Roger Justice Fleischmann September 23, 1934 – March 5, 2025 Roger Justice Fleischmann, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, accomplished attorney, and passionate golfer, passed away peacefully on March 5, 2025 in Portola Valley, California, at the age of 90. Born on September 23, 1934 in Buffalo, New York, Roger grew up on the East Coast before settling in Palo Alto with his paren...

June Helena Dwellingham Fleming, a trailblazing leader and devoted public servant, passed away peacefully on December 9, 2024, at the age of 93. Born on June 24, 1931, in Little Rock, Arkansas, she was the cherished daughter of Herman and Ethel Lucille Dwellingham. June’s lifelong passion for education and service was evident in her many accomplishments. June was a graduate of Dunbar High...

Frederick Dale Fullmer died on November 21, 2024 at age 91. Born November 12, 1933 in Spokane, Washington, Fred was the first of two children of the late Fred Hudson and Mildred Zoe (Patterson) Fullmer. In 1951, Fred graduated from Ballard High School in Seattle following his junior year because his family was relocating to San Francisco. It was there that he met the love of his life, R...

Herbert Allan Grench passed away on Dec. 19, 2024, after a long, adventurous and remarkable life. He was born October 4, 1932, in Elmwood Park, IL. He grew up in Brookfield, IL, with his parents, Viola and John Grench, and siblings John, Robert, Gloria, and Carol. Herb attended Kalamazoo College where he took an ornithology class, sparking a lifelong passion for birding and for his ...

Brian Tak Hong Guan, a man beloved by many, passed away at his home, surrounded by family on December 10, 2024. He was 57. Brian was born and raised in Malaysia as one of seven siblings to parents born in China. He was a true citizen of the world, multilingual, culturally fluent, and made meaningful friendships everywhere he went. He was known throughout his life for his intelligence, wit, kin...

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and long-time resident of Palo Alto, California, Lelia “Terry” Morrow Guice was surrounded by loved ones when she passed away on February 8, 2025, in Austin, Texas - a place that she called home in recent years so that she could be close to her devoted daughter, Elizabeth. Born on January 27, 1946, Terry was the oldest child of Lelia Terry Morrow and D...

William Sterling (Bill) Hackmann of Elsberry, Missouri, and a former resident of Palo Alto and the Bay Area from 1977 to the mid-1990s, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, surrounded by loving family members and friends. He is survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Kathy Hackmann (nee Petitt), his older brother Frank (Susan) Hackmann of Clayton, Missouri, and his older brother ...

Jane Watrous Hall, a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully on December 1, 2024. Born on November 17, 1938, in San Francisco, California, she was the daughter of Lucile Hansen and Winthrop Porter Watrous. Raised in Kentfield, California, Jane was the second of three daughters in a close-knit family. Jane attended Ross Grammar School and graduated from Sir Franci...

Alice (Katie) Kittrell Harris died February 11, 2025, at her home in Berkeley, California, from a rare pancreatic cancer. Born in 1969 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Joseph Harris and Nancy Flowers, she grew up in Palo Alto, California, where she attended Castilleja School. She graduated from Oberlin College and received her Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. A professor of histor...

Judith Gray Holcomb, O.D., of Union City, California and Newport, Rhode Island, passed away on March 2nd following a long battle with breast cancer. She was the loving wife of the late Richard John Pope and the daughter of the late Chester H. and Alma L. (Rankin) Gray. Born in Taunton, MA, Judy was raised in Newport, RI, was a 1964 graduate of Rogers High School and a 1968 graduate of Salve Regin...

Ruby Chizuko Inouye passed away in the early hours of October 7, 2024 at the golden age of 104 years. Ruby was born in North Platte, Nebraska on February 5, 1920 to Kin and Kunikiyo Nabeta. She was the second of seven children. Her early years were spent in Salt Lake City, Utah; Shizuoka, Japan, and Los Angeles, California. She was sent to Topaz, Utah during World War II where she met her ...

Nancy Carole Forslund Jang, 87, of Princeton, NJ died on December 25, 2024 at Princeton Medical Center, following a brief illness. Nancy was born in Callao, Peru in 1937. Her parents, Evar Forslund, a miner, and Ella Nikula Forslund, a school teacher, left their Finnish American community in Upper Michigan during the economic ravages of the Depression. Eventually Evar found work in Peru, wh...

Long time Menlo Park icon Jack (John Decker) Jorgenson left us Sunday, March 16, 2025. He was 99 and a half, just short of his 100 year goal. Although he often said he was not sure when or if he was going to die, he passed quietly in his sleep at the Sequoias in Portola Valley, his home of 23 years. Born in San Francisco, October 16,1925, he was the product of the public schools. After graduat...

Gail Kaiser, a 42-year resident of Palo Alto, died at home on October 5 after a 6-year battle with multiple myeloma. She was 67. Gail was born at the US Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Her parents worked in the Foreign Service and she grew up in Yugoslavia, Austria, Poland and South Africa. Gail attended New England Conservatory for three years studying harpsichord and organ. ...

Alice Kao was born on February 2, 1955 in Taiwan to Shuchen “Suzi” Kao and Chun Young Kao, an Army General in the Nationalist Party of China. She was the youngest of four children. She attended the Dominican International School in Taipei and the American School of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where her family immigrated in the 1960s. She then earned her MD from the Faculty of Medicine of T...

Judith Ellen Komoroske (née Roach) passed away peacefully on January 7, 2025 surrounded by family. Born December 1, 1941 (Hartford, CT), she was raised in Brighton-by-the-Sea, Old Lyme, the second child of Robert Nicholas and Frances Prendergast Roach. She graduated from Williams Memorial Institute in New London and the Duchesne Residence School (NYC). Her first employment was Time Inc., Photogra...

Ronald Alan Krasnow passed away early in the morning of March 20th, 2025, dying due to complications from battling pancreatic cancer for 8 months. Ron was born on September 14, 1962 to Sheryl and Richard in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up in Oak Park, Michigan alongside Stephanie and Audrey, he was an avid hockey and tennis player. He graduated from Oak Park High School in 1980. Ron atten...

Audrey Jean Lampert, 95, passed away peacefully on January 28, 2025, in Palo Alto, California, surrounded by her loving family. Born on August 12, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Louis and Hattie Bernstein, Audrey grew up with a deep sense of family and community. She attended the University of Missouri before embarking on a new chapter out West. It was in Redwood City that Audrey met the lov...