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Local residents who died recently include:
Eleanor Jean Satterlee, 93, of Palo Alto, who was born in San Francisco, grew up in Sacramento and attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received a degree in education; who moved to Guam with he husband Hugh, a Navy officer; who taught in an elementary school; who loved swimming at Rinconada pool, tending her garden, riding her bike and driving her Miata convertible around town; and who volunteered at organizations such as Tally Ho and The Allied Arts Gift Shop for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, died on Feb. 11, 2025.
Marilyn Wolper, 97, who was born in San Francisco and lived in San Mateo, who was a talented singer and dancer, a political volunteer and an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, racial equality and animal welfare; who formed a real estate company with her husband, Boris; and who was a founding supporter of the Music@Menlo chamber music festival, died on Jan. 16.
John Stypula, 87, of Pebble Beach, an architect who was a principal partner at Spencer Associates of Palo Alto and who contributed to projects such as the California State Railroad Museum and the downtown Palo Alto library, died on Feb. 26.
Scott Scherer, 56, of Menlo Park, who was born in Palo Alto, excelled at water polo and tennis at Los Altos High School; who attended University of Redlands and studied international relations, which included a stint in Russia in 1991; who worked at CoinStar and lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco before moving to Menlo Park; who spent has career as a technologist and an inventor; who loved camping, skiing and mountain biking; who lived by the mantra “No wasted days”; and who died from natural causes while surfing, died on March 6.
Floyd S. Kessler, 82, a Los Altos resident who was born in Pennsylvania and lived in Washington, D.C., before moving to Palo Alto in 1958; who worked as an engineer for the Stromberg-Carlson company before joining Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, from where he retired in 1990; who was an avid cyclist who served as president of F. Kessler, Inc., a bicycle importing and distributing business; who loved photography and traveling with his wife, Barbara, died on March 3.
Eleanor Gardner, a Portola Valley resident, who was born in San Francisco in 1935, who spent her childhood in Woodside, who lived in Palo Alto and Portola Valley, who was a gifted artist and a generous teacher; and who taught painting to adults and children for more than 60 years, died on March 14.
Mary L. Taylor, 86, of Palo Alto, who was born in Salta Lake City and lost both parents at the age of 14, who married her high school sweetheart, Don Judd, and moved to California after the birth of their first child; who volunteered at a local nursery school and was a Cub Scout den mother; who enjoyed a 29-year teacher career at Charles Armstrong School and the Santa Clara Unified School District, where she specialized in teaching students with learning disabilities and emotional challenges; who also taught at Briarwood Elementary School and returned there as a substitute teacher after retirement; and who loved to travel, take bike rides and walking her her Labradoodle, Toby, died on March 14.
Carol E. Kornfeld, 99, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, who received a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University and a master’s degree from Columbia University; who worked as a research associate in biochemistry at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, as a teacher of organic chemistry at Barnard College and as a chemical librarian at Thomas J. Lipton; who later moved to the Bay Area and settled at Portola Valley Ranch; who volunteered at Stanford University’s Cantor Art Center and Lane Medical Library; and who was an avid quilter, hiker, cyclist, tennis and swimmer, died on March 15.
Isanild Wakefield, 92, of Menlo Park, who was born in Brazil, where she met and married American engineer Kenneth Wakefield, who then moved to California, where she spent most of her life, and who was a devout Catholic, great cook and lover of golf, died on March 23.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
