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Local residents who died recently include:
Patricia Morrissey, 87, of Palo Alto, who was born in Missouri, who taught third grade in Palo Alto before serving as director of special education for the South County Cooperative in Menlo Park, who co-founded Morrissey Compton, Inc., and who was dedicated to helping educators and families better support students with learning disabilities, died on Nov. 5, 2025.
Elise B. Liddle, 94, Menlo Park, who was born in Paris, France, who grew up in Los Angeles and spent her high school senior year at Brillantmont, a Swiss finishing school, who enrolled in Stanford in 1949 and majored in French, who had a passion for art and served as head docent at Stanford Museum, now known as Cantor Arts Center, who learned to cook and became a first-rate chef, and who participated in Current Events Club, a discussion group founded by Jane Stanford, died on Dec. 14, 2025.
Mark Ginanni, 66, of Palo Alto, who played baseball at De Anza College and San Jose State University, who married his high school sweetheart, who worked at Eastman Kodak before getting his teaching degree, who taught and coached baseball at numerous schools, including Palo Alto High School, where he served as varsity baseball coach, and Green Middle School, from he retired in 2020, and who loved fishing and exploring the beauty of nature, died on Dec. 21, 2025.
Anna Liniecki, 94, of San Carlos, who was born in Gniesno, Poland, who earned a dentistry degree in 1954, who later relocated to Ghana, where her husband taught mechanical engineering at a university, before moving to California in 1969, who then earned a dentistry license and worked at the Charles Drew Center in East Palo Alto, who later established her own dental practice at the Cupertino Town Center, and who had a keen eye for fashion and loved to wear red, died on Dec. 31, 2025.
Bruno Ferrari, 99, of Los Altos Hills, who was born in Genoa, Italy, who had a passion for flying airplanes, fishing and boxing, and who was a devoted family man who valued loyalty, patience and responsibility, died on Jan. 5, 2026.
Mary Alice Thornton, 87, of Palo Alto, who was born in Ohio, who had spent 25 years as a teacher, mostly at East Side Union High School District in San Jose, who directed a children’s preschool center, who served on the board of directors of Palo Alto’s League of Women Voters for 18 years, including a stint as president from 2010 to 2014, and who was a compassionate mother and grandmother, died on Jan. 3, 2026.
Allen S. Hammond, 75, of Stanford, who was a beloved professor of law at Santa Clara Law School, whose scholarship focused on access and fairness in the media, who served as director of the Minority Telecommunications Development Program in the administration of President Jimmy Carter, and who worked as legal counsel in nonprofit and industry settings before joining academia, died on Jan. 11, 2026.
Bengt Henriksen, 88, of Woodside, who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, who worked for the logistics company AP Moller/Maersk Line, who was assigned to Jakarta, Indonesia, where he won the Indonesian Open Golf Championship, who then transferred to Japan and who was appointed as Danish National Golf team captain for the World Championship, who was promoted to general manager at Maersk Denmark and later moved to San Francisco, and who founded Woodside Consulting Group and Quality Logistics Inc., died on Jan. 11, 2026.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
