Obituaries & memorials

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Elie Shneour was born in France on December 11, 1925. The son of Zalman and Salomea Shneour, he had one sibling — Renee Shneour, who later became Spanish dancer Laura Toledo. Shneour was raised in Neuilly sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. His family was of Jewish heritage, his father having emigrated from Czarist Russia […]

By Robert Sommers FALLBROOK, California — My father. Amos Sommers, died Monday, April 6, in the early morning hours. The attendant went into his room and might have seen a last breath around 1:30 in the morning. Not official of course, not until the nurse came by about three, we got the call over at

{Eulogy delivered March 29, 2015 at the Home of Peace Cemetery, San Diego} By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–At the Seder table we read a special book which has an unusual name.  The name is derived from the answer to the question posed in the Bible where we are told that the day would come

  -USC news service- SAN DIEGO — Erna Viterbi, philanthropist, joint namesake of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and wife of USC trustee Andrew Viterbi, died in San Diego on Feb. 17. She was 81. “For well over five decades, Erna was Andy’s beloved wife and trusted partner as they built an extraordinary life