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• Eureka Police Department Launches New Initiative to Improve Safety, Reduce Blight Along Hwy. 101

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Press release from the Eureka Police Department:

Last night, the Eureka Police Department (EPD) presented Operation Gateway 101 to City Council, highlighting a coordinated, proactive effort to improve traffic safety and quality of life along the U.S. Highway 101 Corridor. The corridor has historically faced traffic safety challenges, including collisions involving motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians, as well as unsafe driving, bicycling, and pedestrian behaviors. Quality-of-life concerns—such as encampments, graffiti, debris, and aggressive conduct—have also affected local businesses, employees, and patrons.

Additionally, the area experiences elevated levels of theft, vandalism, and property-related crimes, negatively impacting overall community safety and livability.

Operation Gateway 101 is a collaborative initiative involving EPD, Public Works, Code Enforcement, other City departments, and community partners. The program is designed to address traffic safety and quality-of-life concerns along the Highway 101 Corridor, the city’s primary gateway, ensuring a safe, welcoming, and well-maintained environment for residents, businesses, and visitors.

While Operation Gateway 101 provides focused attention along this critical corridor, the Eureka Police Department continues to actively address crime, traffic safety, and quality-of-life concerns throughout the entire community. Citywide patrol operations, targeted enforcement efforts, community engagement, and investigative follow-up remain ongoing to ensure public safety across all neighborhoods in Eureka.

As part of the Operation Gateway 101 initiative, on March 3, 2026, at approximately 10:54 PM, officers conducted a bicycle stop on the 2400 block of Broadway for a lighting violation. The individual, later identified as 30-year-old Jabril Abdallah Lovern, was searched incident to his probation status. The search resulted in the seizure of methamphetamine packaged for sale, additional packaging materials, and cash in various denominations.

Lovern was arrested and booked on charges of: HS 11378 – Possession of Methamphetamine for Sale, HS 11379 – Transportation of Methamphetamine for Sale, PC 1203.2(a) – Violation of Probation.

The Eureka Police Department emphasizes these proactive efforts—both along the Highway 101 Corridor and throughout the broader community—are part of an ongoing commitment to reduce crime, improve public safety, and maintain a safe and welcoming environment for all who live, work, and visit the City of Eureka.

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National political intrigue broke into full stride this week, with high-stakes primaries in Texas and North Carolina, but here in Humboldt it’s looking like the “race” for two seats on the county’s board of supervisors may be a snooze-fest.

As things currently stand, incumbent Fourth District Supervisor Natalie Arroyo is running unopposed as she seeks a second four-year term on the board. Time is quickly running out for any aspiring challengers. (The Fourth District encompasses Eureka, Myrtletown, Fairhaven and environs. See map here.)

Friday at 5 p.m. is the deadline to file the necessary paperwork with the Humboldt County Office of Elections if you’re planning to challenge Arroyo. (You’ll need a declaration of candidacy and candidate statement of qualifications. More info here.)

Up in the Fifth District (which includes McKinleyville, Willow Creek, Orick and everything in between), incumbent Steve Madrone is not seeking re-election. However, he nominated an heir apparent nearly a year ago, endorsing McKinleyville ecologist Mary Burke. 

Burke, who has served on the McKinleyville Community Services District, the McKinleyville Municipal Advisory Committee (MMAC) and the Friends of the Arcata Marsh Board of Directors, also has no challengers at this relatively late stage in the race. 

However, because the incumbent (Madrone) is bowing out, candidates are given a few extra days to submit their paperwork. If you’re hoping to run against Burke, you’ll need to get your declaration of candidacy and nomination documents in to the Elections Office by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11.

Again, more information on the statewide June 2 primary election can be found on the Elections Office website. 

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The Eureka Police Department is ramping up enforcement on Hwy. 101 to address ongoing traffic safety issues — namely, fatal collisions — and reduce blight along the city’s main corridor. The initiative: “Operation Gateway 101.”

During a presentation at last night’s city council meeting, EPD Commander Leonard La France said the department has recorded 10 fatal traffic collisions on the 101 corridor since 2020 — five involving pedestrians, three bicyclists and two drivers. The department saw a “massive increase” in traffic enforcement last year after Police Chief Brian Stephens launched a department-wide effort to boost officer-initiated activity. Traffic stops are up by 241%, but the new enforcement tactic has done little to reduce collisions.

