PASSINGS

Boyd ‘Bogey’ Horrell

A former star athlete at Newport Harbor High and Orange Coast

College, he died of a respiratory illness. He was 74.

He was the leading hitter on the 1948 Newport Harbor championship

baseball team, the school’s only baseball champion.

He kicked the conversion after the first touchdown in OCC football

history and he helped construct the first baseball diamond at OCC in

1949.

He returned to Orange County to live in Huntington Beach after

years of farming and ranching in Yuma, Ariz.

George Yardley

A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he was

a six-time All-Star in a seven-year NBA career during which he became

the league’s first player to top 2,000 points in a season (1958 with

the Detroit Pistons).

The gregarious Newport Beach resident died of amyotrophic lateral

sclerosis, also known as Lou Gerhrig’s disease. He was 75.

The Newport Harbor High product was a three-time All-American at

Stanford and followed his basketball career with a distinguished

career in business.

Craig Zaltosky

A two-time All-American free safety at Orange Coast College, he

died in an automobile accident in Kona, Hawaii, where he lived. He

was 52.

He set several school records during the 1970 and ’71 seasons at

OCC, before playing two years at Stanford University.

The Huntington Beach High graduate holds OCC school records for

interceptions in a season (11), game (six) and career (17).