Anthony Rhoades remembered as passionate, intelligent after rollover crash in Victorville
Victorville Daily Press
A roadside cross erected Easter Sunday on Mariposa Road pays tribute to Anthony Rhoades, a Hesperia High School graduate and political enthusiast who died in a car crash Saturday in Victorville.
“My family and I visited the accident scene on Saturday and I knew that I had to start constructing a cross for my cousin,” said Kenneth Jeremy Rhoades, 32, of Oceanside. “Losing Anthony has been devastating to all of us, but we’re doing all we can to move forward.”
Kenneth Rhoades told the Daily Press on Monday that Anthony Rhoades 15-year-old son, Aiden, and brother-in-law, Ray Reyes, helped design and construct the cross that now sits among flowers and candles.
Paul Russ, former mayor of Hesperia, dies after testing positive for COVID-19
Paul Russ, 61, succumbs in hospital after positive COVID-19 test
Victorville Daily Press
Paul Russ, the former mayor of Hesperia, who most recently ran for a seat on the Hesperia Unified School District Board of Directors in November, has died at the age of 61, his family confirmed with the Daily Press.
Russ died Thursday, according to his daughter, Stephanie Russ, who said her father tested positive for COVID-19 on Jan. 8. He died at Victor Valley Global Medical Center shortly before 3 p.m.
“(H)e went back and forth several times,” Stephanie Russ said via text message Thursday evening. “The 18th (of January) was when he was admitted. Per the nurse he died of Covid pneumonia.”