July 22, 2023 Reunion - an important update!

Dear Pirates 

We have a wonderful reunion site, Trinity Hall next to St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Point Arena. 

Now I can concentrate on our menu, decorations, and getting the word out so we can have great attendance. 

Please let your friends/schoolmates know we want them at our reunion. The more the merrier!

Date – July 22, a Saturday. Time – 4PM. Invitees – Pirates, plus their families and friends. Cost - $50 per person payable by check to Mike Combs.

Click on this link for a current list of lodging available 

Please get back to me as soon as possible and make the next step an easy one!

 

Hail to the Pirates!

 

Mike Combs

PO Box 1639

Gualala, CA 95445

707-884-3741 or (cell) 707-321-7671

 

 

Lodging Accommodations for Reunion

 For many wonderful reasons we are a very popular tourist destination and July 22, a Saturday, should be very busy at local hotels and restaurants. We recommend making reservations ASAP. Please click on the each link to go to the websites.

Not only hotels, but very inviting vacation homes are available,

Point Arena Lighthouse. Great for families or with friends.

Mar Vista Cabins. Just north of Anchor Bay. Their website is gorgeous.

The Gualala Country Inn Centrally located in beautiful downtown Gualala.

The Surf Motel Also centrally located in Gualala and economical.

The Hotel Breakers Also centrally located in Gualala with a great Gualala River view.

Seacliff Motel Also centrally located in Gualala with a great Gualala River view.

The Sea Ranch Lodge Being refurbished and will reopen this summer.

Rendezvous Mendocino Formerly the North Coast Country Inn. Just north of Anchor Bay where Fish Rock Road intersects Highway 1.

Wildflower Boutique Motel.  Point Arena, on Main Street.

Wharf Master's Inn. At Arena Cove.

Lighthouse Pointe Resort. At Rollerville, by the Rollerville Cafe. 

Coasting Home Vacation Rentals has an office in Gualala. 

Whale Watch Inn Just north of Anchor Bay overlooking Anchor Bay Beach.

AirBNB in Gualala area. These are properties available at the moment over the July 22 weekend.

Vacation Rentals by Owner (VRBO) in Gualala area. These are properties available at the moment over the July 22 weekend.

Bookings.com  Gualala and Sea Ranch properties.

Vacasa.com  Sea Ranch listings.

Abalone House. Hosted by our near neighbors Katherine and husband Randy "Abalone" Jones.

Anna Marie (Miller) Robbins, July 3, 1941- August 10, 2017

 

Our 2023 Reunion

 Our reunion is set for July 22, 2023, starting at 4 pm at the Gualala Community Center. Classes from 1966 back to the beginning of time are invited. Cost is $50 per person. Please mail me a check: Michael Combs, PO Box 1639, Gualala, CA 95445. I can be easily contacted (sometimes) by phone, 707-884-3741, or 707-321-7671, and more reliably by email at mcombs@pacific.net. 

You would please me to no end if you would email me a biography or update one already on this website. 

No matter how many or how few sign up to attend, our reunion will go ahead as planned. 

I'll update this with the names of those who will attend as they come in. Right now we have Alice and I, Brother Ron and Kathy, Chuck and Mickie York, Carolyn (York) and Charlie Biles, Betts (Cook) Rondeau, Roger and Judy Seymour, Lawrence Girelli, and Tom and Leslie Walker. As always, at this memorable moment in time, some of these may be tentative, but it's a good start.

We hope to see a large turnout. 

See you then!

Jeri (Ledford) Nissen, November 28, 1941-March 21, 2021

 

Geraldine Marie “Jeri” Nissen November 28, 1941 – March 21, 2021

Jeri graduated from Point Arena High School in 1958, was engaged to Gary, and they had plans for the future. As often happens, life steps in, and those plans got changed. Like everyone, Jeri enjoyed good times and survived bad times during the next 40 years. A strong and caring person she raised 3 children, was a help to many people, and worked a variety of jobs. She was known as “the cool grandma” to her grandchildren.

 

In 1999 she and Gary reconnected at a high school reunion and spent the next 21 years together, living in Riverside for 18 months and then moving to Willits. They were married August 12, 2002. During those years they traveled a great deal, often on one of their motorcycles. She overcame her fear of flying and had the opportunity to visit many places in the US, something she had not been able to do before. Rocks from Death Valley and dirt from the Churchill Downs racetrack in Kentucky were among her favorite keepsakes. Bowling, Line Dancing, and tending her flower garden were three of her favorite activities and she excelled at all. She had many friends on the coast and made new ones everywhere she went. The last couple of years were challenging as Jeri developed a form of dementia. 