“Even though we had a massive increase in traffic enforcement last year, we only lowered our traffic collisions by about one to 2% overall,” La France said. “For a city our size, 10 fatals on the 101 corridor is not positive, so we need to change that. … We’re going to focus a little bit more on Broadway and Fourth and Fifth [streets]. Again, these areas where we have pedestrian fatalities, bike fatalities [and] vehicles that are having collisions.”

By increasing visibility in “hotspot areas,” the EPD hopes to deter speeding and reduce other “problematic behavior.” A new method the department has deployed is “rear amber deterrence” to improve officer visibility.

La France | Screenshot

“You’ll see officers driving around daytime and nighttime with their rear ambers activated, similar [to what] you see at the mall with mall security,” La France explained. “People drive by my car very fast — even though it’s pretty clear it’s a police car — and once you throw those rear ambers on, you quickly change behavior for people. It’s a system that’s worked in other areas.”

“We are not going to prevent every single collision through enforcement, but we don’t know what we don’t know,” he added. “The chance of preventing one fatal collision, that for us is a huge benefit.”

The department also aims to reduce blight through the new initiative by partnering with the city’s code enforcement team, public works and other community partners. That means tearing up weeds, tending to unkempt properties and addressing “general disruptive behavior.”

“We see our folks that CSET [Community Safety Engagement Team] works with … but again, their behavior is often unacceptable,” he said, referring to the city’s unhoused community. “It often creates a safety issue for the community, and especially for traffic. … We’re looking at how we can address these issues for either people living in the city and people visiting our city.”

Councilmembers Kati Moulton and Renee Contreras DeLoach attested to the uptick in enforcement, both noting that they were recently pulled over. 

Moulton asked La France how EPD officers will deal with “blight abatement” around town, like picking up trash on the city’s sidewalks. “What [are] the carrots and sticks involved there?” she asked, adding that there are some pushes in front of a shopping center on Harris Street that are “packed with garbage.”

“If we have the complaint, we’ll [send that] over to code enforcement to address, and then on the backend, we’ll see what’s causing the trash,” La France said. “Once we have that piece of it, then we can start the enforcement end of it to stop the behavior. … They really try to get voluntary compliance, just like we do, but once they hit that compliance route, they have their whole process to actually start addressing it from an accountability standpoint.”

“Fines?” Moulton asked.

Not necessarily, said City Manager Miles Slattery. “We could abate it and then bill [the private property owner] for the cost of abatement, [though] that’s a last resort,” he said. “The intent of this is to programmatically let everybody know that it’s not only a benefit to the city, but it’s a benefit to their business.”

Turning back to 241% increase in traffic stops, Councilmember G. Mario Fernandez asked what drivers were being pulled over for. La France said stops ranged from speeding to expired tags to a busted taillight. “If there’s a reason to pull you over, you’re probably gonna get pulled over.”

“If you’re doing 30 miles over the speed limit, you’re gonna go to jail for reckless driving. Hands down. There’s no reason do 60-plus in our city,” La France continued. “We give a lot of warnings out. We only cite 16% or 20% of people we actually stop, so it’s not very high. The people we’re citing are for excess, usually excessive speed.”

La France and Slattery noted that EPD will be in touch with Eureka Main Street and the Great Eureka Chamber of Commerce to improve communications between the department and local businesses.

The council accepted the report but did not take any action on the item.

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Ryder Dschida, a lecturer in Cal Poly Humboldt’s history department and president of CFA Humboldt, said the organization stands in direct opposition to the federal government pressuring universities to cut ties with racial equity groups.

“Since the federal government provides a huge amount of funding for higher education, they use that as essentially a pressure point to make universities remove these programs that honestly have been extremely successful in  getting minority groups into good careers,” said Dschida.

Dschida pointed out many hadn’t heard of the organization before the federal investigation, and said the PhD project was swept up in the buzz of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion cuts of early 2025.

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Cal Poly Humboldt On Trump Administration’s List of 45 Schools to be Investigated for ‘Race-Exclusionary Practices’

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The U.S. Department of Education announced last month 31 universities across the country agreed to cut ties with the PhD Project, an organization that helps racial minorities earn doctorate degrees, amid a federal investigation into alleged racial discrimination.

