VAUGHAN, FUREY, OLIVER

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Independent Journal
Tuesday, October 16, 1962
Page 4

MAURICE VAUGHAN

Funeral services will be held Friday in Mill Valley for Maurice Munroe Vaughan, a San Francisco bar pilot, who died Sunday at a San Francisco hospital after a long illness.

Vaughan, 56, had lived for 10 years at 197 Corte Madera Avenue, Mill Valley.

Born in Boston, he went to sea at the age of 14, sailing on lumber runs to South America aboard the last of the four-masted sailing ships. He sailed as master aboard ships of the Pacific Far East Lines from 1942 until 1959, with the exception of a two-year period during which he was a port captain. He held his master’s papers since 1941 and had spent 37 years at sea.

Vaughan was a member of the San Francisco Bar Pilots. As such he was one of 25 pilots who piloted ships in and out of San Francisco Bay. He was appointed by the State Pilot Assn. in 1959 and held the rank of captain.

He was a member of George Washington Lodge 525, Free and Accepted Masons.

Surviving him are his wife, Jeanne F. Vaughan; his father, Arthur H. Vaughan of St. Petersburg, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Marian Furey and Mrs. Roberta Oliver, of Boston.

Funeral services will be at the Mill Valley Episcopal Church of Our Saviour. Time has not been set. Entombment will be at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, directed by Russell and Gooch Mortuary, Mill Valley.