Heather Trumbower Obituary
With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Heather Trumbower (San Anselmo, California), who passed away on May 1, 2024. Family and friends are welcome to leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family.
She was predeceased by: her adoptive parents, Robert Trumbower and Doris Trumbower; her birth mother Nathalie Judson; and her half-brother Raphael Sassi. She is survived by: her siblings, Mercury Ripley and Sebastian Sassi; her uncle Stephen Judson; her nieces, Sara and Alyssa; her friends, Patrice Reid, Lorretta Haggard, Colleen Gilmore, Julie Murphy, Renny Christopher and Carl Watts; her family, Mercury, Sara, Alyssa, Sebastian, Stephen (Andy), Rain and Reiko; and also, Rain and Rita.
She played a key role in inputting the SARS-1 virus (the first Covid threat) into the genome browser.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to your local no-kill animal shelter in honor of our beloved dog-whisperer, or to one of the two choruses she sang with: the Queer Chorus of San Francisco or the Channel Islands Choral Association.
