Robert Lewis Quinsey, ’41 (English), of Eureka, Calif., April 8, at 99, from pneumonia. Millhauser children Christina Wallum, Cynthia Acker, Daphne Blackmer and Deborah Lewis stepchildren Vanessa, ’72, and Peter, ’76 nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her second husband, Albert, and her half brother Walter Mansfield Brown. She spent most of her time on the family farm in the Sacramento Delta, and she was a founder of the Crystal Springs Uplands School and president of the Hillsborough Garden Club. She later worked at Lockheed and Bechtel. After Stanford, she attended the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design and the Chouinard Art Institute. Mildred Brown Wenzell, ’40, of Hillsborough, Calif., June 10, at 98. Survivors: children Adrienne Knudsen, David and John six grandchildren a great-granddaughter and a brother. She was predeceased by her husband, Walter, ’39, MD ’43, and son Robert. She also helped start the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild. She worked for Price Waterhouse, and in the 1960s, she assisted with her brother Pete’s political campaigns. During World War II, she traveled overseas with the Japan-America Student Conference. At Stanford, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi and Cap and Gown. Mary Virginia McCloskey Hartzell, ’40 (history), of Pacific Grove, Calif., July 21, at 97, from complications from a fall. Survivors: children Abigail, Laura, Judith, ’68, and Margaret nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, James, ’39, in 1999. She was a volunteer at Filoli for more than 20 years and a member of the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. For over a decade, she was the camp director of Hidden Falls Girl Scout Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Army as a captain in the Women’s Army Corps, and for many years, she volunteered as a troop leader and an administrator for the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County. During World War II, she served in the U.S. She grew up working in the Hale Fruit Company, her family’s business. Margaret Hale Stone, ’39 (sociology), of Oakland, July 17, at 100. Survivors: her children Jim, John, Katharine and Kevin, ’68 seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Her father, Louis Samuel Beedy, Class of 1898, served as a pallbearer at Jane Lathrop Stanford’s funeral. She is remembered for staying up late to write something personal in each Christmas card she sent out. Following the death of her husband, John Bennett King, ’34, LLB ’37, in 1985, she continued to travel and enjoyed spending time with friends. After raising her four children in Atherton, she made a career in the real estate industry. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma while at Stanford. Survivors: children Bert, Dan and David and three grandchildren.įrances Beedy King, ’37 (psychology), of Portola Valley, August 18, at 101. And he traveled the world with his wife of 66 years, Anita, who predeceased him in 2010. He was known for his devotion to his students, many of whom praised his selfless interest in their educations. He received the 2017 Stanford Earth Distinguished Alumni Award, among other honors. He was also chair of the geology department and dean of the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. Hired as a Stanford faculty member right out of graduate school after teaching Stanford’s first geophysics class while still a student, he went on to establish for Stanford a well-respected department in geophysics, of which he was the chair. George Thompson, PhD ’49 (geology), of Palo Alto, May 12, at 97. There he continued his Homeric studies, led reading groups on Thucydides and other authors for neighbors in his retirement community, and stayed close with many of his former students and colleagues. He became a professor emeritus in 1991, and in his later years, he moved to San Rafael. Admired for his literary sensibility, respected and loved by his colleagues, and treasured for his generosity and dedication to younger scholars-undergraduate and graduate alike-in 1989 he received the Walter J. He was named department chair within a year. Arriving at Stanford in 1969, drawn by the opportunity to teach graduate students and to work among scholars he admired, the classics professor became widely known as an expert in the field of Homeric scholarship, and specifically poetry. Edwards, of San Rafael, Calif., August 26, 2016, at 87.

Richmond times dis obituaries july 2017