Sharing stories, traditions, art, ranch-life, and hugs were loved moments between Gramma and Granddaughter. Throughout Barbara's life, her love for nature and animals were one of her life-long passions; she frequently rescued animals, including adopting burros from the Bureau of Land Management (her burros being a well-known sight on San Miguel Cyn Rd).

She was a founding member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium (loved visiting the otters!) and a longtime supporter of SPCA and the Monterey County Animal Shelters. Barbara developed dementia in the early 1990s. She lived under her daughters' care until her condition advanced, finally requiring her to move into the Memory Care unit of Villa Serra, in Salinas. She lived for two and a half years under the expert and loving care of the staff there until her death from complications of declining health and dementia. Preceded in death by her elder daughter Barbara Jane Strong, Barbara is survived by her younger daughter Beverly and her husband Russell Grove, granddaughter Breanna and her husband Christopher Hugon, son-in-law Ron Strong, sister Rosalie DuBrau, brother Gerald Nelson, sister-in-law Anita Mascovich, and more than two dozen nieces and nephews.

Friends and family will miss her gentle nature, strong spirit, and twinkling smile. Her family rejoices in knowing that she is soaring with Angels! The family is planning a Celebration of Life for Barbara at a future date at the family's ranch. Donations in memory of Barbara Frances Hambey can be made to the SPCA, the Monterey County Animal Shelter, or the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Helen. Maurice served in the Army Air Corps as a cryptographer during WWII, stationed in India.

His exploits there would serve as an endless source of anecdotes throughout his life. After the war he worked as an engineer, owned and operated a kitchen cabinet factory in NY, a cabinet distributorship in Salinas Mastercraft Kitchen and Bath, and finally became a general contractor building homes throughout Monterey County with his company, TJP Construction. Maurice married his wife Betty and they enjoyed 51 years together until her death in 1994. They had two daughters, both of whom sadly succumbed to a genetic illness when they were infants. Not to be deprived of the joys of parenthood, they adopted two boys, David and Daniel.

Maurice and Betty moved from their home in Brooklyn to Salinas in 1966, a leap of faith intended to both escape the East Coast and start a new life in a town where Betty's sister and brother-in-law, Shirley and Harold Kafton, had settled several years earlier. They made many great friends in Salinas, especially in the Jewish community of Temple Beth El. They shared wonderful years of family and community celebrations, holidays, vacations and extensive travels to countries on almost every continent. Maurice was a founding and long-time member of the HDOM Tennis Club, with whom he played into his 80's. He also enjoyed writing and performing musical parodies with the "Singing Schlemiels" together with Temple Beth El members Stan Savitz and the late Jerry Pearlman.

He co-owned several boats with his brother-in-law, Harold, and spent many weekends fishing in and around Monterey Bay. After Betty's death, Maurice and Eileen Greenfield found each other, and together enjoyed many more years of shared life, home and travels. Maurice was a man of many talents and unedited opinions. He channeled much of his creative energy into his writing, mostly poetry, though his inordinant penchant for limericks might disqualify him in many eyes as deserving to be called a poet. Later in life, he enjoyed writing regular human interest columns for The Salinas Californian, the Monterey Herald and the Toledo Sun, often using his grandchildren as a fertile source of material.

He sought to serve his community, serving as Vice President of the Mid-Coast Health Services Agency and as a member of the Monterey County Grand Jury. He spent the last several years of his life in San Mateo in order to be closer to his son and daughter-in-law, David and Helen. There he cultivated yet another circle of fond admirers among their friends, who were always quick to include him in gatherings. Maurice loved a good debate, sometimes taking seemingly ridiculous positions just to get the argument rolling. Under that exterior he was a loving, devoted, generous and extremely intelligent and thoughtful person a champion of political ethics and fair play, an outspoken critic of discrimination and social injustice.

Maurice is survived by his devoted sister, Helen Zelinger of Brooklyn, NY; sons, Dan of Monterey and David (Helen) of San Mateo; grandchildren, Sarah of Seattle and Rachel of Los Angeles, and Eileen's daughter, Irene Genauer of Salinas. He also leaves loving nieces and nephews, Judy Peiken (Lois) of Seaside, Alan Kafton (Shari) of Santa Rosa, and Carol (Shelley) of Portland, OR. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Struve and Laporte Chapel, 41 W. San Luis Salinas, CA 93901.

Funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Struve and Laporte Chapel, 41 W. San Luis Salinas, CA 93901. Burial to follow at Garden of Memories Cemetery, 850 Abbott Salinas, CA 93901. Maurice asked that in lieu of flowers, donations to favorite charities be made.

Funeral arrangements by Struve and Laporte. Online condolences to www.struveandlaporte.com States Marines and served from 1958-1962. He was stationed in Okinawa Japan and travel through that part of the world during his tour of duty. After he completed his term, he went to Long Beach where he met and married his first wife Margaret. In 1964, they had their first daughter Susan there.

The family then moved to Salinas where they had their second daughter, Kelly in 1966. He was married to Elizabeth for 26 years. They were married in 1988. During the early years in Salinas, he worked for Alco Water Company, Firestone Tire Rubber Co, and Powers Rentals. To further his education and career, he took classes at Hartnell College to help him become a machinist.

He then was hired at Moss Landing Power Plant and retired from there after 25 years. He had a lifelong love of cars and motorcycles. He truly loved the freedom, adrenaline and competition these hobbies gave him. He shared that love with his family by camping and at the property in New Idria and teaching his daughters how to ride motorcycles. He was a lifelong member of the Salinas Rambler's Motorcycle Club.

He was once its' President. He rode in Enduros, flat track and other races from 1964 until the late 1980's. At age 60, he changed from riding motorcycles to driving his beloved Mini Cooper in numerous closed circuit track events. He had a quick wit and wicked sense of humor, a love of life and living, and spending time with his family and friends kept him young at heart. "I may get old, but I refuse to grow up" was said by him on more than one occasion.

He loved watching Westerns and War movies. He appreciated lifelong learning and encouraged his daughters to further their education. Science, space and nature fascinated him. There was always a copy of National Geographic and Reader's Digest on the coffee table. He loved games; board games such as Monopoly, Risk, Sorry, Dominos, Parcheesi and card games with the family.

He played Chess, pool, Cribbage well and loved to gamble at cards and Pai Gow when visiting family in Reno, NV. He was a man of great intelligence, heart and passion. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, J.C.; sister, Velma, and also by his aunt Helen and uncle Archie Cook who raised him. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Cook; daughters, Susan Felty, Kelly Wiss and husband Phil Wiss, Betty Phillips, and Lindie Mallory; grandchildren, Ashley Radtke and husband David Radtke, Kathryn Felty, Andrew Cunningham, Arianna Wiss, Justin Wiss, Amber Songraph and husband Todd, Cheyenne Phillips, and Crystal Simpson and husband Robert; great-grandchildren, Kylie, Noah, Maverick, Johnny, Racey, River, Wyatt Wesley, Lola, Brooklyn, and Walker.

Funeral services will take place at 1 p.m. Friday, March 4, 2016, at Healey Mortuary, 405 N. Sanborn Salinas, CA 93905. Burial to follow services at the Garden of Memories Cemetery 850 Abbott St. Salinas, CA 93901.

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