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Richard Rutter, 92, of Emerald Hills, who had lived in Menlo Park, who practiced orthodontics in Palo Alto, who was the founding department chairman for the graduate program in orthodontics at the University of the Pacific’s Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, and who attended more than 1,200 Stanford University football, basketball and baseball games, died on Sept. 20, 2025.
Geraldine Kinyon, 80, of Palo Alto, who worked as a Santa Clara County social worker before becoming a professional photographer, who had four children and served as a second mother to many others and who was deeply involved in the community through school projects, children’s theater and fundraising, died on Oct. 26, 2025.
Kraig Branner, 63, of San Jose, who graduated from Palo Alto High School and San Jose State University, who worked as an engineer and tested products for the defense and aerospace industries and who was known for mentoring technicians, engineers, supervisors and other colleagues and for being able to explain complex engineering applications, died on Oct. 16, 2025.
Helen Babb, 89, of Portola Valley, who was born MÃstek, Czechoslovakia, near today’s Czech-Polish border, who escaped the Nazi occupation in 1939, who lived in Manila, Philippines and Colorado Springs before coming to California, who raised three children and settled in Atherton, who became a dedicated visual artist and an active member of the Woodside-Atherton Garden Club, died on Oct. 18, 2025.
Grant Knute Hagestad, 88, of Portola Valley and Carson, Nevada, who earned degrees in civil engineering, construction management and business at Stanford University, who co-founded Estate Homes, a company that constructed more than 1,500 homes, who loved to ride bikes and horses, traveling abroad and cheering for the 49ers and Stanford University football, died on Oct. 25, 2025.
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