Obituaries Obituaries (August 24, 2005)

Barbara Borden

Community volunteer

A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 24, at 3 p.m. at Christ Church in Portola Valley for Barbara Seal Borden, who died August 12 from complications of a stroke. She was 77.

Ms. Borden was born in Long Beach. She attended Mills College for two years and graduated from UCLA with a degree in elementary education. She taught in Long Beach and Piedmont.

In 1954 she married Thomas Winckler Borden. The following year they moved to Menlo Park, where they lived for the next 45 years.

Ms. Borden was a community volunteer who belonged to the Peninsula Volunteers Inc., Hillview School Parent Teacher Association, the Committee for Art at Stanford, and Friends of Filoli. She and her husband were members of the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton.

Friends were always important to Ms. Borden, say family members, especially following her stroke in 1998. In 2000 the Bordens moved to The Sequoias in Portola Valley, where she was cared for in the Health Center for five years.

In 2004 the Borden family gathered at Seascape near Santa Cruz to celebrate Barbara and Tom's 50th wedding anniversary.

She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Tom of Portola Valley; children Ann Bruhn of Portland, Oregon, John Borden of San Francisco, and Jim Borden of Hillsborough; brother Bill Seal of Long Beach; and six grandchildren.

The family prefers memorials in Ms. Borden's name to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, 770 Welch Road, Suite 150, Palo Alto, CA 94304 or a favorite charity.

[With photo] David John Tully

Former Menlo School dean

David John Tully, who was academic dean of Menlo School from 1991 to 1996, died June 23 at his parents' home in Wales after an 11-month battle with leukemia. He was 50.

Mr. Tully was a former resident of Redwood City. In 1996 he became superintendent of Graded School in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and worked there until November 2004, when he traveled to the United States for medical treatment.

Mr. Tully is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Gideon, of Carson City, Nevada; his former wife, Margie Tully, of Menlo Park, and their sons, Joshua, Samuel, Oliver and Dominic; and his parents, John and Betty Tully of Wales.

A memorial service will be held at Graded School, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, August 28.

Andrew Gonzales

Former chief petty officer

Andrew Ronald Gonzales of Menlo Park, who served as a chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy for 11 years, died August 2 in San Mateo Medical Center. He was 50.

Mr. Gonzales was a member of the American Legion, VFW Post 3982, Disabled American Veterans. He was a coin collector and loved going to the movies, say family members.

He is survived by daughter Brandi Gonzales of Fremont; sisters Carmen and Martha Gonzalez of Newark, New Jersey, and Mary Gonzalez of Bayonne, New Jersey; and brothers Gilbert Gonzalez of San Francisco, and Manuel Gonzales of Statesville, North Carolina.

A memorial service was held in the chapel of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto. Donations may be made to the Firefighters Charitable Foundation, c/o Contribution Processing Center, P.O. Box 2689, Dale City, CA 94017.

Arrangements were under the direction of the Fremont Chapel of the Roses in Fremont.

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