Obituaries

There’s been a flood of tributes this week to Robert V. Hawn, who passed away this month at the age of 63. A highly regarded business attorney, who played in a jazz band and volunteered his time to preserve the valley’s greenbelt, he was...

​​On Aug. 21, the Veterans Memorial & Support Foundation assisted a local family in organizing a remembrance ceremony for a Los Gatos veteran who died on July 3. Dodi Brooks Gaines, 75, an Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient from wounds suffered in a mortar...

On Monday evening, Daniel Klein, the CEO of Jewish Silicon Valley, announced that Cookie Addison, a pillar of the local Jewish community, had died. The “artistic and creative” woman’s philanthropy left an “indelible mark” on the community, he wrote. “Cookie helped foster a sense of belonging...

Barbara Jackson Junge, a long-time Los Gatos resident, teacher and international educational consultant, died after a long illness on July 26 surrounded by family and friends. She was 89. Born Dec. 1, 1931 in Los Angeles, she was the second of three daughters of actor...

Gracie Garcia, a lifelong collector, world traveler and longtime manager of the Main Street Exchange in Los Gatos in the 1980s, died on Feb. 10 following a stroke she suffered in December. She was 82. Tika Burns, one of Garcia’s four children, said her mother...