Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 4

3 3 nnrnalt Jan. 23 1967 IB OBITUARIES THIS WAS A was all that remained today of the $90,000 home of Dr. Varon F. Smith on the San Geronimo-Nicasio Road near Nicasio. A torrent of water and mud, striking only minutes after the occupants had left, carried the house away.

(Independent-Journal photo by Bob Hax) Marin's Storm: $1 Million Damage Continued from page 1 An earthslide rumbled down a i Valley tank was broken. North hill off Mountain View Avenue Saturday, plugged a main drain at the head of the street, and backed up water into some homes near Sienna Way. Mountain View near Sienna was closed until 12:30 a.m. yesterday. cascading down the hills looked like i Rawles reported.

BRET HARTE HIT In Bret Harte, parts of Bret Harte Avenue, Seibel, Du Bois, Woodland and Irwin streets were closed. In Glenwood, a slide sent water, mud. rocks and trees into drains on Rollingwood Drive, flooding Robinhood Drive, Knight Drive and Rollingwood. A slide on Wolfe Grade closed one lane of Street. Rawles said there was possibility of a slide at 107 Kinross Drive today, where a stream could overflow with more rain.

Rawles said he rented extra equipment to cope with the flood waters and slide and had 18 men working almost continuously through the weekend. Santa reported some flooding around the Presbyterian Church at 635 Adrian Way. A slide undercut a home on a house on Polhemus Way en- Tarrant Court, he said, and the dangered two homes on that faniilv was evacuated. just below, a floating tree knocked out a post holding the deck. Mud and water went into three houses below that and was reported still running through one of them today.

community was cut off Saturday night, when a mud slide blocked Shoreline Highway at Audubon Canyon Ranch. ROSS VALLEY Ross firemen evacuated 60 to 70 persons from homes and another 25 from stalled cars and buses along flooded Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Kent Avenue. College Avenue, Berens Drive, McCallister Avenue and in Granton Park. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard was blocked from Friday night until late last night in front of College of Marin.

Water was six feet deep on Drake near Ross General Hospital at one time. McCallister Avenue was still blocked today by a large tree in the road. Larkspur Several families were evacuated from the 25- home College Park cul de sac when waters entered the homes there. A slide which started behind street and one on Wilson Court. Three families were evacuated and Larkspur officials are awaiting soils report before allowing the residents back to their homes.

The same slide isolated 25 homes in Madrone Woodlands, most of Saturday, but a single lane was cleared by nightfall. ROSS Engineer Philip Lygren reported a general berry Lane. FAMILY FLEES Terra Large slide left the Robert Browne home at 395 Orange Blossom Lane just barely standing at 11 p.m. Saturday. The Browne family was evacuated, but the $40,000 or $50,000 home is still standing.

backed up due to clogged drains Saturday afternoon, flooding three or four homes in the 500 block of Apple- with silt covering some streets and the floors of some homes. Half of Morrison Road was washed down the draw above Makin Grade at the Ross- Kentfield border, he said. San Anselmo Fifty to 60 homes were flooded Saturday night near the intersection of Momingside Drive and Broadmoor Avenue, and a house partially covered by a slide at 150 Allyn Avenue. Lillian Court, Bennett Avenue and Sunview Avenue were still blocked by slides today. El Paso Apartments at 1355 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard were flooded yesterday morning with four to five feet of water.

25 feet of Upper Cypress Drive washed away completely early yesterday and was carried 200 feet down the hill. Ten homes at the end of the drive have access only by foot, and city officials were puzzled today as to how to retrieve cars trapped there. A burned-out house at 104 Tamalpais Road slid down the hill and was being held above the road this morning by two trees. 50- YEAR STORM San Works Director Norris Rawles predicted, take a month to clean up. A storm like this comes along once in 50 A house at 455 First Street collapsed Saturday afternoon and San Rafael police carried three elderly people out, but did not get their names.

They were reportedly uninjured. The building is owned by Mrs. Angela C. Pierce of Pierce Realty in San Raiael. A large mudslide damaged three or four homes on Blackstone Drive near Valleystone Drive Saturday.

