Richard was born July 5, 1932, in Omaha, Nebraska to Byron Rowland and Josephine Baiber Rowland.
Richard’s father, Byron moved the family to Portland, Oregon around the start of WWII, for work at an aircraft plant. In 1946 they made their way down to Orleans, CA and lived on a ranch in the area called the Cooper Ranch. During these younger years Richard spent quite a bit of time as an avid hunter and becoming a skilled fisherman. He joined the United States Navy as soon as he could and was able to see some of the world. After receiving an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1954, Richard came back to Humboldt to find his father and to work with him for several years as a skilled carpenter. At this time, Richard’s father was living in Weitchpec, and both helped construct many buildings in the area, some of which are still standing today.
Richard married Margaret Ann Longenbaugh in 1958, and together they had three children: Kevin, Kerri and Keith. During their early years together, Richard and Margaret built and operated the Deep Sleep Motel. Around 1964, just after the ‘64 flood hit the Humboldt County area, Richard started his own rock crushing and cement business. He called it Hoopa Valley Redi-Mix. He and Margaret ran the business until his retirement. Richard spent the majority of his life living in Hoopa.
Richard was blessed with a green thumb and took a lot of pride in his yard and trees. But if he was not in his trees somewhere, he was moving earth and crushing rock. He had his hands on many, many projects, and buildings in the surrounding area. Some reading this might be standing on a foundation he poured or using a septic tank he made. You may have even crossed over one of the eight bridges he poured in the area to get to where you needed to be today.
Richard is survived by his wife Margaret Rowland, children and their spouses; Kevin (Katia) Rowland, Kerri Rowland-Mendez and Keith (Pileta) Rowland, and grandchildren; Sarah and Natalie Rowland, Sarita, Dillon and Anthony Mendez.
Richard desired no memorial services and was cremated. His immediate family and friends will be holding a celebration of life sometime during the summer when the COVID-19 situation has a chance to improve. He will be greatly missed by his friends and family.
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The obituary above was submitted on behalf ofRichard Leon Rowland’s loved ones. The Lost Coast Outpost runs obituaries of Humboldt County residents at no charge. See guidelines here.
It is with deep sadness we share with our community that on June 15th, Nita Cannandy’s soul left this earth. If you knew her, you knew how loving and kind she was.
Nita was born in Scotia and raised in Humboldt county, growing up in Fortuna. Nita worked at Pam’s restaurant, and her parents’ dry cleaning business Quality Cleaners. She then went to work in Scotia for Coast to Coast /Ben Franklins until the shopping center burned down from the 1992 earthquakes. Nita then found work at Fortuna Ace Hardware where she eventually retired as the paint department manager or otherwise known as The Paint Lady.
She met and married her husband, Ernie Cannady in 1970 who worked as a delivery driver for Quality Cleaners. They married in 1971 and welcomed their oldest daughter, Michale Hale, into the world. She recently shared that becoming a mother was the most wonderfully terrifying thing she had ever done. Ten years later, her youngest daughter, Kristie Cannady, was born in 1981.
Nita loved her two daughters, and she was incredibly proud of her grandchildren. When her oldest grandchild, Ethan, was born, she beamed with pride and loved being a grandmother. Next came her only granddaughter Emmalee, followed by grandsons Emmit and Everett.
Whatever Nita put her mind to, she accomplished it. Twenty-five years ago, she began her Tang So Do journey. She loved martial arts and developed many deep, meaningful relationships with her Tang So Do family. Most probably don’t know that there was a fierce warrior hiding behind that smile. She broke boards and bricks and competed in Tang So Do tournaments. She worked hard and became a 2nd-degree black belt and loved teaching along with her continued training.
Nita had recently retired and was living life to its fullest. She loved being out on the ocean fishing with her boyfriend, David Smith, who brought her immense joy the last couple years of her life. They made homemade donuts, cookies, baked bread, pressed fresh apple juice, listened to music, took long drives and created much joy together. They truly had a beautiful connection and filled each other’s hearts.
Nita is preceded in death by her parents, Joe and Marcia Selby, and her husband, Ernie Cannady. She is survived by her daughter Kristie, her husband Rio and grandsons Emmit and Everett and her daughter Michale, her husband Jim, grandson Ethan and granddaughter Emmalee. She is also survived by her siblings Cheryl Cunha, Lynn DiStanislao-Selby, Darryl Selby, and Dorothy (D.J.) Zimmerman, their families and her boyfriend David Smith along with more friends than one could begin to count.
The family invites anyone who would like to come and celebrate Nita’s beautiful life. Please join us on Saturday, June 26, at the Turf Club inside the Ferndale fairgrounds from 1-5 p.m. We are celebrating with a potluck, service and a celebration of her life. Please come and share your memories, joy, and laughter for she is going to be forever missed.
