January 20, 1930 - March 10, 2018 Cherokee Memorial is honored to serve the Herzick family.
Dee, as she was affectionately known by her family and friends, was born in Visalia, California. Her family moved around California finally settling in Stockton, California in 1935, where she grew up on a small farm. She was a sixth generation Californian. Her family descended from the Spanish Conquistadors conquering new territory in America for Spain and established themselves in California.img03172018_0002
Dee was an avid reader of history, politics, the military, and biographies of great leaders. She enjoyed traveling, opera, a wide variety of music, ballet, art and the theatre and vivid political discussions. She shared these interests with her daughter, Lisa, whom she had a very special mother/daughter bond. They were best friends as well as mother/daughter.
Her husband John was not an opera or theatre fan, but they enjoyed attending Elk’s events, going dancing, and entertaining friends and family in their home, picnics and bar-b-ques. They also spent a lot of time with nieces and nephews taking them to Yosemite or other places of interest to children.
Dee was a very loving, caring person whose friendship with friends continued past grammar school and high school. She was a very elegant, classy and wise woman and her family admired her for her strength and wisdom. The love she gave her family was unconditional.
Dee is survived by her loving husband John and daughter Lisa. She was the fourth child of nine. She is preceded in death by her sisters and brother-in-laws, Agnes Arnaiz Romo (Ray), Marie Arnaiz Livpovsky (Tom) and her baby sister Evelyn, who passed at age 2, brothers Rudy (Buzz) Arnaiz, Ismael Ventura Arnaiz III, and Eugene Arnaiz and her parents Ismael Ventura (II) and Irene Arnaiz. She is survived by her brother Howard Arnaiz (Lacey), and sister LaVerne Arnaiz Stevens (Don), and sister-in-laws Shirley Arnaiz and Treva Lemon and numerous nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and great great nieces and nephews.
Memorial Service
A memorial service will be held on Friday March 30, 2018 at 11:00am in the Chapel of Flowers at Cherokee Memorial Park, Hwy 99 and Harney Lane, Lodi, CA 95240.
If you prefer to send a donation instead of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of San Joaquin or the SPCA.
Our beloved mother, Frances Warmerdam, passed away at home under the tender care of her family on March 6th, 2018 at the age of eighty seven. She was the eldest daughter of Anna and Louie Ott of Escalon, California.