Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Thursday, August 03, 2006 at 07:48:10 :
Independent Journal
Thursday, February 13, 1969
Page 4
JOSIE S. ROSA
Mrs. Josie S. Rosa, 95, believed to be Sausalito’s oldest resident died yesterday, apparently of natural causes, at her home at 195 Woodward Avenue, where she had lived for more than 70 years.
Born in Sausalito, her father, Joseph Silva, was one of Sausalito’s first settlers. He was a whaler and operated a hay schooner between San Francisco and upper Richardson Bay.
Mrs. Rosa’s late husband, Joseph, was a deck hand on the San Francisco-Sausalito ferries and helped rescue people from the water when the ferry Sausalito hit and sunk the ferry San Rafael many years ago.
Mrs. Rosa once reported how she remembered Vina Del Mar Plaza when it was a horse stable with a watering trough and when there was gambling around the plaza and three dance halls.
Mrs. Rosa was a member of SPRFI of Sausalito.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Marie R. Souza, who lived with her; Dolores E. Rosa of Belmont and Carrie R. Turrentine of Sausalito; a brother, Clarence D. Rosa, of San Francisco; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Requiem Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Star of the Sea Church, Sausalito. Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Keaton’s Mortuary, San Rafael. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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A Death Notice in the same paper corrects the above and states that she was the mother of Clarence D. Rosa, and grandmother of June Brusati and Mervyn (Bro) Phillips.
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