PASSINGS

* Maria Rodgers, a longtime resident who died in a house fire, died

June 19.

HUNTINGTON BEACH

* Col. Arthur Poindexter, who helped defend Wake Island in World War

II, died Jan. 5 at 82.

* Frances Guzman, the daughter of longtime Huntington Beach Public

Works employee Bob Guzman, died Feb. 1 at 7.

* Donald Keller, the founding editor of the Independent, died March 19

at 70.

* Tyler Pinnick, a Vista View Middle School sixth-grader whose

untimely death prompted his family and the community to promote drug

awareness and prevention, died March 19 at 12.

* Teruko Takeuchi, mother of three who took pride in raising her

children, died June 2 at 52.

* Chanan Remington, a junior lifeguard who was spending the summer in

Surf City with her grandparents, died June 27 at 14.

* Dick Yukio Nerio, a former co-owner of the closed Meadowlark

Airport, died in July at 64.

* Don Beichley, who had just completed his 16th year as District 62

administrator for Little League Baseball, died Oct. 25 at 73.

SUNSET BEACH

* Jack Haley, the city’s unofficial mayor, owner of Captain Jack’s

restaurant and winner of the first-ever U.S. Open surfing championship in

1959, died March 25 at 65.