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Arthur William Hammar, 87, a longtime Palo Alto resident who was born in Chicago, who worked at SRI International as director of computer systems until retiring in 2001, who taught evening classes in BASIC and FORTRAN at De Anza College, and who served as treasurer of First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, was the first chair of its Centennial Endowment Fund Committee and served on the California-Nevada United Methodist Foundation for 30 years, died on Oct. 19.
John (João) Neves, 85, a longtime Palo Alto resident born in Brazil who was one of the first 32 members of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto in 1975, who spent decades in analog, video and digital engineering, who was a dedicated teacher and performer of Brazilian music and formed Escola de Samba ensembles at both Stanford University and the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, where he coordinated the CSMA Jazz Combo Program, died on Oct. 20.
Owen Dimock II, 94, a Palo Alto dentist who retired in 1999 moved to Fitch Mountain in Healdsburg, who traveled abroad frequently with his wife Pat, who was an avid reader with particular appreciation for Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Pynchon, Vonnegut, McCarthy, and Rushdie, and who, in his 80s, wrote a three-book series that he self-published, died on Oct. 24.
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