This includes Cal Poly Humboldt. A CSU spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday the system had ended its membership in the PhD Project, which was used to “advertise academic employment opportunities,” according to spokesperson Amy Bentley-Smith.

Last year, the federal education’s department’s Office for Civil Rights announced 45 universities including Cal Poly Humboldt were under investigation for partnerships with the nonprofit, alleging it “unlawfully limits eligibility based on the race of participants.”

This followed a Trump Administration directive that aimed to prevent institutions that receive federal funding from practicing so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, alleging they discriminate against White and Asian students.

And two weeks ago, the department celebrated 31 resolution agreements with institutions of higher education. According to the department, the institutions told the department they’d cease their partnerships with the PhD Project.

“This is the Trump effect in action: institutions of higher education are agreeing to cut ties with discriminatory organizations, recommitting themselves to abiding by federal law, and restoring equality of opportunity on campuses across the nation,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a prepared statement.

In the statement, McMahon said the other 14 universities are in ongoing negotiations with the Office of Civil Rights.

CSU said they’d accepted an invitation from the Office of Civil Rights to “resolve the investigation by conducting a self-review to determine whether there are organizations with whom CSU has a membership or partnership where the organization limits participation by race. CSU has completed that review and is awaiting a response from OCR,” the statement said. 

The spokesperson noted no fines or monetary penalties have been assessed against the CSU.

Bentley-Smith did not respond to an inquiry as to what the results of the self-review were by publishing time, but noted in the statement “CSU complies with all state and federal nondiscrimination laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity in any CSU program or offering.”

According to a CSU press release, the agreement was signed on October 3, 2025.

The partnership itself encouraged Black, Native American and Latino students to get business degrees. The PhD Project said in early 2025, “we opened The PhD Project application to anyone who shares our vision,” and a more recent statement says the organization “remains focused on our mission to expand the pool of workplace talent by developing business school faculty who inspire, mentor, and support tomorrow’s leaders,” according to an email from a spokesperson.

The once little-known program became a target of Trump Administration in an agenda to root out “DEI” in colleges, leveraging the threat of losing federal funding.

The California Faculty Association said the CSU was capitulating to the Trump Administration in a press release on the agreement.

A New Hampshire federal court last month issued a ruling permanently invalidating the Feb 14, 2025 DEI directive.

The American Civil Liberties Union said “the challenged guidance is no longer in effect and cannot be enforced against anyone, anywhere nationwide,” in a press release. The directive was challenged in court early on by attorneys from the ACLU and National Education Association, which obtained a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement in April 2025.

Regardless of the lawsuit, many universities cut ties early on with the PhD Project, according to reporting from the Associated Press.

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Advocates for transgender youth vowed to keep fighting Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked — at least temporarily — a California policy protecting the privacy of transgender students in K-12 schools.

The court ruled in favor of a group of parents near San Diego who argued that the state’s policy violates their right to religious freedom and due process. The policy barred school districts from requiring teachers to “out” transgender students to their parents, unless the students gave permission.

“The court’s ruling is shocking and alarming,” said Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, which is based in Sacramento. “It’s part of a larger effort by this court and the administration to eliminate any protection for transgender people.”

The case was originally filed in 2023 by the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that focuses on religious issues. It stems from a state policy related to students’ privacy rights.

A federal district court judge initially ruled in favor of the parents with children in the Escondido Union School District in north San Diego County, and then the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals paused the ruling while the state prepared an appeal. The parents asked the Supreme Court to lift the pause, which it did on Tuesday. The appeal is still pending before the Ninth Circuit.

‘A watershed moment’

Attorneys for the Thomas More Society called it the greatest victory for parental rights in a generation.

“This is a watershed moment for parental rights in America,” said Paul Jonna, special counsel at the Thomas More Society. “The Supreme Court has told California and every state in the nation in no uncertain terms: you cannot secretly transition a child behind a parent’s back.”

The ruling undermines California’s Safety Act, which bars school districts from adopting “forced outing” policies and was hailed as a major victory for transgender rights when Newsom signed it in 2024.

Sonja Shaw, president of the Chino Valley Unified school board, described the Supreme Court’s ruling as “a massive victory.” Chino Valley was among a handful of districts in 2023 that enacted policies requiring teachers to divulge to parents if a student changes their gender identity.

