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Publication Date: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 Obituaries
Obituaries
(December 01, 2004)
William E. Moore
Kelly-Moore Paint founder
William E. Moore, who founded Kelly-Moore Paint in 1946 and made it one of the country's largest privately owned paint companies, died November 21 at his home in Woodside. He was 87.
Mr. Moore was born in Porteau, Oklahoma. He and his family moved to Hartford, Arkansas, where he grew up, attended high school, and became a star tennis player. He attended Georgia Tech on a tennis scholarship and graduated in 1938 with a degree in industrial management and chemical engineering.
The university is now home to the Bill Moore Tennis Center and the Bill Moore Student Success Center. Mr. Moore also established an endowed scholarship for the tennis program he once was part of. He also donated to many other charities, say family members.
After graduation, he worked under William Kelly with the Glidden Paint Company in San Francisco.
During World War II, Mr. Moore served two years in the South Pacific as an officer on a destroyer. In 1946 he married Desiree Buchanan, whom he met during World War II in Hawaii, where she was working with the Red Cross.
Returning from the service, intent on starting his own company, he convinced his former boss, William Kelly, to come out of retirement and go into business with him. The company prospered from the post-war California building boom, becoming the leading paint company in the Western states, with 2,300 employees, four manufacturing plants and more than 150 stores.
Although Mr. Kelly retired from the business in 1952, the name Kelly-Moore remained. Mr. Moore retired as Kelly-Moore president in 1984, but remained chairman of the board.
Mr. Moore also owned the California Insurance Company of Monterey and the Broken O Ranch in Montana
He is survived by his wife, Desiree, of Woodside; and his children, William E. Moore II of Plano, Texas, and Christine McCall of Missoula, Montana.
The family prefers memorials be made to the Bay Area Gardeners Foundation, 193 Arch, Suite A, Redwood City, 94062; or to Georgia Tech-Alexander Thorpe Fund, Inc., 150 Bobby Dodd Way NW, Atlanta, GA. 30332. Arrangements were under the direction of Redwood Chapel, Redwood City.
Janet Goodman
Pre-school teacher
A memorial Mass will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, December 2, at the Church of the Nativity, 310 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, for Janet Goodman. Ms. Goodman died November 22 in Redwood City. She was 68.
Ms. Goodman was a pre-school teacher at Hansel & Gretel Nursery School in Menlo Park for 30 years. She enjoyed the outdoors, going camping and fishing, and loved to cook and crochet, say family members.
She is survived by her husband, Jack B. Goodman of Redwood City; children, Janet Goodman and Jack B. Goodman Jr. of Redwood City, Doreen Ford of Tuolumne City and Dewell Goodman of Atherton; siblings, Douglas, Billy and Pat Munoz of Sonora, Shirley Bramlett of Pleasant Hill, Robin Munoz of West Point, California, and Bonnie Munoz of Rocklin; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Arrangments were under the direction of Woodside Chapel of Crippen & Flynn.
William Jankord
Barbershop owner
William M. Jankord, known to generations as "Bill the Barber," died in Menlo Park on November 22. He was 86.
Mr. Jankord was born in South Dakota and came to California when he was 17. He was a local barber from 1948 until his retirement in 1980. His shop was located in West Menlo Park on the Alameda de las Pulgas. At that time, the area was known as University Heights and his building was located next to McQuarrie's Pharmacy.
After retiring, Mr. Jankord enjoyed traveling, bowling, bridge and golf. He and his wife, Edith, were founding members of St. Denis Catholic Church. Ms. Jankord died in 1989.
Mr. Jankord is survived by his daughter, Judy Vaughn of San Carlos; a son, Bill Jankord Jr. of Sunnyvale; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. One of 11 children, he is also survived by four brothers and one sister.
A memorial Mass was held November 29 at St. Denis Church. The family prefers that donations be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont, 94002, or to a charity of the donor's choice. Arrangements were under the direction of John O'Connor's Menlo Colonial Chapel.
Elvera Guy
Guy's Plumbing co-founder
Elvera Guy, a resident of Menlo Park since 1939, died at her home on November 20. She was 90.
Ms. Guy was born in Park Rapid, Minnesota. Her father was a native of Sweden. In 1937 she married David Guy and, shortly after, the couple moved from Stockton to Menlo Park. She and her husband founded Guy Plumbing & Heating Inc. in 1948. The business is now operated by her sons, Roger and Alan Guy, and grandson, David Guy.
