Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, June 25, 2006 at 06:27:27 :
Independent Journal
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1958
Page 2
Early-Day River Pilot Succumbs
Capt. Harry Angier Hyde, one of California’s early river pilots, died yesterday at the Mill Valley home at 115 Walnut avenue where he had resided for three years with his sister, Mrs. Ethel Hyde Fostine. He was 81.
A native of San Francisco, Captain Hyde was reared in the Bay Area and spent his entire active life on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers as a pilot. He was a lifetime member of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Assn. of San Francisco.
On his retirement, he and his wife moved to Honolulu until her death three years ago.
His sister is his only survivor.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the Russell and Gooch chapel in Mill Valley. Inurnment will be in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland.
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A Death Notice in the same paper mentions his late wife, Leila L. Hyde, and late siblings, Mrs. Mabel Rule and J. C. Hyde.
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California Death Index: he was born Feb. 23, 1877; mother’s maiden name, Pharo.
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