Gretchen Lee passed away Nov. 11 in the hospice unit at Victorian Manor, an assisted living facility. At 98, she was one of the younger residents of the three-story, 124-unit building in in San Francisco’s Alamo Square. Lee first moved into assisted living four years ago when several falls and early signs of dementia convinced ...
Two years ago, Greg Myers and his wife, Lonnie Lebin, were leading a comfortable life in four-story Sunnyside District home. Myers, a former robotics engineer, was a runner, hiker, and enjoyed playing the piano. Lebin, a former kindergarten teacher, had begun taking classes in ceramics, exercised at the Stonestown YMCA and was a longtime performer ...
Jody Reiss was one of the youngest people to move into The Sequoias, one of roughly 50 assisted living facilities in San Francisco. She was 68 in a place where the average resident is much older and unable to live at home any longer due to health problems. That wasn’t what budged Reiss, an active ...
For many high school biology students, dissecting a frog is an unpleasant rite of passage. But for Shirley Lowe, the exploration of amphibian physiology “was fascinating, seeing all of its parts and how they were interconnected.” Her skill and enthusiasm led to a student award and a decision to major in clinical laboratory science in ...
