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Peninsula Building Materials employee
Thomas P. Shine of Menlo Park died unexpectedly at home on June 20. He was 59.
Mr. Shine, known affectionately as "T-Bone" or Tommy, was a graduate of St. Joseph's Elementary School and Menlo-Atherton High School. He served in the U.S. Army National Guard.
For 43 years he was employed at Peninsula Building Materials in Redwood City. He loved the outdoors, hunting and fishing, and trips to the family cabin in Placerville, say family members.
Mr. Shine was the son of the late Thomas E. Shine of Woodside and Nellie Skrabo Shine of Portola Valley. He is survived by his son, David Shine; stepdaughters Lisa Ford Linch and Stacy Ford Steele; aunts Ann Morey Goodwin, Eileen Skrabo and Betty Skrabo Barnett; and numerous cousins.
Interment took place July 9 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park.
Kathryn Cook
Former Menlo Park resident
Kathryn Randolph Cook, who grew up in Menlo Park, died September 17 at her home in Visalia after an 18-month battle against brain cancer. She was 50.
Ms. Cook attended local schools -- Las Lomitas, La Entrada and Woodside High -- and graduated in 1977 from UCLA, where she met her future husband, George Cook. They recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
Ms. Cook was active in her children's schools, both as a volunteer and as a substitute teacher.
She is survived by her husband, George; son Steven Cook, and daughter Melissa Cook; her parents, Mary and Tom Randolph of Menlo Park; sister Nancy Brandon of Atherton and brother Tom Randolph Jr. of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
A celebration of Ms. Cook's life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, October 1, at Visalia Nazarene Church, 3333 West Caldwell Ave., Visalia.
The family prefers memorials be made to The Kathryn Cook Memorial Fund, Visalia Unified School District, 5000 West Cypress Ave., Visalia, CA 93728.
John Benetti
A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, September 30, at St. Pius Catholic Church, 1100 Woodside Road in Redwood City, for John Urbano Benetti of Atherton, who died September 24 at the age of 89. A vigil will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 29, at Crippen & Flynn Woodside Chapel, 400 Woodside Road, Redwood City. Mr. Benetti's obituary will appear in a future issue of the Almanac.
Denise Lynch
A memorial Mass for Denise Lynch of Menlo Park will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, October 1, at the Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park. Ms. Lynch died September 22 at age 65. Her obituary will appear in a future issue of the Almanac.
William Brock
A memorial service for William "Bill" Brock of Menlo Park will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, October 1, at Redwood Chapel, 847 Woodside Road in Redwood City. Mr. Brock died September 23 at age 88. His obituary will appear in a future issue of the Almanac.
Herb Bull
Food industry executive
Herbert Granville Bull Jr., a Menlo Park resident for 29 years, died September 18 in the Devonshire Oaks Nursing Center in Redwood City. Mr. Bull suffered from Parkinson's disease and a long illness following a fall on the golf course. He was 85.
Mr. Bull was born in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley. He graduated from Stanford University in 1941, where he played shortstop on the university's freshman and varsity baseball teams and was a member of Delta Chi fraternity.
After serving as a U.S. Naval officer in World War II, he returned to Stanford and completed his graduate studies for an MBA degree in 1946.
Mr. Bull retired in 1985 from a management career in sales, marketing and corporate relations positions with Del Monte Foods and Foremost Dairies.
While his sons were growing up in Palo Alto, Mr. Bull was active in the Palo Alto Boy Scout Council Troop 57, the YMCA, and the First Presbyterian Church. An avid golfer, he was a past president of the Stanford Golf Club.
Mr. Bull is survived by his wife, Doris Bull of Menlo Park; sons Bill Bull of Fresno and Herb Bull of Westfield, New Jersey; a granddaughter; two great-grandchildren; stepdaughters Carol Johnson of Houston and Beth Shafer of Tucson; and four step-grandchildren.
Private Burial will be at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto.
