A son and daughter are in shock one day after their father was killed in the powerful storm that ripped through the Bay Area on Tuesday.
"All I heard on the phone end was her screaming…something that sounded like, ‘Your dad is dead…your dad is dead!’" Beth Roens said. She called her father a vivacious, engaging and wonderful person. , was killed after a tree came crashing down on the car he was a passenger in while driving home from dinner in the community of Rossmoor. He only lived three blocks from where the tree came crashing down on Stanley Dollar Drive.
Family members said Huster loved life. "I keep likening it to a lightning strike. It's one in a million," said Roens. Roens said just after 7 p.m., Huster was riding in the Tesla his wife Sunhi was driving. Suddenly a Eucalyptus tree came crashing down, crushing the car as it drove in the retirement community where he lived.
The couple had just finished dinner at a restaurant. Roens said she received a frantic call from his wife and she rushed to the scene. His accomplishments included shutting down a company for defective IUDs and pro bono work to help AIDS patients. His son, John Huster, said he did litigation work for his father for the last 30 years. He said his father worked until the day he died.
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