Irma Bowman

Age: 88

The story: Roy and Irma Bowman were married 53 years and were heavily involved in their local church. They loved the rural, peaceful setting of Redwood Valley and would take walks daily through the countryside.

Roy Bowman served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. He then worked for the federal Soil Conservation Service, now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Irma Bowman took care of the family, keeping them on a tight budget while raising their two boys. She was a terrific baker and made the four-tier cake for her son’s wedding. Roy called her “Lollipop.”

Firefighters found the couple embracing one another in the charred remains of their home on Fisher Lake Drive.

Roy Bowman

Age: 87

The story: Roy and Irma Bowman were married 53 years and were heavily involved in their local church. They loved the rural, peaceful setting of Redwood Valley and would take walks daily through the countryside.

Roy Bowman served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. He then worked for the federal Soil Conservation Service, now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Irma Bowman took care of the family, keeping them on a tight budget while raising their two boys. She was a terrific baker and made the four-tier cake for her son’s wedding. Roy called her “Lollipop.”

Firefighters found the couple embracing one another in the charred remains of their home on Fisher Lake Drive.

Janet Kay Costanzo

Age: 71

The story: Janet Costanzo’s body was found among the charred remains of a home on West Road in Redwood Valley. Her boyfriend, Steve Stelter, was outside getting their vehicle ready to evacuate when he was overtaken by the fire.

Elizabeth Charlene Foster

Age: 64

The story: Elizabeth Foster’s body was found in the destroyed home on Tomki Road in Redwood Valley that she shared with Jane Gardiner. According to the sheriff’s department, Foster was Gardiner’s caregiver.

Jane Gardiner

Age: 83

The story: Jane Gardiner and her caregiver, Elizabeth Foster, were found dead in a home on Tomki Road that was completely destroyed. Foster was Gardiner’s caregiver. The pair had called Gardiner’s step-son around 1:30 a.m. the night the fire struck and said they were waiting for the fire department to help them evacuate.

Kai Shepherd

Age: 14

The story: Two years ago, Jon and Sara Shepherd built their dream home at the end of a dirt driveway on a hillside close to where the fire first raced into Redwood Valley.

A neighbor of the Shepherds named Paul Hanssen had survived the fire by hunkering down in a metal trailer. When the firestorm passed, he walked over to the Shepherd property, where he heard Sara and her 17-year-old daughter Kressa crying for help.

Sara told Hanssen that the family had tried to flee in a car, but that the car caught on fire and they bailed. Jon apparently ran down the hill toward the road, while Sara, Kressa and Kai ran back up toward the home.

The neighbor comforted Sara and Kressa and went to fetch them drinking water. About 30 feet away, he discovered Kai’s body.

Kai Shepherd was “a sweet boy” who was gaining confidence as he entered his teen years. His aunt said. He played baseball and wrestled, and recently started playing saxophone in a band at Eagle Peak Middle School.

“He had this way to look into people’s hearts and know if they were good,” Ramos, his aunt, said. “He had an intrinsic sense of right and wrong.”

Steve Bruce Stelter

Age: 56

The story: Steve Stelter was packing his vehicle and getting it ready to evacuate when the fire swept through West Road in Redwood Valley. His body was later found next to the car. His home was destroyed by the blaze and authorities found the body of Stelter’s girlfriend, Janet Kay Costanzo, inside.

Margaret Stephenson

Age: 86

The story: Friends immediately feared Stephenson had died in the fire after seeing that her home had been destroyed and a gate blocking the driveway was still closed days later. Their fears were confirmed when a team of deputies from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department found her remains in the ashes of her home on Tomki Road.

“She’d sent me a pre-Halloween card 10 days ago,” recalled Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, wincing back tears as he drove through the area.

He had kept the card with Stephenson dressed as member of the royal family in his wallet.

“She was a wonderful, delightful person,” Allman said.

Stanley Coolidge

Age: 78

The story:“Very serious but very silly” Stanley Coolidge was a biker, boyfriend, attorney, grandfather and trickster who fled Los Angeles for some country quiet, said his son, Andrew Coolidge.

“He was such a multi-faceted man,” said his “biker-brother” Dave Beasley, a member of the Yolo-based motorcycle club, The Americans, where both men were members. Beasley said he and Coolidge remained close even after “age caught up” with Coolidge and he stopped riding his Harley Davidson FLH a few years ago.

