I Googled her. I saw her and her children at various events over the years and wanted to see what happened to her as she always was so full of life.
Mieke Dankers Gallo died at her home in Woodside of a brain tumor after a 10-year illness. She was 59.
Ms. Gallo was born in the Netherlands and came to the United States in 1954 with her family. She attended Carlmont High School and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. In her early career, she taught elementary school in East Palo Alto and Redwood City. She left teaching to raise her two children. She later built a successful career as a corporate recruiter.
She was married to Marty Hull, with whom she had a son, Hans, and a daughter, Lia. She later married Luigi Gallo.
Ms. Gallo will be remembered for her enthusiasm, zest for life, generous spirit, and sense of humor, say family members. She loved California's natural beauty and spent many days walking in local parks and camping in the Sierra.
She enjoyed traveling abroad with her husband, time with her grandchildren, discussions of politics, Zen meditation, and KQED public television, say family members.
She is survived by her husband, Luigi Gallo; children Hans Hull of Princeton, New Jersey, and Lia Hull of Santa Cruz; and six grandchildren.
Mieke was my bike-riding buddy during seventh and eighth grade, and we spent many hours on the phone working on our SMSG math together. She had an amazing doll collection, and her dad worked for Blooker's Chocolates, so I loved visiting her at home.
Years later, after we had gone our separate ways to college and marriage, I was student teaching in Morgan Hill and Mieke invited me to spend several days in her fourth grade classroom. She was a gifted teacher, and her confidence really helped me get over my own trepidation at having my own class.
Her kindness and generousity are what I remember the most.
Mieke was the perfect woman--beautiful, smart, funny--and, her old man owned a chocolate factory. I still remember her big booming infectious laugh. She had the honor of being was the most immediate cause of Ivan Griffin's pulling the plug--literally--on our Senior Ball. She was easily the most conspiccuous violator of his rule against girls dancing with their arms above the shoulders. Her dancing to Night Train was just too provocative for the poor man to bear. Our own version of Footloose.
Mieke was so full of life, that her untimely death seems especially cruel. But, she lives on in my heart and I'm sure in the hearts of others who were her friends.
Nikki Taylor/Sandars
I Googled her. I saw her and her children at various events over the years and wanted to see what happened to her as she always was so full of life.
Mieke Dankers Gallo died at her home in Woodside of a brain tumor after a 10-year illness. She was 59.
Ms. Gallo was born in the Netherlands and came to the United States in 1954 with her family. She attended Carlmont High School and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. In her early career, she taught elementary school in East Palo Alto and Redwood City. She left teaching to raise her two children. She later built a successful career as a corporate recruiter.
She was married to Marty Hull, with whom she had a son, Hans, and a daughter, Lia. She later married Luigi Gallo.
Ms. Gallo will be remembered for her enthusiasm, zest for life, generous spirit, and sense of humor, say family members. She loved California's natural beauty and spent many days walking in local parks and camping in the Sierra.
She enjoyed traveling abroad with her husband, time with her grandchildren, discussions of politics, Zen meditation, and KQED public television, say family members.
She is survived by her husband, Luigi Gallo; children Hans Hull of Princeton, New Jersey, and Lia Hull of Santa Cruz; and six grandchildren.
Marlene Skirrow (Bumgarner)
Mieke was my bike-riding buddy during seventh and eighth grade, and we spent many hours on the phone working on our SMSG math together. She had an amazing doll collection, and her dad worked for Blooker's Chocolates, so I loved visiting her at home.
Years later, after we had gone our separate ways to college and marriage, I was student teaching in Morgan Hill and Mieke invited me to spend several days in her fourth grade classroom. She was a gifted teacher, and her confidence really helped me get over my own trepidation at having my own class.
Her kindness and generousity are what I remember the most.
Dennis Martin
Mieke was the perfect woman--beautiful, smart, funny--and, her old man owned a chocolate factory. I still remember her big booming infectious laugh. She had the honor of being was the most immediate cause of Ivan Griffin's pulling the plug--literally--on our Senior Ball. She was easily the most conspiccuous violator of his rule against girls dancing with their arms above the shoulders. Her dancing to Night Train was just too provocative for the poor man to bear. Our own version of Footloose.
Mieke was so full of life, that her untimely death seems especially cruel. But, she lives on in my heart and I'm sure in the hearts of others who were her friends.