‘White Lightning’ carries away last of the Hermosa Beach Surfin’ Kerwin Brothers.
Ted “Bones” Kerwin, Lew Lewis, John Kerwin and Aaron Wolf (foreground) and Bill Edgar and Jim Kerwin with John Kerwin’s Ford during a 1936 surf trip to San Onofre. Photo courtesy of the Kerwin family by Scott Kerwin Legendary Hermosa Beach surfer and paddler Jim Kerwin passed away at the age of 95 at his home in Ojai on Tuesday December 27, following a short illness. Kerwin was the seventh and last surviving of the nine Kerwin kids, born at the family bakery and residence in downtown Hermosa Beach between 1911 and 1926. The Kerwin Bakery and their upstairs residence at 37 — 39 Pier Avenue now houses the Palmilla restaurant. In 2003, Kerwin and and three brothers, John, Fred and Ted, and his older sister Mary were inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame as as Pioneers in recognition of their dominant presence in the waves at the Hermosa Pier in the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. Overlooked in the original Walk of Fame selection, elder brother Joe Kerwin joined the rest of the family with a bronze plaque on the Hermosa Pier in 2006. John Kerwin founded the Hermosa Beach Surfing Club in 1934. The Kerwin family formed the core of the team, which competed with up and down the coast…
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