“The Supreme Court has affirmed what we’ve always known to be true: policies deceiving parents are wrong, and they can not be allowed to stand,” said Shaw, a candidate for state superintendent of public instruction. “This win came from brave teachers and parents who refused to stay silent.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta acknowledged the ruling was a setback.

“We are disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision,” Jordan Blue, a spokesperson for Bonta, said. “We remain committed to ensuring a safe, welcoming school environment for all students while respecting the crucial role parents play in students’ lives.”

California has been on the forefront of transgender rights, especially for young people. The state has existing laws requiring teachers to use students’ preferred pronouns; schools are required to offer gender-neutral bathrooms; and sports teams and clubs must be open to all students. Those policies remain in place.

Still, this week’s ruling was significant, said Jorge Reyes Salinas, spokesperson for Equality California, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.

“Everyone is heartbroken,” Reyes Salinas said. “Although it’s not surprising. It’s just a continuation of the vile attacks we’ve seen on transgender youth. It’s even more important now that California strengthens its laws protecting trans people.”

Minter, at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, said that the ruling may have a narrow focus, but it sends a chilling message to transgender young people, who already face higher rates of anxiety and depression than their peers.

Minter said the transgender community will continue fighting for their rights.

“Most people in this country do not support what’s happening to transgender people,” Minter said. “We will fight every inch of the way until all people are treated with the basic decency they deserve.”

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California Democratic candidates for governor can’t stop talking about single-payer health care — again.

The idea of a government-run universal health care program that would replace private insurance as the sole payer of health care costs faces as many headwinds as ever. It had fallen onto the backburner after Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers failed to get it done, with some balking at the $392 billion estimated annual cost.

Health advocates have since turned their focus to the impending Trump administration cuts to Medi-Cal, the state’s expanded government health coverage for low-income residents. Even so, the progressive rallying cry of “Medicare for All” has become a staple of Democratic platforms. Few of them offer any specifics on how they would make it happen.

Climate activist and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer was opposed to single payer when he briefly ran for president in 2020, but changed his mind in December. The billionaire candidate told party delegates at their convention last month that because he is not beholden to corporate interests, “I can state the simple fact that we need a single-payer health care system in California.”

Tom Steyer, candidate for California governor, speaks at the California Democratic convention in San Francisco on Feb. 21, 2026. Photo by Jungho Kim for CalMatters

Former Orange County U.S. Rep. Katie Porter endorsed the policy in a video and declared to party delegates that as governor, she would “deliver single-payer health care.” Porter, a longtime single-payer supporter in the past, had declined to commit to the issue last year over feasibility concerns, telling Politico she didn’t think the idea was “realistic in the next couple of years.”

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, former Controller Betty Yee and former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra have all also said they support it.

Bay Area Rep. Eric Swalwell, who polls show is statistically tied for lead in the race with Porter, Steyer and Republican frontrunners Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, would focus instead on creating a public option, a spokesperson said, an alternative that attempts to lower costs by creating a state-run plan to compete with private insurance. That model is a more moderate approach because it aims to provide a more affordable coverage option but allows employers to keep their private coverage if they choose to.

Newsom’s unfulfilled promise

Setting up single payer in California would require the federal government’s approval for the state to repurpose federal dollars that currently pay for Medicare, Medicaid and veterans’ health coverage, which the Trump administration would almost certainly deny. It would also likely require a hefty state tax hike, though advocates say it would save the state money in the long run in lower drug prices and administrative savings, and save Californians out-of-pocket costs.

Daniel Panush, a consultant who worked on health care policy in the Legislature for two decades, said those two factors make him believe the perennial Democratic promises to establish single-payer healthcare are usually merely “aspirational.”

“It’s easy to make promises,” he said. “We all want to see the plan.”

Plus, California is in a budget deficit for the fourth year in a row, and its existing public health care programs face immediate peril from Trump administration cuts. More than 500,000 Californians are expected to lose Medi-Cal coverage this year, rising to 1.8 million in the future, and hundreds of thousands of others are expected to lose coverage through the Covered California marketplace after federal premium subsidies expired last year.

Advocates for a single-payer system like Rachel Linn Gish, spokesperson for the consumer group Health Access California, say it’s “inevitable” that it’s part of gubernatorial candidates’ platforms. But she is not particularly hopeful about its short-term prospects. Though advocates want to see single payer in the long term, she said, “we also want to see short-term solutions: how (candidates are) going to start on Day One to protect Medi-Cal, Covered California, coverage for immigrants and LGBTQ care.”

