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Margaret (Peg) Russell Haneberg, a one-time volunteer at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center and a former resident of Palo Alto, Portola Valley and Menlo Park, died July 1 in Belmont from complications associated with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 98.
Ms. Haneberg, born Margaret Russell in Los Angeles, graduated from Pomona College and attended the University of Southern California, relatives said.
During World War II, she joined the American Red Cross as a recreation worker and met her future husband, Walter Haneberg, at a San Francisco hospital, where he was recovering from shrapnel wounds received during the Allied invasion of Germany, relatives said.
Ms. Haneberg liked to travel all over the world, including China around the time it opened to the West in the 1970s, and enjoyed opera, jazz, conversation and being a community volunteer “well into her 80s,” relatives said.
She became one of the first docents at the Cantor Arts Center, where she specialized in the Stanford family history and the art collection, relatives said.
Ms. Haneberg is survived by her daughter, Margaret Haneberg, of San Carlos; and three nieces.
Private services were held. The family prefers that donations in her memory be made to the American Red Cross, 85 Second St., 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105; or to the Alzheimer’s Association, 2065 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94043.
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