The Lompoc Record from Lompoc, California • A6

OBITUARIES A6 I WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2017 LOMPOC RECORD Victor Anthony Sousa Jean Michels Sharpe M.D. 1921-2017 A remarkable woman of Victor Anthony Sousa was born on November 5, 1930 to Joe and Leonilda Sousa in Santa Maria, California and died on November 22, 2017 in Lom-poc, California. Victor went to Lompoc High School graduating in 1949 and the served in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1956. Victor met and married Helen Huyck in 1957, they just celebrated 60 years of marriage. Together they had seven children Barbara Rouleau (Mark), Mark Sousa, Brad Sou "the Greatest Generation" has gone to be with her maker.

Born in Chicago, III and raised in the depression, she leaves a notable legacy. She received a scholarship to study chemistry and was enrolled at Illinois Institute of Technology at age 17. She completed her degree in three years, while simultaneously working to help support herself and her family. While in college, she became the Illinois women's cycling champion and went on to compete in the National Championship in Pasa November 26, 2017 James Arthur Weathers James Arthur Weathers, 42, resident of Santa Maria, CA passed away November 26, 2017. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens, www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com November 23, 2017 Harold E.

Barr Harold E. Barr, 69, resident of Orcutt, CA passed away November 23, 2017. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens. www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com November 21, 2017 Francoise Irene Brooks Francoise Irene Brooks, 78, of Lompoc, passed away November 21, 2017. Arrangements are in the care of Starbuck-Lind Mortuary, Directors, www.starbucklind.com November 26, 2017 Rosemarie Genevieve Harris Rosemarie Genevieve Harris, 90, of Lompoc, passed away November 26, 2017.

Arrangements are in the care of Starbuck-Lind Mortuary, Directors, www.starbucklind.com November 22, 2017 Joni Gray Joni Gray, 75, resident of Santa Maria, CA passed away November 22, 2017. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens. www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com November 22, 2017 Clara Jane Black Clara Jane Black, 93, resident of Santa Maria, CA passed away November 22, 2017. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens, www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com November 23, 2017 Julie Marie Chandler Julie Marie Chandler, 51, resident of Santa Maria, CA passed away November 23, 2017. Arrangements are under the direction of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary, Crematory and Memory Gardens, www.dudleyhoffmanmortuary.com dena, CA in 1941.

Despite her limited racing experience she won 2 of the 3 races to claim the Women's National Bicycling Championship. After graduation, she returned to California, obtaining a degree in meteorology from UCLA. Wanting to serve her country, she enlisted in the US Army in 1944, initially as a meteorologist. However, she was soon re-assigned to be trained as a physical therapist and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant, completing her tour of duty in Berlin in 1947. In 1949 she enrolled as a medical student at the University of Southern California and then went on to a residency in Orthopedic surgery.

In 1959, she moved to Lompoc, CA, where she set up the first orthopedic practice in the community. There she met and married her husband Bruce Sharpe in 1962. Together, they had two children, Kip and Francie. After Bruce died in 1973, she balanced the demands of work along with raising two children as a single parent. She served the Lompoc community for over 30 years, many of those years as the only orthopedist in town.

She enjoyed a reputation of being a 'tough doctor' sometime feared, but always respected by her patient. As a citizen of the Lompoc community, she participated in and supported the Presbyterian church and the Sierra Club. She was engaged in the support and maintenance of La Purisima Mission, serving as a board member during the conception and construction of the visitor's center. After retirement, she served several medical missions in the faraway places of Somalia, Bhutan, and Indonesia. Her final 14 years were spent living with her son's family in Arizona enjoying her 5 grandchildren.

She leaves a legacy of hard work, dogged determination, fearlessness, and a heart for the down-trodden. She left the world a better place. Steve Yoshitake Steve Yoshitake, 59, passed sa, Kim Barreras (Andy), Rodney Sousa (Sandy), all of Lompoc, Susan Sousa of North Carolina, Peter Sousa (Jacci) of Pleasant Hills, California. Victor leaves behind 24 grandchildren; Greg, Scott, Kari, Erica, Cory, Chris, Dalton, Adrianne, Ashley, Kyle, Kelsey, Chad, Shay, Al-yssa, Brooke, Dale, Daniel, Joseph, Cody, Eric, Skylar, Sarah, Sofia and Mia, 12 great grandchildren; Macey, Keli'l, Monroe, Lux, Khloei, River, Memphis, Kevin, Landon, Kaden, Brantley and Landon. He is survived by his siblings Gloria Carmichael of Santa Barbara, California and Celestine Sousa of Lompoc, California.

