Obituaries Obituaries (February 01, 2006)

Thomas Shellworth

Automobile dealer

Thomas R. Shellworth, a resident of Atherton for 36 years, died January 21. He was 82.

Mr. Shellworth was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent his early years in Portland, Oregon. At age 17, he enrolled in the Naval ROTC program at the University of Notre Dame, graduating with the rank of ensign. He was then assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Saratoga in the South Pacific ,where his ship engaged in several major battles and was disabled during the battle of Iwo Jima.

He then applied for Navy flight training and was sent to Dallas, Texas. After the war ended, he attended the Stanford University School of Business.

Mr. Shellworth met his wife, Lois, in San Francisco and they were married in 1955.

Mr. Shellworth's career was in the automobile business. He owned Shellworth Chevrolet in Morgan Hill, where the family lived for 11 years before moving to Atherton.

While living in Morgan Hill, Mr. Shellworth served on the local school board and was a member of the Rotary Club. Locally, he served as a lector at St. Denis Church in Menlo Park.

Mr. Shellworth is survived by his wife, Lois, of Atherton; and his children, Thomas Jr. and Peter of Vacaville, and Susan Hull of Laguna Hills.

Services have been held. Memorial donations may be made to Padua Dining Room, 3500 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, or a favorite charity.

Yvonne McCarty

Eucharistic minister

A funeral Mass was to be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 31, at St. Raymond Catholic Church in Menlo Park for Yvonne Alice McCarty. Ms. McCarty died at her Menlo Park home January 24 after a five-year battle with cancer. She was 79.

Ms. McCarty was born in Ellsworth, Minnesota, and moved to California with her family at age 16. After graduating from high school, she worked as a secretary with the FBI in San Francisco until marrying John McCarty in 1950. In 1958 they moved to Menlo Park, where they raised their eight children.

When the children were school age, Ms. McCarty worked as a department manager at Macy's, a teller at Crocker Bank and, finally, as a copy room manager at Alza Corporation until retiring in 1992.

Ms. McCarty was the first woman to serve as a eucharistic minister at St. Raymond Church, and she volunteered as a eucharistic minister to the sick and dying at Stanford Hospital for more than 20 years. She also served as a lector at St. Raymond and was twice president of the St. Raymond Mothers' Club

Ms. McCarty is survived by seven children, Bob of Georgetown, Mike of Menlo Park, Ann of Mountain View, Bill of Sacramento, Matt of Cool, California, Phil of San Jose, and Peggy of Mountain View; three siblings, Edwin Kohn of Sunnyvale, Cathy Barri of South San Francisco, and Mary Cortez of Pensacola, Florida; 10 grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters. Her husband, John, and son, Tom, preceded her in death.

Memorials may be made to the St. Raymond Homeless Families Fund or to the St. Francis Center in Redwood City. Arrangements were under the direction of Menlo Colonial Chapel.
Alys Wunderlich Bachler

Services are set for 11 a.m. Thursday, February 2, at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church for Alys Wunderlich Bachler, who died January 28 in her Portola Valley home. She was 68. The church is at 950 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park. The Almanac will publish a full obituary in a future edition.

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