Joseph Rector

Joe passed away on September 6, 2018 after battling lung cancer for almost two years. Joe went to Menlo-Atherton High School in Menlo Park, CA where he played football and baseball before graduating in 1975. After high school he went on to work as a sheet metal fabricator before joining Hewlett Packard in 1984 as part of their world-wide security team in Palo Alto, CA. Joe left Hewlett Packard and went to work as an apprentice carpenter for MacPhee Construction until his mother became ill and cared for her until she passed. He moved to Roseville in 2016 and began working for Lowe's Home Improvement until diagnosed with lung cancer.

Joe was very passionate about any sort of fishing; but his true love was ocean fishing. Joe at an early age fished the Half-Moon Bay area all the way to SF. He knew every mile of ocean in the bayarea. As a child he spent almost every summer at Blue Lake and Clear Lake fishing with his dad. But the thing he loved most was to go salmon, halibut, and tuna fishing. He would go out 40 miles outside of Halfmoon-Bay to catch his limit. He also enjoyed taking some of his neighbors on his boat to catch Dungeness Crabs then come home to boil and share with everyone. He will be missed by those who knew and truly loved him. He will be forever in our hearts. Good Bye “Captain Joe” we In love you!.