Beasley said Coolidge called him often, always ending the conversation with “I just wanted to talk with somebody I like.”

Andrew Coolidge said his father was a Yuba County Reserve Deputy around the 1970s, patrolling the foothills area. Though the elder Coolidge was born in the Bay Area and graduated from UC Berkeley, he had lived on his acreage in Loma Rica for about 50 years. Coolidge, who was also a lawyer, quit his law enforcement work after his partner, Don Brown, was killed in the line of duty in 1974.

Andrew Coolidge also remembered his father as a devoted parent and grandparent who loved kids. The Americans raises funds for children with cancer and Coolidge was known to perform puppet shows for them.

“He was always pulling coins from behind your ear. He had that funny side to him,” said his granddaughter, Candice.

Coolidge was at home with his fiance of about 15 years, Roseann Sens Hannah, the night of the fire. Hannah lived in Grass Valley but stayed with Coolidge often, said Andrew Coolidge. The fast-moving fire may have overtaken the couple before they could escape. Beasley said Hannah may have texted her twin sons as fire surrounded the house and the roof collapsed.

Family searched for the couple for days before authorities located remains.

A memorial service for both Coolidge and Hannah will be help Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Yuba City. The family asks that any donations be made to The Americans to support children with cancer, P.O. Box 1834, Yuba City, 95992.

David Patrick Culp

Age: 76

The story: Culp, a resident of Loma Rica, died in the Cascade Fire.

Roseann Sens Hannah

Age: 53

The story: Roseann Hannah died along with her fiance, Yuba City attorney Stanley Coolidge. Hannah and Coolidge had been a couple for about 15 years, said Coolidge’s son, Andrew. Hannah’s Facebook page said she was from Westland, Michigan but moved to Buena Park, California in her junior year of highschool. Most recently, she lived in Grass Valley with her twin sons, Jeffrey and Jordan, both 26, said Andrew Coolidge.

Coolidge said the couple was “completely compatible,” and “saw each other very often.”

On the night of the fire, they may have been overtaken by the fast-moving flames that swept down the hills from multiple directions, destroying Coolidge’s home. The property was filled with Manzanita trees, said Andrew Coolidge, a wood that burns especially hot, and high winds may have pushed the fire too fast for Coolidge and Hannah to escape.

A memorial service for both Coolidge and Hannah will be held Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Yuba City.

Sandy Picciano

Age: 77

The story: Sandy Picciano was the first known fatality of the Cascade fire. She lived on a small hill perched above a private gravel road in Loma Rica and was known for being tough and speaking her mind, but also had “a heart of gold” and cared for the animals in the area, said neighbor Nadine Webb.

Picciano died, neighbors say, attempting to flee as the Cascade Fire overtook the enclave from multiple directions past midnight, leveling homes in a matter of minutes. The only warning came from a resident who saw the flames approaching out the back window and ran to warn his neighbors even as the flames took his own house.

Picciano was found in her pickup truck in a horse paddock about 100 yards off of her dirt driveway. She apparently lost control of the truck coming down the road and veered through a barbwire fence before coming to a stop with the hood against a tree. Neighbors said she may have been blinded by dense smoke and lost her way trying to escape. One neighbor, John Billingsley, who lived across the lane from Picciano, said the smoke was so thick, “you could just see a little bit in front of your hood.”

Picciano was suffering from cancer, Webb said.

Charles Rippey

Age: 100

The story:Rippey and his wife of 75 years, Sara, were found dead in their home just off Atlas Peak Road, northeast of the city of Napa. He and his wife, believed to be the oldest wildfire victims, perished in the Atlas Fire.

Rippey’s son Mike said his parents at home with his mom’s caregiver, who struggled to save the couple before having to flee as the roof was caving in. Charles Rippey, who went by the nickname Peach, was a Wisconsin native and retired Firestone Tire executive. The Rippeys celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary over the summer.

Mike Rippey said his father died as he was making his way toward Sara, who was confined to a wheelchair after a stroke five years ago. “He had managed to make it halfway from his room to my mother’s room,” he said.

If he had reached her, “he would have just stayed in the room with her. There’s no way he would have left her.”

