United States High School Yearbooks by County
PIXTON
William “Bill” Pixton
William LaVar Pixton died in Woodland Monday, Nov. 7 at age 61.
Mr. Pixton was born May 7, 1944 in Murray, Utah. He had been a Yolo County resident for 50 years. He graduated from Woodland High School and served in the Army from 1965 to 1967. For 32 years, he worked at Mobil Chemical and later as a warehouseman for Walgreens for 10 years.
Survivors include Mr. Pixton's wife of 28 years, Terry Pixton; his sons, Tony and Jeff Pixton; his sisters, Illene Medico and Bonnie Johnson; and his brothers, Paul, Clyde, Floyd and Don Pixton. He was preceded in death by his parents, Marcus and Claudia Pixton; his brothers, Reed and Marvin Pixton and his brother-in-law Joseph Medico.
The family requests memorials in Mr. Pixton's name be directed to UC Davis Aggies football, UC Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, 95616 or the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief fund, 120 Court St., Woodland, 95695.
Services: A memorial service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 at McNary's Chapel, 458 College St., Woodland with Carl Morgan and Thomas McKinney officiating. A private inurnment will be held at Monument Hill Memorial Park at a later date. McNary's Chapel is assisting the family with arrangements.
PLANK
Elizabeth Grace (Ingham) Plank
Elizabeth Grace (Ingham) Plank passed away Aug. 12 at Valley West Care Center in Williams at age 92. She was born March 11, 1912 in Tanasket, Wash. and was a resident of Arbuckle and Washington. Elizabeth came with her family to California many years ago, She then returned to Washington and married R.E. (Ike) Plank, returning to California to live the rest of her life.
Survivors include her son, Howard Plank and his wife Vivian of Williams, daughter Shirley Maupin and her husband Bill of Arbuckle, grandchildren Michael Maupin, Willie Maupin and his wife Adda, Margaret Tafoya and her husband Joe, Dwight, Judy, Charles and Jennifer Plank. She is also survived by great-grandchildren Minnie Beth Robinson, Nelle Peterson and her husband Jim, Billy Maupin, Kara Maupin, Sarah and Robert Tafoya, Travis and Kelsey Plank and great-great-grandchildren Mary Patricia and Frances Elizabeth Peterson.
Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband, R.E. Plank, her father William, mother Grace, her sisters Jean, Mabel and Wilma and her grandson David.
Memorial services will be Friday, Aug. 27, 2004 at 11 a.m. at McNary-Moore Funeral Home, 107 Fifth St., Colusa. Memorial contributions may be made in Elizabeth's name to the Arbuckle Revitalization Project, c/o Alsco Geyer, P.O. Box 111, Arbuckle, 95912 or to the charity of the donor's choice.
PLEASANTS
Ora Pleasants
At her request, no formal services will be held for Ora Pleasants, 81, of Vacaville. Interment will be private.
Mrs. Pleasants died on March 31, 2000, at Vacaville Convalescent Rehabilitation Center in Vacaville after a long illness.
Born on June 24, 1918, in Dixon, she was a lifelong resident of Solano County. In her working years, she was a cashier at Day’s Drugs in Winters and also was a secretary at a local construction and concrete company.
Mrs. Pleasants is survived by her daughter, Claudia Shrum of Santa Rosa, and son, Bill of Vacaville. She also had four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are being handled by Nadeau Family Funeral Home in Vacaville.
PLEASANTS
Russell H. Pleasants
Masonic funeral services were held in Smith’s Colonial Chapel Wednesday afternoon for Russell H. Pleasants, 65, who died in the Woodland Memorial Hospital Sunday. Burial followed in the Winters Cemetery.
A lifelong resident of Pleasants Valley, he was a descendant of James Madison Pleasants, who settled in the valley which bears his name, in 1850. Russell was born in Oakland December 14, 1920, and was a rancher most of his life, later working in the pharmacy department of the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital. He retired from that position in 1980.
He was a member of the Pioneer Presbyterian church and a member of Landmark-Buckeye Masonic Lodge. Prior to the merger of the Winters and Esparto lodges, he served three times as master of Buckeye Lodge. Pleasants was also a past worthy patron of Yosolano Chapter 218, Order of Eastern Star.
For over 20 years, he served as a trustee of the Winters Cemetery District, and for a number of years was a member of the Winters Joint Unified School District Board of Trustees.
A veteran of World War II, he served in the U. S. Army Signal Corps.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy, of the family home in Pleasants Valley; two sons, Russell A. Pleasants, of Winters, and Gary E. Pleasants, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; a sister, Elaine Blanc, of Fresno, and four grandchildren.
PLOCHER
Albert Julius Plocher
Albert Julius Plocher died in Woodland Friday, Aug. 19 at age 87.
Mr. Plocher was born Oct. 15, 1917 in Woodland. He had been a lifelong resident. He attended Cacheville Elementary and was a 1935 graduate of Woodland High School. During World War II he was a staff sergeant stationed with the 69th Calvary Troop Mechanized of the U.S. Army in the European Theater. For 50 years he was a Grade "A" dairy farmer. He was a founding member of California Dairyman's Association and president of state and national Dairy Herd Improvement Association.