BASE FLOODING Hamilton Air Force engineer estimated $20.000 damage to seven flooded homes on West Kelly Drive. The base was put on emergency alert when waters began rising. Troops evacuated the families, but by today, all but two had moved back. Loma reported lot of water and mud on Corte Norte and Corte Sur when two storm drains plugged. works crews received about 200 reports of flooding.

The worst was in the Warner Creek watershed and at Center Road and South Novato Boulevard. MAIN BROKEN Twice, water overran the parking lot at the Nave Shopping Center and only sandbagging kept it from the stores. Wild Horse Valley Boulevard was undermined and a water main leading to the Wild Horse Marin Water District lost about three million gallons of water in two water main breaks during the storm. Repairs were estimated at $4.000 by Jerome B. Gilbert, district manager.

Warner Creek flooding hit three of the four apartment complexes at 809 819, 815 and 801 Diablo Avenue. Mrs. Betty Wolfe, manager of the apartments, said tons of mud ruined a lot of carpeting. WALL CRUSHED Tamalpais Valley A mud slide broke through the rear wall of the W. S.

Grundy home at 436 Green Glen Way Friday at about 7 p.m., filling two empty bedrooms with several feet of mud. The slide also undermined three trees which crushed a rear bathroom. was vacuuming in the rear said Mrs. Naomi Duckworth, an aunt of Mrs. Grundy, the mud broke through so fast that it was up to my knees before I could No one was injured in the house.

Sausalito A mud slide engulfed the front of the G.H Golds home at 529 Sausalito Boulevard Friday night when a retaining wall collapsed. Bolinas The Bolinas public utilities dam washed out Friday night, and pending repair district customers will draw from the Bolinas Beach public utilities reservoir. Mill Valley West Blithedale Avenue was still flooded today from Cottage to Eldridge avenues because of a blocked culvert. Belvedere The John H. Newell home at 35 Cove Road was flooded with about 18 inches of water Friday.

The Newell family left the house about midnight. Saturday night the water rose over docks of Belvedere Lagoon homes, covered several gardens, carried off some deck furniture, etc. Troy Lewis of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. ported service to about 850 telephones was interrupted at various times during the storm, due to wet cables. About 40 telephones in the San Rafael area were out this morning, he said.

Z. P. Melcon of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. reported that the only serious power outage since Saturday noon was at about 5 p.m. Saturday, 1,100 customers in Southern San Anselmo and Ross lost electricity for about two and a half hours.

The storm canceled the outdoor band concert and pigeon fly-out of the Novato birthday celebration, but other events were held as scheduled. Also rained out were a concert at Dominican College by soprano Gwen Curatillo, a concert in the College of Marin gymnasium by the Symphony Guild of Marin, and the midwinter formal dance of San Rafael High School in the school gymnasium. To noon today, the storm had dropped 12.26 inches of rain on San Rafael. Other rainfall figures for the storm, to 8 a.m. today, were: Ross, 15.62; San Anselmo, 10.07; Chevy Chase area of Larkspur, 10.52; Fairfax, 11.05; Woodacre.

12.59; Inverness, 9.5; Point Reyes Station, 7.6; Bolinas, 6.79; Mill Valley, 7.66; Tamalpais Valley, 8.21; Sausalito, 7.30; Civic Center, 9.81; Santa Venetia, 13.45; Terra Linda, 6.8; Hamilton Air Force Base, 8.07; and Novato, 6.91. More rain was forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Mary C. Tacchi Dies At 86 Mrs. Mary C.

Tacchi, 86, died yesterday ina local convalescent hospital, where she had been a patient two years. She was the widow of Antone Tacchi. who was superintendent of a brick company in Green- brae. He died in 1936. Mrs.

Tacchi was born in Italy and emigrated to America as a child, settling in Marin County. She lived many years in Kentfield and San Rafael. Survivors are two sons, John and Charles and a brother, George Soldavini, all of San Rafael. Requiem Mass will be at 9:30 a. m.

