Susan J. Levy (Susie) died peacefully at home in Portola Valley, CA on Sept. 19, 2023, ending a four-year struggle with Lewy Body Dementia. She was born in Rutland Vermont on August 21, 1941. She received a bachelors degree from UC Berkeley and a teaching credential from San Francisco State. Susie was a high energy person who never shied from new challenges and opportunities. She was an acco...

Marlene Cummings Arnold, 91, of Portola Valley, passed away on September 16, 2023. Marlene was born in Brainerd, Minnesota, to Francis and Oveline Cummings on August 15, 1932. She attended St. Francis Elementary School and Brainerd High School. Following high school, she attended the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, where she received her BS in Nursing in 1954. After gradu...

It is with great sorrow that we share the passing of our son, Marc Gambit Toney on September 14, 2023 as a result of a tragic accident. Marc is survived by his parents, Steve and Maider, three brothers, Andrew (Samantha), Shawn (Ashley) and Scott Toney. Marc was born in Mountain View, Ca on February 24, 1995. Raised in Mountain View, attending grade school at Huff, middle school at Kings ...

Manuel passed away after a two year battle with cancer. After having served in the Navy, he had a 29 year career with the County of Santa Clara Children’s Protective Services as a social worker. He is survived by his wife, Katherine; children, Tim and Micaela; brother John; sister-in-law, Molly and numerous nieces and nephews....

The celebrated life and achievements of Dr. Ferid Murad, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, pharmacologist, and physician who made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Murad passed peacefully at his home in Menlo Park on September 4, 2023. Dr. Murad was born in Whiting, Indiana, in 1936 to an Albanian immigrant father and an American mother. He grew up worki...

Menlo Park resident June Jensen, widow of longtime San Mateo County Coroner, Paul B. Jensen, has died at the age of 99. Her husband, coroner for 37 years, died in 1995 at the age of 88. Mrs. Jensen, mother of five, grandmother of seven, and great grandmother of two; was active in Peninsula clubs, an avid gardener and golfer. At one time, she was one of the few woman daily newspaper city e...

Kevin George Bohannon unexpectedly passed away on August 26th, 2023 at the age of 32. Kevin is survived by his wife, Jordan Bohannon (Stone), his parents; David Bohannon and Carol Stewart and his 4 siblings; Abigail (Bohannon) Dunckel, Madeline (Bohannon) Johnson, Ryan Bohannon, and Stewart Silverberg (recently deceased). Also, many in laws, and nieces and nephews. Kevin was born April 4t...

Arturo (Art) Santo Domingo (11/19/1938 – 8/25/2023), passed away at the age of 84 surrounded by his family at his residence in Las Vegas. Art was born in Bronxville, NY to parents Ernestina Garcia Santo Domingo and Luis Felipe Santo Domingo, both of whom immigrated from Colombia. After graduating from Bronxville High School in 1955, Art attended Duke University, graduating in 1960 with a Ba...

Priscilla C. Azcueta, 68, of San Mateo, California, passed away on August 20, 2023, after a three-year battle with Multiple Myeloma Cancer. Priscilla was born on August 22, 1954, to Peter and Virginia Azcueta in San Jose, California and raised in Mountain View, California. After Priscilla graduated from Mountain View High School in 1972, she went on to study Social Work, Sociology and Psycholog...

Joan Wrenn, 80, a long time Palo Alto resident, passed away on August 17, 2023. The youngest of four children, she grew up in Lorain, Ohio, before graduating from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. in 1965. After a year spent working for the National Institutes of Health, Joan headed west to graduate school at Stanford. While at Stanford, Joan met fellow grad student Jim Wrenn and the tw...

Donna Marie Prudence, age 76, passed away on August 14, 2023, in the presence of her husband Paul at their home in Los Altos Hills, CA. After a courageous battle she succumbed to chronic health issues stemming from Lyme disease. Donna was born on October 24, 1946, in Salt Lake City, UT, to Lawrence and Geraldine "Gerry" McQuade, whom she now joins in heaven. Donna was a beloved wife, mother, grand...

Cyrena N Wilson was born as Cyrena Nelson in Chicago, Illinois, on February 10, 1921, and died on August 10, 2023 in Menlo Park, California, at the exact age of 102 and six months. Her parents were Jesse Ward Nelson and Natalia Carson Nelson; she had an older sister, Jessie Ann, and a younger brother, Charles. Cyrena grew up on the North Shore of Chicago and went to New Trier High School w...

Donald Niederhaus passed away peacefully on August 6, 2023. He was born in San Francisco on April 1, 1941, the son of Ed and Betty Niederhaus. Don graduated from San Mateo High School in 1959 and was active in school government and swimming. He earned his degree in Industrial Management from UCSB in 1963. Don established Cold Storage Manufacturing in 1976 and grew his business 40+ years with his h...

Stephen ‘Bud’ Belich said farewell to this world on Saturday August 5, 2023 at his home in Menlo Park. He was 85 years young, lived a full life and leaves a legacy of love, friendship and joy in family, work and community. Bud was born in 1938 in Clairton, PA, a small town on the Monongahela River just outside of Pittsburgh, to Mike and Catherine Belich. Along with his sisters Cathy and Mar...

Joan Marie Agnes Murphy Meyn was born in San Francisco to Agnes and Anthony Murphy on January 20, 1930. A 3rd generation San Franciscan, she graduated from Presentation High School and had many stories of her adventures there with her dear friends, Jeanne Major Murphy, Alice Marshall Ravano, and Rita Ross Cashman as well as tales of the nuns (think Trouble with Angels). At a YLI dance at the ...

Alice Kwai Yuen Meyers (née Lau) peacefully passed away July 29, 2023 in hospice care in Kent, Washington. She was just several weeks shy of her 93rd birthday. Alice grew up in Moana Loa Gardens in Honolulu, Hawai’i, where she was one of 13 children. They were a close-knit family. Her sisters nearest her age have remained her best friends throughout her life. She loved time with family an...

John Gaetano, formerly of Menlo Park and Portola Valley passed away peacefully at 79 surrounded by his family in El Dorado Hills, CA. John was born March 6, 1944 in San Jose, CA to Clara (Geraci) and Dominic Gaetano. A lifelong peninsula resident, he grew up and raised his family in Menlo Park and Portola Valley. As a young man, he was known among friends for his athleticism, as he was a state...

Noreen Eldredge passed away July 28, 2023, at the age of 98, in South Jordan, Utah. Noreen was born in Logan, Utah in April 1925, to Delmar and Mabel Tingey. Education was important to Noreen, and she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry & Biology from Utah State University. She was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, and graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1946. She received a schol...