Services for retired city employee Jean Comstock finally will be held Friday
Former City of Long Beach employee Jean Comstock died alone at age 79 on Sept. 24, and though her effects revealed Comstock had been making payments on a plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, any final resting place seemed far off indeed.

Four months after she died alone, retired city clerk Jean Comstock will get a proper send-off
Jean Comstock was retired from Long Beach City Hall longer than she ever worked there—15 years, from 1977 to 1992—but City Hall is about to send her off properly.

Retired Long Beach City Clerk Jean Comstock died at age 79 on Sept. 24, but Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske’s recent Column One piece isn’t really a memoriam at all, for the former city official.
Rather, it’s a vivid reminder that, in death, unlike life, we invariably lose control of ourselves and our worldly effects.

Aviles sisters’ aunt is shot and wounded near their burned-out garage
If you drove through the intersection of Tenth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue yesterday, you might have seen a car wash in progress. It was a fundraiser for the funeral of Stephanie Aviles, 6, Jocelin Aviles, 7, and Jasmine Aviles, 10–all of whom [...]