Wednesday at St. Church. Entombment will be in Mount Olive Cemetery, San Rafael. Mortuary, San Rafael, is in charge of arrangements. JOHN CROZIER John Crozier, a retired supervisor of communications at Hamilton Air Force Base, was dead on arrival at Marin General Hospital yesterday after apparently suffering a heart attack on his boat at Loch Lomond Yacht Harbor.

He was 63. He had suffered an earlier attack in June and was under the care of a doctor, said his son, John Winters Crozier. A native of Canada, Crozier came to California in 1925 and lived in San Francisco and the East Bay before moving to Marin County in 1942. His home was at 175 Cascade Drive, Fairfax. Crozier is survived by his wife, Katherine J.

Crozier; his son, John W. Crozier of Novato; two brothers, Wilson Crozier of New Carlisle, Canada, and Roy Crozier of Murdochville, Canada; four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Coul, Mrs. Martha Wilkie, Mrs. Mabel Fortune and Mrs.

Eleata lett, all of Montreal, Canada, and two grandchildren. Funeral will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Mortuary. San Rafael. Inurnment will be private.

and Edison Riggs of San Jose; and a sister, Geraldine Yerington of San Rafael. She is also survived by five grandchildren. The family has requested memorial contributions to the Marin County Cancer Society. GERRIT MEULENKAMP Funeral for Gerrit Meulen- kamp, 67, of 54 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Mortuary, San Rafael.

An international fruit broker. Meulenkamp died Saturday at his home after an illness lasting four months. He began in business in his native Rotterdam, Holland, 40 years ago and maintained his head office there while operating a local office at his San Rafael home. He was a member of the Holland-America Society. Survivors are his wife, Jeanne Meulenkamp; a daughter, Mrs.

Jack Dooling of San Francisco: a son, Johannes Meulenkamp of Sacramento; a sister, Miss Cornelia Meulenkamp of Rotterdam, and seven grandchildren. JOSEPH J. RUZISCSKA Funeral for Joseph J. Ruzisc- ska, employee of Burgman Manufacturing Co. of San Rafael and a member of Machinists Union Local No.

291 of San Rafael, was held Saturday at Parent Funeral Chapel in Petaluma. Ruziscska died in a Santa Rosa hotel Wednesday after a short illness. He was 61 years old. A native of Minnesota, he moved to the Petaluma area 50 years ago. He worked for a milling company and raised poultry for a time before becoming a machinist.

He is survived by his wife, Emma Ruziscska; a son, Joseph J. Ruziscska Jr. of Petaluma; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Heideman of San Francisco and Julia Ruziscska of Sonoma; a brother, Roy Ruziscska of Petaluma and two grandsons. Interment was at Cypress Hill Cemeterv.

DOMENICO RASO Rosary for Domenico Raso of Terra Linda will be recited at 8 p. m. today at the Harry M. Williams Mortuary, San Rafael. Raso, a native of Italy, died yesterday in a local hospital after a brief illness.

He was 87. Rosary will also be recited tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. at the J. P.

Finley Son Mortuary, Portland. and Requiem Mass will be offered Wednesday at 9:30 a. m. at St. Catholic Church, Portland.

Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Portland. A retired maintenance man for the First National Bank in Portland, Raso moved to Marin County three years ago after his death, and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Malinda M. Jorgensen at 837 Del Ganado Road, Terra Linda. He is also survived by two grandchildren.

MRS. MARGARET E. PARROTT Mrs. Margaret E. Parrott, 78.

of Walnut Creek, mother of Glenn E. Parrott of San Rafael, died yesterday in a Walnut Creek hospital after a short illness. She was the widow of Sherman B. Parrott, who died in 1940. He was in the automotive business.

Mrs. Parrott, born in Canada, lived in Walnut Creek a year. Survivors are her son; two daughters, Mrs. Jean Blanchard of Menlo Park and Mrs. Peggy Annn Johanson of Malibu, and three grandchildren.

Funeral will be at 3 p. m. Wednesday in the Garden Chapel of Walnut Creek. Burial will be in Acacia Cemetery, Seattle, Wash. the funeral Wednesday.

