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Hilde Reiss
Private services will be later for Hilde Reiss, who died Saturday at home in Capitola. She was 92.
Mrs. Reiss was born in Berlin, Germany, and lived in the Santa Cruz area for more than 40 years.
She studied architecture at the Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany, and did furniture and industrial design, interior design and museum exhibit design in New York and Minneapolis, where she also edited a magazine.
Mrs. Reiss opened an import store, House of Today, in Palo Alto in the early 1950s.
Later, she owned and operated the Pelican Gourmet Cookware store on Capitola Avenue, which included outdoor movies in the parking lot, demonstrations by local gourmet cooks and children’s toys and books.
Mrs. Reiss later volunteered to help run the Friends of the Library gift shop in Santa Cruz, which started in the 1980s with two display cases.
She is survived by a stepsister, Barbara Grant of London; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Contributions are preferred to Hospice Caring Project, PO Box 670, Aptos, CA 95003.
Arrangements are by Oakwood Memorial Chapel.
September 17, 2002
Edward J. Iverson
Services will be Sunday for Edward J. Iverson, who died Wednesday in Santa Cruz. He was 58 and had pancreatic cancer for three years.
Mr. Iverson lived in Santa Cruz County all of his life. He was born at the former Dominican Hospital on Soquel Avenue between Ocean and Branciforte avenues, and grew up in Aptos, graduating from Watsonville High School.
Mr. Iverson worked at the Standard Service Station in Santa Cruz and as an installer for Pacific Bell before working almost 30 years as a firefighter in San Jose. He retired in 1999.
Mr. Iverson was an outdoors man who surfed all the local spots in his younger years and later enjoyed steelhead, salmon and halibut fishing, hunting, golf and gold mining.
He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Jean Iverson of Santa Cruz; daughters Deborah Iverson of Santa Cruz and Lauri McKenzie Hernandez of Santa Cruz; a sister, Anabel Menefee of Sonoma; a brother, Norman Iverson of Watsonville; and three grandchildren.
Services will be 1 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 435 Monterey Ave., Capitola.
Contributions are preferred to Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Association, PO Box 1247, Capitola, CA 95010.
Arrangements are by Benito and Azzaro Pacific Gardens Chapel.
September 17, 2002
Glee Elizabeth Stouffer
Services will be private for Glee Elizabeth Stouffer, who died Friday in Santa Cruz. She was 100.
Mrs. Stouffer was born in Los Angeles and lived in the Santa Cruz area for the last several years.
She is survived by a son, Clayton Stouffer of Boulder Creek.
Contributions are preferred to Hospice Caring Project, PO Box 670, Aptos, CA 95003.
Arrangements are by Santa Cruz Memorial Park and Funeral Home.
September 17, 2002
Harold ‘Hal’ Butterfield Jr.
Services will be Thursday for Harold "Hal" Butterfield Jr., who died Friday at Dominican Hospital. He was 29.
Mr. Butterfield was diagnosed with childhood lymphoma at age 9 but had been cancer-free for 15 years.
He was born in Los Gatos and liked to fish, boat, camp, ski, barbecue, go to the beach and ride motorcycles and ATVs.
He is survived by his mother, Lynn Sanders of Santa Cruz; his father, Harold Butterfield Sr. of Los Gatos; grandparents George and Waneece Payton of San Jose; his stepfather, Hans Sanders of Santa Cruz; five aunts; one uncle and many cousins.
Services are 11 a.m. Thursday at Oakwood Memorial Crystal Chapel.
Contributions are preferred to Hospice Caring Project, PO Box 670, Aptos, CA 95003, or to the Dominican Hospital Foundation, 1551 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95065.
September 24, 2002
Leland ‘Lee’ J. Sassman
Services have been held for Leland "Lee" J. Sassman, who died April 15 at Porter Memorial Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind. He was 62.
Mr. Sassman was born in Indiana and lived in Santa Cruz for 20 years. He moved to Indiana last summer to be near to his family during the final phase of his illness.
Mr. Sassman served in the Vietnam War and was a disabled veteran.
He was a popular figure on Pacific Avenue, where he would sit in his wheelchair and "hold court" in front of Starbucks. He was also active in the recovery community and had been sober for almost 20 years.
He is survived by daughters Christine Hoffman and Lorie Leonard, both of Hobart, Ind.; brothers Allan and Robert Sassman, both of Indiana; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Services were held April 18 at South Haven Christian Church in Valparaiso, Ind.
