The reaction to Silver’s condition was a remarkable display of affection and respect for the political activist who “fought the good fight for Bay Area community.”
By Bruce B. Brugmann
1948-2008
Services for Lani Silver, a passionate activist for more than four decades in San Francisco who died Wednesday, will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Beth Israel-Judea, 625 Brotherhood Way. A burial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, 130l El Camino Real, Colma. She was 60.
Silver died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday night in the home of her sister Lori in San Francisco. You can leave your remembrances — and find out more about her life — here.
“Lani is gone,” her sister Lori wrote an hour later on the CaringBridge.org website. Lani was diagnosed with a brain cancer in September and has been fighting a brave battle ever since. “Lani has always been terrified of being sick, but with this illness, was serene,” Lori wrote in the latest of a regular series of posts on Lani’s condition. “And she died with that same calm and serenity. She was surrounded by her family.”