Jan. 25. 1967 at 1 p.m. at Keaton Mortuary, 1022 Street, San Rafael. Inurnment private THOMAS In San Rafael, Jan.

21, 1967. Laurence B. Thomas, husband of Eina Thomas, father of Terri, Lauren, and Laurence B. Thomas a native of Florida; aged 56 years. Funeral arrangements pending at Keaton's Mortuary, Fifth and Street, San Rafael.

(1 231 MARJORIE BOOTH VICTOR DANIELS Funeral for Mrs. Marjorie Booth of San Rafael will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Harry M. Williams Mortuary, San Rafael. Burial will be in Mount Tamalpais Cemetery.

Mrs. Booth, 55, died yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness. She had lived for the last three months with her mother, Mrs. Amy M. Yerington of 2020 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael.

A native of Goldfield, Mrs. Booth worked as a stenographer in Sacramento until she became ill. She was a member of St. Episcopal Church. Ross.

She is survived by her husband, Robert G. Booth of San Francisco; her mother, Mrs. Yerington; three daughters, Mrs. Jean Golsch of Fair Oaks, Sacramento county; Mrs. Amy Hess of San Rafael, and Susan Riggs of Albuquerque, N.M.; two sons, Air Force Gifford Riggs of Klamath Falls, Funeral for Victor E.

Daniels of San Anselmo was held today at Chapel of the Hills, San Anselmo, under auspicee of Marin Lodge 191, Free and Accepted Masons. Daniels, a retired Army major who lived at 212 San Francisco Boulevard, San Anselmo, died unexpectedly Friday evening in San Francisco, apparently of a heart attack. He was 53. A native of Riverbank, Stanislaus County, Daniels was a supervisor for the Veterans Administration in San Francisco. He was a member of Noah Lodge 754, Free and Accepted Masons of Altmont, N.

Y. and of the Marin County Retired Officers Assn. He is survived by his wife, Willetta Daniels of San Anselmo, and two sons, Stephen R. Daniels of Sacramento and Jeffrey Daniels of San Anselmo. The family has requested memorial gifts to the Marin County Heart Assn.

CHINA Continued from page 1 indications of sharply increased opposition to Mao in some areas of Kwangtung but cautioned that the reported probably was no more than a group of opponents armed with clubs and hand weapons fashioned from farm and factory tools. The arrivals from Canton also reported continued fighting between anti-Mao and pro-Mao forces in Kiangsi Province and the arrest or capture of some anti-Mao leaders in Nanchang, provincial capitol of Kiangsi. They said the Kiangsi news had been received in Canton via radio broadcasts from chang last night. PHONE 454-9112 6 COMPLETE FACTORY AUTHORIZED CAMERA REPAIR IN OUR STORE Also Factory Aothorired Repair Dept. For Tope Recorders Binoculars Proiectors Optical Equipment All Werh Dene In Our HOUR SERVICE AVAILABLE THE CAMERA CENTER 1233 Fourth Street Son Rafael MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED James Edward Lara.

19. of 173 Lansdale Avenue, and Shiela Critchley, 19, of 12 Chester Avenue, both of Fairfax. Eliot Morris Wilson. 22, of 15 South Eliseo Avenue, and Lynne Marie Franchi, 21, of 9 Don Timoteo Court, both San Rafael. DIVORCES ASKED DREYER June A.

vs. George cruelty. BROADBRIDGE Velma vs. James cruelty. McDowell Margaret E.

vs. Robert Lee, cruelty. DEATHS MEULENKAMP. Gerrit In San Rafael, Jan. 21, 1967.

Gerrit Meulenkamp, husband of Jeanne Meulenkamp. father of Mrs. Jack Dooling and Johannes Meulenkamp, brother of Mrs. Cornelia Meulenkamp, also grandchildren; a native of Rot- survived by seven grandchildren; a native of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, aged 67 years. Friends are invited to attend the funeral Tuesday, Jan.

