Paul Casterson

Paul Casterson of Nevada City died at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. He was 53.

A potluck celebration of his life will be held at 11 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, 
at Seamans Lodge in Pioneer Park, Nevada City. All are welcome.

Paul was born in San Jose April 28, 1955. He grew up in Los Altos Hills and 
graduated from Gunn High School in 1973. He had a love of the ocean and was 
very active in the Sea Scouts where he became proficient in sailing and boating. 
He attended college at San Diego State and soon after college was hired by Club 
Med to be a wind surfing instructor in Cancun and then on to Guadalupe in the 
Caribbean. He later moved to Oahu, Hawaii, where he continued working in the 
wind surfing industry, became a world class wind surfing competitor and married 
his first wife, Debbie. They had two children, Dane and Marina, and then moved 
to Grass Valley in 1989.

Paul’s career for the past 20 years has been as a residential builder and business 
owner of Casterson Construction. He was an avid mountain biker and enjoyed bikram 
yoga and camping.

He is survived by his mother, Patricia Casterson; his wife, Kelly Casterson; his 
son, Dane, and daughter, Marina Casterson; his brothers David and Mark Casterson, 
and his sister Kathleen Eggers.

He was predeceased by his father, Wilmer Casterson.

We will all hold Paul deeply in our hearts as a man of incredible kindness and 
generosity. He was a brother, a husband, a son, a father and above all a beautiful 
human being.

A donations account has been opened in Paul’s name, called the Paul Casterson 
Memorial Fund, at Citizens Bank of Nevada County.

Arrangements are under the direction of Chapel of the Angels Mortuary in Grass Valley.