obituaries

Joseph Michael Derby

Joseph Michael Derby

December 2, 1946 - October 30, 2026

VISITATION

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 12:30pm -1:00pm in Vineyard Chapel at Cherokee Memorial Park, located at 14165 N. Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240.

GRAVESIDE

A graveside service will be held on Saturday, November 21 at Cherokee Memorial Park, 14165 N. Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240.

Cherokee Memorial is honored to serve the Derby family.

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Christine Adele Meinardus

Christine Adele Meinardus

February 12, 1948 - October 29, 2026

FUNERAL SERVICE

Mass will be held at 10:30am on Thursday, November 12, 2026 at St Christopher's Catholic Church 950 S Lincoln Way, Galt, CA 95632. Will conclude with a graveside service at Cherokee Memorial Park, located off of Highway 99 at Harney Lane, Lodi CA, 95240.

Cherokee Memorial is honored to serve the Meinardus family.

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Chamroeun Sarisuk

Chamroeun Sarisuk

March 8, 1947 - October 26, 2026

VISITATION

Visitation will be held on Friday, November 13, 2026 from 10:00am -8:00pm in Merlot room in Vineyard Chapel at Cherokee Memorial Park, located at 14165 N. Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240.

FUNERAL SERVICE

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 1:00pm in Vineyard Chapel at Cherokee Memorial Park, located at 14165 N. Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240.

Cherokee Memorial is honored to serve the Sarisuk family.

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Junella May Welch

Junella May Welch

February 13, 1936 - October 25, 2026

OBITUARY

My mom, Junella Welch was born on February 13th 1936. When Junella was 12 her mother abandoned her and her little brother Larry and her little sister who we all called Siss. Junella's father was drafted into the war so she was completely abandoned and forced to live in an old train box car with her little brother and sister who were both babies. Those three children were passed around for years from home to home. My mother told me horror stories about it when we sat on the back deck together.

Junella Welch turned out to be an artist taking after her father who was a major building contractor from Stockton California. Junella made every square inch of her house and yard a work of art. But she also spent her entire life supporting her husband Kimo Welch that she met in an orphanage during the second world war. Her husband became a world authority in Vacuum Technology working at Stanford Linear accelerator and Brookhaven National Laboratory. She was in the habit of getting up at 4:00 every morning to support her husband in the book he wrote on this industry that became a very famous book.

Junella also had three children with her husband, 2 boys and one girl. When Junella and her husband retired in Pollock Pines California 26 years ago, they designed a home and had it built just for the two of them deep in the woods. The two of them spent the rest of their lives together with several little dogs as their pets. Junella's husband died in 2015 and she spent the last 11 years single in her home built among the forest with hundreds of pine and cedar trees that were 20 stories tall. But she also had many dogwood trees that she would shape and transplant.

Junella, with the help of her daughter Teri, joined Facebook where Junella met a man named Carl and he fell in love with her and bought a house a few miles from her, and they spent 5 years together as companions. Eventually Carl had to move up north to Washington with his 3 boys because he is now 97 years old. But there is romance at all ages.

During Junella's final years and months she asked her older son to come and stay with her in the house she was living in for 26 years to instruct him of all the details in how she would take care of her home and the artwork all around the property that she made. This was her wonder land with concrete dolls and animal statues all over the yard, because as a child while in the orphanage, all the other little girls received dolls but she did not. She has grave stones for all of her puppies in her past, but her final puppy was named Baby, and a week before she passed she gave her puppy to her brother Larry Bowers who took the puppy home to live with him and his little dog. She was so happy to have this work out, she mentioned how happy she was to provide a home for her puppy.

My mom Junella May Welch died on October 25th on a Sunday at 1:59 in the afternoon 2026. I was by her side day and night for her final months. She said she was ready to go, and she thanked me for being there and being so patient. In her final days we never argued but we would discuss everything and yielded to each other out of respect for life itself, because we only live once.

Cherokee Memorial is honored to serve the Welch family.

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Robert Lee Greenmyer Sr.

Robert Lee Greenmyer Sr.

July 3, 1941 - October 24, 2026

OBITUARY

Robert Lee Greenmyer, Sr. born in McCurtain Oklahoma on July 3, 1941, passed on October 24, 2026 in Woodbridge, California with his family by his side. He was the son of Edmund and Ruby Greenmyer.

At the early age of nine years old Bob was plowing fields for cotton in Texas, driving his mama to town and helping care for his siblings. Bob and his family then moved to California, where he attended school until the eighth grade, worked and farmed land. At nineteen years old he met the woman who would become his loving wife of sixty-five years, Virginia Wagner. They married in 1960 and had three boys, Ronald, Robert Jr. and Duane.

He enjoyed growing tomatoes in the backyard, tinkering in his wood-shop, working on and driving tractors, trips along the pacific coast with his wife, camping with his kids, grandchildren and great grandchildren. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends and having morning coffee with his coffee guys at Donkey J’s. In his early years, he enjoyed playing guitar in his band for family gatherings, listening to music and most of all working.

Bob Retired at 70 from Van Exel Dairy where he was the farm mechanic and went to work for his son until the end of 2025 when his health prevented it. One of his greatest joys in life was being able to work alongside his son who also had the love for tractors, dirt moving and mechanic work.

Bob was well known in his community for his reliable work ethic of being able to fix and build anything, but mostly for his very kind and generous heart.

He is preceded in death by his parents Edmund and Ruby, daughter-in-law Patricia, siblings Kenny, Boker, Jerry, Jimmie, Tommy, Esther and Lois.

Bob is survived by his wife Virginia Greenmyer, his three sons Ronald (Stacey), Robert, and Duane (Brenda). His grandchildren Amanda, Courtney, Brandon, Pam (Brian), Jenna, Erica (Zac), Hanna and Becca. Great grandchildren, Ryan, Kayden, Berkley, Otto, Tate, Andrew, Anthony, Adrianna, Brody, Riley, Ellie and Blake along with his sisters Oma and Karen.

VISITATION

A Visitation will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 from 2:00pm- 8:00pm in Zinfandel room located in Vineyard Chapel at Cherokee Memorial Park, located at 14165 N. Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240.

FUNERAL SERVICE

A funeral service will be held on Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 10:00 in Vineyard Chapel at Cherokee Memorial Park, located at 14165 N. Beckman Rd, Lodi, CA 95240.

Cherokee Memorial is honored to serve the Greenmyer family.

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