Services will be held Wednesday, according to her family.
Maria Anaya had just turned 23 when she was killed in an East Bay car crash that is being blamed on an alleged drunken driver. Here's how to donate to a fund for funeral expenses.
The 36-year-old killed in last week's motorcycle crash near downtown Napa was an artist, former firefighter/EMT, animal lover and "a ball of energy from the moment she was born," according to her Napa Valley Register obituary.
"I learned that day that Bobby was a lot more than just a man who dressed in outrageous clothes and rode a bike. He was a person like everyone else who loved and hurt," remembers a reporter who came to know him well.
The singer's songs—and her amazing voice—touched the lives of millions. What are your memories? Share your comments.
The sudden death of a longtime coach and instructor follows the still-unexplained collision that ended the life of a varsity soccer player last week.
Did you know Paul Isaac Garrett? He was one of the flight attendants on the plane that went down in 1988 when a bomb exploded aboard over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Ralph Ingols, longtime curator of the Martha Walker Native Habitat Garden at Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa, died in July at 100. Thanks to Leah Hawks for this remembrance.
The first published version of our obituary for Jim Schultz contained an error.
He began teaching at Silverado Middle School in 1977.
Jermaine Gibson, the Napa police academy graduate who died in the line of duty last week, was also a decorated Marine.
Jermaine Gibson, 29, is believed to be the first Napa police academy graduate to die in the line of duty.
Remembering a "fearless soul" who "pushed people to live."