Frances F. Shand

Frances F. Shand

Frances F. Shand died Sept. 9. She was 95.

Shand was born on Nov. 4, 1924 to Frank and Anna Tennyson in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from St. Theresa's Catholic High School. At 21, she moved to California. Once her children were in high school, she decided to go back to work. Her first job was working in the radiology department at Kaiser, Walnut Creek. After nine years at Kaiser, she accepted another position at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory where she worked in property. She retired in 1990.

She is predeceased by her parents, her sister, Anna Mae Tennyson, and her son, Richard F. Shand, who passed away in 2008. She is survived by her son, James Shand and his wife Naomi; her daughter-in-law, Linda Shand; her daughter, Janice (Shand) Buchholz and her husband, Steven; five granddaughters and three great grandchildren.

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