Cremated and ashes scattered on the Big Sur, California coast.
The son of Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck's best friend
and the grandson of the physician who delivered Steinbeck.
Dennis was the brother of Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen
Institute on the family's property south of Big Sur, where the music
concert film "Celebration in Big Sur" was filmed in 1969 and released
in 1971.