William Burl Blankenburg, 90, a resident of Palo Alto who served as editor of the Los Altos Town Crier prior to earning his master's degree in mass communications at Stanford University in 1958, died on Jan. 1; Clements Edward Pausa, 92, a longtime resident of Atherton who worked at Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor, died on Dec. 23, 2022; Mary Marcia Gainer, 86, a longtime resident of Menlo Park who worked at Stanford Medical Center, died on Dec. 22, 2022; Charles Gary Schulz, 90, a resident of Los Altos who had a private law practice in Palo Alto for more than 45 years, died on Dec. 18, 2022; Sheryl Ann Battaglia, 79, a longtime resident of Menlo Park who co-owned S&D Printing with her sister, died on Dec. 13, 2022; Alvin H. Sacks, 100, a former resident of Los Altos Hills who worked at the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation and the Palo Alto VA Medical Center, died on Dec. 11, 2022; Nancy "Lee" Murphy, 75, a longtime resident of Menlo Park and former resident of Woodside who founded her own company, Calla Designs Inc., and opened several boutiques around the Peninsula, died on Dec. 11, 2022; Marquita "Kita" Marie Curtis, 87, a longtime resident of Mountain View who worked as an office manager and served as co-president of the Palo Alto Tennis Club, died on Dec. 10, 2022; David Lion, 77, a longtime resident of Los Altos who worked at Lockheed Martin and served as an adviser and docent at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, died on Nov. 26, 2022; George Miller, 84, a longtime resident of Menlo Park who worked as a pharmaceutical researcher, died on Nov. 15, 2022; Valeria Dale Bell, 95, a longtime resident of Los Altos Hills who served as bookkeeper at her family-owned business Bell's Books in Palo Alto, died on Nov. 5, 2022.;James Eugene O'Sullivan, 84, a former resident of Palo Alto who worked as an accountant, died on Nov. 2, 2022; James Clifton Davis, 73, a former resident of Palo Alto who worked as a jeweler, died on Oct. 10, 2022; and Stuart Bowen, 87, a former resident of Palo Alto who worked at NASA Ames Research Center, died on March 15, 2022.

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