Yolo County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....STERNBERG , David Charles  February 5 2004
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"The Davis Enterprise," Monday, February 9, 2004
David Charles Sternberg

David Charles Sternberg of Davis died Feb. 5, 2004, at Sutter Davis Hospital. He
was 60.

He was born in Portland, Ore., Aug. 19, 1943. He received a bachelor's degree in
botany from Oregon State University in 1965. In 1972, after working under Prof.
Alfred Sussman, he was awarded his doctorate in botany from the University of
Michigan.

He then received a National Research Council fellowship to work with Dr. Elwin
Reese and Dr. Mary Mandels at the Natick Labs in Natick, Mass. He later lived
and worked in the Washington, D.C., area for three years before moving to
Redding, Conn., where he joined the research staff of the Danish company Novo.
He continued working as a microbiologist for NovoNordisk for 20 years.

He moved to Davis with his family in August 1990. He was employed by Novozymes
Biotech at the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife, Linda Garber Sternberg; a daughter, son-in-law and
granddaughter, Nancy, Tony and Natalie Freeman of Newark, Del.; a son, Philip
Sternberg of Davis; his mother, Elsa Sternberg of Portland; a sister and
brother-in-law, Beth and Stan Jasperson of Kansas City, Kan.; a father-in-law
and mother-in-law, Irv and Dora K. Garber of Louisville, Ky., a sister-in-law
and brother-in-law, Susan Flack of Washington and Ed Garber of Louisville.

A memorial service will be held in the Sternberg home Sun., Feb. 8, 2004, at 3 p.m.

The family requests donations in the name of the deceased be made to Human
Rights Watch, www.hrw.org, Oxfam America, www.oxfamamerica.org or the Southern
Poverty Law Center, www.splcenter.org.


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Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street,
Davis, CA 95616

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