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Local residents who died recently include:
Robert McMillen, 78, of Palo Alto, who served during the Vietnam War, who obtained his CPA license and founded a tax practice that served the local community for three decades, and who volunteered to support people experiencing homelessness, died on Feb. 11.
Nancy Gilbertson, 88, who was born in New York state and moved to Redwood City in her later years, who was married for 66 years, who worked locally as a Realtor, and who conducted research at the Hoover Institution, died on Feb. 17 in Palm Beach, Florida.
Kathryn Rose Beadle, 88, who received her doctorate from Stanford University, who was an expert in childhood language disorders, who served as director of the Stanford Speech and Language Clinic, who founded the Mid Peninsula Speech and Language clinic, and who traveled widely, died on Feb. 28 in Markesan, Wisconsin.
Thomas Clark, 93, of Palo Alto, who joined the Air Force ROTC in college, who flew with the Air-Sea Rescue Service in Germany, who worked as a senior research engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company where he was responsible for tests on Polaris flight vehicles, who was a principal project engineer for United Technologies Corporation working on the Titan III-C program, who started a company producing a tennis ball tossing machine and later machine parts for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Applied Materials, and who volunteered at Gamble Garden in his retirement, died on Feb. 20.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at almanacnews.com/obituaries.