Marjorie O. Maxwell
Former Menlo Park resident
Marjorie O. Maxwell of Lombard, Illinois, died August 7. Ms. Maxwell and her late husband, Robert Maxwell, lived in the Sharon Oaks development in Sharon Heights for 25 years. In 2001, she moved to the Chicago area to be closer to her family.
Ms. Maxwell moved to the Bay Area in 1976 when her husband was transferred here by IBM. She was active in the Menertons, the Atherlons, and the Cosmopolitan Club.
She is survived by her son, Tom Maxwell; sister Jean Omara; and a granddaughter. Donations in her name may be sent to St. Thomas Hospice or All Saints Church, in care of Tom Maxwell, 329 Uvedale Road, Riverside, IL 60546.
Sister Melita Attard
Religious of the Sacred Heart
Sister Melita Attard, who was born and reared in Malta, died September 17 at the age of 98. She had lived in the Oakwood Retirement Community in Atherton since 1984.
Sister Melita came to the United States at age 22. She entered the Society of the Sacred Heart and became a professed Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1939. An educator, she enjoyed preparing children for their first Holy Communion. She served in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, and was a founding member of the community at the University of San Diego.
Sister Melita is survived by her religious community, a sister-in-law, nieces and nephews. Memorials in her name may be sent to Oakwood, 140 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. A Mass of Christian Burial was held September 24 at Oakwood Chapel.
Arrangements were under the direction of Roller, Hapgood & Tinney, Palo Alto.
William Scandling, co-founder, Saga Corp.
William F. Scandling, an Atherton resident and cofounder of Saga Corp., a college foodservice and catering business, died August 22 in Montreal following a brief illness. He was 83.
Mr. Scandling grew up in Rochester, New York, and served in the Pacific theater for the Army Air Force during World War II.
With help from the GI Bill, he attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, where he and two of his classmates took on several entrepreneurial enterprises.
During his junior year, Mr. Scandling, W. Price Laughlin and Harry W. Anderson took over the Hobart dining hall. They did so well that they were awarded a contract to run the dining hall at Hobart's sister school, William Smith College.
After graduating in 1949, they chose the name Saga and eventually expanded the corporation into one of the country's leading foodservice companies, serving 458 colleges in the United States and Canada. Saga expanded into hospital and corporate foodservice, and owned numerous restaurant chains, including Straw Hat Pizza, Velvet Turtle and MacArthur Park.
In 1962, Saga's national headquarters opened in Menlo Park.
Mr. Scandling served as Saga Corp.'s president from 1968 to 1978. He said that one of his proudest achievements was in 1984, when Saga was named one of the 100 best companies in America to work for, according to his family.
He fiercely contested the 1986 hostile takeover of Saga by Marriott Corp. and wrote about it in a 1994 book, "The Saga of Saga: the Life and Death of an American Dream."
He was a volunteer and leading philanthropist at Hobart and William Smith colleges, contributing more than $33 million. He served on the board of trustees for more than three decades and as its chair from 1972 to 1983.
Three years after the 1990 death of his wife, Margaret, he made a series of gifts to her alma mater, the University of Rochester; the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development is named in her memory.
Mr. Scandling contributed to many other educational institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, Deep Springs College, the Salk Institute and Northern Arizona University.
He is survived by his wife of 10 years, Yvette Scandling, and his son, Michael Scandling. A private memorial service at the former Saga headquarters in Menlo Park is set for October 22.
Lew Platt
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO
A memorial service for Lew Platt of Portola Valley, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 18, at Stanford University's Memorial Church.
Mr. Platt died September 8 of an aneurysm at age 64.
He worked at Hewlett-Packard from 1966 through 1999, rising from an entry-level engineer in the company's medical products group to serve as president and chief executive from 1992 to 1999. He succeeded David Packard as chairman in 1993.
After retiring from Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Platt became CEO of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates from 2000 to mid-2001. More recently, he served as the lead director on the board of aircraft maker Boeing, whose board he joined in 1999.
Mr. Platt was born in Johnson City, New York. He graduated from Cornell University and received a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He received an honorary doctorate in engineering science from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Platt is survived by his wife, Joan Redmund Platt, four children, and three grandchildren.
