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Hildegard Cervenka, 98, of Palo Alto, who was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States at age 30, who worked as a veterinarian and then a teacher’s aide, and who was an avid gardener, reader and traveler, died on July 17.
Patricia S. Campbell, 85, of Palo Alto, who worked at the research pharmaceutical company ALZA, who helped develop transdermal drug delivery patches and whose work resulted in 24 patents, died on July 16.
Lloyd Murray, 96, of Palo Alto, who was a collegiate golfer and played baseball for the Army, who worked as a real estate agent at Cornish & Carey selling homes in Palo Alto, who earned trophies playing mixed-doubles tennis with his wife, Yvonne, and who cherished his 1970 red Cutlass convertible, died on July 16.
Mimi Peery, 86, of Palo Alto, who was a teacher in San Jose after college, who was a gifted pianist and quilter, who annually sewed Christmas Eve pajamas for her children and later her 13 grandchildren, who was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and who was a fan of the Pinewood basketball team, died on July 14.
Kathryn Gail Fenton Brown, 78, of Cupertino, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing, as well as an MBA at the University of San Francisco, who worked as an intensive care and critical care nurse at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, who went on to hold leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente and Stanford Hospital and Clinics, who helped build the stroke center program at Kaiser Permanente Redwood City, who lived at the Forum at Rancho San Antonio, and who was a devout Roman Catholic, died on July 12.
John Arnold Galen, 102, of Menlo Park, who was raised in San Francisco, who studied at Stanford University, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Philippines and Japan, and who walked across the Golden Gate Bridge on its opening day, died on July 7.
Shawn Thomas Pagee, 55, of Menlo Park, who graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School, who played minor league baseball in the Detroit Tigers organization, who was later a minor league instructor for the Fayetteville Generals, who played 23 seasons in the Bay Area Men’s Senior Baseball League, who coached M-A Little League and Menlo-Atherton High School baseball, and who worked for 24 years at Francisco Partners, died on May 31.
Karen Louise Rongey-Conner, 79, of Woodside, who was an artist and teacher, who loved taking walks through Woodside and who raised two daughters, died on April 13.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at rwcpulse.com/obituaries/.
