Michael Bungay

Carol Berg (Turner)

So sad to hear about Mike's passing. I had the opportunity to have lunch with  Mike about 5 years ago on one of my visits to Sacramento. We had fun reminiscing about old times. We lived close by in the Land Park area growing up. We both attended kindergarten at  Sutterville school when it was only a 1 room schoolhouse on Freeport Blvd. Then went thru elementary school together at the new  Sutterville, then Cal Jr. High and on to McClatchy. Somewhere along the way, we took ballroom dancing lessons at the Barbara Briggs dance school. Mike was my partner and I was about a foot taller than him. 😀 After our lunch together a few years back he treated all of us to an ice cream cone at Vic's. My heart goes out to you, Joan, who made him so happy for so many years. He had so many wonderful things to say about you last time we visited. You were indeed blessed to have each other. 😢💕

Chuck Petty

So sorry to hear about Michael. We lived close and had lots of good times together. Michael was into motorcycles and I remember he and I trying to tune a Indian motorcycle with me steering and him tuning the carburetor as we rode it. There were other times we had fun on the motorcycles but the things I enjoyed were hanging out at his house and William Land Park with him. Would have been so nice to have stayed in Sacramento to enjoy our friendship longer.

Roger Kircher

I went to kindergarten on  Sutterville Rd then continued at Sutterville School through 6th grade when it moved over to Monterey Way . I used to ride with Mike to ski while in highschool. I'm sorry to hear of his passing. 

Gregory Maroni

I also went all the way through elementary school with Mike at Sutterville.  We played Little League baseball together for years and it was always a great time at his childhood home on Ridgeway drive. With four boys in one house, how could it not be! 

I saw him as a patient in my dental office in the 1980's and on and off through the years. He was just getting started, in the 1980's, with something he had invented that tore apart radial tires afther they were over their effective use as tires. He then, as I recall, used them as fuel to run a cement making operation near Redding. He came in now and then through the years, and eventually ended up with Joan which seemed to be very happy years for him.  

He was a great person, inventive, and always fun to be around.

Greg Maroni

Alan Holmstrom

I was very sad to hear that Michael has passed away.  I always thought very highly and warmly of Michael.  I first met Michael in kindergarten.  My parents had just moved from San Diego to Sacramento and I was two days late starting in Miss Lemm's kindergarten class at Riverside Elementary.  Feeling very scared coming into the first day of school late,  Miss Lemm had Michael show me around.  He was the perfect "Greeter."  He made me feel welcome and included, and he was one of the reasons I named my own son Michael 20 years later.  We lived close to each other as his famiy was on 13th Ave across from the playground in Land Park and I was on Bartley Dr.  When his family moved to So. Land Park on Ridgeway Dr. he must have moved over to the  Sutterville school.  His Father, Hunter Bungay, was an entrepreneur and risk taker and Michael and his 3 brothers all turned out the same.  (They later adopted a girl so his Mom could have a daughter).  I remember his older brother Richard invented a machine to sharpen snow skis and his younger brother John had a very successful restaurant in midtown.  I remember visiting Michael and Mary Ann at their lumber yard in Aptos and then, as Greg Maroni mentioned, he later got involved in converting used tires into cement products in Redding.  I was working for Grand Auto at the time and hooked Michael up with our used tire dept manager.  Even as a kid he was inventive as we would build go-karts at my house or he and his brothers always had some project going at their Ridgeway home. One time the lot behind their home had a 30 degree slope and they tunneled into the hill approximately 50 feet, bracing it with wood, etc.  A regular mine shaft.  The parents found out, freaked out and shut it down. Later he got into motorcycles, another risky endeavor.  Michael was always curious, interesting and interested in people and what they were doing.  He got involved in our reunion committee meetings and when he partnered with Joan later in life I thought they make the perfect McClatchy couple.  Our next reunion won't be the same without him.  Love you, Michael.