Harold H. Stocker ’50
Hal died June 10, 2021, in Yuba County, Calif.
Born in Portland, Ore., he attended school there until he came east to Mount Hermon to finish high school. He then enlisted in the Navy, serving about a year before coming to Princeton. He was a biology major and belonged to Campus Club.
Hal graduated from medical school at Columbia in 1954 and interned at Cincinnati General Hospital. Following two-year residencies at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and Stanford Medical Hospital, he practiced internal medicine at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Calif., for 26 years. During those years he donated about a month each year to serve on the hospital ship Hope.
Upon retirement he moved to Challenge, Calif., a small community northeast of San Francisco and near the Nevada border. He soon entered politics there and served as a Yuba County supervisor for 20 years, where his main concern was preserving the natural beauty of the county’s foothills.
Hal’s favorite pastimes were tennis, gardening, and growing fruit trees. He was an ardent fan of the San Francisco 49ers.
Hal is survived by his wife of 53 years, Leah.
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