DORSEY, CAGWIN, MURRAY

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The Marin Journal
Thursday, March 30, 1916
Page 2

Horace P. Dorsey Crosses Divide
Respected Mill Valley official succumbs to second illness in few weeks

A man whom Mill Valley could ill afford to lose was taken last week Wednesday with the death of Horace P. Dorsey, for a number of years and at the time of his death, Town Clerk.

He had but just recovered from a severe attack of la grippe, and was receiving congratulations of his friends when he was stricken with another illness. Against the advice of these friends he continued to remain at his office to transact the business of the town. At length, however, he was forced, through weakness, to seek his bed, and he died within a few days. Worry over the illness of Mrs. Dorsey, who had just returned from a San Francisco hospital, is thought to have had a detrimental effect upon Mr. Dorsey’s chances for recuperation after his first illness.

The deceased had achieved an eminent place among the members of the League of California Municipalities, and at their last convention in the southern part of the state had been awarded a diploma signifying the superiority of a system of bookkeeping evolved by him for handling the accounts of municipalities.

The funeral, held last Sunday at Mill Valley, was under the direction of Dr. F. E. Sawyer, and was attended by the membership of Mill Valley Lodge No. 356, F. & A. M. of which he was an esteemed member.

He was forty-eight years of age and a native of Carson City, Nevada. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lorena Dorsey, Mrs. George Cagwin and Mrs. Edwin Murray, sisters, and Clarence Dorsey, a brother.