Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Lance Cpl. Joshua "Chachi" Corral laid to rest in private ceremony following emotional gathering.
Danville's East Bay Fellowship Church was filled with an overflow crowd and an equal amount of emotion for Lance Cpl. Joshua "Chachi" Corral, who was laid to rest following a moving memorial service on Wednesday. Corral, a San Ramon Valley High School graduate of 2010, was killed on Nov. 18 during combat operations in Afghanistan. Corral, 19, served in the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. The memorial included the sharing of memories from fellow Marines, friends and two immediate family members of the fallen hero. Presentation of the flag, the playing of taps and a 21-gun salute followed before the funeral procession continued to Lafayette's Oakmont Cemetery for a private burial. Family spokesperson Vintage Foster read the following …
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday's procession comes 10 days after Danville learned that a Marine who grew up in this community had been killed in Afghanistan.
Everyone in Danville knew Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Corral as Chachi, including San Ramon Valley High students who only remember him as a friendly, laughing kid they saw in the halls between class. Some 2,100 San Ramon Valley High students were let out of class Monday afternoon to line Danville Boulevard in front of campus to pay tribute to a former schoolmate who, in the words of one senior, made "the ultimate sacrifice." The students came to watch a procession of vehicles bringing Corral, 19, back home. Corral's body arrived on an airplane at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield shortly after noon. His family, riding in a limousine, and more than 100 motorcyclists from the Warriors Watch Riders escorted him back to Danville. The procession…
Monday, November 21, 2011
Hundreds turn out to pay respects to the family of Joshua Corral who was one of a group of San Ramon Valley graduates who enlisted in the Marines in 2010.
There were nine who went. The group of friends graduated from San Ramon Valley High School in June 2010, and then immediately enlisted in the Marines. They all had their own reasons for going. Joshua Corral wanted to make a difference. “He wanted his life to matter,” said Mike Dorrance, whose son Jordan was one of Corral’s friends who enlisted around the same time. Joshua Corral definitely mattered — to the hundreds of people who lined the streets and cul-de-sac leading to his family's Danville home Monday. The teens, adults, military veterans and city officials were holding U.S. and Marine Corps flags to show their support for Corral’s parents and three brothers. The grieving family members were arriving home late Monday afternoon after …
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thousands attended the memorial celebrating the life of 15-year old Alliy Bayliss at Community Presbyterian Church in Danville on Monday.
Our hearts have been filled with overwhelming sadness and compassion for the family of 15-year-old Alliy Bayliss since Wednesday when police announced the search for her had ended. With every blue ribbon we pass, tied around hundreds of posts throughout many neighborhoods in Danville, our tears of grief remind us of how blue we feel. Blue, azul, the color of the sea and sky, was Alliy's favorite color and the predominant color used in most of her artwork. The work was on display in the halls of Community Presbyterian Church, where thousands streamed into the service organized by the Bayliss family, with an outpouring of help from friends and the community. As if the sea and sky met without borders, so did the horizon of the more than 2,…
Friday, January 21, 2011
Hundreds of people in Walnut Creek and beyond have been comforted and inspired by the grace and honesty of a woman who faced cancer with courage.
A celebration of the life of Julie Miles of Walnut Creek, who died Jan. 6, will be held Sunday at the Pleasant Hill Recreation Center. Looking back on the life of the 41-year-old will be bittersweet. She left a husband, two daughters, ages 8 and 11, and a multitude of friends and family. But she also left an incredible lesson about facing death while living life to the fullest. Miles, who was 36 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, had “everything in place” for a good, long life. She graduated from UC Berkeley, traveled around Europe, honeymooned in Africa and did volunteer work there with Terry, her husband and the love of her life. She was happily married with two young daughters, says her friend Laura Halpin. She taught …
Cynthia
8:30 am on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
To Joshua Corral....altho i did not know you i just wanted to tell you from the bottom of my heart thank you so much for protecting our country and keeping our borders safe and tight...if you had not enforced those lines that you did those bombs could have been sitting under our own playgrounds here in the United States. You made the ultimate sacrifice for people like me that you had never met … more ›