Jurgen Rainer Hartung

Hartung, Dr. Jurgen Rainer age 80. May 22, 1941-January 8, 2022. In his San Francisco home after a brief battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer, he passed away peacefully in the arms of his wife Janet. Jurgen was born in Hamburg Germany to Theodor Wilhelm (Willie) and Helen Hartung (nee Holzwarth). Willie was Engineer for Hapag-Lloyd Cruise Lines and Helen a violin teacher. After Willie’s death in 1945 Jurgen and Helen returned home to her native Switzerland before immigrating to the U.S. in 1949. Helen lived to age 103 thanks to the attention she received from Jurgen who was a devoted son as well as son-in-law to the late Lorraine Coker. Jurgen grew up in San Mateo and attended South Hillsborough School and graduated from San Mateo High School where he played violin in the Orchestra. He became a U.S. Citizen in 1960.

In his undergraduate and graduate years at San Francisco State University, Jurgen was a counselor at Camp Glenwood Juvenile Detention Facility in La Honda and for a time served as a Deputy Sheriff for San

Mateo County. He also was a pilot who owned his own small air plane. It was also during this time of life that he grew “the beard”. Jurgen earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Houston in 1974. Even before completing his degree, Jurgen’s article “A Review Of Procedures To Increase Verbal Imitation Skills and Functional Speech in Autistic Children” (published in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 1970) was highly praised and recognized world wide and reprinted in dozens of different languages.

Returning to California he became a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. He worked for several yeas at Napa State Hospital. Afterwards, Jurgen served for 18 years as Senior Psychologist for North San Mateo Co. Mental Health. After retiring he continued to work several more years seeing patients in his private practice in San Francisco. Jurgen and Janet enjoyed traveling both domestically and foreign. They visited and explored many exotic and interesting places around the world. They loved to travel to the South Pacific especially to

Tahiti were they vacationed 6 times. Each of their many tips to Europe always included a visit to Hamburg including a “stop over” on their way home from touring Egypt.

For many years Jurgen had a hobby of buying old or broken vintage slot machines and restoring them. Jurgen also enjoyed working on and maintaining rental properties he owned in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Paradise Ca.

Jurgen was was an adoring and loving husband and is survived by his wife Janet Coker Hartung with whom he spent the last forty years. Jurgen also had many loving and caring friends. A special shout-out to Ralph Carlson, Jerry Wilson, Lilly Slovick, Darlene Skorka, and Robert Lauricella who were incredibly supportive these last 7 weeks with frequent calls to Janet, phone chats with Jurgen, comfort gifts, and a visit. Thank you Eve, Sarah, Virginia, and Don the 24/7 in-home care givers from Health Professionals, Inc. as well as the kind nurses and staff from ANX Hospice Care.

Donations may be made to Jurgen’s favorite charity, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Friends are welcome to visit Duggan’s Serra Mortuary in Daly City, CA, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 12P, with services starting at 1, burial to follow after the services at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

Estelle Kelley died serenely in Oakland, California on December 29th, 2021 at the age of 92.

Estelle was born in San Francisco. She spent her early years at her family home in Guangzhou, China. At age 9 she relocated back to the US where she lived with family and then at the Ming Quong Home. She graduated from Oakland Technical High School where she continued to cultivate her lifelong love of dance and entertaining. Soon after completing her education she started as a chorus girl at the legendary San Francisco Chinese nightclub Forbidden City, quickly ascending to lead dancer. She dazzled patrons, including famous actors and celebrities like Richard Conte and John Wayne, at Forbidden City and The Sky Room for over a decade. She became an expert in a wide variety of dance styles including ballroom, tap, cabaret, Hawaiian and fan dancing. In 1993 she formed her own dance group, Estelle