HAWKINS

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 09:40:22 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, July 25, 1889

Mrs. O. C. Hawkins died very suddenly on Saturday morning last. She was about as usual, attending to her morning routine, and about 9 o’clock, was seized with insensibility, and in a half hour had ceased to breathe. The news gave our community a great shock. She was a very old resident, and in her calling as mistress of the Sheppard house at San Quentin, and later of the well-known house of the same name here, now the Villa, she was widely known, and her friends were legion. To a remarkable kindness of heart she added a disposition of perennial cheerfulness, and it was no wonder that friends came from different parts of the county to pay the last offices of love and gratitude at her bier. Last spring she took the Shaver House, on Fourth street, and had gathered about her there a large company of guests, every one of whom had come to regard her as a personal friend. The funeral took place from the Episcopal church on Monday, and was very largely attended.