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Marin Journal
Thursday, May 12, 1921
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Sausalito School Teacher Passes Away In City
Miss Mary McIsaac, daughter of a pioneer Marin county family, and teacher in the Sausalito schools, passed away in San Francisco Tuesday after an illness of some weeks.
The funeral was held this morning, with services at St. Raphael’s church and interment under the direction of the F. E. Sawyer Company, in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Miss McIsaac was the daughter of Mrs. Katherine and the late Neil McIsaac, and sister of Hugh McIsaac, former district attorney of Marin county, John A. and Donald D. McIsaac, Mrs. H. L. Hawkins and Mrs. A. B. Partee.
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Sausalito News
Saturday, May 14, 1921
Page 1
Miss McIsaac Passes Away
On Tuesday, Miss Mary McIsaac passed away. She was at St. Luke’s hospital at the time of her death where she had undergone an operation last week.
For some years past she had not been in good health. This was the third operation which she had undergone in an effort to regain her wanted health.
Miss McIsaac was a teacher by profession. She had taught many years in the schools of the county. She was a graduate of the State Normal School at San Francisco in the early days when only the capable were granted diplomas by that institution. She was among the most capable. Her first school was at Nicasio. Her work there was of such an excellent quality that it attracted the attention of other schools wanting capable people. The most of her work was done in Sausalito where she taught up to last June. At that time, she took a leave of absence with the expectation and hope of being able to resume her work by the end of the year at latest.
Miss McIsaac had rare ability. She had to a marked degree the integrity, purpose and personality which gave to her a wonderful influence and power over children. Her classes were always orderly and always successful. In them a kindly justice and rigid standard of high ideals of work, attitude and conduct always prevailed. There was no room for partiality. The great and the humble weer alike, all wee judged on the score of work and by the standard of the success attained.
So valuable was her work in the Sausalito schools and so much was she endeared to teachers and children that all lived throughout the year in expectancy and with a fervid hope that she would be in her place again at the beginning of the new school year.
Her death is a final resignation which has been received in sorrow by all connected with and interested in the schools of Sausalito and of the county.
The funeral was held from Sawyer’s Undertaking Parlors, San Rafael, on Thursday morning of this week. The services were conducted in St. Raphael’s church by Rev. Father Cantwell of Sausalito, at the end of which her remains were accompanied by a multitude of friends to Mt. Olivet cemetery for interment. The schools of Sausalito were closed on the day of her funeral out of respect for her memory and as a token of respect for the long years of excellent service which she gave to them.
Miss McIsaac was a native of Nicasio, and a teacher here for over twelve years. Surviving her are a mother, Katherine; sisters, Mrs. H. L. Hawkins of Mill Valley and Mrs. B. L. Partee, and three brothers, Hugh J. McIsaac formerly district attorney of this county and now a prominent attorney; John A. and Donald D. McIsaac, prosperous dairymen of this county. Her father, the late Neil McIsaac, served four years in the civil war and then came to California settling in this county and always took a very active part in dairying, civic and political affairs of this county.
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