Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 at 05:39:14 :
Independent Journal
November 1979
Earl G. Grady dies; San Rafael leader
Earl G. Grady, lifelong San Rafael resident and longtime civic leader, died Wednesday in a local hospital after a short illness. He was 67.
Grady owned and operated Earl Grady’s Appliance Sales and Services business in San Rafael from 1938 to 1962. He later worked for Marin County, until retiring in 1977, installing air conditioning and heating equipment in county buildings.
He was born in San Rafael, the son of the late Mary and James P. Grady, a onetime San Rafael city councilman.
Grady graduated from San Rafael High School in 1930. He then attended College of Marin, majoring in engineering.
Among his many activities, he served as president of the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce in 1951 and during his term of office led the drive to have the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge constructed.
He served on the Marin County Centennial Committee in 1948 as budget chairman and worked on every San Rafael Fiesta held in the city after 1936.
He was a past president of Mount Tamalpais Parlor No. 64 of the Native Sons of the Golden West and of the Tamalpais International Folk Dancers.
Grady also was the chairman of the parade which launched the Mission Fiesta in San Rafael in 1948. The following year, when the Hearst Foundation gave $85,000 for rebuilding Mission San Rafael, Grady was chairman of this project. He was also chairman for Mission Fiestas held the next four years.
He also was a former director of Catholic Social Services of Marin and served as chairman for the organization’s Concours d’Elegance.
In 1974 he served on the San Rafael Centennial parade committee.
Grady was the first president of the Marin Gas & Electric Appliance Dealers Association.
He also had belonged to the San Rafael Elks Lodge and the Sierra Club.
He is survived by his wife, Eugenie Watson Grady; a daughter, Gayle Smalley of San Luis Obispo; a son, Michael Grady of San Diego; a sister, Evelyn Grady Dillon, and a brother, Lawrence Grady, both of San Luis Obispo; and a granddaughter.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Raphael’s Church in San Rafael. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at Keaton’s Mortuary. Burial will be private.
The family prefers memorial contributions to a favorite charity.
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