Posted by cathy gowdy on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 18:33:30 :
Independent Journal
Thursday, August 4, 1977
Page 4
Dr. CARLOS FERNANDES
Was Portuguese consul
Private funeral was held today for Dr. Carlos Freitas Fernandes, former owner of the Marconi Station property in Marshall, and a prominent Bay Area surgeon and former Portuguese consul in Oakland.
Fernandes, 83, died Monday at his Pope Valley home in Napa County.
A native of Portugal’s Madeira Island, Fernandes came to the United States in 1924 where he opened a Portuguese consulate serving 14 Western states. He later returned to medical work at Stanford where he spent three years researching cancer. He then spent 14 years with Morton’s Hospital in San Francisco and also maintained a private practice which he continued after leaving the hospital.
Fernandes bought Marconi Station property on Tomales Bay in 1955. The property was the site of a wireless station operated in the early 1900s by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. and later by RCA Communications Inc. The property is now owned by Synanon Foundation.
The eldest of seven children, Fernandes was sent to Funchal, Madeira, for his high school education and then to Lisbon, Portugal, for his medical studies.
He is survived by his wife, Stella; a daughter, Louise Silva of Lucas Valley; two sisters, Helena Sousa and Clarrise Jardim; two brothers, Jaime and Rufino Fernandes; and two grandchildren.
The family prefers memorial donations to the American Heart Fund.
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