24, at 11 a.m. at Keatons Mortuary, 5th streets, San Rafael. Inurnment private. CROZIER In Fairfax. Jan.

22, 1967, John Crozier, husband of Katherine J. Crozier, father John Winters Crozier, brother of Wilson and Roy Crozier, Mrs. Lilian Coul, Mrs. Martha Wilkie, Mrs. Mabel Fortune and Mrs.

Eleata Smollett, grandfather of Jeff and John Crozier. A native of Canada, aged 63 years. Friends are invited to attend DANIELS Of San Anselmo, January 20. 1967. Victor E.

Daniels, beloved husband of Willetta Daniels, devoted father of Stephen R. Daniels of Sacramento and Jeffrey Daniels of San Anselmo. A native of Riverbank. California. Age 53.

A member of Noah Lodge No. 754 of Altmont, New York and Marin County Retired Officers Assn Funeral services were held today (Monday) at the Chapel of the Hills, San Anselmo. under the auspices of Marin Lodge No. 191 Inurnment private. Memorial gifts to the Marin County Heart Assn.

preferred. San Rafael. January 22, 1967. Domenico Raso. beloved husband of the late Maria Raso, loving father of Mrs.

Malinda M. Jorgenson of San Rafael, beloved grandmother of Walter R. Jorgenson, Jr. and Patricia Maria Jorgenson. A native of Italy, aged 87 years.

Friends are invited to attend recitation of the Rosary Monday (tonight) at 8:00 p.m. at the Harry M. Williams Mortuary. San Rafael. Recitation of the Rosary at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Januarv 24, 1967 at the J.P. Finley Son Mortuary, Portland, Oregon. A High Mass of Requiem will be offered for the repose of his soul at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 25, 1967 at St.

Catholic Church, Portland. Interment Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Oregon. BOOTH In San Rafael, January 22, 1967. Marjorie L.

Booth, beloved wife of Robert G. Booth, loving mother of Mrs. Jean Golsch of Fair Oaks. California, Mrs. Amy Hess of San Rafael, Susan Riggs of Albuquerque.

New Mexico. Sgt. Clifford Riggs USAF, Klamath Falls. Oregon, and Edison Riggs of San Jose, loving daughter of Mrs. Amy M.

Yerington of San Rafael and the late Marvin L. Yerington, sister of Geraldine Yerington of San Rafael. Also survived by 5 grandchildren. A native of Goldfield, Nevada. Aged 55 years.

A member of St. John's Episcopal Church, Ross. Friends are invited to attend the funeral Tuesday, January 24, 1967 at 11:00 a.m. at the Harry M. Williams Mortuary, San Rafael.

Interment Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery. San Rafael. Memorial contributions to the Marin County Cancer Society preferred. (Parking Court on Street.

(1'23) San Rafael. Jan. 1 22. 1967. Mary C.

Tacchi. wife of the late Antone Tacchi, loving mother of John and Charles L. Tacchi and the late Helen M. Tacchi, ail of San Rafael, sister of George Soldavini; a native of Italy; aged 86 years. Friends are invited to attend the funeral Wednesday.

Jan. 25, 1967, at 9:15 a.m. from Fifth and Street. San Rafael, thence to St. Church where a Requiem Mass will be offered for the repose of her soul at 9:30 a.m.

Entombment Mount Olivet Cemetery. San Rafael. Rosary services will be recited at 8 p.m. at the Keaton Chapel, Tuesday, Jan. 24.

in a Walnut Creek hospital, Jan. 22. 1967, of 2125 Tice Creek Road. Walnut Creek. Beloved wife of the late Sherman B.

Parrott, mother of Jean Blanchard of Menlo Park, Peggy Ann Johanson, Malibu, and Glenn E. Parrott of San Rafael, also survived by three grandchildren: a native ot Canada: aged 78 years. Services will be held in the Garden Chapel of Hull's, Walnut Creek Chapel. 1139 Saranap Avenue, off Boulevard Way, on Wednesday. Jan.

25. at 3 p.m. Rev. Clark New'ton of the Rossmoor Methodist Church officiating. Interment at Acacia Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.

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