by jasnasouthwest | Jan 2, 2021 | In Memory, News
Longtime JASNA member Clara Browda died on December 1. Founder of the West Los Angeles Reading Group, Clara was a constant presence at JASNA Southwest events and attended at least 18 JASNA Annual General Meetings. A voracious reader, she kept the West L.A. Reading...
by jasnasouthwest | Aug 31, 2019 | In Memory, News
JASNA Southwest board member Nancy Ramsey passed away on August 15 after a long battle with lung cancer. Nancy grew up in Burbank and Lancaster with her siblings Robert and Sue. As an adolescent, she was an avid horseback rider and dreamed of traveling to exotic...
by jasnasouthwest | Jul 6, 2019 | In Memory, News
Gerda Kilgore was born in what was then West Germany. While studying English, she discovered Jane Austen. She met the man who would become her husband during college. After they married, they came to the United States, where she worked as a teacher at a private K-12...
by jasnasouthwest | Jun 2, 2019 | In Memory, News
Longtime JASNA member and Southwest board member Jaye Scholl Bohlen (pictured above, right, with Jan Fahey) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on May 4, 2019. She is survived by her husband, Charlie, and children Avis, Charles III and Peter. She played many roles...
by jasnasouthwest | Jan 28, 2019 | In Memory, News
William A. James passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on January 7, 2019, at age 65 after a valiant 22-month battle with pancreatic cancer. His wife, Syrie James, held his hand as he took his last breath. January 10 would have been their 43rd wedding...
by jasnasouthwest | Oct 30, 2018 | In Memory, News
Robert Hansen, a longtime member of the San Fernando Valley JASNA Southwest reading group, passed away February 9, 2018 at the age of 91 following a long illness. He was born in 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri. From a young age, he showed a talent for electronics. He...