Douglas Morrison
Retired dentist
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, October 14, at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church for Dr. Douglas Walter Morrison, who died October 2 in Chico. He was 80.
Dr. Morrison practiced dentistry in Menlo Park for many years before retiring and moving to Paradise and, later, to Chico.
Dr. Morrison was born in Oakland. He served aboard a submarine with the U.S. Navy during World War II and was stationed at Mare Island.
He attended the University of California at Berkeley and graduated from the College of the Pacific Dental School in 1954, the same year he marriage Barbara Ann McGee in San Jose.
Dr. Morrison is survived by his wife, Barbara, of Chico; children Russell Morrison of San Mateo, Lynne Conway of Redwood City, Jan Winkler of Lake Oswego, Oregon, Danielle Sampson of Woodside, and Kathy Fettke of Lafayette; and 14 grandchildren.
Memorials in his name may be made to Young Life Ministries, c/o Barbara Morrison, 1929 Manzanita Ave., Chico, CA 95926.
Charles Galdes
Retired general contractor
A funeral Mass for Charles Galdes of Menlo Park will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, October 12, at St. Raymond Church, 1100 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park. A vigil service is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 11.
Mr. Galdes died October 8 at Sequoia Health Services in Redwood City. He was 82.
Mr. Galdes was born in Maxxar, Malta. He moved to San Francisco in 1947 and to Menlo Park in 1961. He was self-employed as a general contractor.
A man with many interests, he was passionate about music, played the trumpet and sang in the St. Raymond church choir, say family members. He also enjoyed fishing, cooking, gardening, painting and helping others. He was active in St. Raymond parish and spent many hours volunteering at St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room.
Mr. Galdes is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mary Galdes of Menlo Park; sons Sam of Menlo Park, Frank of Alamo, and Anthony of Los Altos; brother Emanuel Galdes of Palo Alto; sisters Rose Galdes, Theresa Galdes and Josephine Fenech, all of Malta; and seven grandchildren.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Adalene Ross Riley
A memorial service for Adalene Ross Riley will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, October 13, at Valley Presbyterian Church, 945 Portola Road in Portola Valley. A reception will follow at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton. Ms. Riley died October 5 at age 85. An obituary on Ms. Riley will appear in a future issue of the Almanac.
Gordon Craig
Historian of Germany
Gordon A. Craig, an internationally known historian of Germany, died of heart failure October 30 at The Sequoias in Portola Valley. He was 91.
Professor Craig taught at Stanford University from 1961 until his retirement in 1979. He began his academic career at Yale in 1939, then moved to Princeton in 1941; he was recruited by Stanford following a sabbatical at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
The center was a fertile academic recruiting ground for Stanford in the early 1960s, according to history professor Peter Stansky. "(Mr. Craig's) colleagues at Princeton were aghast when he left," he said. "That was one reason he enjoyed coming here ... to tease them for being stuffy."
Mr. Craig, whom Mr. Stansky described as "the most distinguished historian of modern Germany in this country and possibly one of the greatest in the world," was the author of numerous books and articles.
He served as chairman of the Stanford history department from 1972 to 1975 and 1978 to 1979. In 1973 he received the Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding service to undergraduate education.
Mr. Craig became a public figure in Germany after "The Germans," a book that discussed the German experience, was published there.
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and immigrated with his family to Toronto, Canada, and later to Jersey City, New Jersey. He earned four degrees from Princeton, including his doctorate and an honorary degree.
In the late 1930s he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship.
Shortly before World War II broke out, he visited Germany and was influenced by seeing the Nazi government in its early stages. "As a young American, this made an enormous impression on him," says James Sheehan, Stanford professor of the humanities.
During World War II, he served as a political analyst for the Office of Strategic Services and also served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Professor Craig is survived by his wife, Phyllis Craig of Portola Valley; his children, Deborah Preston of Los Altos Hills, Susan Craig of Pasadena, Martha Craig of Peoria, Illinois, and Charles Craig of South Pasadena; sister Jean Clarke of Ontario, Canada; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A memorial celebration of Mr. Craig's life will held on the Stanford campus in early 2006.
