All Tributes - Sun City, Lake Elsinore and Perris, CA

Curtis R. Kuehnel was born December 27, 1937 to Ralph and Helen Kuehnel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He learned how to drive taking a tractor to school every day at the age of 12. During the summers growing up he worked on an 800 acre farm in Wisconsin. After living in California during World War II his family relocated to Denver Colorado where he attended Cathedral High School on a football scholarship playing the position of running back. After graduation he worked in a gas station...

Linda Diane Rodriguez, 65, of Menifee, California, passed away peacefully on June 14 2020, from Huntington’s Disease and a severe stroke, surrounded by family. She was born April 11, 1955, in Orange, California, to the late John and Lupe Salcido. She was the youngest of 3 daughters. She graduated from Saddleback High School in 1973. She married her high school sweetheart Robert Rodriguez, on July 20, 1974, in Santa Ana. She was employed by Pacific Bell, as an operator and manager, for...

Afterglow I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun; Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

March 18, 1922 - June 5, 2020. Also known as Gabriel or Gabby to his family, he passed away at his home in Menifee. Born in Riverside, he grew up in Casa Blanca. A World War II Navy veteran, he served shipboard in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns, and then on to the forward bases of Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Ulithi, as the war progressed. After the War he settled in the San Fernando Valley with his beloved wife Grace and children, building cars for General Motors. The family moved...