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Paul Nicholas Stiletto

Paul Nicholas Stiletto

Oct 5, 2019

Paul Nicholas (Rossiter) Stiletto passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home on Saturday October 5th, 2019, at the age of 84 years old.                Paul was born in Thompsonville, Connecticut to Salvatore Rossi and Josephine Bottone on January 8th, 1935. He established and managed an auto body shop in Glendale California in 1970, and managed another auto body shop...

Arthur Harry Nelson Jr.

Arthur Harry Nelson Jr.

Oct 4, 2019

Arthur Harry Nelson, Jr. passed away on Friday, October 4, 2019 in Chino Valley, AZ.  Art was born in Rochester, New York on May 12, 1966. He moved to the Prescott area in 2010. He attended Penfield High School, where he played football, basketball, and baseball.  He went on to Penn State University, the University of Buffalo, and graduated from...

Francis Gary

Francis Gary

Sep 30, 2019

Francis “Frank” Gary passed away on Monday, September 30, 2019, after a tragic motorcycle accident. Frank was born in Grosse Point Farms, Michigan, on October 2, 1944. After graduating from high school he joined the Navy in 1962 as Seaman Recruit E-3 and served aboard the U.S.S Henry County (LST824) which operated on the brown waters (rivers) in-country Vietnam in...

Anita Carol Nye

Anita Carol Nye

Sep 28, 2019

Anita Carol (Rhoton) Nye was born August 30, 1936 to Ernest and Mattie Rhoton in Temple Hill, KY. She passed peacefully at home on September 28, 2019.             Carol as she liked to be addressed, was the middle child of three daughters born to the Rhoton’s.                         She is preceded in death by both her parents, her older sister Ruth, and her...

William Elmer Catchpole

William Elmer Catchpole

Sep 28, 2019

William (Bill) Catchpole of Cordes Lakes passed away on the afternoon of September 28 in the Long-Term Care Ward of Prescott Samaritan Village in Prescott. He was 98. Mr. Catchpole was born on January 27, 1921 in the small riverside village of Rimer in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from Kittanning High School in 1940 and started work with the Pennsylvania...

Lillian June Cotter

Lillian June Cotter

Sep 28, 2019

Lillian June (June Bug) Cotter was born Nov. 16th, 1928 in Hayden, AZ. She married her first husband, Albert Heck in Prescott, AZ in 1946. She had three sons. Richard Heck, Albert Heck, and Leonard Heck (deceased). She divorced her first husband. Later she married Vern Cotter and had a daughter Diana Cotter. June has ten grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and...

Arthur Douglas Smith Jr.

Arthur Douglas Smith Jr.

Sep 27, 2019

Born April 25, 1946, in Pittsburgh, PA., Art passed away September 27, 2019 in Prescott, AZ. He was 73.      Art graduated from Moniteau High School in West Sunbury, PA in 1965. Later that year he joined the Air Force and stationed at Vandenburg Air Force Base in Lompoc, CA, where he was honorably discharged.      In 1972, Art started working at...

Richard Eric Schmidt

Richard Eric Schmidt

Sep 26, 2019

Richard (Dick) Eric Schmidt passed away on Sept. 26, 2019 at the Marley House Hospice in Prescott. He left the world peacefully, surrounded by friends and family. Dick was born in 1940 in Ossining, New York to immigrant German parents. Along with three brothers, Richard always endeavored to make a better life for himself and his family. He excelled in...

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