Cynthia Roberts – a resident of Menlo Park for nearly 65 years -- passed away on June 27, 2022 at the Brookdale Senior Living Facility in Redwood City, California. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 5, 1928, she was the third of six children of Anita and Frederick Brenk. She attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She soon moved to Sausalito and...

Kathleen Cecilia Jacobson April 15, 1937 - June 25, 2022 Kathleen Cecilia Jacobson lost her valiant battle with cancer, passing away peacefully on June 25, 2022, embraced in love by her husband Ron and children, Will and Marie. In a full testament to her longtime love, Kathy left this world on the same day she married her beloved husband Ron, sixty years to the day, in 1962. Kathy was love a...

Born in March of 1940, Carol Hengst grew up in West Frankfurt, Illinois, something of a child prodigy in the arts – playing Beethoven and Bach startlingly well from a young age on her little upright piano and becoming the youngest person to submit a painting to the state art fair. The daughter of Albert and Adela Hengst, with two sisters Marilyn and Janice, she grew up in a Christian Science fa...

Leonore Rooney Daschbach, a longtime resident of Atherton, passed away peacefully at her home on June 24, 2022. A loving wife to her husband of 59 years, Howard M. Daschbach, Jr, (who passed away in 2012) and loving mother of 6, grandmother of 18 and great grandmother of 16. Although an only child herself, Leonore will be remembered as the matriarch of her large family and all their friends. ...

Mercedes McCaffrey de Urkidi died on June 20, 2022, at Channing House in Palo Alto. Of Basque heritage, she was born on October 19, 1928 in Bilbao, Spain. In 1963 she married Terence McCaffrey of Dublin, Ireland, and immigrated with him to the United States. She taught Spanish to a generation of students at Castilleja School. Survivors include her husband, her children Teresa (Manel Camps) and Ant...

Carl Hugo Gotsch died at home on June 12, 2022. Carl was born on January 1, 1933 in Ontario, Oregon across the border from Parma, Idaho where he was raised. He was one of three boys born to Carl and Elly Gotsch who immigrated from Germany. Carl grew up in a small farming community and looked back on his childhood fondly. While there was much hard work on the farm and he was known for shirki...

Regina Davis ~ devoted mother, grandma, great-grandma and life-long adventurer lived a full life, which came to close June 11, 2022. Gina was born and raised in Leicester, England, in the years leading up to WWII. Gina and her identical twin, Margaret, were the youngest pair of the four children of Herbert and Violet Bennett. Gina enjoyed sports, poetry and art, and attended Leicester College...

Alison Weisner, beloved daughter, sister, aunt, niece and friend, passed away on Friday, June 10 after living with cancer for over a decade. She was 63 years old. Alison lived nearly her entire life in the Barron Park neighborhood of Palo Alto, California. She graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Alison enjoyed a long career as a document librarian, at Wil...

Anthony “Jerry” Angelo passed away on June 10, 2022. Jerry was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1938 to Charles and Beth (Chapman) Angelo. The family moved to Menlo Park, California when he and his twin brother, Jimmy, were two years old. His father operated a series of Menlo Park businesses including a gas station and later a screen shop. Jerry attended Menlo Atherton High School wher...

Eve R. “Dolly” Sacks died on June 8th. She was 98. Throughout her life, Dolly (a nickname given to her when she was a baby) worked to help others, first as a social worker in Massachusetts, where she grew up, and later as executive director of the Stanford Urban Coalition on the Stanford campus, and then a senior program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos. There...

Norman H. Freed died on June 6, 2022. He was 83 years of age. Norman was adventurous and lived his life to love, to teach to help others and to be fiercely ethical. He was intelligent and sympathetic, curious and both tough and tender. He played the sax, was a member of a band and enjoyed exploring coffee houses and book stores. He was born in San Francisco. An only child, his father wa...

We pause to note the passing of Dr. Sherwood Chang. Renowned and groundbreaking scientist; Intrepid fly fisherman; High country rancher; Dedicated Arborist; Stalwart friend; Loving family man. A jack of all trades and master of most (a Harvard man after all). Sherwood died in Tacoma Washington on June 6, 2022 at the age of 81. Sherwood was a longtime resident of Palo Alto (1966-1999, 2015-2019...

Maureen Patricia McGivern Martin was born on April 19, 1923, on a farm in Marengo, Iowa. She was the second eldest of six children born to Loretta and Peter McGivern. Maureen (Micky) attended elementary school at Oak Grove School, the one room schoolhouse where the McGivern children and their numerous cousins were educated. In high school, Micky excelled in tennis, basketball and drama and wen...

David Bernard Lynch, a proud U.S. Army veteran and leading Northern California attorney for more than 50 years, died on Memorial Day after a long illness. He was 86, and passed away at home in the care of his family. Dave was born in Vallejo, CA, the only child of James and Myrna Lynch. He was raised in a hard-working blue-collar Irish-American family, with northern California roots going bac...

Kendall Elizabeth Shea Chase, 31, of Venice, California, passed away on Monday, May 30, 2022 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Her young and promising life was cut short by a drunk driver. The essence of Kendall was her sense of style, her love of beauty, and her dedication to making life fun! Her love of friends and family were her biggest priority in life. Her boundless energy took her far in her sh...

Richard M. Cabrera May 12, 1939 – May 28, 2022 Palo Alto, California Richard passed unexpectedly and peacefully at age 83 surrounded by loved ones at his family home in Palo Alto. His parents John and Lucy, originally from Mexico, met in San Francisco where Richard was born, and they raised their family in Palo Alto. As parents, they taught their children, “primero Dios,” that is, God f...

Kevin McLaughlin died unexpectedly over the 2022 Memorial Day weekend. We, his family, were startled and shocked by his passing.  He passed away from a sudden cardiac death.  Over his life, he struggled with alcoholism and addiction. He achieved sobriety successfully and had been moving forward in his life. Kevin started swimming early in his life and became a strong member of the Ladera Oaks ...

Dr. Yolanda Astarita Patterson, whose career included 40 years as a professor of French and women's studies at Cal State East Bay and who helped create and lead an international society devoted to the works of the French philosopher and author Simone de Beauvoir, passed away peacefully May 26 at the Portola Valley, California, home she had lived in for 60 years. She was 89. Patterson was born i...