CICUREL

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 05:44:50 :

Independent Journal
Tuesday, April 9, 1957
Page 4

Part Owner Of Alta Mira Hotel Dies

William Cicurel, 53, part owner of the Alta Mira Hotel in Sausalito, died unexpectedly today at his home on Bon Air road, Kentfield. Death was attributed tentatively to a heart attack.

Cicurel had a long history of heart attacks, and had been under a physician’s care.

Cicurel was an immigrant from Turkey who carved a successful career in the hotel business in San Francisco. Besides his interest in the Alta Mira, he operated concessions in the St. Francis and Palace Hotels and the Matson Navigation Co. terminal in San Francisco.

He was born in Smyrna, Turkey, but had resided 30 years in San Francisco. For the past eight years, the family also maintained the home in Kentfield.

Cicurel was a member of the French Masonic lodge in San Francisco and Islam Temple of the Shrine, and of the Northern California Hotel Assn.

He is survived by his widow, Eleanor, and two children, Ralph and Carol, at the home here, and by four brothers and his mother in Paris, France.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Halsted and Co., San Francisco.