George Dragan
Former Sequoia vice principal
George L. Dragan, an art teacher and vice principal in the Sequoia Union High School District for 32 years, died at his home in Woodside on November 14. He was 80.
Born in West Virginia, he served in the U.S. Army infantry during World War II.
A resident of San Mateo County for 49 years, he had lived in Woodside for 24 years.
He was a former commissioner for the Port of Redwood City and a member of the San Mateo County Grand Jury.
Mr. Dragan is survived by his wife of 24 years, Patricia Barrett Dragan; and two daughters, Roxanne and Alice Dragan.
Memorials may be made to the George Dragan Scholarship Fund in support of Sequoia High School students, 1201 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, CA 94062. Arrangements were under the direction of Redwood Chapel, Redwood City.
Sister Geraldine Murphy
Religious of the Sacred Heart
Sister Geraldine Murphy, a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart since 1931, died in Atherton November 15. She was 93.
Sister Murphy was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. After entering the Society of the Sacred Heart in Albany, New York, she taught for five years, then made her final profession of vows in 1940.
She taught at high school and junior college levels in Canada. With a master's degree in counseling, she was a counselor at Barat College in Illinois, Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, and the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo.
She moved to Oakwood retirement community in Atherton after retiring in 1985. Sister Murphy is survived by her sister, Mary Ann Levins of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Adalene Ross Riley
Writer, fashion show coordinator
Fashion show coordinator and travel writer Adalene Ross Riley, described by newspaper columnist Herb Caen as one of the most beautiful and glamorous women in San Francisco, died October 5. She was 85.
A former Atherton resident, Ms. Riley was living in Palo Alto at the time of her death.
Ms. Riley was a native of Oak Park, Illinois, and attended Sequoia High School and College of San Mateo. She first started her work in the fashion field writing fashion copy for Roos Brothers (later Roos Atkins) clothing store. During World War II she hosted a radio show in Sacramento in which she interviewed local soldiers and sailors.
In 1942 she marriage George Ross. Her fashion career began in earnest when she began producing fashion shows for I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin, and Saks Fifth Avenue in San Francisco.
In 1957, as co-founder of the San Mateo Crippled Children's Society with Catherine Hearst, she arranged a "last party" fundraiser at Hearst Castle in San Simeon before it became a state park. She also created the first San Francisco cable car on wheels for Roos Atkins.
Ms. Riley served as vice president for public relations for Joseph Magnin in the 1970s, and handled public relations at Shreve and Co. Jewelers in the 1980s and early 1990s.
She wrote a travel column, "Addie's World," for the San Mateo Times for 23 years. She also wrote feature articles in major magazines, including an article in the Ladies Home Journal in 1974 about the Hearst family's private ordeal at the time their daughter Patty's kidnapping.
Ms. Riley lived in Hillsborough for more than 25 years when marriage to George Ross. She later moved to Atherton at the time of her second marriage to William Riley. She was a member of the Junior League of San Francisco and the Menlo Circus Club.
She is survived by her daughter Lynn Ross of Palo Alto; sister Clarissa Dyer of Hillsborough; brother Harry Bowman of San Francisco; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughter Nancy Ross and son Lee T. Ross II, as well as her husband, William Riley.
Memorials may be made to the Muscular Dystrophy Society.
Carolyn Cirimele
Peninsula School music teacher
A memorial for Carolyn Rasch Cirimele will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, October 29, at Peninsula School, 920 Peninsula Way, Menlo Park. Ms. Cirimele died of cancer September 20 at her parents' home in Carmel. She was 48.
Ms. Cirimele was the music teacher at Peninsula School from 1992 to 1998. She sang and played piano, cello, accordion, guitar, and upright bass in a number of bluegrass and contredanse bands.
She was also a graphic designer. During her last years she created collages, paintings, sculptures and greeting cards that expressed her confrontation with cancer and her spirituality, say family members.
Ms. Cirimele was born in Manhasset, New York, and moved to Burlingame as a teenager. She graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. She met her husband, Ed Cirimele, in college and they were marriage in 1980.
