FARRAR

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 12:14:06 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, April 18, 1940
Page 1

Former Editor Of Journal, F. C. Farrar, Dies in His Sleep

Frank C. Farrar, one of t he best known newspaper men of the West, was found dead at his home at 202 Miramar Ave., San Rafael last Tuesday afternoon by George McLaughlin, San Rafael police officer. The coroner’s office believes Mr. Farrar had been dead two days.

Last Sunday evening Mr. Farrar had dinner at the home of a neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Maness, and left there about 9 o’clock.

The body, clothed in pajamas, lay on the bed, and it is thought by the coroner that Mr. Farrar died in his sleep from a heart attack.

Farrar followed a newspaper career for 40 years, and was a member of the San Francisco Chronicle editorial staff, at the time of his death. He was 61 yeas of age, and leaves his wife, Sarah Farrar, and a son, Newell Farrar, former Chronicle correspondent in this county, now employed in Glendale, where Mrs. Farrar was visiting at the time of his death.

During his career in the newspaper field Farrar has been managing editor of four metropolitan dailies. He had been a reporter, city editor, news editor in New York, Denver, Seattle.

For about a year he was editor and publisher of the Marin Journal, in San Rafael, coming from the old San Francisco Bulletin, which had discontinued publication.

Mr. Farrar was born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1879. After working on The Evening World in New York, he went to Denver in 1908. He remained there on the Rocky Mountain News for 13 years, stepping from reporter to managing editor. He came to San Francisco in 1921 as Sunday editor of the Examiner, and later was advanced to assistant managing editor.

Farrar joined the Chronicle staff about 10 years ago.

Mr. Farrar had a keen, analytic mind, and was a man of good judgment, well posted in all departments of the newspaper business.

Private funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon followed by cremation at the Chapel of the Chimes, Santa Rosa.