Survivors include Mr. Plocher's wife of 54 years, Emilie Barbara (Martens) Plocher; his daughter, Barbara Diane Plocher and her husband Robert Vicari of San Francisco; his son, Albert Eugene Plocher and his wife Lynn of Woodland; his grandchildren, Jared Nathanael Plocher of Phoenix and Dana Lendre Plocher of Sacramento; his sisters, Martha Barney, Lydia Marks and Esther Plocher; and his brothers, Frederick, Robert, Harold and Philip Plocher. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frederick and Cora (Barner) Plocher; his brother, Erwin Plocher; and his grandparents, George and Barbara Plocher and David and Caroline Barner.
The family requests memorials in Mr. Plocher's name be directed to the charity of the donor's choice.
Services: A memorial service is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27 at Calvary Chapel, 1580 Case Place with Pastor John Withem officiating. Interment will be private. Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors of Woodland is assisting the family with arrangements.
PLUMB
James Lyall “Jim” Plumb
James Lyall “Jim” Plumb died Dec. 20, 2005, at Kaiser Hospital in Sacramento with his family at this side. He was 56 years old.
He will be buried
at 11 a.m. Saturday at Eastlawn Cemetery in Sacramento. A public celebration of his life will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 5, at the Sterling Hotel, 1100 H St. in Sacramento.
He was born Sept. 28, 1949, in El Centro. He graduated from El Centro High School, and then from UC Berkeley with a degree in architecture. He then joined the Peace Corps and served in Peru, working in the area of community development and design.
In the early 1970s, he came to the Sacramento/Davis area to work and collaborate with other designers and engineers in the development of active and passive solar design principles. His innovative work with solar design with the firm Living Systems was recognized with awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the California Energy Commission and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
He started his own architectural and design firm, James Plumb Associates. He was well known for his work on numerous commercial and residential buildings as well as subdivision site planning and commercial tenant improvements. He was also known for his historic renovation efforts and work on establishing and guiding neighborhood architectural design standards.
Plumb's projects included restoration and expansion of the Julia Morgan House on T Street in Sacramento, the Yolo County District Attorney's Office in downtown Woodland, a historic renovation and addition to the old Daily Democrat building, the addition and renovation of the Coldwell Banker office at Second and D streets in downtown Davis, and the 33rd Street Bistro in Sacramento.
He also designed the commercial subdivision known as the Fifth Street Commerce Center, and won an award from the Davis Design Review Board for his design of Joan Poulos' law office on Oak Avenue.
He designed hundreds of custom homes, including an award-winning house for the “Street of Dreams” home tour in Lake Alhambra Estates. His design won best architecture and best of show, judged by his peers as well as thousands of people who toured the model homes.
Plumb also received a “Gold Nugget Award” in 1993 for the best single-family detached home under 1, 200 square feet in California from the Pacific Coast Builders Conference & Sun/Coast Architect/Builder. Many of his homes and designs were featured in articles in popular publications such as Sunset Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens and Sacramento Magazine, as well as numerous professional journals.
Plumb also was well known for his other contributions and involvement in the region. He was a member of the Davis Rotary Club, and a member at the El Macero Country Club. He was an avid golfer and he helped co-host for many years the Rotary Golf Tournament as well as organizing and running many other golf tournament fund-raisers for charities throughout the region.
He was a board member of the Sacramento Children's Receiving Home.
He was a devoted husband and father and is survived by his wife Nancy Pape and his daughters Erica and Arden Plumb. He's also survived by his father, Tom Plumb; a brother, Tom Plumb Jr.; and his mother-in-law Mary Pape.
Donations in Plumb's memory may be made to the Children's Receiving Home or to the American Cancer Society for lung cancer research.
HOAGLAND
Judy Diane Hoagland
Judy Diane Hoagland died at home in Woodland Saturday, Nov. 13 at age 54.
Mrs. Hoagland was born May 30, 1949 in Kansas City, Mo. to Ernest and Sue Baldwin. She had been a Yolo County resident for 37 years. She attended Capay Grammar School in Capay and graduated from Rubidoux High School in Riverside. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include Mrs. Hoagland's husband, Steve, also of Woodland; her sons, Joe Raymond Baldwin and Samuel Pearson of Woodland and Darrell Pearson of Ione; her grandchildren, Aaron, Amber, Joe, Sarah, Faith, Michael B., Jonathan, Kaylee, Justin, Sebastian, Skylor and Michael; her father, Ernest Marvin Baldwin of Galsgow, Mo.; her sisters, Ernestine Aker of Cottonwood, Linda Metzger of Capay and Beatrice Warner of Woodland; her brothers, Marvin Zeltner of Woodland and Roy Baldwin of Oregon and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother, Sue Harrison and her brother, William Baldwin.
The family requests memorials in Mrs. Hoagland's name be directed to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis, 95617. Services: Respecting the wishes of Mrs. Hoagland, no services are scheduled. A private memorial service will be held at a later date. National Cremation Service of Fair Oaks is assisting the family with arrangements.
