Los Gatos Weekly-Times

Obituaries

Dorothy Joslyn

Former Los Gatos resident Dorothy Chamberlain Joslyn died Sept. 26 after a short stay at Summerfield Convalescent Hospital in Santa Rosa. She was 90.

Born March 18, 1906 in Fremont, Mich., she earned a bachelor's degree and a teaching certificate from Western Michigan College of Education in Kalamazoo. She taught in several Michigan school districts for many years; during World War II, she also worked at a factory that manufactured sparkplugs for military airplanes.

Joslyn spent the majority of her retirement years living in Los Gatos, where she was active in various programs of Eastfield Ming Quong. She also enjoyed playing bridge and tending her garden.

She was preceded in death by husband George Joslyn and son Lee Gleason. Survivors include son Clark Gerald "Jerry" Gleason of Santa Rosa; four granddaughters; two grandsons; two great-grandchildren; sister Jane Zumbrink of Los Gatos; and brothers Paul Chamberlain of Los Gatos and Newell Chamberlain of San Jose.

Memorial services have been held, with interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale. Donations may be made to Eastfield Ming Quong, 251 Llewellyn Ave., Campbell, 95008, or to a favorite charity.

Carroll O'Sullivan

Longtime Los Gatan the Rev. Carroll M. O'Sullivan, S.J., died Oct. 9 in the infirmary at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center. He was 94 years old, a Jesuit for 61 years and a priest for 58.

Born April 14, 1902 in San Francisco, he graduated from St. Ignatius High School. As a young man, "he was uncommonly intelligent--academically, mechanically and 'spirit-wise,' " recalled Province archivist Tom Marshall, S.J.

O'Sullivan came to Los Gatos in 1925, determined to be a priest after serving an apprenticeship as a machinist and working as an insurance adjustor. He took up residence at the then-Novitiate in an annex called "The Refrigerator" because it was unheated.

He earned a bachelor's degree in humanities from Santa Clara University and a master's degree in philosophy from Gonzaga University. By 1932, he had finished most of his seminary training in Los Gatos and in Spokane. He received a doctorate degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 1935 and was ordained in 1938. He served many years as a chemistry professor at the University of San Francisco and in 1951 was named Rector of the University.

O'Sullivan became a California Provincial in 1954 and served the customary six-year term. He led the building of new high schools in Sacramento and Hiroshima, Japan, and helped establish parishes in Sacramento, Nevada and Utah. He left the Provincialate in 1960 and became spiritual director of the seminarians at the Los Gatos Novitiate. In the late 1960s, seminarians were relocated, and O'Sullivan was responsible for the partial remissioning of the Novitiate as a retreat center.

Eventually, O'Sullivan came to have a counseling and study suite at the Sacred Heart center and a Eucharist room down the hall and a car tool shop in the courtyard. He was a renewal consultor to many religious orders, especially the Sisters of Mercy. Convents and parishes in the South Bay called on him continually, according to Marshall. When not helping others, he enjoyed working in his tool room, tinkering with his 1968 Chevrolet and riding his mountain bike.

Survivors include sister Deborah Watson, a Sister of Mercy stationed in Peru, as well as nephews Robert Watson of San Mateo and Edward Watson of Burlingame.

Services have been held, with interment at Mission Santa Clara Cemetery. Donations may be made to Sacred Heart Jesuit Center Retirement Fund, 300 College Ave., Los Gatos, 95030.

Ruth Schaus

Ruth Harris Schaus died in her Los Gatos home Oct. 14 at the age of 78.

Born Dec. 29, 1917 in Houston, Schaus attended the University of Michigan, earned a bachelor's degree in art from San Jose State University and continued her art studies at West Valley Community College. Watercolor was her favorite medium in which to paint, although she also did monotypes, oil works and a little sculpture.

Schaus exhibited her work in many local galleries and some in Europe, where the family lived for about 11 years while husband Richard was working with an international branch of General Electric. Schaus participated in the art therapy program at the Los Gatos Meadows' Hospital and enjoyed sailing. Richard jokes that his wife was "Admiral" of their ketch sailboat L'Anitre, while he respectfully took the backseat as "Captain."

"Ruth was an incredibly fine wife for 60 years--homemaker, mother of five children and artist who always put the well-being of her fellow humans ahead of her own interests," he recalled.

Survivors, in addition to her husband, are sons Peter T. Schaus of Aptos and Richard H. Schaus of Kalispell, Mont.; granddaughter Alethea R. Schaus of Kalispell; and sister Elinor H. Eddy of Carmel Valley.

Memorial services have been held; Schaus' ashes will be scattered in the Sierra. Donations may be made to Columbia Home Care Hospice, 2025 Gateway Place, San Jose, 95110-1054, or to the American Cancer Society Santa Clara County Unit, 1715 S. Bascom Ave., Suite #100, Campbell, 95008.