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Local residents who died recently include:
Lawrence Victor Riches Jr., 80, an active member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who founded Garden Supply Hardscapes (formerly Los Altos Garden Supply), and whose projects included gathering honey from his beehives in Carmel and working ranches and farms in Idaho and Utah, on June 28, 2024.
Robert Masik, 76, who grew up in Palo Alto and graduated from St. Francis High School before serving in the Peace Corps, where he helped build roads, bridges and other projects in El Salvador, and who later worked with Tijuana Ministry to help build housing for struggling families in Tijuana, on June 6, 2024.
Sam Eletr, 85, who received a doctorate in physical chemistry at U.C. Berkeley and worked for Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto before launching his own company called GeneCo, later Applied Biosystems, in Foster City, which designed DNA sequencing equipment used for the Human Genome Project, and whose hobbies included chess, traveling, classic cars and sailing in the San Francisco Bay, on May 15, 2024.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at obituaries.rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