Jeri is survived by her husband Gary, her daughter Joni Murphy, her son Brent Pritchard, grandsons Riley and Mitchell, granddaughters Katie, Rebecca, and Breanna, and great granddaughter Avery.

She is also survived by her sisters, Dana (Ron) Galletti, Tracy (John) DuPont, and many nieces & nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Charles “Irv” & Dolores Ledford, and her son, Mark Kespohl. 

She will be missed and never forgotten.

 

I CRIED WHEN YOU PASSED AWAY, I STILL CRY TODAY. ALTHOUGH I LOVED YOU DEARLY, I COULDN’T MAKE YOU STAY. A GOLDEN HEART STOPPED BEATING, HARD WORKING HANDS AT REST. GOD BROKE MY HEART TO PROVE TO ME HE ONLY TAKES THE BEST. 

Jeri's obituary was published in the Independent Coast Observer, Gualala, on November 26, 2021

 

June 20, 2020 Reunion Cancelled

5 May 2020

Dear Pirates

I stubbornly waited for a coronavirus Hail Mary but it looks like I’ve waited in vain. It seems like all events have been cancelled/postponed until Summer’s end or later. All of the great crystal balls of the world are foggy. Will the NBA season end? When? Will a baseball season start? This year or the next? Will we have to wait until 2022 for the 49ers to win the Super Bowl, as they inevitably will? 

So I cancelled our June 20 reunion and don’t have a date in mind to reschedule to. My logical mind says that all should be well by October, but then I’m reminded that logic doesn’t apply to the decisions made by our “one-size-fits-all” state government. Here in Mendocino County we have 12 confirmed cases (seven of which are in one family in Covelo) and no deaths, but the lack of contagion here hasn’t spared our restaurants, hotels, and other small businesses from financial disaster. 

As always, each day Alice and I go to nearby Cook’s Beach to play ball with Radar for an hour. Sometimes it’s like our private beach, although other devoted dog owners plus a few intrepid young surfers share it with us. It’s like Heaven until we remember that the businesses and workers in our area don’t find it wonderful at all. 

I wish we could press on with the reunion in June but even if all is well soon there wouldn’t be enough time to get a good turnout, which is the primary objective of having a reunion. I’ll do the best I can and hope for the best for all of us.

Mike

Michael B. Combs

PO Box 1639

Gualala, CA 95445-1639

707-884-3741

mcombs@pacific.net

https://strongasanoxandnearlyassmart.blogspot.com/

Dear Point Arena Pirates, families and friends

The Class of 1960 takes great pleasure to announce a reunion of classes 1965 back to the beginning of time on June 20, 2020, 4pm to 10pm, at the Gualala Community Center. As in our previous 2010 and 2015 reunions, the class years invited will not be strictly followed but are just guidelines for attendance. 

Our dinner is catered by Black Oak Catering and twice each month I test their dishes at our Gualala Lions Club meetings in the Gualala Community Center. Music will be by Fast Company, a local trio, and Alice and I energetically danced to their music recently at a friend's birthday party at the Gualala Hotel. 

Other details are still in progress but the simplest part is sending me, Michael B. Combs, a check for $50 per person to PO Box 1639, Gualala, CA 95445. That covers all costs: dinner, most drinks, and all the decorations, hall rent, mailings, and other things I hope miraculously to take care of. As in all endeavors, the sooner I know that you are coming and I have your money in hand, the more expeditiously things can be done.  

I’ll be posting on our reunion here as new information is added.

Please take a look around our website and be inspired to submit or update your biographies posted hereupon. Pictures and information from past reunions, plus obituaries and tributes to departed schoolmates, are also posted here.

It’s easy to contact me. Email mcombs@pacific.net. Phone 707-884-3741, or for a real adventure call my cell phone, 707-321-7671.

Hail to the Pirates, of Point Arena High, 

We’re loyal forever, and we’ll shout it to the sky.

When the Blue and Gold are fighting, 

We know we’ll never fail. 

Onward to victory, 

Hail to the Pirates! Hail!

Mike Combs, Class of 1960

http://strongasanoxandnearlyassmart.blogspot.com