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Doreen V. Landing, 88, passed away on May 24, 2021 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Doreen Landing was born November 1, 1932 in Verwood, Saskatchewan Canada to Theodore and Ina
Wenaus. Doreen was the youngest of eight children and in 1934 moved to Ashland, Oregon. Doreen
attended Ashland Highschool where she was a cheerleader and excelled in numerous sports. During her
senior year of High School, she met the love of her life, Dale Landing. In 1951 Doreen and Dale married
and later welcomed two beautiful children, Michael Landing (1953) and Marla Landing (1955). In 1955
the Landing Family moved to Eureka, CA where Dale began working for Levi Zentner Produce. In 1962
Doreen and Dale started Dale Landing Wholesale Produce supplying the North Coast from Garberville,
CA to Bandon, OR.
In 1966 Doreen and Dale welcomed their third child, Gregg Landing. Doreen and Dale loved the
outdoors. They spent a great portion of their time on family camping trips, spending time at the family
ranch, and hosting parties for friends and family. Following the death of her beloved Dale in 1976,
Doreen took up golfing where she made lifelong friends and served on the Board of the Eureka
Women’s Golf Association. Doreen also participated in the local Eureka Bowling leagues where she
made her teams outfits when they went to state championships. Doreen’s hobbies included playing
cribbage, having a ceramics studio in her garage, gardening, puzzles of any nature, and knitting dish rags
that she always gave as Christmas gifts. Her beautiful backyard became the place for Super Bowl
parties, family BBQs and countless hours of whiffle ball games with the grandchildren. In 2010 Doreen
was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease but continued to live a life filled with dancing, laughing, and
enjoying the company of family and friends. A special thank you is extended to her children, Michael,
Marla, and Gregg and Son-In-Law Charlie Bassett for taking care of her towards the end of her life.
Doreen was proceeded in death by her parents Theodore and Ina Wenaus, husband Dale Landing, son
Michael Landing, siblings Kenneth Wenaus, Lloyd Weanus, Fern Browne, Eula Weanus, Norma Farmer,
Eunice Surber, and Maxine Spruill and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. Doreen is survived by her
children Marla Landing (Charlie Bassett), Gregg Landing (Denise Pope), her grandchildren Amy Landing
(Michael Cyphers), Krista (Shane) Ranstrom, Mathew Landing, Jack Senicola, Dale Landing II, great
grandchildren Gannon Cyphers, Taylor Cyphers, Barrett Ranstrom, best friend Judy Wolfe and numerous
nieces and nephews.
A celebration of life will be held at the Eureka Women’s Club 1531 J St. Eureka, CA on Saturday July 31 st
starting at 3:00pm. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimers Association at
act.alz.org/donate or 1-800-272-3900.
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After more than six hours of often meandering deliberation on Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors opted to punt the decision on Sun Valley’s proposal for an eight-acre cannabis farm in the Arcata Bottoms. The hearing for this controversial project was continued to July 13.
All five supervisors expressed a willingness to allow Arcata Land Company (a Sun Valley-controlled entity) to establish a grow operation next to the existing flower bulb farm, but they had widely divergent criteria in mind for the appropriate size and conditions of approval.
In the end, three of the five — First District Supervisor Rex Bohn, Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell and Fourth District Supervisor Virginia Bass — said they’d be willing to consider permitting a grow of more than two acres. Bushnell’s support is contingent on the effectiveness of odor-control technology, and she asked county staff to reach out to officials in Santa Barbara County and ask how well the proposed technology is working at established cannabis farms there.
Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson, meanwhile, said he is unwilling to approve a grow any larger than two acres because that’s the established limit on lands zoned for agriculture. While the property in question is currently zoned heavy industrial, during the county’s long general plan update process a previous iteration of the Board of Supervisors decided to convert it to ag zoning, in part because the City of Arcata requested that change. County staff, however, has yet to implement that zoning change due to various bureaucratic and litigation-related delays.
Public comment was pretty hot in this one. The Outpost will have a more thorough recap of the meeting on Wednesday.
Warning: The story below contains graphic, disturbing testimony concerning a murder and torture case that was presented in Humboldt County Superior Court today.
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Nineteen-year-old Eureka resident Hannah Hayhurst was not only repeatedly stabbed and bludgeoned, her killer ripped vital organs out of her body while she may still have been alive.
Today Dr. Mark Super, testifying during the preliminary hearing for murder suspect Daniella Patricia Moore, described the injuries he documented during Hayhurst’s autopsy on July 5, 2019, the day after her mangled body was found. The teen was injured from head to foot, with the most severe injuries to her abdomen.
Super observed “10 separate jagged stab wounds” that were not inflicted by a typical single-edged blade. Among them were what he called “aggravated” wounds.
