James Lilienthal

September 9, 1941 - December 28, 2022

Mr. James “Jim” Robert Lilienthal died peacefully at age 81 in his home city, San Francisco, under comfort care on December 28, 2022 after a 14-month battle with cancer. After graduating from Washington High School, Jim spent 4 years at Yale University and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jim was an inveterate world traveler, writer, and photographer for most of his life. He spent a 9-year period traveling on a shoestring budget the length and breadth of Mexico, Central America, and South America – after a similar long period in Eurasia.

As a final reward to him by the Fates, he completed a rich, extraordinarily photographed, deliciously described travel throughout Sicily and Calabria, returning to San Francisco just one day before his final illness set in.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Philip Lilienthal and Frances Newman Lilienthal. He is survived by his brother and sister-in-law Peter, Sara (Sallie) Lilienthal and niece Ann Moniot Lilienthal, and other extended Lilienthal and Newman family. Particularly important to him, he also left a large, devoted circle of many dozen friends from the Bay Area and around the world. In the Spring, on dates to be determined, his ashes will be scattered at sea by the Neptune Society, and there will be a celebration of his exceptionally rich life.

A more complete obituary can be found at the Neptune Society of Northern California.

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