HERRERAIS

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Marin Journal
Thursday, February 12, 1920
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Ernest Herrerais Death’s Victim

The death of Ernest Herrerais in a San Jose hospital last Monday has caused poignant sorrow to a wide circle of friends and relatives about the bay.

He died after suffering for nearly two months from the results of an operation for appendicitis. Stricken at his home in San Anselmo, he was taken to San Jose, where the operation was performed immediately.

Ernest Herrerais was very well known here among the lovers of baseball, having appeared regularly every Sunday on the local diamond for three or four years. He was field captain of the San Rafael team last year, and filled the same position with the team of the Crocker National Bank, in San Francisco, with which institution he was connected for a number of years.

It was through his love of the national game that he met and won as his wife Miss La Verne Shaw, of San Quentin, whose parents resided there at that time.

“Ernie,” as he was familiarly known, was highly esteemed by his fellow ball players and by his employers in the bank, a number of whom visited him during his illness and were sorrowing attendants at funeral services held in San Francisco this afternoon. He was but 26(?) years of age, a splendid young man with brilliant prospects in the business world, an idolized husband, son and father, and held high in the esteem of his friends and associates.

For the past several years he had lived in San Rafael and San Anselmo, commuting back and forth to his employment in San Francisco. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. La Verne Herrerais, and a baby daughter, Thelma; his mother, Mrs. Carmen Herrerais, and his brothers …[several lines illegible] … He was born in Mexico.

The honorary pall bearers at the funeral held today were Manuel A. Andrade, Ray Longfellow, John Haller, Robert Kendall, of Marin county, and two fellow employees of the deceased in the Crocker National Bank.

Dr. Lynn T. White, who performed the wedding ceremony of Mr. and Mrs. Herrerais, conducted the funeral services.