It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sylvia Hochscheid in November, 2024. She was “96 and a half,” she would say! Born in Hamilton, Ohio, she longed to travel the world and sought adventure and service. She lived in and traveled around the United States, as well as Africa and South America. She traveled the world making friends, playing piano and gathering wonderful mem...

Judith Gray Holcomb, O.D., of Union City, California and Newport, Rhode Island, passed away on March 2nd following a long battle with breast cancer. She was the loving wife of the late Richard John Pope and the daughter of the late Chester H. and Alma L. (Rankin) Gray. Born in Taunton, MA, Judy was raised in Newport, RI, was a 1964 graduate of Rogers High School and a 1968 graduate of Salve Regin...

Nancy Carole Forslund Jang, 87, of Princeton, NJ died on December 25, 2024 at Princeton Medical Center, following a brief illness. Nancy was born in Callao, Peru in 1937. Her parents, Evar Forslund, a miner, and Ella Nikula Forslund, a school teacher, left their Finnish American community in Upper Michigan during the economic ravages of the Depression. Eventually Evar found work in Peru, wh...

Long time Menlo Park icon Jack (John Decker) Jorgenson left us Sunday, March 16, 2025. He was 99 and a half, just short of his 100 year goal. Although he often said he was not sure when or if he was going to die, he passed quietly in his sleep at the Sequoias in Portola Valley, his home of 23 years. Born in San Francisco, October 16,1925, he was the product of the public schools. After graduat...

Alice Kao was born on February 2, 1955 in Taiwan to Shuchen “Suzi” Kao and Chun Young Kao, an Army General in the Nationalist Party of China. She was the youngest of four children. She attended the Dominican International School in Taipei and the American School of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where her family immigrated in the 1960s. She then earned her MD from the Faculty of Medicine of T...

Judith Ellen Komoroske (née Roach) passed away peacefully on January 7, 2025 surrounded by family. Born December 1, 1941 (Hartford, CT), she was raised in Brighton-by-the-Sea, Old Lyme, the second child of Robert Nicholas and Frances Prendergast Roach. She graduated from Williams Memorial Institute in New London and the Duchesne Residence School (NYC). Her first employment was Time Inc., Photogra...

Ronald Alan Krasnow passed away early in the morning of March 20th, 2025, dying due to complications from battling pancreatic cancer for 8 months. Ron was born on September 14, 1962 to Sheryl and Richard in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up in Oak Park, Michigan alongside Stephanie and Audrey, he was an avid hockey and tennis player. He graduated from Oak Park High School in 1980. Ron atten...

Robert Leslie “Bob” Krause, Jr. was born in Columbus, Ohio on July 31, 1948 to Eileen and Robert Sr. Bob spent the majority of his early years in Kettering, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, with his parents and three sisters Sue Ellen, Linda, and Debra. Bob was an alumni of the University of Dayton, where he graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Technology specializing in Electrical Engineering...

Audrey Jean Lampert, 95, passed away peacefully on January 28, 2025, in Palo Alto, California, surrounded by her loving family. Born on August 12, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Louis and Hattie Bernstein, Audrey grew up with a deep sense of family and community. She attended the University of Missouri before embarking on a new chapter out West. It was in Redwood City that Audrey met the lov...

Imsong Lee, age 93, passed away peacefully on Tuesday December 31, 2024 in Redwood City, California surrounded by family. He was born in a small town called Hunchun near the border of China, Russia and Korea, in August of 1931. Growing up, he lived a relatively normal life until his early teens which was significantly disrupted by the Japanese Colonial Occupation, Chinese Civil War, WWII and the ...

Francisco “Paco” Alexander Leon passed away peacefully at home in Palo Alto, CA on November 29, 2024, from aphasia. Born on February 26, 1953, in Yonkers, New York, to Eleanor (Smith) and Fernando Leon, Paco was the fourth of six children. The family relocated to Michigan in 1955, where Eleanor had grown up. Fernando, an exile from the Spanish Civil War, met Eleanor at Black Mountain Coll...

Michael Ying-Wu Lin, a resident of Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley, CA for 49 years died on January 26, 2025 surrounded by family he loved. A native of Tainan, Taiwan, after high school he came to the United States in 1953 to further his studies. He graduated from Monterey Peninsula College in 1956 and then graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S.E.E. in 1959. He worked for MEC (Microwave Electronic...

Grant Lindholm, a devoted husband, father, and grandfather passed away after a courageous three-year battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Born and raised in Palo Alto, Grant remained a proud lifelong resident of the city that he called home, where he built a life filled with love, laughter, and meaningful connections. Grant graduated from Cubberley High School and attended Chico State University, wh...

Ruth Lisha passed away peacefully at her home in Palo Alto on December 26. She was 77. Born in Longview, Texas to Dr. John A. Gallaher and Stephani Gallaher, she grew up in Walnut Creek where she and her sister, Frances Pierce, enjoyed an idyllic childhood climbing oak trees in their backyard and swimming in the family’s pool. Ruth attended UC Santa Barbara before transferring to UC B...

Dr. Jean “Jeannie” Lythcott, passed away peacefully at home in Palo Alto, California, on March 1, 2025 after battling cancer and cognitive decline. She was 86 years old. Her legacy lives on in the countless students she taught, the teachers she inspired and their students in turn, the institutions and lives she helped shape across the globe, and the family she protected and held together throu...