Naomi Postrel
Nov. 15, 1929-April 6, 2017
Petaluma, California

Naomi Postrel, who lived in Palo Alto for more than 45 years, died April 6 in Petaluma. She was 87.

Naomi was born to Zena and Bernie Druckman in Los Angeles in 1929. The family moved to San Francisco when she was a child.

She married Monroe Postrel in 1950. They lived in Israel briefly, before returning to the San Francisco Bay Area. They settled in a Palo Alto neighborhood near Barron Park in 1961, and raised their family there.

She completed a bachelor's degree in literature at San Jose State University, and worked in human resources for a number of employers, including Stanford University's medical center.

She was an avid reader, with particular interests in history and theology.

She moved to Petaluma several years after Monroe's passing in 2005.

Survivors include son, Joel and his wife, Raye Lynn Thomas, of Petaluma; son, Dan and his wife, Joyce, of Salem, Oregon; and grandchildren, Kyla Postrel of Salem, and Ethan Postrel and his wife, Tina Postrel, of Portland, Oregon. Other survivors include a brother, Marc; her sister-in-law, Rivka, of Burlingame; and nieces and nephews.