Charles A Everson passed away November 1 in Palo Alto, California. He had just turned 94 years old on October 11 and was celebrated by family and friends as a wonderful father, grandfather, friend, and patriot. Charles was raised in Shelley, Idaho, a place he always remembered fondly. At age 18, he joined the Army Air Corp (Air Force) during WWII and served from 1943 to 1946. He was ordered to the...

John “Jack” Murphy was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts to John Patrick and Catherine Marie Murphy. “Little Jackie” was a bright boy who started kindergarten at age four and was known to take the bus around Boston by himself at a young age. At school, he sometimes caused trouble with the nuns for being “too clever”. Jack loved telling stories and one of his favorites was the time his...

(Alma) Yvonne Damele 1928-2019 Yvonne Damele passed away peacefully from ovarian cancer on October 31, 2019 at her home in Menlo Park. Yvonne was preceded in death by her husband Joseph John Damele and her parents Fredrick and Alma Steinmetz. She is survived by her brother Charles Steinmetz, sister Mary Morris (Cal), children Mark Damele, Michele McMillan (Gordon), Catherine Damele (Chris Steckel...

Mike Fischetti, MD, MPH (Dr. Pesto) passed away on October 29, 2019, at the age of 76 years. Born in the Bronx and living in Mountain View for the last 30 years, Mike spent his life advocating for those in underserved communities. He was as comfortable carrying anti-war protest signs as he was testifying before city council about equal rights. People will remember him as smart, generous, empathe...

Timothy Kennedy, 93, a 44-year resident of Menlo Park, died October 24, 2019. He was born October 1, 1926, in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Queens University Belfast with a degree in philosophy. He moved to California in 1962 to study for the priesthood at St. John Seminary in Camarillo. He was ordained a priest in 1966 for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and served for nine years in the Archd...

Mary Margaret “Moo” Ransford Anderson was born on November 1, 1926 in Boston, MA. Moo died peacefully at home on October 22, 2019 surrounded by loved ones. The family has planned a private memorial mass in her honor. Originally an East Coast gal, Moo (then nicknamed “Murma”) attended D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY and met her future husband Harry W. “Hunk” Anderson at the Seneca ...

Faith Victoria Mack passed away in Woodside, CA, on October 21, 2019, at the age of 78. She was born at Cottage Hospital in San Rafael, CA, on April 27, 1941, to John L. Peoples and Sybil Charlton Peoples, and spent her childhood in the north bay towns of Larkspur and San Anselmo, attending Wade Thomas School and Sir Francis Drake High School before graduating from Wilkins Private High School in S...

Silicon Valley tech executive Mark Hurd, who served as CEO for Redwood City-based Oracle and Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard, has died at the age of 62, according to a statement from co-founder Larry Ellison posted on Hurd's website. A business visionary who turned around the fortunes of the corporations he helmed, Hurd, an Atherton resident, died of an unspecified illness on Oct. 18, Ellison s...

Richard John (Dick) Quinlan passed away peacefully at home on October 17, 2019, at the age of 86. He was born on April 18, 1933 and resided in Menlo Park since 1963 with Jeanne, his beloved wife of 59 years. Dick, a 4th generation San Franciscan, will be remembered as a family man with a generous spirit and an ever-present sense of humor. He is survived by Jeanne Ferrari Quinlan, his wife of ov...

Irene Griffith Schwab passed away peacefully at home on October 13, 2019 surrounded by those whom she loved and who loved her. She was approaching the age of 101. Irene was born at home in Scott City, Kansas on February 25, 1919. She had a sister and four brothers. Her husband, Larry Schwab, died in 1994, after 45 years of marriage. Irene is survived by her two children, Dede Barsotti o...

Irene Griffith Schwab passed away peacefully at home on October 13, 2019 surrounded by those whom she loved and who loved her. She was approaching the age of 101. Irene was born at home in Scott City, Kansas on February 25, 1919. She had a sister and four brothers. Her husband, Larry Schwab, died in 1994, after 45 years of marriage. Irene is survived by her two children, Dede Barsotti o...

Walter Guido Vincenti, emeritus professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, passed away in his home in Palo Alto on October 11, 2019. He was born April 20, 1917, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Italian immigrants. He was raised in Pasadena, California. He attended Stanford for both undergraduate and graduate schools, earning an AB in engineering in 1938 and an Engineer’s degr...

Former Mountain View resident, Robert K. Thomson, 84 years of age, passed away October 10, 2019. Remembered as a cowboy, soldier, loving husband, father, and grandfather, he was born on a dry farm in Burdett, Kansas on May 31, 1935, and raised in Nucla, Colorado. Bob's youth was spent working for the Blackburn ranch, driving cattle to and from the high country (the Lone Cone area) to the valley ra...

Charles “Chuck” Moody, 82, died at his home in Menlo Park on October 9, 2019. Chuck was born February 9, 1937 to Wiley and Audrey Moody in San Jose, CA. He graduated from Menlo School of Business Administration in 1959 and had a long and successful career as an independent investment manager and adviser. He lived most of his life in Menlo Park, but enjoyed traveling the world. His ashes were s...

Ed Cray, a prolific author of non-fiction whose work included biographies of folk singer Woody Guthrie and Chief Justice Earl Warren, died Tuesday (Oct. 8) in Palo Alto, CA. He was 86. The cause of death was congestive heart failure and Alzheimer’s dementia, said his daughter, Jennifer. In a long writing career that began in the early 1960s, Cray wrote more than 18 books that examined social, ...

John Vasiharan Arulanantham passed away peacefully at his home in Palo Alto, CA on October 5, 2019. John was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and lived in Burma, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Pakistan as a child before moving to Southern California in the 1980s and attending the Harvard school in Los Angeles, while living with his cousins in Studio City. John retained a lifelong attachment for Harvard-Westlake a...

Marilyn Miles Maffly passed away peacefully on October 3rd at Stanford University Hospital, with her daughters and son-in-law at her side. Marilyn was born December 30, 1929, the third of three children of Joseph and Mabel Miles, in Compton, California. She grew up surrounded by extended family on both sides, including 28 first cousins in the Los Angeles area. She and her siblings, Dorothy an...