Douglas Daniel Albert Naylor
March 30, 1944-Nov. 9, 2014
Port Hueneme, California

Former Palo Alto resident Douglas Daniel Albert Naylor, 70, passed away on Nov. 9, hours after he was struck by a car while crossing Pacific Coast Highway by Big Rock in Malibu.

He was born on March 30, 1944, in Keswick, Iowa. After the death of his mother the family moved to their Uncle Tiny's ranch, Naylor & Son's, in Riverside, California when he was 9. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 and served on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in the Pacific during the Vietnam War until he was 21. He attended university at USC and CSUN and graduated from Northridge with a bachelor's degree in business.

While attending school he lived in Brentwood, California, and that is when he met his wife Sandy MacCallum. They were married on Sept. 28, 1974. They moved to Malibu in 1975 and lived on Carbon Beach until moving to Corral Canyon in 1978, where they had all three of their children, Daniel, Heather and Alexandra.

The family moved to Calabasas in 1997, and then up north to Menlo Park, California, in 1999. He and Sandy later divorced in 2004, but they remained good friends. He moved back down south in 2008 and lived just North of Malibu in Port Hueneme.

He worked as a stockbroker for 30 years and later in life became a loan broker and real estate agent. He had many hobbies. He loved sailing, rebuilding classic cars and built three houses up in Corral Canyon, as his family grew over the years. He was a wealth of knowledge that people will miss. The most important part of his life was his family and friends, and he was always there for anyone who needed him.

Naylor is survived by his ex-wife/friend, Sandy; son, Daniel; daughters, Heather and Alexandra; granddaughter, Athena; siblings, Daneta, Diane, David and Derry; cousins, Biff, Cal, Chet, Greg, Jeff, Mary and Loydel; and girlfriend, Meryl.

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