September 24, 2002
Frank Day
Services will be Sunday for Frank Day, who died Sept. 9 at Dominican Hospital. He was 81.
Mr. Day was born in Hindman, Ky., and moved to Phoenix at age 10 with his family and then to Aptos in 1974.
He graduated from Glendale High School and Phoenix Tech Junior College.
Mr. Day served as an aerial navigation instructor for the Army Air Corps during World War II. He married his wife, Ellie Alessi Day, during that time.
The couple moved to Saratoga after the war, where Mr. Day earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial arts from San Jose State College and worked in various positions before retiring from Control Data as a cost estimator in 1974.
He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Ellie; daughters Kathleen Day of Aptos and Cherie Newland of Gilroy; a brother, Kelly Eugene Day of Payson, Ariz.; one grandson; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services will be Sunday at Seascape Golf Club.
Contributions are preferred to the American Heart Association, 1514 Moffett St., Suite A, Salinas, CA 93905.
September 24, 2002
Gerald Lee ‘Buck’ Buckingham
Services will be Friday for Gerald Lee "Buck" Buckingham, who died Friday in Winnemucca, Nev., after suffering a heart attack. He was 42.
Mr. Buckingham was born in Sacramento and raised in Santa Cruz.
He attended Harbor High School and met his future wife, Edith Hott, after talking to her on a CB radio on West Cliff Drive. The couple lived in Felton after marrying in 1988 and moved to Hornbrook in 1996.
Mr. Buckingham worked in the computer field for many years and had recently become a semi-truck driver.
He loved CB radio and also enjoyed camping, boating and fishing. He was a member of the Hornbrook Neighborhood Watch community.
He is survived by his wife, Edith "Edy" Buckingham of Hornbrook; sons Gerald Joseph "J.J." Buckingham and Charley Franklin Buckingham, both of Hornbrook; his father and stepmother Charles and Christina Buckingham of Sun City; a sister, Connie Blesse of Fresno; a brother, Charles Buckingham of Ohio; several aunts and uncles; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.His mother, Gwen Mica Moon, died in 1985.
Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at Girdner Funeral Chapel in Yreka.
Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Hornbrook Community Bible Church.
Burial will follow in Henley-Hornbrook Cemetery.
Contributions are preferred to J. J. and Charley Buckingham, Bank of America, 200 S. Broadway, Yreka, CA 96097.
September 25, 2002
David M. Zampino
Services have been held for David M. Zampino, who died Aug. 28 in a helicopter crash near Ketchikan, Alaska. He was 37.
More than 100 friends and relatives gathered at Mr. Zampino’s helicopter pad in the Santa Cruz Mountains off Bear Creek Road to memorialize the entrepreneur and pilot, who died teaching a student how to fly.
Family members say the cause of the crash into an Alaskan lake is under investigation.
Mr. Zampino was born in Denver and had lived in Boulder Creek since 1995. He also had a home in Fairbanks, after founding Reliable Aero last year, a company offering wilderness helicopter tours.
A pilot for several years, he recently got his helicopter-pilot instructor’s license.
In 1984, while studying electrical engineering and biology at Stanford University, Mr. Zampino founded Brainstorm Products, a Macintosh-related company, out of his dorm room.
Ten years later, he opened Brainstorm Networks, which was bought in 1999 for $18 million by RCN Corp. of Princeton, N.J. He worked as RCN’s director of research and development for two years.
Mr. Zampino had been fascinated with science since childhood, and his school projects emerged as things such as a working, 300-pound hovercraft and jet-propelled skateboards.
As a youth, he liked to read college-level math and physics texts and became a National Merit Scholar.
During his years in Boulder Creek, Mr. Zampino flew search-and-rescue missions for the Coast Guard Auxiliary and commuted by helicopter to jobs throughout the area, but the county stopped him from flying from his Boulder Creek property last year.
He loved the outdoors and hiked, camped, climbed and caved with his partner, Corey Jaseph, often in remote areas reached by helicopter.
He is survived by his partner of 20 years, Corey Jaseph of Boulder Creek; his mother, Betty Violette of Denver; his father, John Zampino of Denver; sisters Betty Anne Shire and Valerie Zampino, both of Denver; and nephews Jason Wissner and Chris and Jon Shire, all of Denver, and Tim Wissner of Seattle.
Contributions are preferred to the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 5786, Ketchikan, AK 99901.
September 25, 2002
