Kuros Tabari
Kuros Tabari, a Los Gatos plastic surgeon, died of respiratory failure March 4. He was 65.
Born June 24, 1930, in Sari, Mazandaran, Iran, Tabari came to the United States in the 1940s and became a citizen in the early 1960s. Tabari earned his medical degree in 1956 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received specialty training from 1957 to 1959 at the Owens Clinic for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Louisiana.
A certified member of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Tabari performed numerous surgeries over his 25 years of private practice in Los Gatos. He was affiliated with the Community Hospital of Los Gatos, where he served as chief of staff in 1985. Tabari was a past president of Flying Physicians, an aviators' group. He was also active in the Flying Doctors, a humanitarian organization that periodically flies doctors to Mexico and other Latin American countries to provide free medical care to poor families.
Last April, Tabari completed the last of three reconstructive surgeries on a 9-year-old Mexican girl disfigured by a large tumor on her upper lip; the Community Hospital and its personnel absorbed the cost to have her transported to Los Gatos.
Tabari was affiliated with many professional, educational and community organizations. In his free time, he enjoyed aviation, tennis, skiing, travel and music. He made his home in Saratoga.
Survivors include wife Leela of Saratoga; sons Cyrus Tabari of Los Gatos and Zane Tabari of Aptos; daughters Melissa Tabari of San Jose and Cynthia Moehring of Las Vegas; grandchildren Carleen and Patrick Tabari of Los Gatos and Charles Moehring of Las Vegas; parents Zeinol and Nayereh Tabari of San Jose; brothers Kam Tabari of Monte Sereno and Keyvan Tabari of San Francisco; and sisters Kita Shahab of Woodland Hills and Kija Mizany of San Rafael.
Memorial services were held at Darling-Fischer Chapel of the Hills, Los Gatos. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Santa Clara County Unit, 1715 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 100, Campbell, 95008.
Fred Schaub
Former Los Gatos resident and businessman Fred J. Schaub died Feb. 8 in Marysville at the age of 80.
Schaub was born July 27, 1915, in Lelanau, Mich., but did most of his growing up in California, where his family of 14 moved when he was 7.
After learning the meat-cutting trade from his older brothers, Schaub helped them run several Schaub's Markets in the Los Angeles area. In 1945, Schaub opened his own market in Pasadena and held many different jobs in the years that followed.
He moved to Los Gatos in 1959 with son David and opened Fred's Quality Meats at 17 N. Santa Cruz Ave. It was here that he perfected his Fred's Marinated Sirloin steaks. Schaub relocated the business eight years later to Eddie's Northside Market and then sold it to his son in 1976. Schaub later retired to the town of Dobbins, where he took up panning for gold.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law David and Carol Schaub of Los Gatos; granddaughter and grandson-in-law Danell Schaub-Gallmeister and Daniel Lee Gallmeister of San Jose; great-great-granddaughter Diana Leilani Gallmeister of San Jose; and four brothers and three sisters.
Donations may be made to Creativity Unlimited of Santa Clara County, 1403 Parkmoor Ave., San Jose, 95126.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, March 20, 1996.
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