Los Altos resident, Thomas Harry Anderson, passed away at home on March 2, 2023.

Tom was born on September 27, 1947, in San Francisco, California, the son of the late Warren Albert Anderson and Ruth Shirley Townsend Anderson. He grew up in San Rafael, California and was a 1965 graduate of Terra Linda High School. Following two years of service with the U. S. Army, Third Armored Division in Europe, Tom returned to San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University in 1972, with a degree in communications.

He then moved to the Lake Tahoe area where his family had a vacation home, and began a long, varied and productive career at the ski resort then known as Squaw Valley USA. Tom started out in the Lift Maintenance department, but his knowledge of the mountain and level- headedness led to positions of increasing responsibility, including Mountain Manager, overseeing daily operations and maintenance of the resort. Eventually he took on responsibility for project permitting and liaison with the many County, State and Federal agencies exercising oversight and regulatory authority. Over the years, Tom patiently built relationships with the agencies and was respected by their staff members as someone who was truthful and trustworthy. He retired in 1999 as Director of Operations and a member of the Board of Directors of the company.

In 1995, Tom married Josephine Elizabeth (Jo Beth) Folger, with whom he had two sons, James Thomas Folger Anderson and Townsend Ladd Folger Anderson. In 1999, the family relocated back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Tom enjoyed a decade-long second career in environmental regulatory compliance at NASA Ames Research Center. He was a member of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and was active with his sons' Boy Scout and Little League activities.

In addition to his wife and sons, Tom is survived by his brother, Stephen Warren (Maureen) Anderson, sisters Sally Anderson Manley and Marjorie Anderson (Chris) Hill, sister-in-law Lora Ladd Folger, nieces Kati Bell, Jessica (Shawn) Beeler, April (Bob) Boyde, Michelle (Jordan) Brooks, and nephews Leif (Gina) Anderson and Andrew (Lindsay) Hill, and nine great-nieces and nephews.

Tom will be buried in the Williamsport Tennessee Cemetery.