Scott Alan Rubin
Feb. 20, 1955-April 1, 2026
Pleasanton, California

On the evening of Wednesday, April 1, 2026, Scott Alan Rubin passed away peacefully at Stanford Hospital in Pleasanton surrounded by family, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 71. He was born to Allen G. Rubin and Phyllis D. (Jennings) Rubin at the Naval Hospital in Newport, RI. After his father left the Navy, the family moved to Herrin, then La Grange, Illinois during which time his younger brother Joel and sisters Julie and Amy were born. He had a very loving family growing up and had extended family nearby. When he was eight, his father’s job took the family to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada for a year. Several years after returning home to Illinois, his father’s job moved the family to their final location, Walnut Creek, CA, in 1966. From a very early age, Scott displayed a real curiosity and aptitude for mechanical and electrical devices. He particularly liked figuring out how things worked by taking them apart, such as doorknobs and the family’s telephone, which he completely disassembled using a table knife as a screwdriver at age 6. He loved science and electricity. As a teenager he taught himself how to fix and rebuild his minibike, motorcycle and eventually, car engines and other parts. After graduating from Ygnacio Valley High School in 1973, he studied computers and electronics at UC Davis and at Heald’s Engineering College. His first job was in a small shop in Walnut Creek, designing and building computerized concrete batch plant controls. In 1976 he met his future wife, Kathy Kondor at an ECKANKAR conference in Las Vegas. Two years later they were married, and moved to Pleasanton, CA. They loved the town, and it was located between both their jobs. With Scott’s electronics design experience, he landed a job at Zendex in Dublin. At Zendex, Scott designed a computer motherboard that was used in many commercial devices and applications. Around that time, Scott and Kathy started their family, welcoming daughters Laura in 1983, Sarah in 1986, and son David in 1989. Scott made his next move to an engineering job at GTE Government Systems in 1985. In 1989 Scott and his younger siblings learned that in 1952, prior to their marriage, their parents had a baby boy named William “David”, who was placed for adoption. At the age of 34, Scott learned he was not the first of four siblings, but rather the second of five, and he had a big brother himself! David, his wife Cinda and their son Jonathan were welcomed into the family. That same year, GTE offered Scott a 3-year contract in southern Bavaria, Germany. During summer, Scott and Kathy rented out their house in Pleasanton, and with their three very young children, moved to Germany, shortly before The (Berlin) Wall fell, and the Iron Curtain came down. During this historical time, as the European Union was forming, they traveled through Europe, seeing famous cities and areas of Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and the Benelux. They were there during the first Gulf War, saw the drawdown of US troops, the closing of US bases in Germany, and met people from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain who were free to travel for the first time. They vacationed at the newly opened Euro Disney, and lastly visited Prague, a beautiful city that was undergoing massive renovations after long-term neglect. They returned to their home in Pleasanton in 1992. In 1996, Scott went to work for Lockheed Martin, a job he greatly enjoyed where he worked until he retired in 2018. Before and after retirement, the family enjoyed travel to Mexico, Japan, Europe and around the US. In retirement Scott continued to work on pet projects in electronics, computers, and cars, and began contract work with Lockheed. The last years were spent managing his father’s and mother’s estates, all while battling several illnesses himself. Scott is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Kathy; daughters Laura and Sarah, son David (Melissa), brothers David (Cinda) and Joel, sisters Julie and Amy (Dan), granddaughter Sophia, nephews Jonathan, Justin (Phoenix), and Alex, niece Alyssa (Corie), grand-niece Eliana, and step-siblings Phillip and Bobbie (Richard), nephews Cheyne and Christian and niece Grace (Mike), as well as many cousins. Scott was a long-time student of the teachings of ECKANKAR, which taught him about spiritual freedom and unconditional love. His loving spirit, sense of humor, brilliant mind, can-do attitude and creative imagination will be sorely missed by those who knew and loved him. Friends and family are invited to a memorial service on Sunday, May 31 at 1:00 p.m. at the Graham-Hitch Mortuary, 4167 First Street in Pleasanton.