Alden Dyer Sprowles' Obituary
Alden Dyer Sprowles
September 9, 1950 – December 3, 2025
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Harry Sprowles Jr. & Zinaida Hausman Sprowles, died in Oakland, California, in his sleep. Survived by spouse Frances Thompson, son Cameron Sprowles & spouse Carson Herold, daughter Katherine Sprowles & spouse Jacob Kern; brothers Jolyon Sprowles, Jeffrey Sprowles & spouse Martha Anderson Sprowles, and twin sister Wendy Sprowles Appleton & spouse David Appleton; nieces and nephews Amy Sprowles, Karen Sprowles Rice, Christopher Sprowles, John Sprowles, Sara Sprowles, Thornton Thompson, Devin Thompson and their families; cousins Susan Dyer, Clare Marshall, and Margaret Hausman Santori and their families; classmates of Central High School of Philadelphia #227 (1968), classmates of Princeton University 1972, classmates of University of Michigan graduate programs; colleagues from Tandem Computers, 3Com, and others from decades of his professional career in Silicon Valley; friends from the Sequoia Bridge Club; and many, many friends from long-ago childhood to recent retirement.
Alden’s favorite activities included cooking, playing bridge and Settlers of Catan, and watching the Warriors basketball team, and he spent his last weekend doing all of these. Everyone is encouraged to send photos or anecdotes about his one-of-a-kind life to [email protected], scatological or sublime, trivial or tumultuous. If all of us would experience and live in the world as he did, the world would be a far better place. Our lives are less rich with his death.
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