June 5, 1932 - October 29, 2021
Resident of Santa Cruz
At 89 years, Herbert Greenfield can be said to have lived a long and largely satisfying life. He was born in Los Angeles in 1932 to Herbert Taylor Greenfield and Margery Combs Greenfield. He graduated from Burbank High School and attended Glendale College where he earned his Associate Degree in Aircraft Mechanics. After a two year stint in the Army, where his aircraft training advanced him to crew chief on an airplane, he attended Cal Poly's engineering program and took a job at Lockheed Burbank and then at Jet Propulsion in Pasadena.
In 1960 he married a school teacher from Michigan and at her urging they left Southern California for Los Gatos in the Bay Area where Nancy found a position teaching English at Los Gatos High School and where Herb transferred to Lockheed Sunnyvale. For the next 30+ years he continued his association with Lockheed, capping his engineering career by working on the Hubble Space Telescope from conception to launch.
The following year he and Nancy retired, with the luxury of time to pursue hobbies, including Herb's antique clock collecting and restoration, and cycling the scenic by-ways of three counties with his bicycle club. They also found time to travel, from early camping trips in the Sierras to their small condo on Lake Michigan in later years. They couldn't have asked for a better retirement or better friends to enjoy it with.
Nancy will miss Herbert every day for the rest of her life. Alas, a particularly virulent form of pneumonia took him away from her, but she will be forever grateful for those 61 years together.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to one of the following: Hospice of Santa Cruz County or Pacific Angels Home Care, 9058 Soquel Drive Suite B, Aptos, CA 95003.
Published by Santa Cruz Sentinel on Nov. 21, 2021.
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