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| SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | NOVEMBER 2020 | 73 Friends we will miss Frank Simone, 84, passed away peacefully at home on September 7. Frank had a full and wonderful life. He was married to the love of his life, Marilyn (Lynn), for 60 years. His family was the most important thing to him and he was very proud of his children, Lisa (Chris), Gina (Brian), Dana (Michael), and Lora (Frankie), and grandchildren, Nicole, Patrick, Monica, Colin, Lindsey, and Amber. He found his calling in education and was a favorite teacher and principal. He spent most of his career in the Las Virgenes Unified School District and retired from the Morongo Valley Unified School District. His hobbies were golf, reading, and travel. In honor of Frank, please hug your loved ones. Karl Tasko, 90, passed away on September 14, 2020. Born in Hungary, Karl escaped communist Hungary in 1956 during the revolution. He escaped to Salzburg, Austria. His dream of coming to the U.S. came true when he was sponsored by an engineering company in Ohio. He then was transferred to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1961 where he met Carol, his wife of 59 years. They had two children - a daughter Leanne and a son Karl, Jr. Besides his family, he considered his citizenship in 1965 to be one of his greatest achievements. He was a proud American. Karl and Carol moved to Sun Lakes in 1989 and Karl joined the tennis group and played for many years. Later in his life, he joined pop tennis and loved the game and the many friends he made. Karl was fondly known as a "hugger." He volunteered to many organizations like ChildHelp, growing vegetables at Dysart Park for the hungry, Sun Lakes Clubhouses, Wounded Warriors, etc. He was known to help anyone he could. Karl lived a full life and will be missed by his family and friends. Carol Myers Warner, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away on September 18, 2020, in her Sun Lakes home, at the age of 95. Carol was born in Los Angeles on Christmas Day, 1924. She was delivered in the family's home by a neighborhood doctor who arrived by horse and buggy. The family soon moved to the San Fernando Valley, where Carol often walked barefoot through the vast farm fields and orchards with her face in a book. During World War II she worked at Warner Brothers Studios and spent evenings volunteering at the Hollywood Canteen, selling war bonds and dancing with servicemen. She graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1943, where she met her high school sweetheart, Fred Warner. They married in 1945 after he returned from serving overseas. They settled in the west San Fernando Valley, where Fred worked in law enforcement and Carol as a legal secretary, all the while raising four daughters. They retired to Banning in 1992, where they were both very active in the senior community of Sun Lakes. Carol spent her retirement tap dancing, playing poker, shopping with friends, hosting daily cocktail hours on her driveway, and enthusiastically decorating for holidays. She was known for her unfiltered sense of humor, loving generosity, and glamorous fashion sense which was usually accented by sequins and costume jewelry. She was preceded in death by her husband Fred Warner, daughter Teary Warner Cambron, brothers Curtis Myers and Garth Myers, and parents Thomas Calvert Myers and Mildred Lansberry Myers. She is survived by her daughters, Robin Warner (Banning, CA), Kellie Donato (North Hollywood, CA), and Shannon Warner (Sherman Oaks, CA), as well as twelve grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Immense gratitude is owed to her dedicated caretaker, Pamela Potter. Carol will be interred next to Fred at Riverside National Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Weaver Mortuary of Beaumont, but in light of COVID-19, services are pending.

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