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Friends we will miss Richard Maxwell (Dick) Senior passed away at his Banning residence on October 2, 2021. He was born June 24, 1929 in Kane, Pa. He was the son of the late William and Miriam Senior of Bradford and Warren Pa. He graduated from Bradford High School, class of 1947. He served in the Pennsylvania National Guard and the Army 82nd Airborne Division 325 Battalion during the Korean War. He worked at the Detrick Farm and the Ideal Farm in Kane Pa. and did various plumbing jobs along the way, following in his dad's footsteps. In 1963, he moved the family to California and worked as a plumber for Local 398 in Montclair, Calif. He worked as a plumbing foreman for McKean Mechanical in Azusa, Calif. He accumulated 50 years in the United Association of Plumbers and Fitters. After retiring from the plumbing business, he and his wife Leora of 50 years, moved to Pahrump, Nev. Content with hunting, fishing, riding the mountains in Nevada on his ATV, and prospecting on the side, he continued on after his wife Leora passed on. At Sun Lakes he was an avid member of the Bocce Club and the Creative Writers Club. A biography of him, the book The Keeper of the Well, geared toward fourth graders was written. It depicted what he had done for all the wildlife on Spring Mt. with the cooperation of the United States Forest Service, the Arts Council of Pahrump, and the Mt. Charleston license plate commission. Many of his poems have been published in magazines, books, and newspapers. He has published two books, The Black Knight and the Path Finders in Space. He is highly recognized by his peers. Preceding him in death was Leora May Senior, formally Leora Call, their son Robert M. (Micky) Senior, sister Nancy Brace, brother Sr. Master Sgt. Kenneth A. Senior, parents, William Clyde and Miriam Luicille Senior. Survivors are sister Janet Putnum; daughter, Tracy Galongo; grandsons Ryan Senior and Daniel Hohman Jr.; three great grandsons Rylee Senior, Trenton Hohman, and Travis Hohman. He was interred next to his wife Leora at Bellevue Memorial Cemetery Park in Ontario, Calif in November. Florence Davis, 91, passed away on September 15, 2021 after a brief illness in Palm Springs. She was a resident of Sun Lakes since 1989. There was not a day that she didn't love her home in Banning. She attended high school in Wilkes Barre, PA. After leaving high school, she worked in New York City and later became a Civilian Army Secretary in Tokyo, Japan. Her love of travel started there. She married in Japan and moved back to the states in 1952. She eventually settled in Orange County in 1960 and worked for the city of Garden Grove as the City Manager's secretary from 1960 until her retirement in 1990. Throughout her life, Florence volunteered for the Lighthouse for the Blind in NYC, Gray Air Force Base in Texas, and in the ER at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA. Her lifelong love of travel took her to England, Italy, Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and RV camping to all the national parks in the United States as well as Canada. She is preceded in death by her parents Pauline and Walter Jankowsky, sister Regina Hosgood, and nephew Richard Hosgood. She had two children, Cynthia and Steve, a grandson Nick, son-in-law William and daughter-in-law Rebecca, nephew Lee and niece Patty, all whom she deeply loved. Florence will be interred at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Wilkes Barre, PA. Services will be private. You can dispose and erase a person's life, but never from your heart; she will be dearly missed. Submit your Friends we will miss to sunlakesnews@yahoo.com 64 | SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | DECEMBER 2021 |