Local residents who died recently include:
Dorothy Fisher Anderson, 100, of Stanford, who continued playing competitive tennis well into her 90s, who loved opera and worldwide travel, died on March 28, 2025.
Joseph Stanley Baylis, 91, of Menlo Park, who between 1954 and 1956 was stationed in Heidelberg, Germany, at the U.S. Army headquarters as a stenographer and clerk typist, cherished those memories for the rest of his life and was a proud veteran died on April 1, 2025.
Robert Leslie “Bob” Krause, Jr.,76, of Menlo Park, who held several patents in optoelectronics, was published in technology journals, and contributed to a book—all while working for major Silicon Valley semiconductor firms died on April 2, 2025.
Sylvia Hochscheid, 96, of Palo Alto, who played piano for veterans and church services well into her 90s, including for the Vietnam Vets Chorus and both Catholic and Protestant services at the VA in Menlo Park and Palo Alto and once worked in a clinic Soweto, South Africa, helping patients with acquired hearing loss died in November 2024.
Matthew Arnold Allen, 94, of Palo Alto and the former mayor of Mountain View, who lived through World War II, earned his Ph.D in Physics at Stanfords and worked for over 40 years at SLAC, who served at the Radar Office in the British Army before immigrating to the U.S. died at the Vi in Palo Alto on April 11, 2025.
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