walking_carpet wrote: condolences to Ralph McQuarrie 's family.
oddly. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/ralph-mcquarrie/
Nervously, I called him. He answered the phone, I introduced myself and asked about his ancestry. He told me he wished he could help me out, but the fact was he didn’t know anything about the McQuarrie family; his father had abandoned his family when he was an infant, and he’s never met a single relative from that side of his family.
*EDIT* one obit mentions a wife.