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Local residents who died recently include:
Michael B. Kenney, 82, a Palo Alto resident who played pool to pay his way through college, who opened the company United Home Loan, Inc., who invested in avocado farms and briefly owned racehorses, who enjoyed playing tennis and golf and who enjoyed trips with his golf buddies to Thailand, Australia, Switzerland, France and Brazil, died on Nov. 16, 2025.
Joan Fletcher Lane, 97, an Atherton resident who attended Smith College, who worked at World Affairs Council before getting a job at Stanford University’s International House, who served as a board member at various international organizations at Stanford and UC Berkeley, with a focus on creating college scholarships for young women of color and hosting an exchange program for international students, who later worked as an assistant to the dean of humanities at Stanford and then as special assistant to the university’s board of trustees, and who loved traveling and hiking, died on Feb. 19.
Mary Helen Luna, 67, a Mountain View resident who graduated from Mountain View High School and who worked at Bank of America and Shoreline Amphitheater, died on Feb. 27.
John Thomas Antoun, 82, a Palo Alto resident who served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, serving four years as a faculty member in the Rickover Nuclear Power Program in California, who studied mathematics at UC Berkeley, who enjoyed a long career in space science and engineering, spending many years at TRW, Inc., who supported local cultural institutions like Palo Alto Arts Center and Gamble Gardens, and who loved to travel the world, died on March 8.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
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