Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 05:26:43 :
Independent Journal
Saturday, January 20, 1968
Page 3
CHARLES F. HUMPHREY Dies At 59
Capt. Charles F. (Spud) Humphrey of San Anselmo, a San Francisco Bar Pilot, died early today aboard a water taxi ferrying him out to a ship he was to have piloted out to sea.
Humphrey, 59, apparently died of a heart attack.
A native of Manila, he lived in Marin for the past eight years at 72 Woodside Drive.
A lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II, he served in the South Pacific. After the war, he was a Navy pilot at Mare Island, then served as a deck officer and captain with Tidewater Oil Co. He became one of the 25 local bar pilots in 1958.
He was a member of the Marin Historical Society.
He is survived by his wife, Joanna; a daughter, Mrs. Diane Vezzolia of Lafayette; a grandson, and a sister, Mrs. Richard E. Jenkins of Moss Beach, San Mateo County.
Funeral arrangements were pending at Anderson Mortuary, San Francisco.
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