David Lange Stover

Gone almost 9 years, but not forgotten! i wonder what you would think about the state of affairs where we find ourselves on the brink of 2026... rest in peace wherever you are! love, joanne

Happy Birthday David. You would have been 80 years old today!
The videos we (and mostly me) took in Kenya are now available on Youtube (DNWorks.com David Stover/Kenya. Thank you for some of the most memorable events of my life!!!

By some great transcendental coincidence, I received the email from legacy within hours of watching Michael Portillo's Great American Railroad Journeys Series 3 episode 15 Berkeley to Yosemite. I remembered with great affection David taking me to Yosemite at Thanksgiving 1972. That was nearly 50 years ago! Thank you David -my life was so much richer for having known you and for rekindling the spirit of John Muir who was born in Dunbar, scarcely 25 miles from Edinburgh. Brian

Thinking fondly of you often and wishing you were still by Jane's side.

so hard to believe it's been 3 years since you've been gone... my biggest regret is not being able to talk to you as time went on... and i wonder what you would have said & done in the insanity of the past 3 years in this country & most recently in portland... you checked out before the fireworks! i'm glad you found jane... there were so many things i had to do & experience, as did you...i'm glad our paths crossed at such an early age... and then diverged, giving us both the life lessons we...

it's been a joy and comforting to read what people have written about david... even though we had only one occasion in 30 years to see each other again, i have such fond memories of my life with david... of adventures in the sierras, of the peace corps and traveling at a time when one only had to worry about the drinking water...
i'm so happy david had lifelong friends and new friends who enjoyed his company so much... i'm thankful jane came into his life and brought her extended...

it's been a joy and comforting to read what people have written about david... even though we had only one occasion in 30 years to see each other again, i have such fond memories of my life with david... of adventures in the sierras, of the peace corps and traveling at a time when one only had to worry about the drinking water...
i'm so happy david had lifelong friends and new friends who enjoyed his company so much... i'm thankful jane came into his life and brought her extended family...

I had the great privilege of meeting David in early October 1971 at the University of California, Riverside where we entered the Graduate Program and were employed as teaching assistants. As a young Scottish stranger to California, David befriended and mentored me like an older brother.
That Thanksgiving, he invited me back to his home in Fresno (where I met his first wife Joanne) and then to Clovis to meet his parents and his brother Richard and sister in law Becky. We even had time to...