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Obituaries
Manuela Avila
Manuela Avila of Reedley died Sept. 22. She was 78.
Mrs. Avila worked as a farm laborer.
She is survived by seven sons, four daugh- ters, 23 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchil- dren.
A public visitation willbeheldfrom5to7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, at Dopkins Dinuba Funeral Chapel. A mass will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5. at St. Catherine's Catho- lic Church in Dinuba. Graveside service will follow at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Dinuba.
Casimiro B. Castaneto Casimiro B. Castan-
eto of Orange Cove died Sept. 21 in Orange Cove. He was 78.
Mr. Castaneto was a farm worker.
He is survived by two brothers and three sisters.
A graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at Reedley Cem- etery District. Dopkins Reedley Funeral Chapel is handling the arrange- ments.
Anglica Gomez Castro
Angelica Gomez Cas-
tro of Dinuba died Sept. 13 in Visalia. She was
77.
Mrs. Castro was a
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homemaker.
She is survived by
two sons, two daugh- ters, one brother, one sister, nine grandchil- dren and two great- grandchildren.
Visitation was held Sept. 24 at Sterling & Smith Funeral Home in Dinuba, followed by burial at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Dinuba.
Greg Galaviz
Greg Galaviz of Visalia died Sept. 24 in Visalia. He was 81.
Mr. Galaviz was a business owner.
He is survived by his spouse, Rita Galaviz, one daughter, five sons, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchil- dren.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to noon Sun- day, Oct. 4, at Dopkins Dinuba Funeral Chapel. Graveside services will be at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Dinuba.
Rejina Galvez
Rejina Kasso Galvez of Orange Cove died Sept. 6 in Orange Cove. She was 53.
Mrs. Galvez worked as a medical assistant.
She is survived by her spouse, Roy Galvez, one son, two daughters, one parent, one brother, three sisters and four grandchildren.
A graveside service was held Sept. 25 at
Smith Mountain Ceme- tery in Dinuba. Sterling & Smith Funeral Home is handling the arrange- ments.
Fernando
Gaytan Jr. Fernando Gaytan Jr.
of Fresno died Sept. 14. He was 39.
Mr. Gaytan is sur- vived by his moth- er, Maria C. Trejo of Sanger, and three sis- ters, all of Sanger.
A private service will be held at a later date.
Wallin’s Sanger Fu- neral Home is handling funeral arrangements.
Nathalia Lopez
Nathalia Cuadros Lopez of Reedley died Sept. 23 in Reedley. She was 36.
Ms. Lopez worked in farm labor.
She is survived by her fiancé, Arnold Flores, two brothers and two sisters.
A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9, at Reedley Cem- etery. Dopkins Reedley Funeral Chapel is han- dling the arrangements.
Eva Rodriguez
Eva Darlene Rodri- guez of Selma died Sept. 22 in Selma. She was 72.
Mrs. Rodriguez worked as a housekeeper. She is survived by her husband, Richard Louis Rodriguez, one son, two daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchil-
dren.
A graveside ser-
vice will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5,
at Smith Mountain Cem- etery in Dinuba.
Maria Rodriguez
Maria Santos Rodri- guez of Orosi died Sept. 12 in Orosi. She was 91.
Mrs. Rodriguez was a homemaker.
She is survived by four daughters, 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from4to8p.m.witha rosary at 6 p.m. Thurs- day, Oct. 1, at Dopkins Dinuba Funeral Cha- pel. Mass will be at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Cutler.
Therese Thomas
Therese L. Thomas of Reedley died Sept. 22 in Reedley. She was 70.
Mrs. Thomas worked as a hairdresser.
She is survived by one daughter, one brother, one sister, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
No funeral services were scheduled. Dop- kins Reedley Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.
Joyce Whitaker
Joyce Ann Whitaker of Dinuba died Sept. 20. She was 87.
Mrs. Whitaker worked as an apartment manager.
She is survived by her husband Jerry, five daughters, three sons, 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchil- dren.
No services are scheduled at this time. Dopkins Dinuba Funer- al Chapel is handling the arrangements.
in Smittcamp Family Honors College
Contributed
Fifty high-achieving high school graduates from throughout Cali- fornia make up the 22nd class of President’s Hon- ors Scholars in Fresno State’s Smittcamp Fam- ily Honors College, now in its third decade of ser- vice to the community.
Three of the Presi- dent's Scholars are Yazmine Bedolla from Reedley Middle College High School, Isaiah Gon- zalez from Dinuba and Haidyn Washburn from Sanger. Established in 1998 with a $1 million gift from the late Earl and Muriel Smittcamp, the founders of a prom- inent family agribusi- ness and longtime sup- porters of Fresno State, the honors college has also been supported by other donors from the Fresno area as well as alumni from the honors college.
The freshmen were selected from a pool of more than 500 appli- cants, said Dr. Saeed At- tar, director of the hon- ors college. High school seniors must meet one of the following three criteria in order to be eligible to apply: earn a score of 1200 or above ontheSAT(or27or above on the ACT), be in the upper 10 percent of their graduating class or have a minimum 3.8 GPA in grades 9 through 11.
The scholars were welcomed to Fresno
State during a virtual recep- tion (via Zoom) on Aug. 21, hosted by Uni- versity President Joseph I. Castro and Pro- vost Saúl Jiménez- Sandoval.
Each scholar receives a Presi- dent’s Honors Scholar- ship, up to a max- imum of eight se- mesters, for their under- graduate degree program. Each
Yazmine Bedolla
Isaiah Gonzalez
Haidyn Washburn
scholarship also cov- ers an optional credit for standard University housing.
The honors college is unique in the Cali- fornia State University system because Presi- dent’s Scholars are ad- mitted as a cohort, take a series of specially de- signed honors courses, participate in a weekly colloquium with guest speakers and discus- sions, and interact in educational, scholarly and social activities.
For the
Record
A police log report in the Sept. 10 issue of The Times said 37-year-old David Yama of Reed- ley was arrested after the search of a home in Reedley. Yama was ar- rested in Fresno on mul- tiple charges.
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September 11, 1934 ~ September 17, 2020
Born in Dinuba, CA to parents Ralph and Lula Burkdoll September 11, 1934 and resided his entire life in Tulare County until he passed away on September 17, 2020. One of his legacies was his candor in educating students on the foundations of America and the US Constitution for 34 years at Washington Junior High in Dinuba where he also taught industrial arts as the wood shop teacher the last few years of his tenure.
He attended Cutler-Orosi schools as a youth and after graduating Orosi high school, he served in the US Navy aboard the Oriskany CVA34. He served in the US Forest Service for 35 years as the Fire Patrolman on the Hume Lake District of the Sequoia National Forest.
He was preceded in death by Judy Burkdoll, his wife of 59 years and his grandson Albert James Burkdoll. He is survived by 2 sons, Todd and Brett Burkdoll, and his daughter, Keri Cochran, along with 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
He had integrity, was genuine and a great father. His in uence and great memories live on with us, his children.
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