DYE, PLUMB, SIMMONS


[Marin County Obit Board]


Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 06:38:27 :

Independent Journal
February 22, 1975
Page 4


Dr. Harold B. Dye, 16-Year Resident

Private funeral for Dr. Harold B. Dye of Corte Madera was held Wednesday.

Dye died Wednesday at his home, 13 Cheyenne Way, after a long illness. He was 71.

He was a native of Macedonia, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical School and became chief of staff and medical director at a state hospital for the mentally deficient in Glenwood, Iowa.

In 1939 he was on the medical staff of a federal Conservation Corps camp in Siskiyou County. During World War II he joined the aerospace medical staff of the Northrup Aircraft Corp. in Los Angeles. He later was medical director of Trans World Airlines in Kansas for 10 years.

Dye went to San Francisco in 1957 where he served as medical director of Callison Memorial Hospital until 1968. He also was in private practice of internal medicine, until he retired four years ago.

He was a member of the American and California Medical Associations, the San Francisco Medical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary society and the Associations of Mental Deficiency and Aerospace Medicine.

He had lived in Corte Madera for 16 years.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth C. Dye; a daughter, Sandra Jean Dye, both of Corte Madera; two sisters, Marion Plumb of Macedonia and Mrs. Harold Simmons of Los Angeles; and two brothers, Lloyd K. Dye of Los Angeles and Stanley C. Dye of Portland, Ore.

Burial will be in Macedonia.

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A death notice in the same paper adds that arrangements were handled by Daphne Mortuary, 901 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera.



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