OBITUARIES - March 1, 2006

LORETTA E. BERGERON

Services for longtime Costa Mesa resident Loretta E. Bergeron will be held Thursday and Friday. She died at 82 of diabetes Saturday in Chula Vista.

A resident of Costa Mesa for 55 years, Bergeron worked as a nurse and belonged to the Zonta Club of Newport Beach and the Newport Harbor Emblem Club No. 394, of which she was a past president.

Bergeron is survived by two sons, Stephen Bergeron of Long Beach and Richard “Rick” Bergeron of Huntington Beach; and three daughters, Nanette Bergeron of Costa Mesa, Marianne Sparks of Danville, Calif., and Michele Koleto of Colorado Springs, Colo.

A rosary and vigil are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at McCormick & Son Mortuary’s chapel in Laguna Hills. A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Huntington Beach, with interment to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery.

ELOISE M. HERTFORD

Eloise M. Hertford, a 32-year Corona del Mar resident, died Monday of pneumonia. She was 92.

Hertford was born Oct. 29, 1914, in Los Angeles. She is survived by her nephew, Joe Villasenor; great-nephews, David Russell and Dale Villasenor, and great-nieces, Debbie Russell and Christy Clarke.

Services are at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Pacific View Mortuary with an interment following at the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. There will be a viewing before the service from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.