Sara Rippey

Age: 98

The story: Sara Rippey suffered a strike five years ago, and family members said her husband Charles never left her side. She and Charles had known each other since high school in Wisconsin. Sara Rippey’s caregiver was able to get her out of bed and into her wheelchair but couldn’t find a way to get her out of the house.

Her son Mike Rippey said his mother was likely knocked out by sedatives she took to help her sleep after her stroke. He said he believes his mother was never awake during the ordeal that claimed her and her husband.

“The only thing worse would have been if one survived without the other,” one of their granddaughters, Ruby Gibney, told Bay Area television station KTVU.

Karen Aycock

Age: 54

The story: Karen Aycock was a handy person and an animal lover. She died in the Santa Rosa home that once belonged to her mother, the Associated Press reported.

“She taught me how to change oil, work on (an old Mustang), change the air filter,” her niece, Victoria Rilling, told the AP. “She taught me how to hold a hammer properly.”

Aycock worked in construction her whole life, Rilling said.” She had a tremendous heart and tons of love,” Rilling said. “And her family loved her very much.”

Carmen Caldentey Berriz

Age: 75

The story: Armando Berriz, 76, held his wife of 55 years, Carmen Caldentey Berriz, afloat in a swimming pool as walls of fire burned around them. He let go only after Carmen stopped breathing and the flames had burned out, laying her on the steps of the pool with her arms crossed over her chest. He then walked 2 miles to find help, the Associated Press reported.

The Berrizes had traveled from their home in San Bernardino County with their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren for a three-day trip to wine country. Their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren fled the home they’d rented near Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove neighborhood, but Armando and Carmen turned around when their car was nearly engulfed in flames. They returned to the rental home, jumped in the swimming pool and clung to each other. Finally, Carmen stopped breathing.

Their daughter, Monica Ocon of Salinas, told the San Francisco Chronicle that her mother had always had problems with her lungs. “It was her lungs that failed her,” she said. Her father spent a night in the hospital but has returned home to San Bernardino County.

Carol Collins-Swasey

Age: 76

The story: Collins-Swasey was a retired real estate broker and active Red Cross volunteer who lived in Santa Rosa for over 30 years, family member Roxanne Swasey told ABC News.

Michael John Dornbach

Age: 57

The story: Dornbach was in the Calistoga area searching for land where he could build a cabin, the AP reported. He was a retired longshoreman from Southern California who loved to fish and garden.

“It has devastated us,” his sister, Laura Dornach, told the AP. “He was beautiful. He was strong and Italian and stubborn.”

His mother, Maria Triliegi, told the AP that Dornbach had saved up money and was close to buying land in the Napa region.

“He’d go up there to fuel his energy,” Laura Dornbach said. “That was one of his favorite places in the world. He loved the country. He loved the outdoors.”

Valerie Lynn Evans

Age: 75

The story: Evans died at her home in Santa Rosa while trying to save her dogs, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. She lived on Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa with goats, horses, a mule and steer, the newspaper reported.

Mike Grabow

Age: 40

The story: Grabow was killed when the Tubbs Fire burned through the north edge of Santa Rosa early Oct. 9. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Grabow had moved to California five years ago, living in Grass Valley and then Santa Rosa. He was a microbrew enthusiast with a tight group of friends, the newspaper reported.

Arthur Grant

Age: 95

The story: Arthur Grant and his wife, Suiko, died in the Santa Rosa home where they lived for 45 years. Their daughter, Trina Grant, told the San Francisco Chronicle the couple hid out in the wine cellar of their home with their small dog.

Trina Grant said her parents met in Honolulu while Arthur was a pilot for Pan American World Airways. “It was a true love-at-first-sight story,” Grant told the Chronicle. “He found the most beautiful gal in the world to marry.”

Suiko Grant

Age: 75

The story: Suiko Grant was killed in the Santa Rosa home where she and her husband, Arthur, lived for 45 years. They had hidden in the home’s wine cellar with their small dog, their daughter told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Grant was born in China and raised in Japan. She worked for a Japanese company in Hawaii, where she met her husband, the Chronicle reported.

Donna Mae Halbur

Age: 80

The story: Halbur and her husband Leroy were unable to leave their Santa Rosa home when a wildfire destroyed it early Oct. 9. Donna Halbur’s body was found in a car in their garage, and Leroy Halbur was found in the driveway, their son Tim Halber told the Associated Press.

