Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 05:15:13 :
Independent Journal
Wednesday, December 19, 1973
Page 4
Albert C. Malone Dies At 83
Albert G. (sic) (Babe) Malone, who worked on San Francisco Bay more than 35 years as a ferry boat engineer, died yesterday in his home in Santa Rosa, after a sudden, brief illness. He was 83.
He and his wife, Katie Malone, who died in 1970, were active in San Rafael, Fairfax and Corte Madera senior citizen clubs before leaving the Sausalito home on Second Street where they lived more than half a century and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1961. They moved to Santa Rosa in 1965.
Malone was descended from a pioneer Spanish land grant family, the Miramontez family, whose lands stretched from the San Francisco Presidio to Half Moon Bay. He was born at the Almaden quicksilver mines near San Jose.
After working as a drayman, he went to sea as a youth, then worked 24 years in the Northwestern Pacific Railroad ferry boats. When the Golden Gate Bridge superseded the boats in the early 40s, he returned to the sea as a merchant marine engineer throughout World War II. He returned to ferry service with the Santa Fe Railroad until his retirement.
He traveled extensively – last year to the Orient and this year to Alaska.
He is survived by three sons, B. Albert Malone of Mill Valley, Sirick* W. Malone of Corona and Francis B. Malone of Sebastopol, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Malone was a member of the Foresters of America and a volunteer in Salvation Army activities.
Salvation Army Capt. John Carr will officiate at a private funeral for Malone tomorrow in the Lafferty and Smith Colonial Chapel in Santa Rosa. Burial will be in Santa Rosa Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel after 3 p.m. today.
The family prefers contributions to the Salvation Army or to a favorite charity.
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The name appears to be Strick in a death notice in the same paper. He was also the father of the late Alfred S. Malone.
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