Schylar Barnhill

Schylar Barnhill, 61, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California passed away on Wednesday, March 6,
2024, at Henderson Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada. The memorial service will take place on
Friday, March 22, 2024, at the Rolling Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church, 28340 Highridge
Road, Rolling Hills Estates, 90274 beginning at 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM. The interment will
follow at a private service at Green Hills Mortuary. Schylar was born in 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio
to former NBA basketball player and L.A. Laker coach, John Barnhill and Janet Lee. Schylar is
the second of three children. John Barnhill’s career took his family across the USA to conclude
his career in Rancho Palos Verdes, California in 1972, where Schylar eventually attended Palos
Verdes High School. Schylar was an avid athlete noting a 1978 Palos Verdes High School Bay
League womens Tennis Championship. After high school, Schylar studied culinary arts in the
state of Washington, followed by UNLV which led to her career as a chef at the famous Bellagio
Hotel, in Las Vegas, Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in New Jersey, and other food services
bringing her to Syracuse, New York. Schylar was baptized in the Adventist Faith at Westvale
Seventh-day Adventist Church. Schylar is survived by her mother, Janet Lee Barnhill of Rancho
Palos Verdes, brother John Barnhill of San Francisco, Elayna Barnhill Moffitt of Piscataway,
New Jersey, Nieces, Rhya Moffitt of Chicago, Illinois, Melaney Phillips of Bridgewater, New Jersey; nephew, Joshua Moffitt of Berkeley, California; and her beloved pets, Harry and Benny.