DIBBLEE

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West Marin Star
Saturday, November 17, 1945
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Heart Attack While Duck Hunting Fatal To Benj. H. Dibblee

Final tribute was paid at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ross Tuesday afternoon to Benjamin H. Dibblee, who died Sunday morning from a heart attack while duck hunting in the marshes near Fairfield. Interment was private.

Dibblee, who was born in Ross 76 years ago and lived there all his life except when away to college or the first World War, was hunting at the Joyce Island Duck Club near Pierce Station a short way from Fairfield. His companion, W. O. Wayman of Ross made the startling discovery that Dibblee was dead after failing to receive an answer to his call from a nearby blind that they quit as shooting had been poor.

Flag at Ross City Hall, where Dibblee had long been a councilman, hung at half mast in respect to his memory.

A graduate of Harvard in 1899, he captained the football team there in his senior year. After his graduation he returned to California and several years later joined E. H. Rollins & Sons, opening their San Francisco offices.

He served more than 25 years with the investment house and rose to vice president and member of the executive committee. He also took an active part in the Investment Bankers’ Association, at one time serving as chairman of the California group, and also as a member of the governing board of the national organization.

He entered the first officers’ training camp at the Presidio during World War I in May, 1917, and became a Lieut.-Colonel.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Isabel Kittle Dibblee, at the family home in Ross, two brothers Albert J. of San Francisco and Harrison Dibblee of Bolinas, and a sister, Miss Anita Dibblee, Bolinas.