Three Berkeley residents passed away recently: Clare Rothenberg, 85, Hemalatha Suresh, 63, and Isabel I. Westergaard, 93.
A list of some of the people with ties to Berkeley who passed away recently
One of America's most prolific mystery and science fiction writers, Jack Vance died Sunday at his Oakland home, AP reported. A UC Berkeley grad, his first published writing appeared in The Daily Californian. His pen names included Ellery Queen.
Barbara Oliver of Berkeley, called a "a bright star in the galaxy of Bay Area theater" by the Museum of Performance & Design, died May 20 at her Berkeley home at age 85. She was key to starting the Aurora Theatre Company.
Independent filmmaker Les Blank who lives in Berkeley and whose film company, Flower Films, is based in El Cerrito, died in his Berkeley home on Sunday according to media reports.
The professor emeritis of computer science died recently from a bacterial infection. A memorial service is expected in May.
Petris represented East Bay districts in the Caifornia State Assembly and State Senate for nearly 40 years. He died Wednesday at the age of 90.
Harold "Hal" Johnston, a retired UC Berkeley professor of chemistry whose ground-breaking research linked jet aircraft to destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, died Oct. 20 of natural causes at age 92 at his Kensington home.
Berkeley school started a scholarship in her name.
Called 'professor for the 99 percent,' author, professor, labor leader and activist remembered for optimism, humanity, humor.
'Ecotopia' introduced environmentally sound practices in utopian novel.
Thomas Kinkade died of natural causes at 54.
The death of nursing student Sonam Chodon at Oikos University in Oakland Monday has shocked and grieved her friends in the local El Cerrito Tibetan community.
Locals remember a man of compassion who dispensed kindness and self esteem from behind the counter of his small store.
Howard A. Bern, professor emeritus of integrative biology, researched a synthetic hormone's connection to cancer