Search for celebrities on Ancestry.com!Mary Ellen Charlton Ford
Mary Ellen Charlton Ford, 72, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died
July 31 in her home. She was born
and raised in Tulsa, Okla., and graduated from the University of Missouri before moving to San Francisco, where she worked as a medical technologist. When Stanford Medical School moved from San Francisco to Palo Alto she came to Palo Alto to work in the Stanford Hospital and Medical School laboratories. Singing was one of her many interests and for some years she sang with both the West Bay Opera and Saint Bede's choir. No services were held. Donations may be made to the Adult Onset Hydrocephalus Division of the Hydrocephalus Association, 870 Market St., Suite 955, San Francisco, CA 94102, or to Stanford University for the Newell Fiske Ford Foundation c/o Memorial Gifts, Stanford University, 301 Encina Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-6076.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Harry Lewis (Bud) Haehl Jr.
Harry Lewis (Bud) Haehl Jr., 85, a native Californian and lifetime Palo Altan, died
on Jan. 16 at the Forum in Cupertino. He was born
in Palo Alto in 1912 and was educated in the Palo Alto public schools before receiving his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1933. He was affiliated with the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He then received his LL.D degree from Stanford School of Law in 1936. Immediately after graduating he joined Lillick & Charles and, except for five years of active duty in the United States Navy during and after World War II, remained active there until 1985. During his distinguished Navy career, he served as an admiralty officer in San Francisco and in the office of the Judge Advocate General in Washington, D.C. He then served as special advisor for admiralty and international law on the staff Admiral Nimitz, the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, and finally on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan and China. During his service in Japan, he was instrumental in the revival of the Japanese merchant marine and, in such capacity, became well known to many of his Japanese counterparts who later became leaders in the revised Japanese merchant marine. In 1946 he served as U.S. special prize commissioner for the Pacific and retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of commander. After the war, he returned to Lillick & Charles where he became partner. He was also active in the community; he served as director, president and chairman of the board at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital; he was a member of the board of trustees of the World Affairs Council for Northern California, for which he served as president from 1963 to 1965 and again from 1967 to 1970; he was also a member of the board of directors for the Hiller Engineering Corporation and a number of other private corporations. Beginning in 1960, he served as honorary consul general of Malaysia for California and remained in that capacity in the Diplomatic Corps until 1985. In this diplomatic position, as an attorney representing numerous clients in the Far East and as an avid tourist, he traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He was a member of the Society of California Pioneers, the Asia Foundation, the Commonwealth Club, the Pacific Union Club, the Bohemian Club, the Menlo Country Club, the Hillsborough Racquet Club and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is survived by his twin sister, Verva Jane Steckel of Laramie, Wyo.; two daughters, Betsy Haehl Kriewall of Atherton and Susan Haehl Marshall of McCall, Idaho; one son, John Haehl of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho; and four grandchildren. Services will be held privately. Donations may be made to the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, designated for the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
W. Kirby Kittoe
W. Kirby Kittoe, 89, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died
Jan. 11 at Stanford. He was born
in Minnesota and lived in Oregon and Washington before moving to Palo Alto with his family in 1949. He received a law degree from the University of Oregon in 1932 and went into private practice in Oregon before joining the legal and sales staff of International Harvester. In 1935 he married, and in 1949, after moving to Palo Alto, he entered the title business. When he retired in 1974, he was vice president and manager of the Palo Alto branch of Western Title and Guaranty Co. He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. He was a founding member of the University Club, a longtime member of the Palo Alto Club and a life member of the Palo Alto Elks. He is survived by two sons, Kirby Kittoe Jr. of Aptos and Edward Kittoe of Los Altos; a daughter, Mary Kittoe Smith of Mountain View; and four grandchildren. Services have been held.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Emmett B. Lorey Jr.
Emmett (Jim) B. Lorey, 69, a 28-year Palo Alto resident, died
on Jan. 17 at his home in Palo Alto. He was born
in Missouri and spent two years in the Navy before attending the University of Chicago where he completed his bachelor's and medical degrees. After finishing a fellowship at Oxford University and postgraduate training at the University of California at San Francisco, he joined Kaiser Permanente in 1960. He practiced internal medicine with the Permanente Medical Group in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and Redwood City. While at Redwood City, he served as chief of medicine, assistant physician-in-chief, and representative to the board of directors. He spent the last 13 years of his career at Kaiser as an associate executive director of The Permanente Medical Group and retired in 1993. After retiring, he served on the boards of Palo Alto Neighbors Abroad and the Alliance for Aging Independently. He also worked with the Health Services Advisory Group and spent time overseas with Project HOPE's Saigon South project and Health Enterprises International with USAID in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. He enjoyed hiking, skiing, traveling, and had a great love of literature, classical music and history. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Mary Lorey of Palo Alto; two sons, David Lorey of Menlo Park and Tom Lorey of San Francisco; one daughter, Jan Lorey of Seattle; two sisters, Diane Langdon of Capitola and Sue Clinton of Camden, Maine; and three grandchildren. Services will be held on Sunday, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m. at Valley Presbyterian Church, 945 Portola Road, Portola Valley. Donations may be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
June Nystrom
June Nystrom, 92, a 50-year Palo Alto resident, died
on Dec. 27 in Los Altos. She was born
