Obituaries Obituaries (October 19, 2005)

Adalene Ross Riley

Writer, fashion show coordinator

Fashion show coordinator and travel writer Adalene Ross Riley, described by newspaper columnist Herb Caen as one of the most beautiful and glamorous women in San Francisco, died October 5. She was 85.

A former Atherton resident, Ms. Riley was living in Palo Alto at the time of her death.

Ms. Riley was a native of Oak Park, Illinois, and attended Sequoia High School and College of San Mateo. She first started her work in the fashion field writing fashion copy for Roos Brothers (later Roos Atkins) clothing store. During World War II she hosted a radio show in Sacramento in which she interviewed local soldiers and sailors.

In 1942 she married George Ross. Her fashion career began in earnest when she began producing fashion shows for I. Magnin, Joseph Magnin, and Saks Fifth Avenue in San Francisco.

In 1957, as co-founder of the San Mateo Crippled Children's Society with Catherine Hearst, she arranged a "last party" fundraiser at Hearst Castle in San Simeon before it became a state park. She also created the first San Francisco cable car on wheels for Roos Atkins.

Ms. Riley served as vice president for public relations for Joseph Magnin in the 1970s, and handled public relations at Shreve and Co. Jewelers in the 1980s and early 1990s.

She wrote a travel column, "Addie's World," for the San Mateo Times for 23 years. She also wrote feature articles in major magazines, including an article in the Ladies Home Journal in 1974 about the Hearst family's private ordeal at the time their daughter Patty's kidnapping.

Ms. Riley lived in Hillsborough for more than 25 years when married to George Ross. She later moved to Atherton at the time of her second marriage to William Riley. She was a member of the Junior League of San Francisco and the Menlo Circus Club.

She is survived by her daughter Lynn Ross of Palo Alto; sister Clarissa Dyer of Hillsborough; brother Harry Bowman of San Francisco; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughter Nancy Ross and son Lee T. Ross II, as well as her husband, William Riley.

Memorials may be made to the Muscular Dystrophy Society.
Carolyn Cirimele

Peninsula School music teacher

A memorial for Carolyn Rasch Cirimele will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, October 29, at Peninsula School, 920 Peninsula Way, Menlo Park. Ms. Cirimele died of cancer September 20 at her parents' home in Carmel. She was 48.

Ms. Cirimele was the music teacher at Peninsula School from 1992 to 1998. She sang and played piano, cello, accordion, guitar, and upright bass in a number of bluegrass and contredanse bands.

She was also a graphic designer. During her last years she created collages, paintings, sculptures and greeting cards that expressed her confrontation with cancer and her spirituality, say family members.

Ms. Cirimele was born in Manhasset, New York, and moved to Burlingame as a teenager. She graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. She met her husband, Ed Cirimele, in college and they were married in 1980.

She is survived by her husband, Ed, of Mountain View; sons Jesse and Jason Cirimele; mother Adele Rasch of Carmel; sisters Claudia James and Charlene Revette of DeRuyter, New York; and brothers David Rasch of Portola Valley and Steven Rasch of Pacific Palisades. Her father, John Rasch, died two days after Ms. Cirimele's death.

Memorials may be made to the music program at Peninsula School, 920 Peninsula Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025; or Hospice of the Central Coast Home Care, 2 Upper Ragsdale Drive, Professional Center, Suite D210, Monterey, CA 93940.

Joe Lovewell

Former SRI executive

Paul Joseph "Joe" Lovewell, a leader at SRI International for many years, died September 7 at the age of 90.

A former Woodside resident, Mr. Lovewell was born in Topeka, Kansas. In 1936, while attending Washburn College, Mr. Lovewell and his friend Mark Garlinghouse traveled to China for several months.

Mr. Lovewell was a serious tennis player and thespian during his college days, say family members. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and graduated from Washburn with a degree in economics with honors. In 1940 he graduated from Stanford Business School.

In the late 1960s he was a commencement speaker at Washburn College and received an honorary doctor of laws degree.

During World War II he served as a supply officer with the Navy. In 1949 he and his wife, Jean, moved to California to join Mr. Lovewell's grad school friend Weldon B. "Hoot" Gibson at the newly founded Stanford Research Institute (SRI International).

For the next 17 years, he traveled extensively for SRI. He led the development of SRI's Long Range Planning Service and helped build the Management Sciences Division to several hundred people with offices around the globe.

Under his direction, the institute conducted studies for Walt Disney to determine the location for Disneyland and feasibility of attractions, studied the peaceful applications for atomic energy, and built the first business computer for Bank of America.

In 1953 he was named one of the Bay Area's "Newsmakers of Tomorrow" by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Time magazine.

In 1965 he founded Management and Economics Research Inc. in Palo Alto, which he ran until 1969 when the business was sold to URS Systems Corporation.

After retiring he moved to Mendocino, taking occasional consulting jobs including a trip to the Middle East for USAID to assist several countries with economic development plans.

Jean Lovewell died in 1983. Mr. Lovewell then married Marjorie Garlinghouse, the widow of his oldest friend, Mark Garlinghouse. The couple traveled extensively for the next 20 years, with San Francisco as home base.

Mr. Lovewell enjoyed fishing, Stanford football, the 49ers, the Giants, and all forms of theater, opera and the symphony, say family members. He and his wife, Jean, were active for many years at the Woodside Village Church, where he served as elder and moderator.

He is survived by Marjorie Lovewell; his children John Lovewell of Atherton, Jan Lovewell of Lund, British Columbia, and Judy Hill of Corvallis, Oregon; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. He is also survived by stepsons Kent, Whitney and Webb Garlinghouse.

The family prefers that memorial donations be made to Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA 94062; or Pathways Hospice Foundation, 585 North Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085-2905.

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