Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 04:43:33 :
Independent Journal
Saturday, November 7, 1970
Page 4
F. Somers Peterson Rites Held
Private service for F. Somers Peterson, founder of the Marin Yacht Club and a resident of San Rafael for 45 years, was yesterday.
Peterson died Thursday at his home after a lengthy illness. He was 79.
Peterson, who lived at 310 Highland Avenue overlooking the San Rafael Canal, was one of the first to realize the recreational possibilities of the canal. He raised money for the purchase and construction of a yacht club for the old Marin Gun Club in 1928.
When the country club went out of business in 1935, the Marin Yacht Club was formed with Peterson as first commodore. He held that post for six years.
Born in San Francisco, Peterson spent time at a family home on Belvedere Island as a child and attended Belvedere Grammar School. He entered the University of California in 1910 and was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.
During World War I, he was a Navy pilot stationed at Pensacola, Fla., and North Island in California.
In 1925 he moved to the Highland Avenue home. A San Rafael street, Somers Peterson Lane, was named after him last year.
Peterson was a manufacturers’ representative and distributor with his own firm, F. Somers Peterson Co., San Francisco. He retired in 1958.
He was a member of the St. Francis Yacht Club, the Bohemian Club and the Pacific Union Club, all in San Francisco, and was a contributor to the Boy Scouts of America, the Audobon Society, the American Academy of Sciences and the Save the Redwoods campaign.
Surviving are his wife for 51 years, Helen H. Peterson; a son, George S. Peterson of Ukiah; a sister, Mrs. Ward Mailliard of San Francisco, mother of Rep. William S. Mailliard, R-Sixth District; a brother, G. Baltzer Peterson of Atherton, and three grandchildren.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that he was the grandfather of Katharine K., Sally G. and John S. Peterson.
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