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Kathy Stefano
June 23, 2025
I was walking by your apt on pine street with fond memories of having dinner with Andrew and four dogs, each obediently sitting at a corner of the table, knowing they´d each get a morsel in the end. Miss our great times together
Kathy Stefano
July 3, 2022
Remembered Stephen today his birthday. We had a lot of great celebrations. My favorite was his 40th when I bought him or scrimmaged for 40 different gifts and I wrapped everyone of them from very small things to bigger things he opened them so quickly it was so much fun! Miss you much.
Kathy Stefano
June 23, 2020
I miss you so much and all our great times. Dearest Emma and all the dogs in our lives.
susan Asher tuttle
December 20, 2018
Stephen and I met at SF State in 1970. We lived in Verducci Hall and hung out with Joan and Andy. He had a mischievous sense of humor, and we shared a lot of laughs. I was a drama major and he starred with Kit McDonough in my Directing Class final, "A Taste of Honey", in which he was perfectly cast and was a natural actor! I have a letter he wrote to me when he went back to Sunnyvale the next summer. I stayed at my parents' house in San Mateo. We grew apart for several years, and reunited when Andrew Small died. We both worked (separately) at the Hotel Mark Hopkins. I wish we could have stayed friends but we grew apart. I love seeing his sunny smile in the family photo! Rest in Peace, sweet Steve!!
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Vicki
July 11, 2008
I met Stephen 14 years ago when I took my new dog, Freddie, to Huntington Park. His dog, Emma, immediately came over to check us out, and Stephen followed right behind. We all became friends and for the next four years until I moved out of the city he spent a lot of time together. In time I got a second dog, Cubby, and over the years we logged many miles walking the dogs around Nob Hill. Both Freddie and Cubby absolutely adored their “Uncle Stephen.” One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was Stephen holding my little dog Cubby upright in his lap, strumming her belly like a banjo, and singing “She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain.”
Will Rogers said, “If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” The dogs we walked and loved back then have passed on now and it is my sincerest hope that Stephen went where they went and is now with Emma, Lucy, Kudra, Mona, Roxie, Freddie, Cubby and all the other dogs he loved along the way and who loved him in return.
One of the first things Stephen’s friends will comment on is his wonderful sense of humor. He was so intelligent and witty and funny. We laughed a lot in the years I knew him. He was also an excellent raconteur. I especially enjoyed hearing tales of his early days in San Francisco.
Stephen, we’ll always remember you.
Kathy Stefano
June 30, 2008
Stephen was my dear friend for many years in SF. When I first met him I was cast in San Jose Repertory's "Streetcar Named Desire", Stephen's favorite play (he knew every line)! I am a dog lover and bought him his dear dog Emma as a gift soon after his darling Lucy passed. He actually carried my dog, Mona, down the stairs after she passed...I call that a true friend. I'm shocked and saddened to hear of his loss..he is missed.
Grace Marion
June 29, 2008
This is Stephen's sister, Grace. He will be dearly missed. He had a wonderful sense of humor and I would laugh with him even as we would be just driving down the road. (Always people watching!) We were with him in his last moments of life and I know that he felt us there with him.I will think of him often. His Loving sister, Grace 6/29/08
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