(AGENPARL) – STANFORD (CA) ven 12 maggio 2023

The obituary was published by the Arizona Daily Star from May 11 to May 21, 2023.

Phil passed away on April 20, 2023, age 87, from cardiac amyloidosis.

Phil was born in New York City on November 4, 1935, to Reuben Reitzel Fahringer and Dorothy McCall Fahringer. He left New York to serve in the Army at White Sands, New Mexico, where he pitched for the Post baseball team and got his first taste of the desert Southwest. He returned to New York to marry his beloved wife, Nancy, whom he’d known since grade school, and then graduated from Hamilton College and Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Phil had a diverse legal career. He began his practice with the New York City law firm Cahill Gordon. His first trial was in 1966, in Moss Point, Mississippi, as a civil rights attorney for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC). Later that year, Phil and Nancy decided to leave the East Coast for the sunshine of Tucson, Arizona. Phil clerked for United States District Court Judge James A. Walsh, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and had a private practice before being appointed as a Pima County Superior Court judge by then-governor Bruce Babbitt.

Phil had a long and happy retirement. He and Nancy enjoyed taking bicycle trips in new places, and their favorites were biking from Anchorage to Valdez, Alaska; through the Colorado Rockies (Silverton, Ouray, Dallas Divide, and Telluride); and from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean (Venice to Pisa). Phil took up golf after he retired, then shot his age twice. He loved working out, running a marathon with his friend Doug Clark, and volunteering, most recently with Mobile Meals. Phil was a lifelong sports fan, and he and Nancy spent many happy hours rooting for the Wildcats. He also loved playing the horses. And he never stopped learning—studying Spanish, taking classes at OLLI, and attending summer school classes with Nancy at universities around the world, including The Basque University in San Sebastian, Spain, UNR, and UCSD.

But what Phil loved most was his family: raising his three children with Nancy—Dr. Kathleen Christopherson (John) of Reno, Susan Fahringer, Esq. (Keith) of Seattle, and LtCol Matthew Fahringer (Fumiko) of Kaneohe, Hawaii—and helping raise his four wonderful grandsons, Kevin, Erick, Mark and Michael.

Phil was a devoted husband who respected and appreciated Nancy, his loving wife of 64 years. He was also a wonderful father, funny, kind, principled, wise, and generous. He was a fierce protector, a loving supporter, and a lot of fun. He was an extraordinary man. The world is poorer for having lost him, but richer for having had him in it. His family will miss him with all their hearts, every single day.

Fonte/Source: https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/reuben-philip-fahringer-llb-64-1935-2023/