A native of Idaho, Hugo came to the Bay Area as a young man and earned degrees in literature and math from the University of California, Berkeley. After coming to Mountain View in 1982, Hugo purchased McNeil’s Bookstore and rechristened it Dragonfly Used Books. He was an active member of several clubs, including the Mountain View Historical Association and Californians for Peace. He also enjoyed gardening. He was 59.Plans for a memorial service are forthcoming.* * *Jason sat cross-legged in one of the reading chairs, wrinkling the legs of the new khakis he’d bought. They were too big for him and bunched at his waist under a brown leather belt. I should have asked Mama to help him pick some out. He held a paper plate full of potluck lasagna, though he hadn’t been eating a lot since the breakup with Nimue, who had not waited until after the memorial service after all. She had come to the service, though, trying to convince everyone she was a concerned ex-girlfriend. While everyone else wore the color of flowers that Hugo loved, she appeared in melodramatic black, complete with a veil, like she was attending a state funeral instead of an informal memorial, in a dress that hung just short of her panty line.
