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Marin Journal
Thursday, August 4, 1938
Page 2
R. R. Pittenger, 44, Succumbs After 6 Month of Illness
The third member of the Tamalpais High School to die within a couple of years succumbed in a San Francisco hospital Thursday. He was Raymond R. Pittenger, 44, who had so ably succeeded the late Ernest E. Owen as head of the music department of the high school. Owen was killed in an auto accident.
Pittenger had been ill since December and his wife, Mrs. Pittenger, had continued with the musical duties at the school.
The teacher was a native of Nebraska. He attended Oberlin College, graduated from Western Reserve at Cleveland and had been a violinist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He later obtained his masters degree at Stanford.
Pittenger is survived by his widow, his son, Tom Pittenger; three sisters, Mrs. Corrine Sandy, of Medilian, Idaho; Mrs. E. Merkel, of Chicago; and Mrs. E. Cockerline, of Eugene, Ore.; and a brother, John Pittenger, of Vancouver, Wash.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Robert F. Russell and Co. parlors in Mill Valley. Interment was at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery.
Another loss to faculty and students of the Tamalpais High School was the airplane crash death of Francis B. Waterman, journalism instructor, several years ago.
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