Obituary for Dr. Stephen Yarnell
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California; Dr. Stephen Yarnell, age 45, a Castro Valley psychiatrist, died Sunday, July 31, 1988 of AIDS in his San Francisco home. Dr. Yarnell, a native of Sacramento, California, was an honors graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and earned his medical degree, with honors, from the UC medical school in San Francisco in 1968. He completed his residency in psychiatry there in 1972 and was chief resident in 1973. Dr. Yarnell opened a private practice in Castro Valley and was co-founder and director of the eating disorder unit at Eden Hospital. He was an advocate of the dignified death movement and backed a proposal to allow the terminally ill to have a doctor assist them to die. His own death was natural. He is survived by his parents, Howard and Marguerite Yarnell, of San Carlos, California; two brothers, Dennis Yarnell and Thomas Yarnell, and his companion, Thomas Bowers, of San Francisco. A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, August 7 at the First Unitarian Church, Franklin Street and Geary Boulevard. Donations to Americans Against Human Suffering, Box 11001, Glendale, CA 91206, are preferred |
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