“The abdomen was exposed and basically opened up,” Super testified under questioning by Deputy District Attorney Stacey Eads. Hayhurst’s stomach, spleen, bowel and left kidney had been “jerked” out, the doctor said. The organs were lying next to her corpse.
Inside her body, the remaining organs had all been stabbed: the lungs, the liver, the pancreas. There also were numerous wounds to the main artery and main vein in her body.
“There’s some evidence she was still alive when some of these organs were injured,” Super said. He based that opinion on seeing fresh bleeding, meaning Hayhurst still had blood pressure.
All over her body, Hayhurst had M-shaped cuts characteristic of being stabbed by scissors or shears. She also had numerous smaller cuts that appeared in almost a “Tic Tac Toe” pattern, Super said.
He found defensive wounds on her left hand.
“The victim is aware and they take their hand and try to block (the weapon) or grab it … overall these (wounds) look like she’s moving around. She’s moving; the assailant’s moving.”
Hayhurst was no longer moving when the attacker inflicted the abdominal wounds, Super said. He believes she was in a “perimortem” state, meaning shortly before or after death. When Deputy Public Defender Casey Russo asked Super whether she may have been dead when the organs were removed, Super said “Yes. I hope so.”
He also told Russo it’s possible Hayhurst may have been unconscious, because the autopsy revealed blunt-force trauma to the head.
One of the charges against the 41-year-old Moore is torture. Super said it’s possible Hayhurst’s ordeal may have gone on for hours. Then again, it could have been over “in a few minutes.”
No motive has been discussed. But at the time Moore allegedly murdered Hayhurst, her boyfriend had abandoned her and their twin babies. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Moore was arrested in the early morning hours of July 4 in Garberville, where she was seen walking down the road carrying scissors and making stabbing motions. Questioned by Humboldt County sheriff’s Deputy Lucas Brittain, Moore told him she was on her way to Chico to calm herself down, but she didn’t know how to get to Chico.
Brittain, testifying today during the hearing, said Moore’s explanation for the bandaged cuts on her hand was “when she gets upset she cuts herself.”
Moore told the deputy she had cut herself the previous day. He spotted what looked like a pair of pliers in her right front pocket. He took them and placed them on the roof of her car, “out of her reach.”
The more Brittain looked, the more blood he saw. There was blood all over the exterior and interior of her Chevy sedan, as well as on Moore herself.
On the pants she was wearing, Brittain saw a blood stain running from thigh to ankle. That much blood “was not consistent” with Moore cutting her fingers, the deputy said.
The pliers he took turned out to be scissors, and “they were covered in blood.”
Moore seemed disoriented, so Brittain was initially going to place her on a “5150 hold” because he believed she could be a danger to herself or others. Then he learned Eureka police wanted to question Moore. So instead of being taken to a mental health facility, Moore was transported to EPD headquarters. She has been in Humboldt County Correctional Facility for the nearly two years since.
Today was the second day of the preliminary hearing. It is expected to last one more full day, but that is not scheduled to happen until July 7.
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
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On June 19, 2021, at about 10:10 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on Perch Street in King Salmon for the report of a burglary in progress.
The victim told dispatchers that he had heard a noise inside of his home and upon investigating, located an unknown male suspect who had forced entry into the residence. The male, later identified as 31-year-old Robert Alan Long, fled the residence in a black Ford Mustang.
Deputies arrived in the area within two minutes of receiving the call for service and located Long’s vehicle stalled further down on Perch Street. Deputies attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle, however, Long failed to comply with deputies’ requests to exit the vehicle. Long was able to re-start the vehicle’s engine and flee onto Buhne Dr. While fleeing, the vehicle again stalled. Long continued to resist deputies and was forcibly removed from the vehicle. Long became combative with deputies and was placed into custody after a brief struggle.
Long was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of burglary (PC459/461(a)), evading a peace officer (VC 2800.2), driving without a license (VC 12500), violation of probation (PC 1203.2(a)(2)), resisting a peace officer (PC 69) and Post Release Community Supervision revocation (PC 3455(A)).
This case is still under investigation.
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
On June 21, 2021, at about 10 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Emergency Communications Center was contacted by the Eureka Police Department (EPD) regarding a deceased individual located in the area of the 4700 block of Fairway Drive in Eureka.
According to EPD, maintenance workers clearing brush along the roadway located the deceased individual in heavy brush approximately 10-15 feet from the roadway. A deputy coroner was dispatched to respond and took custody of the remains.
The deceased has been identified as 57-year-old Stacy Lynn French of Eureka. French was reported missing to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office on May 10, 2021.
Foul play is not suspected at this time. An autopsy is being conducted today, June 22, 2021.
This case is still under investigation.
Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.