Leroy Peter Halbur

Age: 80

The story: Halbur and his wife Donna were unable to leave their Santa Rosa home when a wildfire destroyed it early Oct. 9. Donna Halbur’s body was found in a car in their garage, and Leroy Halbur was found in the driveway, their son Tim Halber told the Associated Press.

Christina Hanson

Age: 27

The story: Hanson, who had a spinal defect at birth and used a wheelchair, lived in a cottage on her father’s property in the Larkfield-Wikiup area of Santa Rosa. Family members confirmed that she was killed when the Tubbs Fire destroyed the home. Her father, Michael Hanson, was badly burned and “has a long road to recovery both physically and emotionally,” according to a fund set up in his name on YouCaring.com.

Media reports said Christina Hanson volunteered at an Alzheimer’s residential care facility and also served as a sign-language interpreter for the hearing impaired.

“Just surreal,” her cousin Kelsi Mannhalter wrote on Facebook. “I love you so much and am going to miss you sweet cousin.”

Monte Neil Kriven

Age: 81

The story: Monte Kirven lived on Linda Lane in the hills of northeastern Santa Rosa. Friends posted remembrances on social media describing Kirven as an accomplished biologist and defender of peregrine falcons from environmental hazards.

A comment left at the end of an article about Kirven’s experience with falcons in Mendocino County said the Santa Rosa resident had entertained guests at his home just hours before the Tubbs Fire raced through his neighborhood. The friend who wrote the comment, Brian Wilson, wrote that Kirven’s falcon also died in the fires.

Wilson wrote that Kirven taught biology and natural resource management at Santa Rosa Junior College and that his research “is partially responsible for banning DDT due to eggshell thinning” in raptors.

Veronica Elizabeth McCombs

Age: 65

The story: McCombs died in her home on Mark West Springs Road, a victim of the Tubbs Fire. Her son Branden McCombs posted a picture of himself with his mother on Facebook the day after her death. Four days later he posted the slogan that appeared on a placard in the Sonoma town square and has become a rallying cry for area residents: “The love in the air is thicker than the smoke.”

Lynne Anderson Powell

Age: 72

The story: George Powell and his wife Lynne had planned an escape route in case of fire. But when the Tubbs Fire tore through their neighborhood, in the area around Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa, the smoke and flames were overwhelming. George Powell said his wife took her dog and headed out in her but missed a sharp curve and drove off the side of the road, apparently blinded by the smoke. George Powell, who took a separate car and left their home a few minutes later, didn’t realize Lynne’s car had tumbled down a ravine, and unwittingly drove past the site where his wife’s car left the road.

“If I had known I would have gone down there,” he said. “I don’t care if I would have died.” He didn’t learn of her fate for two agonizing days.

Lynne Powell had been principal flutist for the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra when the couple lived in Albuquerque. They moved to Santa Rosa a few years ago, and became active in dog-training and dog-herding organizations.

Marilyn Ress

Age: 71

The story: The Santa Rosa resident was identified Wednesday.

Sharon Robinson

Age: 79

The story: Robinson lived alone in the Riebli Road area of Santa Rosa. Her daughter Cathie Merkel rushed to her mother’s house, discovered it had burned to the ground but her mom had gone missing. She later confirmed that her mother perished in the fire.

“We know she found peace in her passing,” Merkel wrote on Facebook.

Daniel Southard

Age: 71

The story: Daniel Southard, a retired fitness trainer and high school football coach, was found in the bedroom of his Santa Rosa home, the Associated Press reported.

His son, Derek, had spent days searching evacuation centers for his dad.

“My neighbor said the fire came so fast they barely made it out,” Derek told the AP. “If he had made it out, the first thing he would have done was to get a hold of me.”

“He loved me a lot,” Derek said. “He was a kind-hearted man; very generous,” his son added. “He didn’t always have much.

But what he had he’d give to you if he thought you needed more.”

Linda Tunis

Age: 69

The story: Tunis had moved to California from Florida just a few months before perishing in the Tubbs Fire. Her daughter Jessica confirmed that her mother had died at Journey’s End Mobile Home Park in Santa Rosa.

According to the Associated Press, Linda Tunis called her daughter from her burning mobile home and said, “I’m going to die,” just as the phone connection was severed.