The Ark | Obituaries

5 days ago
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Duane B. Beeson

San Francisco labor lawyer Duane B. Beeson died July 3, 2021, at peace in his home in Belvedere, California. He was age 98. Duane is...

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5 days ago
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James B. Triplett

James B. Triplett passed away June 26, 2021, of complications from prostate cancer. Jim was born in Bend, Oregon, in 1932, raised in Palo...

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Jul 14
4 min

Belvedere’s Bill Kuhns was passionate supporter of library, Rotary

Belvedere resident William Albert “Bill” Kuhns, who was named the city’s Citizen of the Year Emeritus in 2016 for his dedication to the...

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Jul 14
2 min

Kent (KC) Crafton Taylor Jr.

Kent (KC) Crafton Taylor Jr. passed away unexpectantly on June 12, 2021, at the age of 59. KC grew up in Novato, CA, and looked just like...

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Jun 2
3 min

Lois Limbach

Lois was born in 1932 in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents were Archie and Katherine Robinson, and she had a younger sister, Helen. In 1943,...

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Jun 2
1 min

Former councilmember, county supervisor Al Aramburu had passion for conservation

Alberto “Al” Aramburu, a former member of the Tiburon Town Council and Marin Board of Supervisors whose passion for conservation projects...

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Jun 2
2 min

Burke Anthony Beardsley

April 26, 1957 – May 15, 2021 Captain Burke Beardsley died of natural causes in his home in Napa, California, on May 15, 2021. Burke was...

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May 19
1 min

Strawberrry's Gensler made global impact with architecture, design firm

Millard Arthur “Art” Gensler Jr., a longtime Strawberry resident who founded and headed a global architecture and interior design firm,...

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May 19
4 min

Frederic Edward Supple Jr.

August 24, 1925 – May 4, 2021 After 95 years of living a remarkable life, Frederic E. Supple, also known as “Big Ric,” has passed away in...

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May 19
2 min

Maria Woodward

Maria Woodward passed away as she wished, peacefully at her home on Belvedere Cove. As her nephew and niece Tom and Ann Woodward...

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May 12
2 min

Charles Phillip Caviness

Charles Phillip Caviness passed away of natural causes just shy of his 89th birthday on Wednesday, April 21st, 2021. He lived a very full...

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Apr 29
3 min

John Richard Hofmann, Jr.

John Richard Hofmann, Jr., our “Jack,” died April 3, 2021, at his home in Belvedere, California. He was 98. His death came just over a...

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Apr 15
2 min

Joe Lynch

Joe Lynch, a long-time Tiburon and Marin County resident, passed away on March 11 after a short illness. He was 86. Joe was born in 1934...

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Apr 15
2 min

Geoff Goddard

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Geoffrey Goddard, who died on March 11th, 2021. He had Alzheimer’s disease and a...

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Apr 8
2 min

Joanna Lisa Schulman

After a short and very aggressive illness, Joanna Lisa Schulman died on March 19, 2021, in Marin County, California. She died peacefully,...

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Apr 8
4 min

Dr. Arthur Jampolsky

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Arthur Jampolsky. He passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 19, 2021....

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Mar 31
1 min

Muriel Hulsbus

Muriel Hulsbus, 67, previously of Tiburon, passed away unexpectedly March 14 of cardiomyopathy. Muriel was born in Montevideo, Uruguay,...

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Mar 24
3 min

David Jury Yoder

Slow and steady. Steady and slow. That’s but one of the many mottos that David Jury Yoder lived his life by and may be the one that best...

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Mar 17
1 min

R. Sterling Harwell

R. Sterling Harwell, 83, Belvedere, passed away peacefully Friday, March 5, 2021, at Marin Post Acute Center, San Rafael. Sterling was...

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Mar 10
2 min

Marianne Maloney Dowling

The contagious laughter of Marianne Maloney Dowling, 79, of Scarsdale, NY, Tiburon, CA, St. Petersburg, FL, and Prospect Harbor, ME, fell...

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Mar 4
3 min

Harry K. Genant

It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of Harry K. Genant on January 14, 2021, at the age of 78, the result of...

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Mar 4
2 min

Charles Morton Dresow

Charles Morton Dresow was born on January 26, 1939, in San Francisco. The only son of Tobia (née Rapoport) and Abraham, Charles led a...

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Feb 24
2 min

Margaret 'Peggy' Patton

Margaret “Peggy” Patton passed away at home on January 23, 2021, after an undetermined Illness. Peggy was born August 6, 1952, in...

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Feb 24
2 min

Bruce Lindgren

Bruce Carl Lindgren, 81 years old, died on Saturday, February 6th due to complications resulting from congenital heart failure. He died...

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Feb 18
5 min

Strawberry's Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford was pioneering astronaut, scientist

Former NASA astronaut Dr. Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford, a longtime Strawberry resident and molecular biologist who in 1991 became the...

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Feb 11
3 min

JD Murray

Joseph Dominic “JD” Murray, 48, will be remembered for the love and light he brought to his family, friends, and all who were lucky...