She is survived by her husband, Ed, of Mountain View; sons Jesse and Jason Cirimele; mother Adele Rasch of Carmel; sisters Claudia James and Charlene Revette of DeRuyter, New York; and brothers David Rasch of Portola Valley and Steven Rasch of Pacific Palisades. Her father, John Rasch, died two days after Ms. Cirimele's death.
Memorials may be made to the music program at Peninsula School, 920 Peninsula Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025; or Hospice of the Central Coast Home Care, 2 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Professional Center, Suite D210, Monterey, CA 93940.
Joe Lovewell
Former SRI executive
Paul Joseph "Joe" Lovewell, a leader at SRI International for many years, died September 7 at the age of 90.
A former Woodside resident, Mr. Lovewell was born in Topeka, Kansas. In 1936, while attending Washburn College, Mr. Lovewell and his friend Mark Garlinghouse traveled to China for several months.
Mr. Lovewell was a serious tennis player and thespian during his college days, say family members. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and graduated from Washburn with a degree in economics with honors. In 1940 he graduated from Stanford Business School.
In the late 1960s he was a commencement speaker at Washburn College and received an honorary doctor of laws degree.
During World War II he served as a supply officer with the Navy. In 1949 he and his wife, Jean, moved to California to join Mr. Lovewell's grad school friend Weldon B. "Hoot" Gibson at the newly founded Stanford Research Institute (SRI International).
For the next 17 years, he traveled extensively for SRI. He led the development of SRI's Long Range Planning Service and helped build the Management Sciences Division to several hundred people with offices around the globe.
Under his direction, the institute conducted studies for Walt Disney to determine the location for Disneyland and feasibility of attractions, studied the peaceful applications for atomic energy, and built the first business computer for Bank of America.
In 1953 he was named one of the Bay Area's "Newsmakers of Tomorrow" by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Time magazine.
In 1965 he founded Management and Economics Research Inc. in Palo Alto, which he ran until 1969 when the business was sold to URS Systems Corporation.
After retiring he moved to Mendocino, taking occasional consulting jobs including a trip to the Middle East for USAID to assist several countries with economic development plans.
Jean Lovewell died in 1983. Mr. Lovewell then marriage Marjorie Garlinghouse, the widow of his oldest friend, Mark Garlinghouse. The couple traveled extensively for the next 20 years, with San Francisco as home base.
Mr. Lovewell enjoyed fishing, Stanford football, the 49ers, the Giants, and all forms of theater, opera and the symphony, say family members. He and his wife, Jean, were active for many years at the Woodside Village Church, where he served as elder and moderator.
He is survived by Marjorie Lovewell; his children John Lovewell of Atherton, Jan Lovewell of Lund, British Columbia, and Judy Hill of Corvallis, Oregon; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. He is also survived by stepsons Kent, Whitney and Webb Garlinghouse.
The family prefers that memorial donations be made to Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA 94062; or Pathways Hospice Foundation, 585 North Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085-2905.
Iolene Putnam
Teacher and volunteer
Iolene Lazelle Lund Putnam died November 22 at her home in Menlo Park. She was 97.
Ms. Putnam was born in Mancelona, Michigan, and moved with her family to San Bernardino in 1914. She graduated from Pomona College and spent many years teaching and raising her family in the oilfield towns of Avenal and Taft in the San Joaquin Valley.
As a volunteer for the Community Concerts program in Taft, she was responsible for bringing many well-known artists to perform. The arts were a lifelong avocation, as were crafts. She was superb with a sewing machine and an embroidery needle, say family members.
Ms. Putnam is survived by her daughter, Susan Putnam Christiansen of Palo Alto; her son, Rear Admiral William L. Putnam, USN (Ret.), of Virginia Beach; three grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Her husband, Murray Putnam, died in 1976.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, January 9, at Stanford Memorial Church, where the Pomona College glee club serenaded her on her 97th birthday when they appeared in concert last spring.
The family prefers memorials to Pomona College Annual Fund, The Renwick House, 333 North College Way, Claremont, CA 91711-6324.
