Lucille Mary Zaller, who raised five children and lived in Pacific Palisades for 50 years, died peacefully at her home on June 19 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 87. Lucy was born in David City, Nebraska, and came to California in 1941. She worked for the navy during World War II and afterward in real estate and modeling. She married Raymond C. Zaller in 1948 and remained his wife until her death 58 years later. Lucy was admired by all who knew her as a kind, thoughtful, beautiful, and deeply religious person. She was a member of Corpus Christi Parish, where she participated in many activities. She was an expert seamstress and spent countless hours at her sewing machine making clothes for her family. She was an avid tennis player at Palisades Recreation Center and Palm Desert Tennis Club, and also enjoyed playing bridge with friends in the Palisades. She was a fine music talent, playing the piano and singing melody and harmony in a beautiful soprano voice. She continued these activities even after being struck by Parkinson’s. She was able to sing harmony long after losing the ability to speak clearly. Lucy was born to Henrietta and Ernest Litty on March 29, 1919. She was the honorary school piano accompanist at Brainerd High School. She was an excellent student and went on to study at Duchesne College in Omaha, Nebraska. After marriage, she lived with Ray in Culver City, Brentwood, and Santa Monica before moving to the Palisades in 1956. She is survived by her loving husband and her children, John Zaller (wife Barbara) of Pacific Palisades, Greg Zaller (Laurie) of Nevada City, Paula Miller (Jim) of Seattle, Mark Zaller (Sharon) of Los Osos, and Mary Munds (Ron) of Grenoble. She also has 10 grandchildren: Faren, Julia, Eva, Lucy, Zachary, Demetria, Noah, Jimmy, Jacob, and Luke. She is also survived by her brother Ernest Litty and sister Rose Collins. Lucy’s family wishes to extend its sincere appreciation to Digna Rios Shaver, Tomasa Mauro, and Ana Tovar, her dedicated caregivers, and the Vitas Hospice Team for their skilled and compassionate care. There will be a gathering of friends and family at Corpus Christi Church at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 23, and the rosary service will begin at 7 p.m. The funeral Mass will be at Holy Redeemer Chapel at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City at noon on Saturday, June 24.

Stella Henrietta Pederson Eiermann was born on November 29, 1907 near Willmar, Minnesota, and grew up on a farm near Willmar with her parents, older sisters Amy, Gladys, and Ethel, and younger brother, Earl. She attended grade school, junior and senior high school in Willmar, which often required travel by horse-drawn sleigh in the winter. She graduated from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. As an English teacher in Minnesota she helped with drama productions and journalism. Her lifelong love of learning continued as she took classes at the University of Minnesota, Washington University (St. Louis) and later UCLA. During World War II, Stella taught a radio receivers class for the Air Force in Madison, Wisconsin. It was there that she met her future husband, Robert Revere Eiermann, who was teaching a radio transmissions course. She and Bob were married on March 28, 1945 in Florida while he was stationed there. Susan was born in Florida, and when Bob completed his service they moved to Queens, New York City. The Eiermanns lived in Queens for almost 10 years, during which time Lynda was born. While in New York, Stella was active in the PTA and also a Brownie Scout leader. In 1955, the family moved to Los Angeles. Since the girls were older, she began teaching and substituted at first but soon had a permanent position at Louis Pasteur Junior High and later at Webster Junior High. After retiring, Stella kept busy as a wife, mother, and grandmother. She traded in grading English papers for creating hand-stitched quilts to grace the beds and walls of her granddaughter and daughters’ rooms. She loved to work in her garden and nurtured her cattleya and cymbidium orchids. Stella was very active in the Palisades Garden Club and served at least two terms as president. During her terms of office, the Garden Club dedicated a new tree in front of the library to President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. She also initiated and carried through plans for the design and development of the mini-green at the intersection of Monument and Sunset. Stella was a member of the Palisades Historical Society, Palisades Lutheran Church and the Westwood Women’s Bruin Club. She was an avid follower of UCLA basketball and especially admired John Wooden. Stella leaves her husband of 61 years, Bob, her daughters Susan (Jami) Olson and Lynda, her grandchildren Kristin and Jonathan, and her sister Ethel. Stella died on May 31 at the age of 98. In lieu of flowers, send donations in her memory to The Scholarship Fund, Pacific Palisades Garden Club, P.O. Box 261, or Palisades Lutheran Church, 15905 Sunset.

Former Palisadian and 1970 Citizen of the Year Vivian Braun passed away on June 9 in Santa Barbara. She was 87. Born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, Vivian graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in business. She and her husband, the late Ernest Braun, moved to California in 1956, and lived in the Palisades for 47 years. She was an extraordinary community volunteer, and honored for her work with the Palisades-Brentwood hotline with the Citizen of the Year award. In 2004, she moved to Santa Barbara to be with her daughter, and enjoyed new friendships at the Maravilla Seniors community and Congregation B’nai B’rith. A longer obituary will appear in the Palisadian-Post next week. Donations may be made in her memory to Congregation B’nai B’rith or the Breast Resource Center of Santa Barbara.