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Feb 3
1 min

Nickolaas McConnell Nichols

Nickolaas McConnell Nichols was born Feb. 18, 1984, in Marin General Hospital and grew up on the Tiburon Peninsula. He had a passion...

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Jan 27
3 min

Tiburon's Gertrud Parker founded Museum of Craft & Folk Art

Gertrud Valerie Grossman Parker, an artist and art collector who founded the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, died Jan. 10...

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Jan 27
3 min

Yvonne B. Thurmond

Yvonne B. Thurmond (Boas), of Tiburon, CA, passed away peacefully at her home on December 17, 2020, after an extended illness. She was...

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Jan 27
3 min

Maureen Meikle

Dr. Maureen Meikle, long-time Tiburon resident and volunteer, passed away in her nursing home on January 12, seven days before her 95th...

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Jan 13
5 min

Tiburon psychiatrist Jerry Jampolsky founded Center for Attitudinal Healing

Dr. Gerald “Jerry” Gershan Jampolsky, a longtime former Tiburon resident and psychiatrist who founded the widely influential Center for...

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Jan 13
2 min

John Kenneth Tripp

A former Tiburon resident for 38 years and San Francisco advertising executive, John Tripp, 78, died quietly on December 5, 2020 in...

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Jan 7
2 min

Betty Yoder

Elizabeth (Betty) Yoder’s father, hopeful that she would stay in Tifton, Georgia after graduating from Emory University, bought her a car...

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Jan 7
2 min

Roma Barnes

Mar. 15, 1930 - Dec. 16, 2020 Roma was born in Demblin, Poland to Benjamin and Chaya (Szajnzicht) Rosenman. She lost her parents and...

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Dec 23, 2020
1 min

Nancy Lee Nimick

Nancy Lee Nimick, age 91, of San Francisco, CA, passed away Dec. 12, 2020. Beloved wife of late H. Griffin Nimick. Loving mother of Dave...

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Dec 16, 2020
4 min

Jane Ann Ford: Co-founder of Benefit Cosmetics known for creativity, business sense

Jane Ann Ford, who co-founded the global Benefit Cosmetics line with her identical twin sister, the late Jean Ford Danielson, died Dec. 1...

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Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Judith (Judy) Barr

Judith (Judy) Barr passed away on December 7, 2020. She was born in San Francisco in 1938, and attended Washington High School. She...

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Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Donald Christian Hansen

Donald Christian Hansen, 74, a Tiburon resident for 35 years, died on April 9, 2020 at his home in Oceanside, California, surrounded by...

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Dec 9, 2020
2 min

Sydney Kaplan

Sydney was born in Santa Monica on February 11, 2005, but lived most her life in Belvedere and Tiburon. She was a bright, sensitive girl...

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Dec 2, 2020
3 min

Belvedere ex-mayor, WWII vet Charles Auerbach was active in civic life

Former Belvedere Mayor Charles Auerbach, a World War II veteran who was named the city’s Citizen of the Year in 1985, died Sept. 28 at...

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Nov 18, 2020
1 min

Jonathan Bruce Keppel

July 27, 1944 – October 8, 2020 “Dear old dad,” as he like to be called, has set his sails for another shore following a year-long...

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Nov 11, 2020
2 min

Marjorie Moore

On August 2, 2020, Marjorie (Midge) Moore died at her Belvedere home. She was 97 years old. She was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1923...

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Nov 4, 2020
2 min

Gail Ann (Robinson) Scott

Gail Ann (Robinson) Scott passed away in her Tiburon home, pursuant to her wishes, surrounded by family on October 20, 2020, from natural...

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Sep 30, 2020
4 min

Centenarian, WWII veteran Forrest Morphew was kids’ book author, spent 3 decades on sanitary board

Forrest René Morphew, a former longtime Tiburon resident who served on the Richardson Bay Sanitary District board of directors for 35...

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Sep 23, 2020
2 min

Michael E. Barnowski

Michael E. Barnowski, of Tiburon, CA, passed away suddenly at his home on Monday, September 7, 2020. He was 44 years old. The son of...

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Sep 9, 2020
3 min

Phyllis Trieber

With profound sadness we announce the passing of our beautiful, loving, and devoted mother, Phyllis Trieber, on August 24, 2020. Through...

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Sep 9, 2020
2 min

Ida Mae Berg

10/1/35 - 7/20/20 On July 20, 2020, Ida Mae (Hunt) Berg passed peacefully at her home in Tiburon, California, at the age of 84. Ida Mae...

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Sep 2, 2020
2 min

Dr. Fereydoon Soofer

Dr. Fereydoon Soofer died peacefully at home on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020, surrounded by his entire beloved family after a valiant...

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Sep 2, 2020
1 min

Eloise Rauscher

Eloise Rauscher passed away peacefully on August 13th, 2020, from natural causes. She was 95 years old. She was born in San Francisco and...

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Sep 2, 2020
2 min

Gordon Essex Noble

Gordon Essex Noble fell asleep in death on April 5, 2020, in his home in Tiburon, California, surrounded by family. Gordon was born on...

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