“Sometimes it feels like single-payer is the future health system of California, and always will be,” said Daniel Zingale, a former strategic adviser to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who famously ran on the issue.

During his 2017 campaign for governor, Newsom said Californians had “my firm and absolute commitment, as your next governor, that I will lead the effort to get it done.” The stance secured him the endorsement of the California Nurses Association, but it remains one of Newsom’s biggest unfulfilled promises.

The governor launched a commission in 2018 to study single payer and asked for a federal waiver to allow it, which was a nonstarter with the first Trump administration. Since then, he has passed on supporting any of the nurses’ union’s efforts.

Democratic lawmakers, too, have failed to bring the issue close to his desk, with one attempt flaring out in public in 2022 after Assemblymember Ash Kalra, a San Jose Democrat, couldn’t muster enough legislative support and didn’t want to alienate colleagues by forcing them to take a vote. He tried again in 2024, but lawmakers killed it before it reached the Assembly floor.

Over the past eight years, Newsom has shifted his strategy to instead address “universal access” to health care by providing subsidies for Covered California and gradually expanding Medi-Cal to cover some undocumented immigrants. It has resulted in more than 94% of the state’s residents having health insurance, a practical effect that advocates like Health Access applaud despite their long-term support for single payer.

Nurse practitioner Surani Hayre-Kwan, right, speaks with patient Mary Valesano, left, and her caregiver Georgia Fraley, far left, during an office visit at the Russian River Health Center. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

And Newsom’s administration has made some smaller moves toward single payer, with the governor in 2023 signing a law requiring the state to research the kinds of waivers it would need from the federal government. A public report on the issue was due in November but has not yet been released.

The idea has always put progressive Democrats at odds with powerful private interests such as insurers, hospitals, doctors and the California Chamber of Commerce, which generally opposes tax increases, wants to preserve employers’ choice of insurance companies and doesn’t want the state to spend on “a new, unwieldy government bureaucracy,” said spokesperson John Myers.

Why single payer keeps failing

Now, with Newsom termed out and leaving office at the end of this year, those running to replace him are picking up the same big promises. The same groups are opposed.

“There’s a reason that similar proposals have failed to gain traction in the past: The effort is more symbolic than serious,” Myers said.

Democrats pushing for single payer are unfazed. A spokesperson for Porter did not respond when asked how she would get single payer done despite past failed attempts. As for Steyer, spokesperson Danni Wang wrote in a statement that “he knows the fight won’t be easy” against “Washington politicians and corporate interests that profit from high health care costs.”

Steyer’s campaign supports the policy outlined in Kalra’s bill, which the lawmaker reintroduced this year. The bill would have the state take over the role of private insurance with every Californian eligible for coverage, and require the state to seek federal waivers to help fund the program. As for state funding, the bill states the Legislature will come up with the revenue after the policy is set up.

Kalra has endorsed Steyer along with the nurses’ union. He dismissed criticism that he hasn’t included a state funding source, saying the state must set up the policy before then waiting for a friendlier federal administration to request a waiver to help fund it.

“We can do two things at the same time, we can push back against Trump and the Republican cuts to health care by taking immediate actions to help ensure Californians still have access to health care, and start to chart a path on what we want to see after Trump,” he said.

With premiums rising every year, “it seems like almost a softball when it comes to Democratic politics at this time … to at least sincerely explore the support of it.”

Roxanne “Roxy” Marshall was born to Edward “Fuff” and Virginia “Gin” Marshall on April 5, 1943, in San Francisco. Roxy left this world on February 14, 2026. She was most recently a resident of Hoopa and Willow Creek. Roxy was a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe from the villages of Me’dil-ding and Tse:wenal-ding.

Roxy spent the first nine years of her life living and learning on Francisco Street in the Marina District of San Francisco until her father retired from Central Electric. Her family moved home to Hoopa, where she did a lot more learning and eventually some teaching too. Roxy graduated from Hoopa Valley High School in 1961 and soon welcomed her first child Wendy, with her husband Walt Morton. Exactly two years later they welcomed their second child Wayde. While Roxy spent most days at home raising her children on the river, she eventually got talked into becoming a teacher’s assistant at Hoopa Elementary School, which eventually lead to being in the first class of American Indian teachers to graduate from the Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP) at Humboldt State University (now called CalPoly Humboldt) in 1969. Roxy went on to work as the ITEP Student Services Coordinator and started the first shelf of textbooks that eventually grew into the Curriculum Resource Center at ITEP. While working at Humboldt State, Roxy met and eventually married her second husband, Bud Treece.

