Lasting Memories

Cary Stone
1932-Nov. 27, 2008
Menlo Park, California

Cary Stone died at her home in Menlo Park on Nov. 27 after a long battle with cancer. She was 76.

Until 2001, Ms. Stone maintained a practice as a psychiatric social worker with offices on Welch Road in Palo Alto. Earlier, she worked in a similar capacity for Stanford University, Kaiser and the Family Service Agency. She wrote, and collaborated on, many articles appearing in professional journals and books. After long service on the auxiliary clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, she achieved the rank of associate professor, emerita.

She served as an editor at Beacon Press and Stanford University Press. Students at Stern Hall at Stanford later remembered her warm personality when she and her family lived in the faculty residence there, say family members. Ms. Stone was born in Oakland. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Stanford University and a master's degree in social work at UC Berkeley. She and her husband, Bill Wiegand, had lived in their home in Menlo Park since 1976. Beset with health problems over the past several years, she struggled valiantly and found periods of respite and energy, say family members.

Ms. Stone is survived by her husband, Bill Wiegand, and her children, Dr. Gregory Stone and Dr. Mimi Stone; and four grandchildren.