Margaret Edith Jones November 24, 1919 – February 10, 2013 Margaret Edith Jones (née Crusius), a pediatrician specializing in well-baby care, an avid homemaker, and a lifelong advocate for social justice and environmental causes, died peacefully at home on February 10. Her son Keasley was at her side and she was surrounded by the love of her family. Born on November 24, 1919, Margaret (known to her friends as “Peggy”) grew up in Portland, Ore. and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke College (class of 1941), with her junior year devoted to studies in Germany. In 1944, Peggy earned her medical degree from New York Medical College and launched a private pediatric practice in New York—an unusual feat in an era when the medical field was dominated by men. Married to fellow physician Henry Jones in 1951, Peggy moved to California when Henry was tapped to help launch the new Stanford Radiology department in San Francisco. First in Sausalito and then in a much-loved home on the Stanford campus, she and Henry raised three children, Virginia (born 1952), Henry C. (1954) and Keasley (1957). From 1966-1982, Peggy served as a traveling pediatrician for the Santa Clara County wellbaby and immunization clinics. Her typical workday often included driving from Stanford to Santa Clara or Gilroy to provide medical services for the children of migrant farm workers, then returning home to prepare dinner and supervise her own children’s homework. Peggy’s pediatric work with the migrant farmworker community was part and parcel of her lifelong support, financial and otherwise, of many social justice, environmental, and political organizations. Local, regional, state, national, and global, these included Amigas de las Americas, Amnesty International, CISPES, Common Cause, Environmental Defense Fund, Friends of the Earth, Heifer International, League of Women Voters, Marine Mammal Center, Mono Lake Committee, NARAL, Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Planned Parenthood, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Save the Bay, Sempervirens Fund, Solar Cookers International, United Farm Workers, Wilderness Society, Yosemite Conservancy, and dozens more.
Professional acumen notwithstanding, Peggy was a great lover of domestic life. The keeper of the family’s cultural flame, she began dinner with a German blessing, celebrated Christmas according to German tradition, and baked countless Christmas cookies each year for friends and family. Lively, gregarious, and possessed of limitless energy, she loved to cook and entertain, and was usually either planning or presiding over a dinner party or celebration. Until the last years of her life, Peggy derived great joy from tending her large garden, which took up an impressive amount of backyard real estate. Initially an unpromising site full of hard-packed clay, the garden flourished due to Peggy’s persistent cultivation over the years, a perpetual work-in-progress that produced dozens of varieties of vegetables and fruits yearround. Many were eaten fresh from the stalk or vine; others, Peggy put up as preserves, along with copious quantities of peaches. No family members suffered from vitamin deficiencies. A grandmother late in life, Peggy adored her two grandsons, showered them with presents, and in her last days, would visibly brighten when she spoke with them on the phone. Peggy was married for 61 years to Henry, who predeceased her by just six months. They were enthusiastic fans of the Stanford basketball, football, and Lively Arts programs, and enjoyed the Stanford Sierra Camp and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Peggy and Henry traveled widely in Europe, as well as to South America, Asia, and Australia, and celebrated their 50th anniversary (2001) with family and grandchildren in Hawaii. Peggy is survived by brother Ralph Crusius of Andover, Mass.; daughter Virginia Jones of Castro Valley; son Henry Jones of Eugene, Ore.; son Keasley Jones, daughter-in-law Autumn Stephens, and grandchildren Emerson Jones and Elliott Jones, all of Berkeley; niece Carolyn Bower of Portland, Maine; and nephew Richard Crusius of Long Island, N.Y. A memorial service for friends and family will take place on Sunday, April 21, at 2 p.m. on the Stanford campus. To RSVP, please contact Keasley Jones (keasley@me.com). In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to any of the organizations listed above, or other progressive charity. PA I D
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John “Jack” Schutz John “Jack” Schutz died at home surrounded by family on March 2 after a battle with cancer. He was born in Hebron, Neb. When he was 5, his family moved to Canby, Ore. He lived there until he enlisted in the Navy, reporting for duty on his 18th birthday. Following his military service, he graduated from the University of Portland. Soon after, he traveled to California, stopping in a little town called Woodside — the town he never left. He became the restaurateur of The Village Pub. He was a charter member of Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club, where he played golf and dominoes with his buddies. He enjoyed spending time with family, friends and traveling. He was preceded in death by his parents, Howard and Lottie Schutz, and his four sisters. He was a husband for 40 years to the late Norma Oswald. He was a father to Carolyn Schutz, Janet Schutz and Julie Luttringer, son-in-law, Collin, and grandfather to Katie and Jack. He was a partner to Linda “Sam” O’Sullivan, who he shared time with in his final years. A “Celebration of Life” memorial Mass will be held Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. In lieu of flowers, please honor his memory by sending donations to a charity of your choice.
William H. Mauel William H. Mauel, born Dec. 21, 1914, in Redding, Calif. died on Feb. 28 in Menlo Park, Calif. He spent his early years in Redding and moved with his family to Palo Alto during the Great Depression. He graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1931. He attended the College of San Mateo
and began his 43-year banking career in 1934 in the mailroom of the American Trust Company (which later merged with Wells Fargo Bank in the 1950s). He also volunteered for the Merchant Marine Service and served as a Purser and Pharmacist’s Mate aboard three separate Liberty ships from 1942 to 1945. He was awarded the Pacific War Zone Medal and the Merchant Marine Combat Bar as a crewmember aboard ships that went in harm’s way in the South Pacific war zone. Always an advocate for education, he continued in a wide variety of banking courses throughout his career. The majority of his work assignments were spread along the Peninsula, from San Francisco to San Jose, with the notable exception of a two-year tour in Pago Pago, American Samoa as the manager of the Bank of American Samoa. That assignment offered him the opportunity to travel throughout the South Pacific on banking business, quite often via a World War II PBY aircraft, taking numerous photographs of all the islands he visited or flew over. His final assignment began in 1968 when he accepted the position of vice president and manager of the Wells Fargo Bank office in downtown Menlo Park. A longtime Rotary International member, he transferred to the Menlo Park Rotary Club in that year. Retiring in 1977, he soon opened a financial consulting office, assisting many former bank clients with their financial affairs, planning and estates. Continuing his lifelong interest in education, he joined a small group of Rotary members and established the Rotary Club of Menlo Park Foundation with the goal of providing financial assistance to help deserving students continue their formal education. In honor of his devotion to raising funds for the foundation, the Bill Mauel Fellowship was established to honor those persons who have donated $1,000 or more to the foundation. Today
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