Joy Avalon Stansberry lived among the concrete lions — then ran a motel on Route 99

Hare's grandmother: widowed to The Cats estate in Los Gatos, then to Willows, running a 25-room motor court with her own mother

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Joy Avalon Stansberry — Jonathan Hare's grandmother — was adrift after Milton Dixon Hare's death, and the record follows her to two of its best addresses: first a small house on The Cats, the historic 34-acre Los Gatos estate guarded by eight-foot concrete felines; then to Willows, where she and her own mother — great-grandmother Stansberry — owned and operated a 25-room motor motel right off Route 99 before settling into a tract house. Two widowed generations running a roadside motel together is a novel the record didn't have to invent. The chapter is in From Terman's lab to The Cats.

S-104 adds what the first draft missed: the Stansberry family kept its own published history — the fourth of the family's lineage books, tracing the line to Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire, and the volume through which the familial connections to the House of Windsor, the Prince of Baden, the von Bismarcks, and Prince William of Orange the Silent run. Hare knew great-grandmother Stansberry well: she lived to ninety-nine or so, and he visited her and Joy in Willows dozens of times.

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My other grandfather invented chaff, and died at forty-six

Radar, chaff, and the Stanford lab at the center of Silicon Valley

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The Cats: eight-foot concrete lions, a widow's refuge — and later, Doug Merritt's address

The historic 34-acre Los Gatos estate in Poets Canyon, Leo and Leona at the gate; subdivided decades later into the luxury homes where a best friend landed

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My father marched beside Martin Luther King at Selma, and photographed it

Selma, 1965 — and the promise

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Four books, not three — Grandma Stansberry, and the fourth volume

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The Record Update document — lineage, stewardship, and the Quantum Genome

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Great-grandmother Stansberry's first name
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