Melvin “Mickey” Albert Tobias died peacefully July 3, 2015, after a courageous battle with diabetes and heart failure.
Mel was born on March 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois, to his parents, Jerome and Beatrice Tobias. He served in the Army before starting his career by founding Research Specialists, Inc., a property insurance inspection business and Pacific Rim Investigations.
In 1977, he met his wife, Patricia in Foster City and they married the next year and happily welcomed their daughter and son a few years later. He also had a great love for the many Schnauzers welcomed into the family.
Besides work, Mel loved to take road trips throughout California, the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest and Canada with his family.
Mel is survived by his wife Patricia Tobias; his sisters and brothers-in-law Anita and Donald Silvertrust; Renee and Burton Field; his daughter and daughter-in-law Wendy Tobias and Andra Kimball; and his son and daughter-in-law David and Kate Tobias; his cousins, nieces, nephews and his sister-in-law and husband Cyndy and Dennis Bills; and brother-in-law Phil Hanrahan.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association http://goo.gl/PMCAVC or Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation.
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