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Wednesday November 21, 2007

J staffer dies

John “Joby” Shinoff in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2007 at age 60. Loving husband of Holly Shinoff; adoring father of Amelia “Amy” Bonvini of Venice, Italy. Dear brother of the late Paul Shinoff; brother-in-law of Deborah Barnes, Donna (Tom) Wilson, Marilee (David) Binnquist and Tracey (Bill Petrick) Wake; loving uncle of Josh (Claudine) Shinoff, Katie Wilson, Michael Wilson, Sandra (Marty Sonke) Binnquist and Steve Binnquist. Dear nephew of Arthur and Florence Feinfield, and Julian and Rhea Toole; cousin of Kenneth (Sandy) Feinfield, Carol (Paul) Berman, Rob (Christy) Feinfield, Susan (Colin) Bach, Martha Riddle, Mike Douglas and other family members on the East Coast. Loving son-in-law of Donald and Mildred Wake. Best friend of Lily.

Joby was born in Los Angeles and moved to S.F. in the 1980s. He worked as a sales account executive for j., the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, for 22 years. Joby loved music and was an active singer and songwriter. He loved dogs and he led the effort to create the Upper Noe Valley Recreation Center Dog Run.

Services are 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23 at Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco. Contributions in memory of Joby may be made to the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, 3330 Geary Blvd., 3rd Floor West, San Francisco CA 94118 or the UCSF Cancer Research Institute, UCSF Box 0248, San Francisco CA 94143-0248.

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