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VAN, Warren M.,
He was born August 23, 1907 in Portland, Oregon to John William Eric and Caro Mae Van. He graduated from the University of Washington at Seattle with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering. On June 5, 1937, he married Hazel Marie Owley and they moved to California where he attained the position of Vice President in Marsh & McLennan Companies in San Francisco. He retired in 1972. He enjoyed many things, including music, dancing, travel, and golf but he especially enjoyed his family.
He is survived by his daughter, Jeanne Spaulding, and her husband David of Los Altos and his son, David J. Van, and his wife Joan of San Luis Obispo. He has four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. All will miss him very much. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Hazel.
The family has requested that any donation be made to Hospice Partners of The Central Coast, 277 South Street, Suite R, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401.
COVER, Phyllis,
After finishing her bachelor’s
degree, she attended the Juliard School for Music in New York. Her love of live, her children and grandchildren and music are what she’ll be remembered for.
Arrangements were made by the Los Altos Chapel of Spangler Mortuary, 399 So. San Antonio Rd, Los Altos.
Donations to the donor’s favorite charity, preferred.
VULGAR, Marcella S.,
She attended Mount Union College in Alliance, OH and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in chemistry. She married Charles Hoag in 1947. In 1950,they started a family with the arrival of Scott. In 1952, they expanded their family with the addition of Steve.
After owning and operating two Dairy Queen franchises for 15 years, the Hoag family moved west to California in 1969. When they finished their working careers (Charles as a family counselor & Marcia as a bank teller), they enjoyed retirement by playing golf & bridge and volunteering their time (Marcia at El Camino Hospital for 16 years giving over 6,000 hours and Charles as a handyman for senior citizens).
Marcia passed away June 1, 2003. Charles had preceded her in August, 2002. A private memorial service was held for family and friends. She and Charles are interred at Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo, CA. They are survived by her sons, Steve and Scott, daughter-in-law, Susan and grandsons, David and Daniel.
Donations can be sent to El Camino Hospital Auxiliary, Inc., Health Professional Scholarship Program, Box 7025, Mtn. View, CA 94039-7025.
GOPEN, Arlene,
Contributions to the Charles and Arlene Gopen Foundation, c/o J.C.F.S., 2150 Post St., SF/CA 94115.
PLUMLEY, Michiko,
all. Raised in Beppu Japan, she is survived there by her sisters Sumiko and Shigeko.
Michi, to her friends, loved flower arranging and became {Assistant Professor of Ikebana 2nd grade}. She also enjoyed tutoring students in English, Japanese, volunteer at the Japanese Culture Center and proudly served as international liaison coordinator at Foothill College.
Friends are invited to a celebration and memorial service to be held on Sunday, August 24th at 3:00 PM the Mountain View Buddhist Temple.
In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests donations in her memory to Ikebana International, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter at 1135 McClelland Dr., Novato, CA 94945 or the American Diabetes Association. Michi always had an easy smile, gentle laugh and her vibrant spirit surrounds us all.
SCHNITKER, Edward August,
Ed was twelve years old in 1918 when his father contracted influenza during the epidemic that year, and died a few weeks later. His mother Minnie never remarried and supported the family by taking a job as a cook at a local school cafeteria.
After graduating from high school, Ed attended the University of Toledo for two years and completed his degree in Civil Engineering at Purdue University. A high school teacher saw the potential for a higher education in Ed and loaned him the money to attend Purdue, where he joined the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Those were special times for Ed and he was a lifelong supporter of the “Boilermakers”.
Ed planned for a career in Agricultural Extension after graduating from Purdue but there were few jobs during the depression, so he took a job with the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics at Langley Field in Hampton Virginia. In Hampton Ed met and fell in love with a local school teacher, Elizabeth Irene Shepherd, and they married in 1932.
In 1940, Ed was transferred from Langley Field to Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, being one of the first 50 employees at the facility, where he worked until he retired in 1964. Ed headed up the drafting department and later worked in the budget office. It was during those early years that Ed
helped design and oversee the building of the world’s largest wind tunnel at the time at the Ames Research Center. After thirty-five years at NACA / NASA, Ed retired and he and Betsy enjoyed traveling to many parts of the world and especially to visit family in Virginia. Ed built a cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which became a favorite spot to relax and enjoy times with family and friends.
Ed was very involved in volunteer activities including United Way and the Boy Scouts of America. He was a troop leader for twenty years and earned the Silver Beaver Award for his outstanding leadership with the Scouts. Ed was a member of Mountain View Rotary Club for 62 years, where he was Secretary/Treasurer for many years and he helped establish a foundation to fund scholarships for local high school students. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge for 64 years and a charter member of the local chapter of SIRS. Ed was also honored for being the Citizen of the Year by the City of Mountain View. Ed and Betsy enjoyed their long time membership of the Los Altos United Methodist Church, and the numerous friends they met and worshiped with there.
Ed and Betsy had two daughters, Elizabeth Kay born in January 1936 and Carol Anne born in June 1945, both of whom followed in the footsteps of their mother and became teachers.
Kay married Charles Rockhold in 1956 and had three children, Steven, Stuart and Linda. Ed and Betsy enjoyed their three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren immensely.
McAULAY, Margaret Dabbel,
Born in Sonoma, CA, September 9, 1912, she attended schools there and graduated from the University of California in Berkeley. After completing a degree in Librarianship, also at UC Berkeley, she worked in public libraries in Palo Alto and Redwood City until her marriage to William Hatton McAulay. They settled first in San Carlos; the family moved to Woodside in 1956 and finally to Los Altos Hills in 1965.
Long interested in residential design, landscape architecture and home decoration, she obtained her real estate license in 1969 and enjoyed helping many people find their new homes in a successful career as a realtor with Cornish and Carey, Los Altos, until retirement in 1995.
She is survived by her children, Richard of Los Altos Hills and Tamsin of Pacific Grove, and by her daughter-in-law Anita and her grandson Thomas.
NELSON, Frederick R., 84 “Ray”
He is survived by his sisters Rachel Shreck, Jamestown, NY, Norma Mitchell, Stowe, NY and his sons James, Thornton, CO, John, Honolulu, HA, and Jeff, Los Altos, CA.
Ray was married to Ruby for 52 years until her death four years ago. In New York he had one of the first TV repair shops. He moved the family to Palmdale, CA in 1956 and to Los Altos in 1959. He worked for Hewlett Packard for 19 years and he finished his career at Measurex as a technical writer.
He lived with his son Jeff, daughter in-law Diane and Granddaughters Patricia, Pamela, Julie and Stacy. Until recently Ray loved his walk to downtown for his coffee and groceries.
Services were held August 8 at the San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery Gustine.
