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Local residents who died recently include:
Maxine Hoffland Tucker, 86, who moved to Palo Alto in 1962 and worked as a school social worker in East San Jose and was an active parent serving leadership roles at Friends Nursery School, Green Gables Elementary, and Jordan Middle Schools, before working for the San Mateo County Office of Education and later the county’s mental health department, assisting students with autism and their families, and who was described as a voracious reader, and avid card player and a great cook, on April 19, 2024.
Alma Phillips, 88, a long-time Palo Alto resident whose teaching career turned into educational volunteerism and advocacy at the local level, working with the Environmental Volunteers and giving students geology and wildlife tours of the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve, as well as served as a docent for Deer Hollow Farm and tutoring reading to children through Avenidas, and who worked with the Palo Alto Housing Corporation to advocate for fair housing, on April 19, 2024.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at obituaries.rwcpulse.com/obituaries.
