Born in San Francisco and raised in Palo Alto and Santa Cruz, Joseph Erskine Welsh was a true California boy. He surfed the Rivermouth in Santa Cruz on a 9’6” Jack’s longboard and skied the steep slopes of Lake Tahoe on the new Head Aluminum Standard skis. When he was 10 years old, he rode the Squaw Peak chairlift serving modern-day Siberia with a frightened Icelandic downhiller who subseque...

Craig Leon Wentz, 62, passed away peacefully on December 10, 2025 in Denver, CO. Craig was born in Mountain View, CA, and grew up in Menlo Park, CA where his love of sports, people, and storytelling first took shape. He attended Menlo Atherton HS and graduated from Palo Alto HS in 1981. He then went on and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1986 with a degree in Communication and b...

George Geoffrey Westerfield (Geoff), 67, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on December 1, 2025, at Mission House, a hospice home, in Redwood City, California. Geoff was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the beloved son of Putney and Anne Westerfield. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and summers enjoyed in Watch Hill, RI., he graduated from Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, ...

Carolyn Green Westgaard passed away tragically on Saturday, January 31 after being struck by a car while walking in her neighborhood the day before. She was a beloved sister, wife, mother of two daughters, colleague, and caring friend to many. Carolyn was born at Stanford Hospital on April 6th 1968 to Barbara Land Green and Kenneth Allen Green and grew up in Sunnyvale, graduating from Homes...

On Sunday February 1, 2026, Sara Tolles White of Portola Valley, California, passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by family. Sara was the daughter of the late Nell and Raymond Pardee Tolles; the beloved wife of Robert Marshall White; the devoted mother of Victoria Taylor White (David Heyman) and Jonathan Marshall White (Deborah Flowers); and the cherished grandmother of Henry and M...

Born in San Francisco to Sallie and Ralph Wonderman, Marilyn Wolper grew up in San Mateo. A talented performer, crowned May Queen at age five, she studied singing and dancing, and performed semi-professionally throughout young adulthood. After graduating from San Mateo High School, she worked as a stenographer and attended San Mateo Junior College. In 1949, she married Boris, the love of her life....

Born July 23, 1936, in Shanghai, China to Jack and Gladys Reed, Marcia Janice Cecilia Cecilia Li Mo Chen Reed Wythes lived her first five years in the French Concession of Shanghai, where she mastered the Shanghainese dialect.  World War II required an evacuation, and the Reeds sailed to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1941, months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.  A newly enrolled student at Punahou, M...

Leslie Fred Zwiebel, of Menlo Park, died at his home on January 28 after several years of declining health. He was 78. Les was born on November 17, 1947, in New York City to Bernice (Sebelsky) and Arthur Zwiebel. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Leta Jane Zwiebel, in 2020, and by his stepson, John King, in 2024. He is survived by stepsons Stephen King and Aaron King of California, and...