Obituaries: Local residents who died recently

Here are the local residents who have died recently:

Mary Finlayson, 90, a Woodside resident who raised seven children and had a passion for music, learning how to play the piano, flute and harp and singing in the Chorus Pro Musica with the Boston Symphony and with the Oakland Symphony Chorus, and who in 1963 co-founded the Berkeley Montessori School (later called The Berkeley School), on Feb. 12, 2024.

Yolanda “Lolly” Font, 93, who earned a PhD from the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and was heavily involved in education, serving in her children’s PTA and working as a preschool director for her husband’s school in San Jose, Beacon School, and who also worked as a yoga teacher at the California Yoga Center, on Feb. 3, 2024.

Samuel Anderson, 83, a longtime Palo Alto resident who attended Cubberley High School and later taught English at Mills High School in Millbrae, and who was a founding member of the Beyond War Foundation as part of his commitment to world peace, taking groups of U.S. high school students to the former Soviet Union during the historic time of glasnost and perestroika as part of the People to People Student Ambassador Program, on Dec. 24, 2023.

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

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