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Local residents who have died recently include:
Rachel Crawford Valentine, 90, a Woodside resident who worked for a radio station in her hometown of Emporia, Kansas, before heading west to pursue teaching, was a prolific reader who played tennis, loved bridge and had a passion for the symphony, opera and musical theater. Skilled in needlepoint, she was also a dazzling cook who never served a guest the same meal twice. She died May 20.
Marion Farrell Moreno, 101, who raised three children with husband Jack in the Menlo Park house they built in 1955, and lived there for the rest of her life. After Jack’s death, she married Halcott Moreno and enjoyed a life filled with travel, friends, family gatherings and music concerts, especially jazz, and took 55 cruises around the world. She died Jan. 12.
Eleanor “Lee” Herz Swent, 101, an author, historian, teacher and world traveler who taught English in Oakland’s Chinatown and was senior research interviewer/editor at the Regional Oral History Office at U.C. Berkeley and director of the “Western Mining in the Twentieth Century” series of oral histories. She wrote her first book after living in Tayoltita, Mexico, where she learned to speak Spanish, ride a mule and cook on a wood stove while her husband worked at San Luis silver mine. She died on May 24.
Martha Jacqueline Enthoven, 59, who grew up in Atherton and was a manager for EF (Education First), a global cultural exchange company, and as a life coach, lived a life rich in love, family, friendship, travel, curiosity, and conversations about the endless array of things that struck her fancy. Whether her family was living in Crawfordsville, Indiana, or Kuala Lumpur, Boston or Washington, she led her household on one grand adventure after another. She died June 2.
Demetrios P. Kanellakos, 93, was born in Greece and immigrated to America to pursue his studies, earning a doctorate in electrical engineering and moved to Palo Alto to work as a radio physicist at Stanford Research Institute, then in the aerospace industry, and who also taught at San Jose State University. He taught Transcendental Meditation, was a regular member of any Greek Orthodox Church that was close to home and relished Greek mythology, philosophy, music and dance. He died June 12.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
