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Blake Nichols Sandy, 65, of Portola Valley, who was born at Stanford Hospital and grew up in Ladera, who attended Woodside High School, who hiked the Camino de Santiago, and who was a devoted Led Zeppelin fan, died on Aug. 20.
Yvonne Elsie Jacobson, 88, of Los Altos Hills, who grew up on her family’s cherry farm in Sunnyvale and later wrote the 1984 history book “Passing Farms: Enduring Values” about the farm’s disappearance, who attended Fremont High School and won a speech and debate contest against future Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who graduated from Stanford University, and who taught courses on religion and art at San José State University, De Anza College, and Foothill College, died on Aug. 18.
Charles Leonard Aker, 73, of Leon, Nicaragua, who was born and raised in Palo Alto, who graduated from Palo Alto High School, who earned a doctorate in biology with a thesis focused on the ecological and biological development of the Yucca plant, who moved to Nicaragua in 1984 to become a professor and investigator at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Leon, and who was a tireless advocate for addressing climate change, died on July 18.
Andrew Kennedy Ludwick, 80, of Palo Alto, who co-founded the pioneering networking startup SynOptics Communications in 1985, who pioneered twisted-pair Ethernet, who received Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award, who was an Advisory Board member for the Northern California Innocence Project, who was a founding member of the 49er Foundation Red & Gold Society, and who was an avid golfer, died on June 2.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at rwcpulse.com/obituaries.