She enjoyed cooking, reading, sewing, and spending time with her children and grandchildren, say family members.
She is survived by her children, Roger Guy of Menlo Park, Diane Reid of Portland, Oregon, Janet Lukas of Fortuna, California, Alan Guy of Redwood City, Patricia Hayes of Mountain View, and Michael Guy of Hanford; 11 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Private services have been held. Arrangements were under the direction of Menlo Park Spangler Mortuaries.
Mary Althea Truitt
Former Woodside High teacher
Mary Althea Truitt, who taught at Sequoia and Woodside high schools, died November 7 at The Sequoias retirement community in Portola Valley. She was 96.
Ms. Truitt was born in Millersburg, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri with both bachelor's and master's degrees. She also did graduate work at University of Chicago, Stanford University and San Francisco State University.
After teaching in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ms. Truitt moved to Menlo Park in 1941 and began teaching in the Sequoia Union High School District. She was a teacher, counselor, department chair and curriculum assistant for the district before retiring in 1970.
Ms. Truitt was one of the original homeowners in Ladera. She was also a founding member of Christ Church in Portola Valley and a longtime member of the church's Altar Guild. She moved to The Sequoias in 1984.
She was a member of the Palo Alto Auxiliary to Children's Hospital and worked as a volunteer cook at the Allied Arts Guild restaurant. An avid reader, she also belonged to numerous book clubs.
She is survived by three nephews in the Washington, D.C., area and by many devoted friends. Memorials in her name may be made to Christ Church, 815 Portola Road, Portola Valley, 94028, or Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services Foundation, 1525 Post St., San Francisco 94109.
Marjorie Nystrom
Menlo Park resident
Marjorie A. "Marge" Nystrom, who lived in Sharon Heights for 22 years, died November 22 after suffering a major stroke. She was 83.
Ms. Nystrom was born in the San Jose area and attended San Jose State University. After college she was employed at San Francisco State University.
After her first husband, George Jensen, died in a hunting accident, she married Don Nystrom, who built many of the homes in the Sharon Heights development. Their marriage later ended in divorce.
Ms. Nystrom was an active volunteer during the years her children attended Las Lomitas district schools. She also enjoyed playing tennis, swimming, photography and spending time with family and friends, say family members. She was active with Urban Ministry of Palo Alto and, as a photographer, began doing portraits of the homeless. Her work was shown in several exhibits, according to her daughter, Karen Nystrom.
After the children were grown, she worked at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Menlo Park. At the time of her death, she was a resident of Glenwood Inn in Menlo Park.
She is survived by her children, Karen Nystrom of Menlo Park, Sandy Nystrom of San Carlos, and Mark Nystrom of Stockton; a sister, Audrey Milholland of Pleasant Hill; and four grandchildren.
A memorial service is pending. Arrangements were under the direction of Crippen & Flynn Woodside Chapel, Redwood City.
Virgilia Witzel
Community volunteer
Virgilia Short Witzel, who with her husband resided in many countries, died at her Menlo Park home on November 20. She was 94.
A fourth-generation Californian, Ms. Witzel was born in San Francisco. She attended Girls' High School and majored in English at the University of California at Berkeley.
Spending summers on the Russian River, she met her future husband, Frederick deBoom Witzel, a fellow Berkeley student. They were married in 1931 and embarked on a life in the United States and abroad with the U.S. Navy.
In those days, say family members, wives could travel to new duty stations on Navy ships. Ms. Witzel sailed on a destroyer through the Panama Canal to the East Coast in 1932.
Over the next 20 years, she accompanied her husband to assignments in Washington, D.C., Harvard Business School, two years in Shanghai and Nanking at the end of World War II, and two years in London in the early 1950s.
In the late 1950s, the family returned to the Bay Area when Mr. Witzel joined Stanford Research Institute (now SRI). Ms. Witzel became a volunteer with the Children's Health Council Auxiliary, the Castilleja parents organization, and Friends of the Menlo Park Library. As a member of the Committee for Art, she was an early docent at the Museum of Art at Stanford University.
Ms. Witzel is survived by her daughters, Joanna Martin of Menlo Park and Christine Witzel of Palo Alto; and a sister, Edith Green of Santa Rosa.
At her request, no services were held. The family prefers memorials in her name to Friends of the Menlo Park Library or the Alzheimer's Association of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Arrangements were under the direction of Roller Hapgood & Tinney, Palo Alto.
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