MIRATA, BEDFORD, BOHAN

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Independent Journal
Thursday, May 29, 1980
Page 4

ANGELO P. MIRATA

Angelo P. Mirata of Tiburon, a native of Marin and a bus driver for 41 years, died Wednesday at a local hospital following a short illness. He was 67.

Mirata was born in Mill Valley and moved to Tiburon as a child in 1925. He attended local grammar schools and graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley.

He began driving buses for Greyhound in 1933 and drove long distance routes in Northern California. In 1935, he began driving a local route delivering riders to the Sausalito ferry for the ride to San Francisco.

He drove the round trip between San Francisco and Marin after the G olden Gate Bridge was built. When Greyhound turned over its commuter routes to the newly formed Golden Gate Bridge District, Mirata began driving for that agency and wore badge No. 1.

He drove various routes in the county until three months before his retirement in 1974 when he was transferred back to the Tiburon route where he began his career. He was honored by friends, commuters and city officials with a party on his last day as a bus driver.

Mirata also was active in community affairs. He helped to found the Tiburon Sanitary District, the Tiburon Fire District and the Tiburon Peninsula Club. He was fire district board member and a volunteer fireman and a sanitary district board member. He also served as president of the Tiburon Chamber of commerce in 1951.

He also served on committees dealing with transportation on the Tiburon peninsula, incorporation of Tiburon as a city and other matters.

His hobby was copper work and he made many of the plaques for retiring Tiburon councilmen and board members.

He was married to Louise Mirata, who was Tiburon’s former assistant city clerk.

Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Michael Mirata of Oregon; three daughters, Nancy Mirata and Jean Bedford of Rohnert Park and Peggy Bohan of Novato; and six grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be said Saturday at noon at St. Hilary’s Church in Tiburon. Burial will be at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael.

The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at Keaton’s Mortuary in San Rafael. The family prefers memorial contributions to the Angelo Paul Mirata Fund, care of Hospice of Marin, 77 Mark Drive, San Rafael.