RASMUSSEN

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, July 07, 2006 at 14:31:33 :

Independent Journal
Friday, December 31, 1954
Page 11

Steamship Firm Officer Dies At Mill Valley

Kai G. Rasmussen, 59, of Mill Valley, treasurer of the East Asiatic Steamship Cp., died Wednesday at his home after a long illness.

A native of Denmark and a veteran of 35 years service with the East Asiatic Steamship Co., Rasmussen had been ailing for about a year and had been bedridden for the last three months.

He started with the company in 1919 in Denmark. During World War II he was assigned to the firm’s New York office after having been in the San Francisco office for some years. He first came to Mill Valley 21 years ago.

Survivors are his wife, Josephine, who lives at 7 Blithedale Terrace, and a brother, Frederick, of Denmark. Family services were conducted yesterday at the Memorial Chapels of Russell and Gooch in Mill Valley. Inurnment was at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, San Francisco