Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 05:02:21 :
Independent Journal
Thursday, September 8, 1960
Maria L. Lucas, Oldest Marin Daughter, Dies
Miss Maria L. (Doti) Lucas, Marin County’s oldest native daughter and grandniece of Don Timoteo Murphy, San Rafael alcalde (mayor), who owned thousands of acres of land in Marin in the 1800s, died at her home yesterday after a long illness. She was 97.
Miss Lucas was born on the Lucas ranch (now known as the Freitas ranch), north of San Rafael, inherited by her father, the late John Lucas, from Murphy, his uncle.
Murphy was given three land grants in San Pedro, Santa Margarita and Las Gallinas, by the Mexican government. Lucas Valley and what is now Terra Linda were included in the Las Gallinas grant, which became the Lucas inheritance.
Miss Lucas received her early education from governesses. When she was 11 years old, she went to Notre Dame Convent in San Jose where she was a boarding student for eight years. After her schooling she became a public stenographer in Tonopah, Nev.
In 1906 she returned to San Rafael and lived in the family home at 160 Palm Avenue, built in 1900, with her brother, the late John Lucas, who died in 1958, and her two nieces, Mrs. Ernest T. Langdale and Mrs. Charles Graves.
Miss Lucas was an honorary member of the Marin County Historical Society.
Her parents, among other gifts, donated the land for Mount Olivet Cemetery in San Rafael to the Roman Catholic Church.
A Requiem High Mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. Raphael’s Church in San Rafael, with the funeral cortege leaving Keaton’s Mortuary in San Rafael at 9:15 a.m. The Rosary will be recited tonight at 8 o’clock at the mortuary.
Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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