Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 04:56:50 :
Independent Journal
Thursday, February 7, 1980
page 4
HARDING McPHUN
A memorial service for Harding McPhun of Greenbrae will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at St. John's Episcopal Church, Ross.
McPhun, 59, died Sunday in a local hospital. He had been in ill health since November.
McPhun was a third generation San Franciscan. He graduated from Commodore Sloat School and Lowell High School in San Francisco. He attended the College of Marin and the Univesity of California at Davis. He graduated in 1943 from the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo.
McPhun sailed for Matson Navigation Lines as a Merchant Marine officer during World War II.
He was a food broker in San Francisco and owned the Ben McPhun Co. He was a past president of the San Francisco Food Brokers Association and had been a member since 1948 of the San Francisco Rotary club, serving for many years on its handicapped children's committee.
McPhun pioneered in the imported car business in Southern California, especially with Volkswagens and Porsches.
He was a founder of the Greenbrae-Kentfield Little League in 1955 and of the Greenbrae Sailing Club in 1960, and had been active in Sea Scouts. He was a member of the Olympic Club in San Francisco, Meadow Club near Fairfax, Meadowood in the Napa Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Oceanic Society. He also was a director of Sunny Hills, San Anselmo.
He is survived by his wife, Roberta Lewis McPhun; two sons, Daniel Harding McPhun of Washington, D.C.and Bruce Charles McPhun of Larkspur, and his mother, Gertrude Bowell of Larkspur.
At his request, his ashes will be scattered at sea Friday under the auspices of the Oceanic Society from the Nightwind, the yacht of a longtime friend, former Marin County Supervisor Ernest N. Kettenhofen.
His family asked that memorial contributions be made either to Sunny Hills or the San Francisco Bay Chapte of the Oceanic Society.
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