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Alonzo Ramirez, 86, of Palo Alto, who was born in El Paso, Texas, who served in the U.S. Air Force, who received a bachelor’s degree from University of Texas at El Paso, who enjoyed a 40-year-career as an aerospace engineer at McDonnell Douglas, Fokker Aircraft and Polaris Aircraft, who was a gifted linguist and who adored his wife and daughters, died on Nov. 2, 2025.
Waltraut Charlotte Elsbeth Ottilie Monroe, 99, of Portola Valley, who was born in Germany, whose mother fled from the advancing Russian army and relocated the family to a small farming village, who later lived in Hamburg, Germany, and in Switzerland before settling in the United States in 1967, who taught German at the German-American school in Palo Alto, who later received a bachelor’s degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and who embraced running and hiking, died on Oct. 16, 2025.
Gail Robbins Schwettman, 89, of Palo Alto, who was born in Ohio, who graduated from the University of Cincinnati and taught grade school, who was active in various women’s groups and activities, including choir and musical theater, and who loved playing with her grandchildren and creating personal homemade cards, died on Oct. 8, 2025.
Earl Gene Kershner, 97, of Palo Alto, who was born in Defiance, Ohio, who served in the Korean War before earning a degree from the School of Architecture at Ohio State University, who then spent 34 years at Stanford University, retiring in 1991 as associated director of facilities project management, and who was a devoted member of Peninsula Bible Church, died on Nov. 30, 2025.
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