Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, November 05, 2010 at 05:29:05 :
Independent Journal
Saturday September 13, 1980
Page 4
MARIE W. BARNSDALE
Marie Williams Barnsdale, a Marin County resident for more than 30 years, died Friday following a long illness. She was 97.
A funeral will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo.
A native of Salem, Mo., Mrs. Barnsdale was descended from Pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower. Her two grandfathers were soldiers in the Civil War.
She moved to California as a young woman and had lived in the state for more than 75 years at the time of her death.
Mrs. Barnsdale was a member of the Fairfax Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Before her illness, Mrs. Barnsdale had lived with her daughter, Marjorie Ongaro of Santa Rosa. She is also survived by her son, William J. Barnsdale, a retired U.S. consul general, now the assistant executive director of the United Nations World Food Program in Rome; her sister, Ethel Shipley of Fresno; and seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that she was the widow of Nelson Ray Barnsdale. She had been a resident of Marin County for over 30 years, living with her daughter Mrs. Quin Ongaro, now of Santa Rosa. Survived by grandchildren Mrs. Carolyn Marie Finch of Ukiah, Kenneth Quin Ongaro of Seattle, Mrs. Jeanne Louise Simpson of Windsor, Dr. John Steven Barnsdale of Colfax, William J. Barnsdale Jr. of San Francisco, Mary Louise Barnsdale and Andrew Charles Barnsdale of Berkeley.; and daughter-in-law Florence McKeown Barnsdale. Interment, Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael.
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