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Josephine Ventura, 86, a Mountain View resident who was born in Hawaii, enjoyed a career as a social worker and a transportation officer in San Mateo County, and who loved to travel and play bridge, died on Sept. 12.
Roberta Robertson, 77, a Los Altos resident who attended Stanford University and met her husband through the Stanford Band, who taught music across the Los Altos School District, and who liked to travel, garden and spend time with her grandkids and friends, died on Sept. 22.
Alan “Max” Kautz, 40, a Palo Alto resident who played baseball in college and earned a special education teacher degree at Cumberland University in Tennessee, who had worked at Lenz Precision Technology in Mountain View and at Facebook in Menlo Park, and who later worked at art galleries and loved traveling, died on Aug. 31.
Antoinette Carter, 99, a Corralitos resident who attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City, who lived in Menlo Park, who prepared daily lunches in the executive kitchen of the Palo Alto-based company Syntex, and who loved attending San Francisco Opera performances, died on Sept. 17.
Elyce Melmon, 88, a Woodside resident who loved the theater, who wrote short stories, plays and poetry, who taught English at San Domenico, Woodside Priory and Castilleja School, whose play, A King’s Legacy, was produced at the Pear Theatre, and who volunteered at a grief counselor at Kara, died on Sept. 18.
Richard Meehan, 86, a former Palo Alto resident who served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who helped build the Lam Takhong Dam in 1963, who established the civil engineering firm Earth Sciences & Associates, who worked as an adjunct professor of engineering at Stanford University, who moved to Thailand in 2021 where he feasted on spicy food and consulted for clients in other nations, and who loved to travel and play bridge, died on Sept. 29.
To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at mv-voice.com/obituaries.
