Albert Laurence Bartelson
Oct. 6, 1933-March 28, 2025
Livermore, California
A Pleasanton resident for many years, Larry passed away peacefully on Friday March 28 while under hospice care at San Ramon Regional Medical Center. Larry was born on October 6, 1933, in Milford, Iowa. He graduated from Hartley High School in Hartley Iowa in 1952. He attended the University of Colorado in Boulder and then joined the U.S. Army where he served from 1952-1954. He was stationed in El Paso, TX. After leaving the Army, he moved to San Jose, CA to be close to his parents and siblings, who had relocated from Iowa. He began working for the City of San Jose. He then began working for Mackay & Somps Civil Engineering firm. He reconnected with his Hartley High School classmate Dorathy (Dotty) Putnam, who had moved to San Francisco and was teaching Elementary School. The two were married in 1963 at the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco, and made their home in Livermore, and eventually Pleasanton, where they purchased a home in 1965. Larry was one of the founding members of Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton, which he rejoined after worshipping for years at the Pleasanton Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Balloon Platoon and also served on the Board of Directors for Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermore and ValleyCare Hospital in Pleasanton. He worked for Mackay & Somps for 38 years before he retired. Larry is preceded in death by his wife, Dotty, and by his parents, Albert Bartelson and Opal Louise Guthrie Bartelson, his older sister Audree Yvonne Tuttle and younger brother David Bartelson. He is survived by daughter Stacey Romero and granddaughters Franchesca and Alexa Romero of Dublin, CA and son Brent Bartelson, daughter-in-law Ann Bartelson and granddaughter Teresa Bartelson of Waukee, Iowa, as well as several nieces and nephews. Larry did not want a Memorial Service, but was honored privately by his immediate family and he was cremated and interred at the Pioneer Cemetery in Pleasanton alongside Dotty.
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