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Steve passed away unexpectedly following a brief illness. After graduation, Steve received his mechanical design engineering degree from Cal Poly Pomona and worked the greater part of his career in Silicon Valley. More recently, he was content as a driver for a small cab company in Belmont, CA where he was happy to be near all he treasured. Steve's mother still lives in Lafayette in the home their family built. He is buried at the Lafayette Cemetery.
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Marilla J. Watts (Whitney)
Orange County
California, USA
Belmont
San Mateo County
California, USA [Edit Dates]
"Resident of Belmont Our dear Steve passed away unexpectedly following a brief illness. Steve was born on Santa Ana, CA while his father served overseas with the Air Corps in WWII. His family eventually moved north where he loved growing up in Lafayette. He went to Stanley, Jr. High and Acalanes High School, enjoying Boy Scouts and camping, and especially swimming. He was always on the swim teams competing, teaching, and life guarding. He set the highest standards for himself, and by example, for his younger brother Ben and sister Beth. Steve always planned to be an engineer. He received his mechanical design engineering degree from Cal Poly Pomona, and worked the greater part of his career in Silicon Valley. More recently, he was content as a driver for a small cab company in Belmont, CA where he was happy to be near all he treasured. His father, Ben, passed away three years ago, and his mother Peggy [Hoffman] still resides in the home they all built together in Lafayette. He leaves his brother Ben and wife Lisa of Danville, and his sister Beth and her husband Bob Shuman of Los Altos Hills. Their 8 year old daughter Katie Jo was the shining light in his quiet world. Interment will be private at the lovely old Lafayette Cemetery where he will be with other family members. His family meant everything to him, and he to them."
obituary courtesy of the Contra Costa Times
Mike Fullerton
Steve and I became friends in the first grade at John Muir School, Berkeley. I recently found in our reams of old pictures and documents a Christmas card he gave me in first grade, with his picture showing him reading to his younger brother.. After third grade I moved to Pennsylvania for 2 1/2 years and, after returning to live in Lafayette in 1956, caught up with him again after finding out he had recently moved there too. We were friends through Stanley and Acalanes. Quiet kid, but with a good sense of humor and always up for some type of adventure. I lost touch with him (and everyone) after graduation, as my family moved away and I went to school in Illinois, but will always remember him as one of my good friends at Acalanes......certainly blessed to have had him for a friend. Good guy in all ways......