MEMORIAL RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, It is with great sadness that members of this Chamber learned of the death of Kurt Randall Myers, Ph.D., on December 8, 2015, at the age of fifty-one; and
WHEREAS, The City Council has been informed of his passing by The Honorable Margaret Laurino, Alderman of the 39th Ward; and
WHEREAS, Born in San Francisco on December 1, 1964, to Professor Carol S. Bruch, and Jack E. (Frances) Myers, Kurt was the beloved husband of Maria De Los Angeles (Angie) Hernandez Myers; loving father of Raquel Jacqueline and Pierce Anthony Myers; dear brother of Margarete Louise Myers Feinstein, Ph.D. (Rabbi Moreley Feinstein); cherished grandson of the late Gordon and Margaret (Taylor) Myers and Ernest Bruch, Ph.D., M.D. (Margarete Willstaetter Bruch, Ph.D.); fond nephew of Kathryn (Carl) Enge, Gordon and the late William and James Myers, Ludwig (Nancy) and Richard (Kathryn) Bruch and Doris Bruch (Richard) Dubielzig; caring cousin of Carl Bruch (Lea Anderson), Andrew Bruch (Lucy Keenan), Elisabeth Brucch, Suzanne Bruch (Josh Sacks), Sonia Dubielzig (Carlos Haeckel), Richard Dubielzig (Hiroko Ishihara), Chris (Heidi) and Jonathan (Jennifer) Enge, Jennifer (John) Pena, Rebecca (Adam) Thronson, Kate (Ben) Bussey, and Davis Myers; and treasured friend to all who had the pleasure of knowing him. Kurt leaves a legacy of faith, dignity and love; and
WHEREAS, Kurt earliest years were spent in Millbrae and Berkeley, California; Tananarive, Madagascar; Albany California; College Park, Maryland; Davis, California; and Pasing (Munich), Germany. He earned his Bachelor's degree with a double major in Physics and Chemistry from Reed College in 1986, where his inter-disciplinary thesis was A Relationship of a Trinity: A Linear Variational Approach to Calculate the Ground State Energy of Helium Using the Wave Functions From and Exactly Soluble Free-Body Model. At the University of Chicago, he completed his Ph.D. in theoretical Chemistry; and
WHEREAS, He completed his doct...
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