In memoriam: Funeral notices, August 26, 2021

In Loving Memory of

ANCHONDO, Gabriel Y. & Mary C.

Happy Birthday to our Beloved

Mom/Nanaand Dad/Tata.

We celebrate and honor you.

You fulfilled our lives with love, laughter, and words of wisdom.

It's comforting knowing the heart and soul of our family are holding hands for eternity.

We love and miss you.

Your legacy will live on forever.

Until we meet again

- LA Familia Anchondo

GIBBS, Bradford Percy

1926 - 2021

Bradford, age 95, passed away August 17, 2021 at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He is survived by his wife of 75 years, Mary Ellen Gibbs; his sister, Margaret and brother, Chester; his children, Ronald, Donna and John; daughter-in-law, Gail Gibbs; granddaughter, Emily Dommershausen and her husband Jay David; great-grandchildren, Trey and Addy Dommershausen; daughter-in-law, Beth Gibbs and grandson, Jason Gibbs and his wife Megan.

Brad was born in Jerome, Idaho and the family eventually moved to Palo Alto, California. Brad worked at Moffett Field Naval Air Station for the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA) while in high school and after graduating enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944, worked as an Aviation Ordinanceman. Brad was discharged in 1946 and went back to work at Moffett Field for NACA as an electrician. He stayed at Moffett until 1984 when he retired as Telecommunications Chief for NASA Ames Research Center.

Brad and Mary moved to Sunnyvale in 1954 where he enjoyed woodworking, amateur radio, lapidary, stamp collecting, mineral collecting, and gardening. He and Mary maintained a large vegetable garden in their backyard growing delicious corn, beans, and tomatoes. The home workshop was a constant scene of activity with projects undertaken by Brad and his sons. He volunteered with the local amateur radio club, and stamp club.

In 2016 he moved with Mary to a retirement living facility in Tucson, Arizona, close to where his daughter Donna and his son Ron live. Bradford was a member of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society and enjoyed helping with the annual gem and mineral show.

Brad passed away peacefully at home with his family around him. Arrangements by ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, Avalon Chapel.

STANTON, Helen Maxine

(McGinnis)

died August 22, 2021, peacefully in her sleep in rural Tennessee, just four days shy of her 101st birthday. She was born in Braddyville, Iowa, on August 26, 1920, the day on which women across America had their right to vote ratified. She attended secretarial school in Omaha, Neb., and later moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., for work. There, she met airman William A. Stanton, and they married January 31, 1948. They spent decades traveling the world on assignment with the U.S. Air Force, living in England, Germany, Spain and ultimately settling in Tucson, Ariz. In Madrid, Helen worked for Samuel Goldwyn Studios. In Tucson, she worked many years for the American Red Cross and even longer as secretary to the general manager of Holmes Tuttle Ford, a job she loved largely because of the amiable crew there. And they loved her back, as did virtually anyone who met the vivacious, joyful Helen,whose sense of adventure and sassy humor enriched the lives of friends and family. Her love of animals, especially wildlife, was legendary, and she was well known at Jesse Owens Park near the Stanton home, where she would walk her dogs daily, greeting everyone she encountered. She was preceded in death by her husband; by her parents, Calvin Clyde McGinnis and Katie Marie (Jeffers) McGinnis, and by her sister, Dorothy Elaine McGinnis, and youngest brother, Ronnie Eugene McGinnis. She is survived by her brother, Billy Dean McGinnis of Colorado Springs, Colo.; children Janelle Thigpen, Tucson; Billie Maxine Stanton, Arvada, Colo.; Sam Stanton, Sacramento, Calif.; and Joe Stanton, Tennessee; eight grandchildren as well as great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins. Helen spent the last eight years of her life under the tender, loving care of her daughter-in-law Jeanne Kuhlengel Stanton, whom Helen considered her third daughter. She is to be buried beside her husband in East Lawn Palms Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are pending. In lieu of flowers, tax-deductible donations can be made to the Alzheimer's Association, at act.alz.org or 225 N. Michigan Ave., Floor 17, Chicago, Ill. 60601.