Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, August 21, 2006 at 05:30:19 :
Independent Journal
Saturday, July 5, 1975
page 4
Zan Stark, Novato, Area UPI Executive
Alexander J. (Zan) Stark Jr. of Novato, regional executive for United Press International in San Francisco, died today at his Bel Marin Keys home of a heart attack. He was 49.
Stark was born in San Francisco and grew up in Mill Valley, where his father, Alexander J. Stark Sr., ran a postcard business for 30 years and was a city councilman in the 1950s. The elder Stark died in 1967.
Stark was educated at Tamalpais High School and the College of Marin.
He began his newspaper career in 1949 as a reporter for the Mill Valley Record. He later edited the Southern Marin Messenger and for 10 years he owned and published the Boyes Hot Springs Daily review in Sonoma county's Valley of the Moon.
After sale of the Daily Review in 1962, Stark joined United Press International at its Boise, Idaho bureau. He became manager of the Salem, Ore. bureau and in 1966 was named business representative for the Pacific Northwest.
He returned to San Francisco in 1972 as regional executive at Pacific Division headquarters and settled in Bel Marin Keys.
Stark, a Navy veteran of World War II, was a port captain of the Bel Marin Keys Yacht Club and was a member of the local Masonic Lodge.
Surviving are his wife, the former Marlene Miller of Novato; two sons, Raymond of Portland, Ore., and Brian; a daughter, Gail; his stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stark of Long Beach, Los Angeles County; a sister, Mrs. Rodney Howes of Okinawa, and one grandson.
Funeral will be private. The family prefers donation to the Marin County Heart Association.
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