Brian Knapp
1957-March 20, 2006
Las Vegas, Nevada

Former Menlo Park resident Brian Knapp Skala of Las Vegas died March 20. He was 49.

Mr. Skala was born in Palo Alto and grew up in Menlo Park, attending St. Raymond School and Menlo-Atherton High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1974 to 1978. In 1979, he joined the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, retiring in 1998 as a detective in the general assignment detail.

Mr. Skala is survived by his parents, George and Valerie Knapp of Menlo Park and Anita and Don Farrell of Florence, Oregon; his former wife, Donna Madl Davenport of Tecumseh, Kansas; and stepdaughter Danielle Boehme Schultz of Ashland, Kentucky.

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