in Kidder Count, North Dakota in 1905, and taught school in Minneapolis until she married. In 1948 she moved with her son, Alan Douglas Nystrom, to Palo Alto where she was a member of the First Methodist Church of Palo Alto, and is the subject of one of her grandson's whimsical murals in downtown Palo Alto, (Greg Brown's mural of the lady holding a garden hose with a bird perched on it). She is survived by her daughter, Muriel Brown Older of Menlo Park; three grandsons and six great-grandchildren. Services will be held privately.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Gaye Passell
Agatha (Gaye) Pearl Brown Passell, 95, a 42-year Palo Alto resident, died
in Palo Alto on Jan. 25, after a long battle with cancer. She was active in the PTA, Cubberley High School, and the Women's Fellowship of the First Congregational Church. She also volunteered in Friends Outside and Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D;) - for a total of 1,800 hours. She wrote personal histories, and served as the co-editor and contributor of the two books, Harvest of the Years and Second Harvest. During World War II she served in the Women's Marines, and completed her duty at Pearl Harbor in 1945. Following the war, she was a social worker in Miami. She met her husband at U.C. Berkeley in 1951 during a graduate study of social welfare. She traveled extensively, visiting such exotic destinations as Tibet, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Egypt, Morocco, and Ecuador, to name just a few. She was a graduate in Romance Languages from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Tom Passell of Palo Alto; three daughters, Chris Green of San Jose, Cynthia Lopez of Santa Ynez, and Julia Demeter of Oakland; three sons, Mark Passell of San Francisco, Andrew Passell of Salinas, and Matthew Passell of Palo Alto; eight grandchildren; and two sisters, Juneva Poole of Yorba Linda and Marie Webb of Colorado Springs, Colo. Services will be held on Sunday, February 1, at 3 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto at 1985 Louis Road. Donations may be made to Friends Outside, 551 Stockton, San Jose, CA 95126; or Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 488 W. Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303; or the Womens' Fellowship of the First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Catherine Ellen Portello
Catherine Ellen Portello, 90, a Menlo Park native, died
on Jan. 22 in Walnut Creek. She was a homemaker and mother for 70 years, and a member of the Catholic Church of the Nativity, in Menlo Park. She is survived by three sons, Theodore Portello, Jr. of Beaverton, Ore., Dennis Michael Portello of Chicago, and Thomas Portello of Walnut Creek; one daughter, Beverley O'Halleran-Kalmbach of Concord, Calif.; one sister, Christine Walsh of Menlo Park; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services will be held on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 10 a.m. the Church of Nativity in Menlo Park. Donations may be made to The Parkinson Network of Mt. Diablo, PO Box 3127, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, or American Cancer Society, East Bay Region, 1700 Webster St., Oakland, CA 94612.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Eudele (Murphy) Towne
Eudele (Murphy) Towne, 85, a 39-year Atherton resident, died
at Sequoia Hospital on Jan. 10. Originally from Belmont, she attended Sequoia High School, and studied art at the College of San Mateo and sculpture in Mexico. She was a stylist of interiors and worked for many years at the Franciscan Forge shop, and was a knowledgeable collector of Asian antiques. She was an artist renowned for her shadow boxes, and was frequently commissioned to create her clients' favorite rooms and places in miniature scale. Her shadow boxes have often been displayed at the Woodside Library, as well as in Carmel, and Louise Davies' Fire House in San Francisco. Several works are part of the permanent collection at College of San Mateo museum. She was a member of the Circus Club, the Hillsborough Garden Club, and an investment club, Money Bags. She is survived by one son, Douglas Towne of Atherton. No services will be held.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Anne Marie Waller
Anne Marie Waller, 72, an artist and longtime Palo Alto resident, died
Jan. 4 in Palo Alto after a three-year battle with lung cancer. She was born
in Holland. During World War II, she found food for her family by making long bicycle trips to distant farms. She married
in Paris in 1950 and settled in Palo Alto soon after. As a textile artist she did large wall hangings and taught textile art at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont. She held shows at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga and Hallmark's Crown Center in Kansas City. As well as being on display at various Bay Area locations, her work went on an exhibition that toured through California. She won the first place purchase award at Cal Expo in Sacramento. Because of the war, her formal education was put to an abrupt halt, but at 60 she earned a bachelor's degree in English after studying at Foothill College and San Francisco State University. She wrote short stories about the war and other experiences. They were published in two collections by Bay Area writers. She is survived by her husband, Pete Waller of Palo Alto; a daughter, Catherine Waller of Richmond; and a son, Hans Waller of Berkeley. Private services have been held. Donations may be made to the Rosenbaum Cancer Research Fund, Mt. Zion Health System, 3330 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94108.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Mildred E. Wilson
Mildred E. Wilson, 87, a 50-year Palo Alto resident. died
Jan. 11 at Stanford. She was born
in Illinois, but moved to California, where she attended Pomona High School. In 1934 she graduated from UCLA with a degree in education, but her love of design led her to a career in architecture and real estate. She built over a dozen homes in Palo Alto. She is survived by her husband, Kenneth Wilson of Palo Alto; a daughter, Ginny Russell of Palo Alto; a son, Steve Wilson of New York; and two granddaughters. Services have been held.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 28, 1998
Paul R. Burnett
Paul R. Burnett, 70, a 44-year Palo Alto resident, died
at Stanford on Dec. 27. He was born
in Chicago and was employed as an architect. He was an active member of the Palo Alto Josiah Roller Masonic Lodge, the Palo Alto chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Islam Shrine Temple. He is survived by his wife, Ramona Burnett of Palo Alto; three daughters, Lynn Gentry of Menlo Park, Virginia Burnett of Soquel, Calif., and Susan Burnett of Rockland, Calif. Services will be held at the Western Hills Church, 3399 College of San Mateo Drive, San Mateo, on Friday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m.
Obituary dated: Wednesday Jan 7, 1998
