Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 04:41:47 :
Marin Independent Journal
Thursday, October 24, 1985
WALTER E. SAINSBURY
Walter E. Sainsbury, a former longshoreman and longtime Novato resident, died Wednesday at the Rafael Convalescent Hospital in San Rafael after a long illness.
Mr. Sainsbury, who was 75, worked for many years as a longshoreman in San Francisco and was one of the last survivors of the 1934 strike of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, of which he was a charter member.
For his last five working years, he was employed by the Pacific Maritime Association as a ship’s clerk.
He was a member of the George Washington Lodge 435 of the Masons in San Francisco.
Mr. Sainsbury was born in Utah and moved to California when he was 15. He had lived in Oakland and San Francisco before moving to Novato 20 years ago.
Survivors are his wife, Lola; a son, Walter D. Sainsbury of Novato; two daughters, Patricia A. Sainsbury of Novato and Jacqueline L. Schuler of Redwood City; a brother, Frank W. Sainsbury of San Mateo; two sisters, Evelyn Van Marr and Pearl Wade of Salt Lake City; and six grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Keaton’s Chapel of Marin mortuary in Novato. Friends may visit at the mortuary Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Burial will be at Valley Memorial Park cemetery in Novato.
The family has asked that memorial gifts be sent to the Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children, 1701 19th Ave., San Francisco.
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