Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 04:54:56 :
Independent Journal
Tuesday, January 29, 1985
Section B, page 4
EMMA M. KROHN
A memorial service for Emma M. Krohn, a retired school teacher and a longtime Mill Valley resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Mill Valley Community Church.
Mrs. Krohn, who was 83, died at her home Sunday.
She was born in San Francisco and moved to Mill Valley after the earthquake in 1906. She was a graduate of Tamalpais High School and the San Francisco Teachers College.
She taught in the public schools for 30 years.
She began teaching in Yorba Linda, Orange County, and knew Richard M. Nixon who was a child attending elementary school there.
Mrs. Krohn’s teaching career also took her to public schools in Madera, Raymond and Ceres, all in the San Joaquin Valley. At times, she taught all eight grades in small schools.
In 1924 she married Chester M. Krohn, who died in 1934.
She retired in 1952 and moved back to Mill Valley.
Mrs. Krohn was active in the Mill Valley Community Church and the T ripple C Club. She was also a member of the Mill Valley Outdoor Art club and was past matron of Smyrna Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star in Ceres.
Mrs. Krohn also actively supported the Lions Eye Foundation of California and Nevada.
She was an avid reader and enjoyed crossword puzzles.
Her survivors include a daughter, Liesbeth K. “Bets” Jensen of Mill Valley, and two grandsons.
The family prefers memorial donations to the Friends of the Redwoods, 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that she was the mother-in-law of Carl N. (Bud) Jensen and grandmother of Bruce W. Jensen of Portland, Ore. and Brian K. Jensen of Ventura.
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