Obituaries
Alma Sieber
Alma M. Sieber, a Los Gatos resident since 1953, died March 30 of heart failure at the age of 93.
Sieber was born March 25, 1906, in West Hartleypool, England, and came to California as a young woman. In the 1920s, she met her late husband, Swiss immigrant Peter Sieber, in San Rafael. She was a homemaker and enjoyed music, playing the piano and reading.
Survivors include daughter Anne Winberg of Alameda; sons Peter of Los Gatos, Paul of Monmouth, Ore., John of Payton, Colo. and David of Eldorado Hills; also 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Peter Kraai
Former Los Gatan Peter T. Kraai died March 31 in Santa Fe, N.M., at the age of 55.
Kraai was born March 25, 1944, in Northern California. After going through Los Gatos schools and graduating from Los Gatos High School, Kraai attended UC-Berkeley, where he received a master's degree in engineering. Following college, he moved to the Southwest, first to Arizona and then, in 1971, to Santa Fe, where he met his future wife Mary when he invited her to play a piano/recorder duet with him.
While living in Santa Fe, Kraai worked for Scanlon and Associates and later for the state of New Mexico as head of hydrographic survey. He enjoyed problem-solving and the challenges he countered while working with the New Mexico water systems.
Kraai enjoyed listening to jazz and flamenco music, spending time in the New Mexican mountains and deserts, cross-country skiing and riding his bicycle and motorcycle. "He was a man of few words," his family recalls, "and to all who knew him well, a valued advice-giver."
Survivors include wife Mary Kraai of Santa Fe; son Jesse Kraai of Germany; daughters Rachel Kraai of New York and Blanche Kraai of Albuquerque, N.M.; mother Marion Kraai of Los Gatos; sisters Catherine and Lila of Los Gatos and nephew Pavlos of San Francisco.
Memorial services have been held. Donations may be made to the Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center, P.O. Box 116346, Santa Fe, N.M. 87506.
Stanley Johnson
Following a long illness, Dr. Stanley L. Johnson--better known to his many patients in the Los Gatos and Saratoga areas as "Dr. Stan"--died in his Saratoga home April 13 at the age of 73.
A native of Nebraska, Johnson graduated from the University of Nebraska, where he earned an undergraduate degree in science and a doctorate in medicine. In 1952, he and his wife, Harriet, moved to the Bay Area, where he completed an internship and began a surgical residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland.
In 1955, Johnson joined the U.S. Air Force and served as chief of surgery at both Keflavic AFB hospital in Iceland and West Palm Beach AFB in Florida. In 1958, he returned to Highland Hospital and finished his residency. The Johnson family settled in Los Gatos in 1960, where Johnson began the general surgery practice he maintained for 30 years. The Johnsons later moved to Saratoga.
Johnson was an accomplished pianist and an avid photographer. He also enjoyed gardening, crossword puzzles, jogging, playing bridge and golf, following Nebraska football games and learning the ways of the computer. He had a love of nature, which he shared with his family on hiking, skiing and rafting trips.
Survivors include wife Harriet Johnson of Saratoga; daughters Kathy Johnson of Seattle, Wash., and Sue Johnson of Truckee; son Scott Johnson of Boulder, Colo.; and granddaughters Sarah and Eva Johnson.
Private memorial services have been held; a memorial celebration of life for friends and colleagues will be held at a later date. Donations may be made to Hospice of the Valley, 1150 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 7-A, San Jose, 95128.
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