Deaths Deaths (June 08, 2005)

Almanac photographer Carol Ivie dies Almanac photographer Carol Ivie dies (June 08, 2005)

Doubled as paper's 'goodwill ambassador' during her 29-year career with the paper
Carol Ann Nystuen Ivie of Menlo Park, the staff photographer for 29 years for the Weekly's sister paper, the Almanac, died June 4 at Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City of a massive heart attack. She was 76.

A memorial service for Carol will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 11 at Spangler Mortuaries, 650 Live Oak Ave., Menlo Park.

Carol was a Woodside homemaker with a photography hobby when she was hired in October 1976 by Almanac founder Hedy Boissevain.

Through the years she became the Almanac's most visible employee, always on the scene with her camera at Little League games, high school football games and community events from May Day parades to Filoli garden parties.

People would often stop her and say, "You took my picture 10 years ago," or "I love the photo of my son you took when he was in kindergarten."

"The Almanac will never be the same without her. She was a goodwill ambassador for the Almanac, getting to know hundreds of people in the community, their friends and family over three decades. She will be greatly missed, not only by the Almanac, but by many people in the community," Almanac Editor Richard Hine said.

She was a native of Northfield, Minn., and one of three children who enjoyed small-town tomboy adventures with her younger brother, John. She loved dawn fishing and selling their catch before going home to breakfast and, after chores, berry-picking, swimming in the lake or, in winter, building snow forts and ice skating on the river.

The family moved to Oroville, Calif., in 1943, where Ivie graduated from Oroville High School and went on to San Jose State College.

She taught physical education at Santa Clara Union High School, then worked with famed Santa Clara Swim Team coach George Haines teaching swimming to grades four through 12. As his assistant, she helped coach future Olympic gold medal swimmers Mark Spitz, Donna de Varona and Don Schollander.

After her marriage to Robert Ivie, the family lived in an Eichler home in Palo Alto, and later in Sharon Heights, Atherton and Woodside.

When her children were in school, Carol became active in the Trinity Parish School, Crystal Springs-Uplands School and Menlo School. She played golf at the Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club.

Ivie was an ardent sports fan and in recent years was especially proud of the athletic accomplishments of her five grandchildren.

She treasured her Norwegian heritage. In 2004 she returned to Northfield to join 220 others in a celebration of the Nystuen family's mid-1980s migration from Norway.

She was looking forward to a family reunion in July in Norway with her daughter, brother, sister and their families, to visit the town of Nystuen and discover their "roots."

Ivie is survived by her three children, Deborah Ivie of Aptos, Daniel Ivie of Menlo Park and Rebecca Ivie of Annacortes, Wash.; a brother, John Nystuen of Ann Arbor, Mich.; a sister, Patricia Harlow of Los Alamos, N.M.; five grandchildren; and nine nieces and nephews.

The family prefers memorials be donations to Wildlife Rescue, 4000 Middlefield Road, Building V, Palo Alto, CA 94303.
David W. Ferguson

David W. Ferguson, 52, died May 29 at his home in Palo Alto of brain cancer.

He graduated from Amherst College and Yale Law School. He was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and opened the firm's California office in 1999.

He is survived by his wife Nancy, sons Alec and Jessie, and daughter Sarah, of Palo Alto, Ca.; sister Margaret of Garner, N.C.; sister Gretchen of Lincoln, Neb.; and sister Mary of Denver, Colo.

Donations in his memory may be made to Amherst College, PO Box 5000, Amherst, Ma. 01002-5000; or Neuro-Oncology at Stanford, 875 Blake Wilbur Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
Lorna Anne Loram

Lorna Anne Loram, 63, a longtime resident of Scotts Valley, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City, died May 16 in Winston-Salem, N.C. after complications from diabetes.

Born in Placerville, Calif. in 1942, she will be remembered for her love of children, her political activism, and for her ongoing commitment to the church and to God.

As wife to Billy Wallace and mother of five, she found time to home school her children for eight years. Her political involvement in Scotts Valley, Calif. led her to a position at Victor Technologies in 1985, the same year of her divorce to Wallace. Despite their divorce, they remained friends. In her free time, she was an active member of the Los Altos United Methodist Church and Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, and loved researching family history, watching movies, ballroom dancing and horseback riding. Over the next 18 years, she also took various retail and administrative positions.

In 2003, she decided to finish her college degree and enrolled at Salem College in Winston Salem, N.C., where she intended to study communication. She was described as an energetic and inquisitive student.

Before her passing, she became an active participant at the Grace Bible Church in Winston Salem.

She is survived by three daughters, Elizabeth Stockwell of Newhall, Calif., Sarah Wallace of Santa Clarita, Calif., and Sharon Wallace of Scotts Valley, Calif.; two sons, David Wallace of San Jose, Calif., and Peter Wallace of South Bend, Ind.; a sister, Lucy Shinozaki of Famington, Mich.; a brother, John Loram of Ashland, Ore.; and 10 grandchildren. Memorial services have been held.

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