*Richard Adamo — beloved aerospace scientist and principal engineer at SRI — dies at 78* Richard Adamo, a long-time Palo Alto resident who was instrumental in the development of launch safety during the Space Shuttle Era, passed away on May 11, 2025, following his decades-long battle with heart disease. Richard was born in Manhattan on February 13, 1947, to parents Barbara and Nicol...

Matthew Arnold Allen, Former Mountain View Mayor, Dies at Age 94 Matthew Arnold Allen, former Mayor of Mountain View, CA, passed away peacefully of natural causes at the Vi at Palo Alto on April 11, 2025 at the age of 94. Matthew lived a rich and full life, devoted to science, public service, and family. Born Matthew Arnold Avner on April 27, 1930, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to William and Clar...

Dorothy Fisher Anderson was born Dorothy Anker on May 31, 1924 in Funchal, Madeira to Edna Gilbert Anker and Lewis Mann Anker. Her father worked overseas in the textile industry when “Dolly” was born, but soon after, the family returned to Albany, NY where he died of scarlet fever when she was 9 months old. Dorothy, her older sister Marion, and their mother moved to Manhattan in the late 192...

Peter John Anderson, John to everyone who knew him, beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend to many, passed away peacefully on May 25th, 2025 at the age of 85.  He will be greatly missed.  John  was born on the island of Gulangyu near Xiamen, China on June 16, 1939. He was the only child of missionaries, Peter Anderson, a Scot, and Constance Mary Hopkinson, an Englishwoman from Suf...

Franklyn Rehm Atkinson passed away peacefully at age 83 on April 14, 2025 in Stanford, California, following a brief illness. Frank was born in San Francisco on December 13, 1941 to Patricia Rehm Atkinson and Robert Wilson Atkinson. Frank was a 4th generation Californian. Due to his father’s work with a family business, the Guy F. Atkinson Company (construction), he spent his childhood with h...

Joseph Stanley Baylis passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 1 at his home in Menlo Park, CA. Joe was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1933, the youngest of six children of Francis Ray Baylis and Jessie (Kenny) Baylis. He lived a modest life in his childhood, overcoming persistent health issues in his youth, then becoming president of his high school class in Dexter, Michigan. Joe joined the Army ...

Jim Beer, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and respected local business owner, passed away peacefully at his home in Menlo Park on May 19, 2025, at the age of 90. A native of Centerville, Iowa, Jim was born on January 7, 1935. He married his high school sweetheart, Beverly Rodgers, in 1955. They shared over 60 loving years together before her passing in 2016. Together, they raised two ch...

Robert (Bob) Bostwick Beim, affectionately known as “Bear,” passed away peacefully surrounded by family on August 26, 2025. He was 82 years old. Born in Minneapolis and raised in California, Bob attended Menlo High School in Atherton as a boarding student. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 with a degree in Biological Sciences, where he was a member of Beta T...

Kenneth Bird passed away peacefully at home in Palo Alto on April 23, 2025 at 85 years old. Ken’s professional geological career is legendary. During his senior year at Oregon State University, Ken was hired by Shell as a summer intern to participate in geological field investigations in northern Alaska. A year later, during continued work with Shell, he was injured in an Alaska North Slope rock...

Barbara Bong Blinn, 83, of Wheaton, IL passed away peacefully on August 25 surrounded by her care team and family. She was born in Chicago, IL on December 31, 1941 to Jane and Kenneth Bong from North Dakota and was raised in Menlo Park, CA. In the second half of her life, she lived in the Wheaton area for 42 years. Barbara is predeceased by her loving husband, James Kemper Blinn, and is surv...

Bonnie Jean Blythe was born in Oakland, California at the East Oakland Hospital on July 24, 1932. She lived in Oakland on Lawlor Street, near 94th Avenue, with her parents until college. She attended Pacific Union College in Angwin, CA and graduated in 1955 with a major in Elementary Education. She spent one year, between her Sophomore and Junior years, teaching in Placerville, CA and taught after...

Stanford, CA — Charles Pius “Chuck” Bonini, a pioneering scholar of decision sciences and a beloved father, husband, grandfather, teacher and mentor passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on June 6, 2025. For more than four decades, Professor Bonini served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he held the William R. Timken Professorship ...

Mark Brady, PhD., born in New Haven on July 27, 1946, died on Whidbey Island on July 31, 2025. Mark and his two sisters were born in a housing project in New Haven CT. Raised first by their single mother, and later by his 18-year-old sister, Andrea. In his 20s he followed a spiritual directive delivered to him by a Turkish Sufi teacher who instructed him to: “Provide shelter for people”, and...

John Kay Campbell, “Kay” to family, age 96, passed away peacefully on May 14, 2025, after a long and full life, leaving behind a legacy of curiosity, resilience, and love for family. Born in 1928 in Sacramento, California, John’s early years were shaped by the hardships of the Great Depression. He grew up moving between California, the Ozarks of Missouri, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, as his famil...