May 17, 2016
Bill Choisser, 69, passed away in his sleep at 2:16 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at California Pacific Medical Center, Pacific campus, following a long period of medical problems due to the autoimmune muscle disease called polymyositis.
He is survived by his dearly beloved husband, Larry Kenney, with whom he had a wonderful relationship for 39 years; sister Lucy Choisser of Iowa City, Iowa; sister-in-law, Patricia Tyler of Las Vegas, New Mexico; Sue Bursiel of Peterborough, New Hampshire; and Ellen Caron, of Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Bill was an electrical engineer working for the Federal Aviation Administration at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago when he met Larry in 1976. They moved to San Francisco in 1979, and Bill was hired as an electric design engineer at Glumac and Associates in the city. He later worked at Toft Wolff Farrow, also in San Francisco. His career spanned 25 years before he retired in 2004.
Bill was a founding member of the San Francisco Hiking Club, and an active member of the San Francisco Radio Club and the Lambda Amateur Radio Club. He designed web pages for the hiking club and the Men's Long Hair Hyperboard, and was the head technician for the Hot Boots website.
There will be no funeral service.