Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 10:39:28 :
Independent Journal
Monday, August 25, 1980
MABEL E. PAGE
Mabel E. Page, a resident of Novato, died Friday in a local hospital after a long illness. She was 78.
A native of San Francisco, she was in the city and attended Hamlins School for Girls and the University of California at Berkeley.
She was the co-owner of Cyclops Iron Works in San Francisco, having stepped into the business started by her grandfather, the late Joseph Etienne.
She also built and owned San Francisco’s first drive-in restaurant, Ott’s Drive-in at Bay Street and Columbus Avenue.
Mrs. Page moved to Kent Woodlands in Marin County in 1951 and moved around the county to a ranch in Novato, to Corte Madera and back to Novato for the last time in 1978.
She was married four times, the first time to Leland S. Eckert, then to Walter Zwieg, then to Ott Straub and then to her surviving husband, Ellis E. “Gene” Page to whom she was married for the last 29 years.
She is also survived by three sons, Leland E. Eckert of San Mateo, Raymond J. “Bud” Eckert of Novato, and Robert M. Zwieg of San Jose; and eight grandchildren.
A funeral will be held for her at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Keaton’s Chapel of Marin in Novato and inurnment will be private. The family has set visitation hours at the funeral chapel for between 7 and 9 p.m. today.
The family prefers that memorial contributions in her name be made to the Hospice of Marin.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that she was the grandmother of Dennis, Debra, and Jennifer Eckert, Kim and Julia Eckert, and Jane, Joanne and Patricia Zwieg.
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