SCURFIELD, MASON

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Marin Journal
Thursday, September 29, 1921
Page 3

Mill Valley Man Drops Dead In Sausalito

Arthur G. Scurfield, a brother-in-law of John and Clinton Mason, of the Mason By-Products Company, dropped dead in Sausalito last Saturday shortly after stepping into a grocery store there. Heart trouble was found by Dr. J. H. Kuser to have caused death.

Scurfield, employed at the Mason plant, was a civil engineer and the husband of the late Florence Mason Scurfield, and the father of Allan and Philip Scurfield. He resided in Mill Valley and was 59 years of age. The funeral was held Monday in San Francisco.

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Sausalito News
Saturday, October 1, 1921
Page 1

Arthur Scurfield Drops Dead

Arthur G. Scurfield, a place engineer at the Mason By-Products Co. plant, while on his way from the railroad station at Pine to the plant, was suddenly taken ill and stopped in Mariant’s grocery store where he died in a few minutes, early last Saturday morning. The blow as a severe shock to all as apparently he has been in excellent health.

The funeral services were held in San Francisco on Monday afternoon and the remains laid away in the family plot in Cypress Lawn cemetery.

The deceased was a native of England, aged about sixty years. He was the husband of the late Florence Mason Scurfield and father of Allen and Phillip Scurfield.

He has two brothers and one sister living in England. One of the brothers is a very eminent surgeon, ranking very high in surgery.

The deceased took up the profession of civil engineering which carried him to many parts of the world. He stood very high as an engineer. About twenty years ago he came to Sausalito and entered the employ of the North Shore Railroad as chief assistant to Chief Engineer Fisher who was in poor health. He laid out the railroad yards here and was in charge of the engineering part of the construction of the new Whites’ Hill tunnel as well as a lot of the reconstruction work done by the North Shore Railroad Company. He worked several years for the Southern Pacific Co. and was at work with a corps of engineers running lines for a cutoff between Eugene, Oregon and some point on the Northwestern Pacific Company line. After completing a short piece the big European war broke out and work on the cutoff was called off. He went to work at the Mason By-Products Plant and rendered valuable service as a civil engineer in laying out the new additions to the plant.

The death of his wife a couple of years ago was a hard blow to him and to his two motherless sons. He was a member of Eugene, Oregon, Lodge of Elks, and was always highly esteemed by all his acquaintances.