Horace Enea

Horace Enea June 5, 1941 - February 4, 2009 Horace was born in Antioch, CA, and raised in Pittsburg, proud son of Frances and Joe the "Milkman" Enea. Before there was Google, there was Horace Enea. Horace had an answer for every question, especially if it was about jazz, rare books, astronomy or computer science. An avid musician, Horace was president of the Leland J. Stanford University Marching Band the year they went from flat to fluffy. He met his wife, Anne, at Stanford when she hired him with grant funds to write a computer program; he liked to tease her that she paid him $500 and spent the other $1000 on her wedding dress. At the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Department, Horace and Dr. Kenneth Colby developed the natural language program Perry. Horace later founded Heuristics, Inc., the first microprocessor-based speech recognition company, and then co-founded the venture capital group at Apple Computer. In 1996, he helped raise money for BEA Systems, Inc., the fastest growing software company in history at that time. Horace is survived by his wife Anne; his children Kristine and John; his grandchildren Jason and Nicholas; his brother Joe and Joe's wife Francine. Friends and family are invited to a Funeral Liturgy on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 10 a.m. at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 3200 Harbor Street, Pittsburg, CA 94565. A Rosary will he held the night before, Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7:00 pm at the Pittsburg Funeral Chapel, 2295 Railroad Avenue, Pittsburg, CA 94565 Donations may be made to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, 801 Roeder Road, Ste 400, Silver Spring, MD 20910, www.PHAssociation.org/donate.