Obituaries

A memorial service will be held at Habing Family Funeral Home on Saturday, July 6th, at 2PM. For the full obituary and online condolences...

Our beloved son, brother, uncle, cousin, nephew and best friend Robert B. Aguirre, Jr. "you can't keep a good man down", went to his final resting place with The Lord on May 27, 2010. Taken from us too soon, he will always be remembered by his big smile. He enjoyed sports every and all, was a Pop Warner football player, enjoyed gatherings, bar-b-cues were his favorite, spending time with friends and family and listening to oldies. You will be dearly missed by all. You have touched many by your kindness and loving ways. You will live in our hearts forever.

Richard Duane Van Pelt, 67 of Paso Robles lost his short battle with cancer on Saturday, November 4, 2017. Born in Delano and raised in...

Primo Borgna, 88 of Gilroy, CA, died peacefully surrounded by family Friday, April 12th, 2019. The only child of Italian emigrants Giovanni Borgna and...

Vic was born in Gilroy, CA on November 5, 1948 and he passed away, unexpectedly, on June 24, 2009 at the age of 60.

The patriarch of the Burge family, Ralph David Burge, Sr., of Auburn, died Oct. 1, 2006. He was born August 22, 1917 in New Idria Mines, a quicksilver mining company town in San Benito County, to Robert Davis Burge and Tillie Nunez Burge.

Memorial contributions may be made in support of the West Point Sprint Football Team Endowment in Terence’s memory. Contact Lisa Benitez at 845-446-1546.

Daniel Valdez passed from this life on October 16, 2006. He was the adored son of Victor and Anna Valdez, beloved brother of Victor Valdez, Jr. (JoAnn), Joyce Ybarra (Raymond), Eugene Valdez (Lisa), and Anthony Valdez (Gayle). He was the caring uncle of Jesse, Briana, and Eli Sanchez; Amy and Jessica Sharp; Melanie and Grace Valdez; Jeremy Dirks, Josh Zimmerman, and Anthony Valdez. He was friend and confidante to an untold number of Gilroyans from the downtown area he frequented, to Gavilan College, where he was a student, and also on the editorial staff of the Gavilan Press.

Christopher Michael Quezada, born September 17th, 1988 in Tustin, CA, and a resident of Morgan Hill, CA since 1996, passed away suddenly on November, 27th, 2006, in a tragic car accident in Los Altos Hills. He had just turned eighteen. Deeply mourning Christopher are his mother Eva Musgrove, father George Quezada, and stepfather Tim Musgrove. Christopher is cherished also by his older brother George (21), his little sister Sophie (9) and little brother Derek (6). A host of grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends also remember him with fondness, including many from the local area as well as from Orange County, and his father's companion Merle Gitlin. He will be terribly and painfully missed by all.