Stillson Service Is Set for Monrovia High

A memorial service for Tony Stillson, Dana Hills High School’s first basketball coach, will be held at the Monrovia High School gymnasium at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Stillson died of a liver disease April 11. He was 58.

Stillson, who spent 11 years at Dana Hills and coached from 1973-76, coached at Monrovia from 1960 to 1972. He won the 4-A Southern Section title in 1967 and was a 4-A finalist in 1970.

He had been teaching at Shorecliff Junior High in San Clemente since 1986.

He is survived by his brothers Ross, of Tampa, Fla.; Joseph, of St. Petersburg, Fla.; James, of Worthington, Pa.; John, of Arcadia, and his sisters Ann Abraham of Newbury Park and Theresa Lemmon of Kittanning, Pa.

A fund honoring an outstanding Monrovia High athlete has been set up in Stillson’s memory.