Obituaries: Local residents who have died recently

Local residents who have died recently include:

Valerie Pillsbury, 66, a Palo Alto High School graduate who spent her entire 39-year career as a U.S. National Park Service ranger, who worked at Grand Canyon, Lassen, Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks, and who mentored countless interpreters throughout her career, was known for her positivity, compassion and humor. She died on Oct. 5, 2026.

David Fryberger, 95, of Palo Alto, who spent more than three decades as a physicist, administrator and theorist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, who helped develop an early touch-panel screen and collaborated on the 1974 discovery of the J/psi particle, and who continued pursuing his own theories of subatomic particles into retirement, was also an avid soccer player and choral singer. He died on May 3, 2026.

To read full obituaries, leave remembrances and post photos, go to Lasting Memories at mv-voice.com/obituaries/.

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