FONTANA

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 06:56:56 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, July 22, 1920
Page 1

Death Strikes Man While At Work

Angelo Fontana, employed by the Marin County Ice Company, dropped dead at the company’s plant on B street about 3:30 this afternoon. Dr. C. B. Marston, who was called immediately, but who arrived after life was extinct, pronounced heart trouble as the cause of death.

According to his fellow employees, who were within a few feet of him at the time, Fontana was engaged in handling a large block of ice when he swayed and fell to the floor. Shortly before that time he was chatting with the men near him and occasionally singing and whistling.

Coroner J. Ray Keaton arrived at the place within 10 minutes after death occurred and removed the remains to the morgue.

Fontana was well known here, jovial and well liked by all his acquaintances. He was a former service man, and shortly after his discharge from the army, he was married to a San Francisco girl. His widow and a small child survive him.