He is proceeded in death be his parents Joe and Leonilda Sousa, Margarite and Alfred Domingos, Joe, Richard, Frances, Peter and Raymond Sousa. Victor worked and owned Lompoc Equipment Company from 1958 to his retiring in 1993 where he supplied parts and service to the farmers of Lompoc and surrounding areas. Upon retiring, he started his own lawn care business for a lot of Lompoc residences. One of his specialties was grafting fruit trees and rose bushes. On most weekends you could find Victor with family and friends BBQing for family or different organizations.

On most Father's Days, you would find him making beans for the Portuguese Celebration's. Every year in August, Dad would take all of us to Gaviota (portugee wakiki) where he would stay a week with aunts and uncles and all our cousins. Best times for all his children was that week at Gaviota Beach. Victor was a member of Knights of Columbus, Lompoc Elks Lodge, Vaqueros De Los Rancheros, Portuguese Organization, Lompoc High Alumni Association. A visitation will be held at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary Chapel on Thursday, November 30 from 4-8 pm with a vigil held at 7 pm.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, December 1 at 10 am at the mortuary. Interment will follow at Lompoc Cemetery District. Armande Marie Hull Armande Marie Obermire Hull was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on May 31, 1930, and passed away on Monday November 20, 2017. She was born to parents Henri and Ger-maine Masson. Armande graduated from high school in 1948, and moved to Lompoc in 1950 when she married Nicholas C.

Obermire. Armande was a member of Catholic Daughters of America and the Hospital Auxiliary. She enjoyed traveling having visited many parts of the world. Survivors include Alpha Hull, her husband of 22 years; son Nicholas W. Obermire (Gia) of Lompoc, California; daughters Denise Castro (Peter) of Syracuse, New York, Jacqueline Wue-thrich (Larry) of Santa Maria and Suzanne Ortiz (Clark) of Med-ford, Oregon; son-in-law Glen Green of San Francisco; stepdaughters Debra Anton of Riverside, California and Pamela Galera (Allan) of Orange California.

She leaves 11 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. She also leaves her brother Jacques Masson (Sophie) of Montreal, Canada. Armande was preceded in death in 1992 by her husband Nicholas of 42 years; her daughter Michelle Green in 2007, both her parents, and her brother Carl Masson. She was loved by many and will be missed terribly. Arrangements are in the care of Starbuck-Lind Mortuary.

LEN WOOD, STAFF Director Ann Lucas leads the Allan Hancock College Singers as they rehearse Nov. 21 for their holiday program. Choir to share their sounds of silver and gold cles throughout his life. He is survived by wife Cheryl of Orcutt; daughter Nicole Gautreaux of Lompoc; grandchildren Ciana, Gabby, and Nicolas of Lompoc; sister Dawn Kawamoto of Albany; and brother Glen Yoshitake of San Diego. A Celebration of Life will be held on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 12:30 pm at the Knollwood Village Clubhouse located at 4012 Bradley Road, Orcutt, Ca.

Chumash Charity Golf Classic raises $120,000 away at his home on Tuesday, November 21, 2017. Steve was a long-time Santa Barbara County resident, growing up in Lompoc and later moving and working in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria as a Prototype Machinist Toolmaker. As a youth, Steve participated in motocross races in Santa Maria and was an avid surfer throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. He continued his passion for surfing and riding motorcy serves more than 32,000 children and their families. Proceeds from the Chumash Charity Golf Classic will help support the museum's weekly education programs, such as Tuesday Tales, Preschool Patrol, Passport Thursday, Fit Friday, Science Saturday and Super Sunday.

Visit smvdiscoverymuseum. org. Chumash: History of giving Since its inaugural event in 2005, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians' annual golf tournament has raised more than $1.3 million for local charities and nonprofits. Past beneficiaries include the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, Dream Foundation, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Santa Barbara County, Lompoc Family YMCA, Unity Shoppe, Friends of the Library of Santa Ynez Valley and Buellton Senior Center, among others. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY NIK BLASKOVICH The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians' 13th annual Chumash Charity Golf Classic raised $120,000 for five Santa Barbara County museums.

