natural death

A natural death is one that occurs in the course of nature and is from natural causes (as age or disease) as opposed to accident or violence.

The deaths below were ruled by a government coroner or medical examiner to be from natural causes. These deaths are just a small subset of all natural deaths in L.A. County. Most natural deaths occur during a hospital stay and do not require the investigation of the coroner’s office.

Deaths can be classified as natural, suicide, homicide or accident.

Note: Medical examiners are not infallible. And not every ME has either the skills or the six hours to do a thorough forensic autopsy on each corpse assigned to them.

For most elderly deaths, the go-to cause for any medical examiner is heart disease.

September 22, 2023

natural death

(L.A.) Albert Makijan, 69, Died on a Freeway

(L.A.) Micaela Leon, 90, Died in a Hospital

(L.A.) Alletta Demore, 88, Died in a Hospital

(L.A.) Irene Rodriguez, 81, Died in a Hospital

(L.A.) Avelino Andres, 57, Died in a Hospital

(L.A.) Mabel Lee, 58, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Mario Soto, 59, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Dennis Doran, 73, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Catherine Donald, 89, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Theodore Abair, 75, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Noriaki Tsuji, 77, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Gail Witkin, 81, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Dominga Campos, 91, Died in a Hospital

(L.A.) Matthew Hobbie, 48, Died at a Residence 🥕🧁

(L.A.) Bruce Wittkin, 79, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Jimmy Hinkle, 55, Died in Front of a House

(L.A.) Ronald Kopacz, 82, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Timothy Curran, 66, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Lynda Ross, 72, Died in August

(L.A.) Cade Thai, 19, Died in a Hospital

(L.A.) Karolyn Kitchen, 67, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Francine Schultze, 73, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Reynaldo Delgado, 54, Died in an RV

(L.A.) Jerry Reid, 66, Died at a Residence

(L.A.) Stanley Guyness, 45, Died in a Hospital