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Local residents who died recently include:
Jane B. Differding, 86, a former Palo Alto and Mountain View resident who grew up as a “preacher’s kid,” who got accustomed to changing communities, who was an information specialist for businesses as varied as Nielsen Engineering, Tandem Computers, and Genelabs, who was a resident of The Sequoias in Portola Valley, who shared a genuine appreciation of nature, food, art and music with those around her, who loved to read mystery novels, and who adored babies and volunteered in the NICU at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, on April 20, 2024.
Teresa Najera Spiva, 82, a Redwood City resident who formerly lived in Menlo Park, who was a longtime member of the Church of Nativity in Menlo Park, who worked as a medical assistant and billing specialist for medical practices at Stanford Hospital, who had a wonderful taste and eye for beauty, creating homes that were warm and inviting, who enjoyed finding and refinishing antiques with her husband Everett, who was known for her enchiladas, chocolate cake or homemade limoncello and gatherings on the back patio of her homes, and who will be dearly missed by her husband and numerous cousins, on May 30, 2024.
Maribee Smith, 98, a 50-year resident of Palo Alto, who was born in Vancouver, Canada, who taught in the San Mateo Union High School District, who, following her retirement in 1995, taught ESL overseas in South Korea and the U.A.E., who volunteered with the Ravenswood Education Foundation, specifically with the Science Initiative, which helps students prepare to enter high school with both knowledge and lab skills, and who indulged in bike riding into her late 80s, on April 28, 2024.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at obituaries.rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