MATHEW BURCIAGA mburciaga leecentralcoastnews.com Songs and music of the Baroque era will grace the First Baptist Church in Santa Maria on Saturday, during a joint Christmas concert featuring the Allan Hancock College Singers and Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra. "I'm feeling great," said Ann Lucas, director of the Allan Hancock College Singers, a 34-person mixed choir comprised entirely of Hancock College students. Ranging in ages, musical background and skill, Lucas said the diverse background presents an interesting dynamic when teaching and during performances. "You have to pace what you are conveying to capture everyone," she said. "Some people have to learn some outright musical skills from ground zero, whereas others come in with a really solid background.

The trick is to work with the material and work with the students in a way that a compromise is reached that results in a killer performance." The Baroque -era concert is set to open with a rendition of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Orchestral Suite No. 1 in Major" by the Philharmonic Orchestra. The College Singers will join the orchestral group for a performance of two choruses from Bach's "Cantata No. 140," Giovanni' Pergole-si's "Magnificat" and five choruses (including the well-known "Hallelujah" chorus) from part one of Handel's "Messiah." "There's something about Baroque music and the Christmas season that seem to go together," Lucas said of the music selection, calling them congruent and complimentary. "Since it's early Christmas, it's not exactly Christmas -themed music, but it's appropriate to the time of the year they're joyous, upbeat and feature Advent-season themes." Tenor Beau Claverie said he joined the choir with little prior experience and credits Lucas with his development as a singer.

"It was a really interesting experience to find out new things with my voice he said. "I took choir once in high school as a junior but had no idea that I was actually a tenor." Morgan Quitugua, an alto who did choir in high school, said she enjoys Lucas' class for both the technical and social aspect of the work. "It's been a really good experience and helps you come out of your shell," she said. "It made me feel more confident in myself as a person." With the performance date nearing, Lucas is confident in the College Singers' preparation. According to her, she has yet to call for emergency rehearsals and complimented their performance.

Despite Lucas' words, Quitugua and Claverie express a degree of nervousness about their delivery. "You think you won't, but you always end up," Quitugua said. "Once the music turns on, I try and forget about everything else. All I want to focus on is to make the music sound as amazing as we're taught to." Mathew Burciaga covers education in Santa Maria and the surrounding area for Lee Central Coast Newspapers. Follow him on Twitter mathburciaga ERIC GILL egillleecentralcoastnews.com The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has quietly become a major charitable donor to nonprofit organizations throughout Santa Barbara County.

Case in point: The 13th annual Chumash Charity Golf Classic raised $120,000 for five Santa Barbara County museums. The proceeds from the two -day golf tournament held in August at River Course at the Alisal were distributed among the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum and Wildling Museum of Art and Nature. "These five museums, each in their own unique way, do an exceptional job of educating visitors about our area and sparking the curiosity in our youth," said Kenneth Kahn, tribal chairman for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. "We're aware of the valuable educational role museums play in our community, and we're looking forward to the day when our Chumash Museum can inform the greater community about our tribe's experience." Each of the beneficiaries has designated funds from the Chumash Charity Golf Classic for various projects. For example, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will use the funds to support educational programs for children; and the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will designate funds to implement education programs for up to 8,000 youth exhibiting the museum's collection.

Visit www.san-taynezmuseum.org. Solvang Wildling Museum of Art and Nature uses art as a tool that inspires the community and visitors to enjoy, value and conserve wildlife and natural areas. The programs it offers help visitors understand the environment and care for nature's dwindling wilderness areas. Wildling Museum located atl511-BMissionDrive, Solvang will put funds raised by the Chumash Charity Golf Classic toward its ongoing campaign to purchase the museum's current space. Visit www.wildlingmuseum.

org. Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum aims to foster family- and youth-inspired learning by creating experiences to "explore ourselves, our valley, our world and beyond." Now in its 21st year, the Discovery Museum located at 705 S. McClelland St Santa Maria annually. One of the Maritime Museum's offerings is the Spirit of Dana Point Tall Ship Over -night Education Program, which gives fourth-graders studying California history the opportunity to live like an 1830s sailor for one night. Local museums make good Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum, originally organized in 1961, celebrates the rich history of the Santa Ynez Valley, its pioneering settlers and the five early townships that formed the region.

The Historical Museum located at 3596 Sagunto St. in Santa Ynez is committed to creating a better future for the Santa Ynez Valley by inspiring generations to find wonder and meaning in the past Proceeds from the golf tournament will be used for conserving, preserving and.