COOK, DEASY

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 05:42:36 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, May 17, 1923
Page 1

Woman Killed In Automobile Wreck

Mrs. Florence Cook, wife of Fred J. Cook and sister of Supervisor Cornelius Deasy of San Francisco, was killed and five men were injured Sunday night when the car in which they were riding crashed into a telephone pole near Waldo Point.

According to the statement made by Charles McMillan, driver of the car, he picked up Mrs. Cook and her companion, Barney Conners, at Fairfax, where they had been attending a picnic, and offered to take them in his car to San Francisco Frank Corbett, Charles Rogerson and Melvin Smith, also from San Francisco, were with McMillan.

Approaching Waldo Point, McMillan said, he was blinded by the lights of an approaching Ford, and turning to avoid a collision he drove his machine into a telephone pole. The woman was thrown through the side of the closed car. Picked up by a passing autoist, she was taken to Sausalito, where Dr. Vance pronounced her dead. The body was then removed by Corner J. Ray Keaton to the morgue in San Rafael.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Cook is survived by four children, three sons and a daughter.

McMillan and his companions, all of whom were cut and bruised, went to San Francisco and were treated at the Harbor Emergency Hospital.