After their move to Los Angeles County, Roxy began working as a grant writer at the Southern California Indian Center, INC., where she met her lifelong friend Kathleen Bridgeland who was hired as a social worker at SCIC. This is also where Roxy met and married Michael Burgess and soon welcomed Allen in 1984 and eighteen months later Jennifer. Their family settled in Pasadena until 2004. During her twenty years in LA County Roxy continued her work with SCIC, served as the Liaison to the American Indian Community for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, and eventually returned to working at the State of California, first with the Trade and Commerce Agency, then on to the State Controller’s Office. The change in state agencies is what caused Roxy, Allen and Jennifer to move north to the Capitol in Sacramento, CA where Roxy worked until she retired in 2019. Roxy was known for her dedication to work and made many friends among coworkers, including her good friend Mallory Marsh, who sent Rox a monthly box of See’s chocolates until her last days. After retirement, in 2021 Roxy moved home to Humboldt County, close to her children, grandchildren, cousins and friends.

Roxanne was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) starting out at the Church of the Mountains in Hoopa, Pasadena Presbyterian Church, then eventually Northminster and Westminster Presbyterian Churches in Sacramento. Roxy was active not only on the local, but also regional and national levels of the church. Her participation on national boards and committees in the church took her across the country, and even the globe with fondly remembered trips to Egypt and Puerto Rico. Some of her best adventures were visiting other churches across Indian Country while serving on the national Native American Consulting Committee. She was also employed by the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii and served a term as their Moderator and was very instrumental in developing the Native American Ministry Project in greater Los Angeles County. Even through all the levels of her involvement in the PC(USA) one of mom’s favorite stories to tell was about racing from church to church on the Trinity and Klamath rivers to play piano for the different churches’ services.

Roxy always valued learning new things and enjoying the experiences life brought. This outlook took her on many adventures with children and friends, like trips to NASCAR and Formula 1 races, the Kentucky Derby, backpacking through France, Lakers games, Garth Brooks concerts, and volcano tours on Hawaii. She was always willing to be helpful and participate in her community, starting at a young age with Girl Scouts and in her later years as a member of the South Pasadena Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Roxy was preceded in death by her great-grandparents Laura (Davis) Hostler and John Hoffman, great-grandparents James and Mary Marshall, grandparents Ed “Dad” and Matilda “Mom” Marshall, grandparents James and Annie Conlan, parents Ed E. “Daddy” and Virginia “Mommy” Marshall, brother Walter Ralph Marshall, son Wayde James Morton, daughter Wendy Morton Moon, and grandson Walter Hayes Moon. Roxy was also preceded by her aunts and uncles, Dorcas and Ernest McDonald Jr., Noreen and Lester Latham Sr., Joseph and Eunice Marshall Sr., Joanne and William Eich, as well as Margaret “Peggy” and Walter Lubchenko.

Roxy is survived by her son Allen Burgess, daughter Jennifer Burgess and Justin Childs, her grandchildren Kara Moon, Rosella Moon, Charlie and Cassidy (Lane) Moon, great grandchildren, Pearl Moon, Charlie Hayes and Walter James Moon, Solo and Jack Cruz Sylvia, Paiila Colegrove and Choc Cook. She is also survived by her sister Jennifer and Chuck Singleton, nephews Jeff and Amy Singleton, Brian and Tracy Singleton, niece Kelly Singleton Bartlett, as well as their seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Roxy enjoyed a long and eventful life making many friends and family along the way. We thank all of you who called her cousin, friend and favorite coworker for making her life beautiful. We would also like to thank the nurses and staff at Hospice of Humboldt and Especially You Assisted Living for making mom comfortable in her final days here on earth.

Roxy wished to be cremated and left to rest with her parents at the old summer camp above Me’dil-ding. A memorial gathering & meal will be held at the Hoopa Fire Department Training Room on Saturday, April 4, 2026, at 1 p.m. All are welcome to share stories and memories of Roxy, as well as a dessert (what she would eat first), side or salad. Thank you to Carla and Ayers Family Cremation for all your assistance.

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