IN MEMORIAM
These pages serve as a gathering place for members of the wider San Francisco Zen Center sangha (community) to honor and remember dharma friends who have died.
Former Abbots

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
May 18, 1904 – December 4, 1971

Dainin Katagiri Roshi
January 19, 1928 – March 1, 1990

Sojun Mel Weitsman
July 9, 1929 – January 7, 2021

Zenkei Blanche Hartman
May 8, 1926 – May 13, 2016

Myogen Steve Stücky
March 6, 1946 – December 31, 2013

Layla Smith Bockhorst
1946? – November 3, 2022

Del Carlson
December 1923 – November 7, 2017

David Coady
July 17, 1965 – July 21, 2011

Surei Darlene Cohen
October 31, 1942 – January 12, 2011

Seido Lee de Barros
November 5, 1936 – March 6, 2019

Shotai Marta de la Rosa
1952 – 2023

Junsei Jana Drakka
October 21, 1952 – October 28, 2017

Curtis Fabens
1982 – 2023

Della Goertz
July 11, 1913 – February 5, 2012

Mitsuzen Lou Hartman
June 2, 1915 – January 20, 2011

Silas Hoadley
December 25, 1938 – December 13, 2022

Lee Lipp
December 9, 1937 – August 17, 2016

Daigan Lueck
January 27, 1931 – April 26, 2015

Jakujo Gary McNabb
November 22, 1943 – February 9, 2022

Caroline Meister
January 29, 1992 – March 18, 2024

Hilary Parsons
January 1, 1949 – August 19, 2017

Lin Zenki
October 28, 1951 – August 28, 2017

Yvonne Rand
September 23, 1935 – August 19, 2020

Jerome Petersen
June 12, 1928 – December 12, 2010
Kaiji Jeffrey Schneider
October 14, 1952 – February 13, 2024

Simbwala Schultz
December 27, 1951 – November 21, 2022

Mitsu Suzuki Sensei
April 23, 1914 – January 9, 2015

Sobun Katherine Thanas
March 17, 1927 – June 24, 2012

Shokan Jordan Thorn
January 13, 1953 – June 10, 2018

Jack Weller
1939 – December 17, 2018