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• 'I want the citizens to decide'

• Dedicated to a small-town feel

• Cyberbullying: Latest form of intimidation by youths

• San Joaquin County Red Cross chapter may close doors without funds

• Water bill could help Lodi with groundwater cleanup

• Vogel, Moore vow to improve rural law enforcement

• Regional Roundup

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 7th, 2009

• Lodi High graduate was at Fort Hood

• Lining up for flu shots in Lodi

• Tour packs buses as birdwatchers admire Sandhill cranes

• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks

• Daytime thieves targeting Lodi homes

• Lodi High School rally featured on 'Good Day Sacramento'

• Out of control

• Homicide suspect Anthony Hubbard arraigned

• Regional Roundup

• New Lodi Memorial rule to combat spread of H1N1: Visitors must be older than 16

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

• Woman in wheelchair struck by car

November 5th, 2009

• A lower Lodi Lake

• Streetside scarecrows

• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

• California voters have final say over $11 billion water bond

• Weekend bus service to continue until Lodi City Council makes decision

• Paul Tebbel shines spotlight on sandhill cranes

• Your complete guide to Sandhill Crane Festival

• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

• Man wanted in Acampo homicide gives up to San Joaquin County Sheriff's detectives

November 4th, 2009

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

• Regional Roundup

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

November 3rd, 2009

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• Clarification

November 2nd, 2009

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Regional Roundup

• Group investigates reports of haunting

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

• Lamborghini lovers gather for show, fine wine, luncheon in Woodbridge

• Lodi's 'Biggest Loser' Christy Richesin runs 5K Halloween race

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Robert DuBose

Funeral director

Robert Earl DuBose, 63, of Lodi, died March 2 in Orlando, Fla. following a sudden illness. He was born May 29, 1943, in St. Helena.

Robert DuBose

Mr. DuBose lived in Angwin, Santa Rosa and Placerville before relocating to Lodi in 1951. He attended SDA Elementary School and then graduated from Lodi Academy in 1962. While in school, he played the trumpet in the band and in a trumpet trio, sang in the Lodian Singers and at weddings and funerals. He was also a guest soloist in the Messiah in Ukiah. He attended Pacific Union College in Angwin for a year and then the College of Mortuary Science in Los Angeles, where he graduated in 1965. That same year he married Kathy Hunt in Williams. Following his graduation, he worked as a funeral director in Corona, then at Nightingale's Funeral Home in Sacramento and finally at B.C. Wallace Funeral Home in Stockton. He also worked for his father at DuBose Plastering and later obtained a plasterer's contractor license. Recently, he spent his winters in Florida, working in construction at Disney World and the Orlando Convention Center. He enjoyed water and snow skiing and family camp-outs at Yosemite National Park. He was a member of English Oaks Seventh-day Adventist Church and also attended Florida Hospital Seventh-day Adventist Church in Orlando. He was also a member of the Plasterer's Union Local No. 66 in San Francisco.

He is survived by his son, Brian Christopher; daughters, Corrin Chantel and Debra Linn; sister, Valerie Suelzle, of Lodi; and mother, Erleen DuBose, of Lodi.

He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Lee DuBose in 2002.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. March 17 at Lodi Funeral Home with Pastors Wayne Young and Robert Williams officiating. There will be no visitation and committal will be private.

A virtual register book may be signed at www.lodifuneralhome.com.

Lodi Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.