Longtime Palisadian Jack Friedenthal died of complications resulting from a bone marrow disorder on June 3. Born in 1932 in Denver, Colorado the son a of career military officer, Jack graduated from MIT in 1953 with a master’s degree in aeronautical and systems engineering. Upon graduation he served with the United States Air Force working on the early ballistic missile program. He worked at TRW as a systems engineer and project manager from 1956 to 1992. Jack was an avid sports fisherman and golfer. After his retirement he was a volunteer at aviation museums in the Los Angeles area, the WISE Senior Services, the Los Angeles Police Department, and UCLA Law School. He is survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Jane, and two sons; Robert (wife Andrea), grandson Devon of Lakewood and son Mark (wife Gabrielle) grandsons Adam and Matt of Culver City. Services will be private. A memorial gathering is pending.

A third generation native Californian, George Chalmers passed away peacefully from complications of Alzheimer’s at home in Pacific Palisades on May 28 with his family at his side. George attended Galileo High School in San Francisco before heading off to Stanford University, where he completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees. He loved sports and lettered in soccer, but was more famous for his richly deserved moniker of “Beta George” (denoting his fiercely proud membership in the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity). George loved Stanford and was an ardent, loyal alum and supporter of the Buck Club Athletic Fund. After graduating from Stanford, George worked for North American Aviation, served a brief stint as an ensign in the United States Navy and worked for the Stanford Research Institute. He went on to work at Northrop Corporation where he enjoyed a very successful allegiance for more than 40 years, retiring 24 years ago as vice president of finance, Electronics Division. He and his family lived in the same house in the Huntington Palisades for 52 years and his three children all graduated from local public schools. George was a fixture at the Palisades Recreation Center for many years as a little league baseball coach. A couple of locals who were on his teams, in addition to his sons, were Pat Harrington (Harrington’s camera shop) and Leonard Logue (nursery). George is survived by his loving wife, Virginia Martin, with whom he shared 61 happy years of family, friends, golf and travel. His children, Scott (Elizabeth St. Clair) of Manhattan Beach, Janet (Phil Painter) of Corona del Mar and Doug, of Stockton, along with his granddaughters Alison, Julia, Annie, Emily, Brooke and Katie will forever cherish their memories of him as their incredible role model. George is also survived by his sister, Alice Schmidt, of San Rafael. The entire family agrees: “He lived a happy, wonderful life and we should all be so lucky!” A private family memorial service will take place at a later date. Remembrances may be made to a favorite charity or The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Ave., 6th Floor, NY, NY 10001.

Ingo Preminger, who produced the film “MASH” and prior to that was a literary agent for many years, died at his home in Huntington Palisades on June 7. He was 95. Ingo represented several top blacklisted writers during and after the McCarthy era including Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Wilson, Hugo Butler, Hal Smith and Ned Young. During his career as an agent he frequently worked with his brother, producer/director Otto Preminger, supplying writing and other talent for his older brother’s films, including Walter Newman, who wrote the screenplay for “The Man with the Golden Arm” and Trumbo, whose credit on “Exodus” was critical in ending the blacklist in Hollywood. Ingo’s role in assisting blacklisted writers has been written about in numerous books including Mr. Trumbo’s “Additional Dialogue, Victor Nevasky’s “Naming Names” and Jean Rouverol Butler’s “Refugees from Hollywood.” Ingo also guided the careers of several directors, cinematographers, composers and actors. Born in Romania on February 25, 1911, Ingo was the son of Markus Preminger, an internationally prominent lawyer and prosecutor, and Josefa Frankl Preminger. He was raised in Vienna, where he received his law degree from the University of Vienna and began a career as an attorney, which ended prematurely due to the Nazis’ invasion of Austria. Ingo emigrated to the United States in 1938 with his wife, Kate, and three-year-old daughter, Eve. He initially settled in New York, where he owned a paint supply business and where he and Kate had two more children, Kathy and Jim. In 1947, Ingo moved his family to Los Angeles, got a job with the Nat Goldstone Agency, and, one year later, opened the Ingo Preminger Agency. In 1961 he sold his agency to General Artists Corporation, one of the three top talent agencies of the time. He headed GAC’s west coast literary department until 1966, when he left the agency business to become a producer. Ingo was sent the manuscript to the novel “MASH” by his former client Ring Lardner, Jr. Ingo read it and, as recounted in a May 21, 2006 Los Angeles Times article on Richard Zanuck, “gave Zanuck the book “MASH” to read on the condition that if he liked it, Preminger could produce it. Zanuck called the next day. “I told Ingo, ‘sell the agency,'” Zanuck said. ‘”You’ve got an office on the third floor. We’re making the picture.'” Among the many recognitions the film and Ingo as producer received were an Academy Award nomination for best picture, the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and a Golden Globe for best picture musical or comedy. In addition, Lardner won the academy award for best adapted screenplay. Ingo is survived by his wife of 70 years, Kate, his daughter former Manhattan Surrogate Judge Eve Preminger, his daughter Kathy Kauff, a former attorney living in New York, and his son Jim, a literary agent in Los Angeles. He is also survived by eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren, the youngest named Ingo Abraham Solomon. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Ingo can be made to the UCLA Division of Geriatrics, c/o Wendi Morner, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite #3132, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1784.