Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 06:47:39 :
Independent Journal
Monday, August 6, 1973
Page 4
PETER VERHOEVEN
Funeral for Peter A. Verhoeven, longtime resident of Marin and Sonoma counties, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Keaton’s Mortuary, San Rafael. Private burial will be at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery.
Verhoeven, 47, died Friday in a San Francisco hospital from injuries suffered July 14 when a blowout overturned the motorcycle on which he and his wife were riding on Stony Point Road in Cotati. She suffered miner injuries.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and in his youth traveled extensively with his father, a construction worker, at ending schools throughout the country.
He graduated from high school at the age of 16, entered Army Air Force pre-flight training at Texas Agricultural and Mining University, and served in the Phillipines until 1947.
He then returned to Brooklyn and told his parents he planned on moving to Calaifornia. He came to San Rafael and went to work with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.
By the end of 1947 he had convinced his parents to join him in Marin.
He moved to Petaluma 13 years ago. His home was at 144 Jeffrey Drive.
He loved hunting, swimming, and fishing, and often went camping with his family in the hills above Lake Pillsbury. He was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Verhoeven, eight children, John, Elizabeth, Lana, Michael, Pilacelli, Kim, Dion, and Craig; his mother, Johanna Verhoeven of Eldridge, and a sister, Connie Ward of Guerneville.
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Transcriber’s Note: I have no idea what ‘ending’ schools are.
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