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...

Heather Lois Maclean, 91, peacefully passed away in Los Altos on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. Heather was born on September 18, 1933, in Alameda, California to Donald Barr Maclean and Lois Thomas Maclean. After graduating from Palo Alto High School, where she lettered in band, she attended San Jose State College. She joined Delta Zeta Sorority while attending SJSC and remained a lifelong me...

Maria Luisa Sandin Márquez (Lucia), 74, of Palo Alto, California, passed away on April 15, 2025. Lucia was born on May 23, 1950, in Mexico City, to her parents, Jose and Catalina Sandin. She was the third of seven siblings and grew up in a loving and lively household. In her early adulthood, she worked at a chocolate factory, a sweet beginning to a life filled with care, warmth, and devotion...

Except for one year spent in New York and another in Mexico, Virginia Tuggle McKim was a Westerner. She was born in Oakland, California, to Jack and Florence Johnson Tuggle in 1927. She went to kindergarten in Fresno, California, then spent her growing up years in Silverton, Oregon. She attended Oregon State College and in 1950 graduated from University of Washington. Her degree in adverti...

Brenda S. Miller, beloved mother, devoted friend, and lifelong learner, passed away peacefully on March 20, 2025, at the age of 91. Born and raised in Whittier, California, to William and Marion Sorey, Brenda was a bright and curious child who cultivated a love of music, history, and adventure. An accomplished pianist and equestrian in her youth, she carried a deep appreciation for the arts an...

Robert Mitchell of Redwood City passed away on January 15, 2025, of a short illness. He was born at Stanford Hospital to Ralph Flint Mitchell, Jr. and Lieselotte (Trautner) Mitchell, and grew up in Los Altos with his brother Mark Trautner Mitchell. Robert graduated from Los Altos High School and attended Foothill College studying computers and graphics. On passing of his parents, Robert lived f...

Tom was married to local resident Beverly Schutz Morgan for 43 years. He was a painting and drywall contractor in South San Francisco where he lived most of his life, but retired in 2002 and moved to RC in 2006 with Bev to live in her childhood home. Tom played guitar, Bev sang, and they entertained with two-part harmony on songs from the 1940s to 1970s. Tom raced a 1959 MGA and a 1956 Morgan for ...

Tom was married to Redwood City resident Beverly Schutz Morgan for 43 years. Like his father, he proudly served in the US Marine Corps. He was a painting and drywall contractor in South San Francisco where he lived most of his life, but retired in 2002, and he moved to RC in 2008 with Bev to live in her childhood home. Tom played guitar, Bev sang, and they entertained with two-part harmony on song...

John, affectionately known as “Johnny Mo” by his longtime friends and family, shared his outgoing personality abundantly with his community. In his youth, he was often the life of the party—his big, beautiful smile made you feel seen and special. He had a natural gift for connecting with others. John was born in Wilmington, Delaware to Jack and Mary Morris. In 1959, the family relocated t...

Ian passed on February 5, 2025, surrounded by family. Born December 22, 1952, in Girvan, Scotland, he grew up in Glasgow and attended Kelvinside Academy. He earned an M.A. in Geography from the University of Edinburgh and a graduate degree in Urban Planning from Newcastle University. In the late 1970s, he emigrated to Vancouver, BC, where he met his wife, Nora, and earned a Ph.D. in urban studies ...

Dean O. Morton died peacefully, with loved ones at his side, in Palo Alto, California on February 16, 2025. He was ninety-two. Dean was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1932 to Olivia and Orla Morton. He graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in electrical engineering and married fellow Wildcat LaVon Palmer in 1953. They were married for sixty-one years before her passing in 2015. ...

Shirley Whaley Nanevicz passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of ninety-two after a brief illness on February 18, 2025. Shirley was born in De Soto, Missouri to Earvin Dewey Whaley and Berdie Belle Larkin. She attended William Jewell College and Washington University before moving to Palo Alto, where she worked as a radiology technician at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. During that ti...

Ethel Isabella Newell, affectionately known as Nonna and Big E, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend, passed from this life peacefully in her sleep at home with her husband by her bedside on the morning of May 19, 2025. She lived a full, abundant life to the very end, despite having ovarian cancer for the past 4 years. The youngest of three daughters, Ethel was born in Ma...

Dana Parsons, age 75, died suddenly at his home in Portola Valley on the morning of March 13, 2025. He is survived by his wife, Ann, his son, Matthew and his wife, Abigail, and his daughter, Emily and her fiancée, Jacob Forster. Dana was predeceased by his parents, Earl and Gloria Parsons. A native of the Bay Area, Dana grew up in Palo Alto, attending Gunn High School and San Jose State Univer...

Loren ‘Wayne’ Pepple, 96, passed away on April 30th, 2025, at Gordon Manor, Redwood City, CA. Wayne was preceded in death by his brothers, Clarence and Robert, an infant sister, half-brother Clarence, and his parents, Ivan and Elsie (Overbey) Pepple. He is survived by his wife of 76 years, Margaret (Harville) and their children, Merriam Hanley (Robert) of Tehachapi, CA, Monica Pepple of Blo...

Ida Pryor passed away on April 12. She was survived by her daughter Heather Cole and her three grand children Kourtni Cole, Bret Cole and Zachary Cole in Boston, Ma. Ida moved from Sunnyvale, Ca to Vacouver, Wa in 1989 where she lived out her life. She enjoyed playing bingo and crochet....

Jameson Quinn died March 23, 2025, after falling into a canyon in Guatemala City while attempting to rescue a small dog. Jameson (James Arnold Quinn) was born January 19, 1974. He graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio 1998 and earned a PhD in Statistics at Harvard in 2020. He supported his family by working as a teacher, a programmer and as a statistician. Jameson’s ambition and intellectual pass...