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Local residents who have died recently include:
Edith Twombly Eddy, 94, of Palo Alto, who was born in New York City, who attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Graduate School of Education, who moved to Palo Alto in 1971, who was an educator who taught in classrooms in Germany and the Philippines, who supported partnerships between student researches at Stanford University and nonprofits in Palo Alto, who championed career opportunities for working mothers and played a central role in launching the CCSC childcare center on the Stanford campus, who worked at numerous philanthropic foundations and supported grants in fields such as environmental conservation, environmental conservation and restorative justice, who loved birds and served on the boards of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, the Coyote Point Museum and the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and who loved singing, dancing, painting and gardening, died on Sept. 4.
Alfred Aguilar Santana, 81, of Mountain View, who was born in Woodlake, who was a Vietnam veteran, and who cherished his time with his daughters, grandchildren and sons-in-law, died on July 26.
Mary Cheek McCullough, 89, of Palo Alto, who was born in Middletown, Ohio, who as a youth played tennis in Kentucky and Virginia, who later moved to New York City and San Francisco before she got married and moved to Menlo Park, who was involved in the Junior League of Palo Alto, who led field trips to Foothills Park and the Baylands as a member of Environmental Volunteers, who became passionate about Gamble Garden and helped create the Roots and Shoots program that partnered seniors with children, who was a huge fan of Stanford University basketball and football, who played golf and who loved to spend time with her family at Fallen Leaf Lake, died on Aug. 17.
Lindsay Chambers, 48, of Malibu, who was born in Indianapolis, who traveled widely throughout her childhood and lived in seven different cities in her first 13 years, who earned a master’s degree from Stanford University in 2008 and pursued a career in interior design and custom homebuilding, working in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Los Angeles, who had built more than 40 homes in about 15 years and whose work appeared in Architectural Digest, Better Homes & Gardens, the New York Times and other publications, who was named California Home & Design’s Emerging Designer of the Year in 2015, who helped build a farmer’s market that served about 3,000 people each week, who advocated for disaster response and environmental protection, who had built lifelong relationship in the many places where she worked and lived, and who loved dogs, sushi and her electric truck, died on Aug. 26.
Henry Joseph (Hank) Blommer, Jr., 94, of Atherton, who was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who spent his childhood exploring Lake Michigan and canoeing in the Canadian Boundary Waters, who earned his pilot’s license as a young man, paving the way for decades of flying adventures, who joined his family’s chocolate business, Blommer, and later moved to the Bay Area to lead a new production facility, who saw Blommer go on to become the largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate manufacturer in North America, who loved to ski, spend weekends and holidays in Lake Tahoe, play golf and tennis and spending time with his seven children, died on Sept. 14.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at AlmanacNews.com/obituaries.
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