Jaime Brown was familiar to everyone who attended Udaleku, the two-week youth camps held every summer to perpetuate the Basque culture. “She went to just about every one they had,” her mother, Jeannette Brown, recalled in a recent interview with Euskal Kazeta. When she was too old to attend Udalkeu, she signed on as an instructor, teaching mus to youngsters [...]

Two longtime Southern California Basque restaurant owners have passed away recently — Jean Irola and Jean Baptiste “J.B.” Sabarots. Jean Irola Jean Irola, longtime owner of the popular Jean’s restaurant in Colton, Calif., passed away April 26. He was 78. Irola continued to run his restaurant up until recently, when he was diagnosed with cancer. The family has kept the [...]

Juanita M. Ermigarat Laxague May 22, 1917 – September 3, 2009 Juanita Mary Laxague passed away in her sleep of natural causes on her wedding anniversary, Thursday September 3, 2009 in Bakersfield, CA.

Anita Caminondo (Recatune) was born on July 17, 1963, the 1st child of 3 children born to Pierre and Mercedes Recatune. She went home to Heaven on June 18, 2009 and will be reunited with her father, Pierre.

Memorial services will be held on Friday, July 3, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at RiverLakes Community Church, 4301 Calloway Drive, to honor the life of Joseph Paul Eribarne, who passed away Saturday, June 27, 2009, following a stroke on June 12. Joe was born in Bakersfield, the only and dearly loved child of his mother, Marguerite Eribarne and father, Joe [...]