Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 05:51:04 :
Independent Journal
Friday, July 18, 1980
FRANCIS E. PEREIRA
Funeral services for Francis E. Pereira of Stinson Beach, a member of a pioneer Marin County family and a county businessman, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Russell & Gooch Funeral Chapel in Mill Valley.
Pereria (sic) died Wednesday at a local hospital following a car accident in Tamalpais Valley. He was 64.
He was born in Sausalito, where he had lived his entire life until moving to Stinson Beach in 1972. He was a member of a pioneer Marin County family, who have been in the county since the 1800s.
Pereria (sic) built liberty ships in Sausalito during World War II. After the war, he took over his father’s business, Stinson Beach-Bolinas Aunto Stage Lines. It originally started with a stagecoach, but later had buses and autos. Greyhound bought the business in 1939 except for the freight lines, now known at the Town and Country Express in Sausalito.
Pereira also had a dairy ranch in the Marin Headlands, which the government took over for defense positions in World War II. The land had been in the family since 1863.
The family also had owned the former Log Cabin Grocery Store in Sausalito, the former Valley Mercantile Grocery Store in Sausalito in Tam Valley, the former Halfway Inn Grocery in Stinson Beach and the Surf Club in Stinson Beach, which is now the Over the Hill Bar ‘N Grill.
Pereira currently also was operating Stinson Beach Supply, a drayage company in Stinson Beach which buys, sells and delivers furniture and appliances to area residents.
He also had been running two rural mail routes for the U.S. Postal Service to Muir Beach, Stinson Beach and other parts of West Marin.
Pereria (sic) married his wife, Helen Pereira, 42 years ago after meeting in Sausalito.
He was a member of the Sea Point Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West and the Bolinas Rod and Gun Club.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, William Pereira of Stinson Beach; two daughters, Shirley Tyson of Mill Valley and Maureen Howell of Ben Wheeler, Texas; a brother, Wilbur Pereira of Novato, and three grandchildren.
The family prefers memorial contributions to charities of the donor’s choice. Entombment will be at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael.
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