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Marin Journal
Thursday, May 20, 1943
Page 1
Death Comes to J. C. Pitcher Tuesday Night
Stricken suddenly late Tuesday night with a heart attack, J. Clifford Pitcher, well known San Rafael man, passed away Wednesday morning at his home on Harcourt street.
A resident of this city for over forty years, Mr. Pitcher was at first manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company here, later entering the wholesale lumber business as a broker in San Francisco.
Prominent in affairs of the Masonic order and the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Pitcher’s death came as a shock to his many friends.
Deceased, a native of New York, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Pitcher; two sons, John Pitcher, and Charles Kimball Pitcher, who was with the Army in the Philippines when the islands fell to the Japs; a daughter, Helen Esther Halsey; a sister, Mrs. Alice G. White; and a brother, E. C. Pitcher, of Oakland.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Jenness Chapel, San Anselmo. The committal service will take place at the Gothic Chapel, Oakland, and inurnment will take place at Mountain View Crematory.
The Rev. John J. Conoles will conduct both services, assisted at the first rites by the Rev. Lynn T. White.
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