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Ross Shade died peacefully on January 13 2016 from complications associated with diabetes and dementia. He was 87 years old. Ross served in both World War II and the Korean War. Following his naval service he graduated from USC then earned a master s in business administration from UC Berkeley and a law degree from USF. In 1957 Ross met Mary Clark on a blind date and they were married 10 months later. Ross and Mary established a household in Mill Valley and had two daughters. Ross worked as a CPA and established a private practice in Sausalito in the late 1970s specializing in accounting auditing and tax work with public housing authorities and non-profit affordable housing programs. He retired in 1981. His hobbies included tennis and sailing. He enjoyed cutting gemstones and manufactured several lapidary machines. When his children were young he took them to look for rocks on Marin County beaches nearly every Sunday morning. Ross died seven years to the day after Mary passed; they were married 39 years when she died. He is survived by daughters Kathryn Shade and Jenepher Richmond; grandchildren Olivia Couch (Ben Couch) Theodore and Sophia Seiberth Rachelle and Jeffery Richmond; and one great-grandchild Henry Couch. Ross and Mary will be interred at the National Cemetery in San Diego selected because of the view of his beloved Pacific Ocean.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Sunday, January 24, 2016
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Ross Shade died peacefully on January 13 2016 from complications associated with diabetes and dementia. He was 87 years old. Ross served in both World War II and the Korean War. Following his naval service he graduated from USC then earned a master s in business administration from UC Berkeley and a law degree from USF. In 1957 Ross met Mary Clark on a blind date and they were married 10 months later. Ross and Mary established a household in Mill Valley and had two daughters. Ross worked as a CPA and established a private practice in Sausalito in the late 1970s specializing in accounting auditing and tax work with public housing authorities and non-profit affordable housing programs. He retired in 1981. His hobbies included tennis and sailing. He enjoyed cutting gemstones and manufactured several lapidary machines. When his children were young he took them to look for rocks on Marin County beaches nearly every Sunday morning. Ross died seven years to the day after Mary passed; they were married 39 years when she died. He is survived by daughters Kathryn Shade and Jenepher Richmond; grandchildren Olivia Couch (Ben Couch) Theodore and Sophia Seiberth Rachelle and Jeffery Richmond; and one great-grandchild Henry Couch. Ross and Mary will be interred at the National Cemetery in San Diego selected because of the view of his beloved Pacific Ocean.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Sunday, January 24, 2016
Shared by Jerry Huffman (#46859530)
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SNP US NAVY
Ross Shade died peacefully on January 13 2016 from complications associated with diabetes and dementia. He was 87 years old. Ross served in both World War II and the Korean War. Following his naval service he graduated from USC then earned a master s in business administration from UC Berkeley and a law degree from USF. In 1957 Ross met Mary Clark on a blind date and they were married 10 months later. Ross and Mary established a household in Mill Valley and had two daughters. Ross worked as a CPA and established a private practice in Sausalito in the late 1970s specializing in accounting auditing and tax work with public housing authorities and non-profit affordable housing programs. He retired in 1981. His hobbies included tennis and sailing. He enjoyed cutting gemstones and manufactured several lapidary machines. When his children were young he took them to look for rocks on Marin County beaches nearly every Sunday morning. Ross died seven years to the day after Mary passed; they were married 39 years when she died. He is survived by daughters Kathryn Shade and Jenepher Richmond; grandchildren Olivia Couch (Ben Couch) Theodore and Sophia Seiberth Rachelle and Jeffery Richmond; and one great-grandchild Henry Couch. Ross and Mary will be interred at the National Cemetery in San Diego selected because of the view of his beloved Pacific Ocean.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Sunday, January 24, 2016
Shared by Jerry Huffman (#46859530)
SNP US NAVY
Ross Shade died peacefully on January 13 2016 from complications associated with diabetes and dementia. He was 87 years old. Ross served in both World War II and the Korean War. Following his naval service he graduated from USC then earned a master s in business administration from UC Berkeley and a law degree from USF. In 1957 Ross met Mary Clark on a blind date and they were married 10 months later. Ross and Mary established a household in Mill Valley and had two daughters. Ross worked as a CPA and established a private practice in Sausalito in the late 1970s specializing in accounting auditing and tax work with public housing authorities and non-profit affordable housing programs. He retired in 1981. His hobbies included tennis and sailing. He enjoyed cutting gemstones and manufactured several lapidary machines. When his children were young he took them to look for rocks on Marin County beaches nearly every Sunday morning. Ross died seven years to the day after Mary passed; they were married 39 years when she died. He is survived by daughters Kathryn Shade and Jenepher Richmond; grandchildren Olivia Couch (Ben Couch) Theodore and Sophia Seiberth Rachelle and Jeffery Richmond; and one great-grandchild Henry Couch. Ross and Mary will be interred at the National Cemetery in San Diego selected because of the view of his beloved Pacific Ocean.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Sunday, January 24, 2016
Shared by Jerry Huffman (#46859530)
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