Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, February 26, 2007 at 09:09:18 :
Independent Journal
Friday, September 24, 1976
Page 4
SOPHIE WILES
Sophie Wiles, a longtime resident of Marin County, and a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, died yesterday in a local convalescent hospital after a long illness. She was 90.
Trained in France as a housekeeper, Mrs. Wiles came to San Francisco in 1905 from her native Switzerland. She worked as a housekeeper in the city until 1915 when she moved to Marin County.
In the aftermath of the great earthquake, Mrs. Wiles spent several days walking through the rubble, searching for her sister, who later turned up unharmed.
Mrs. Wiles, whose husband, Orlo Daniel Wiles, a water service supervisor for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, died in 1935, lived for 50 years at 1817 Grand Avenue in San Rafael. She was for several years a housekeeper for the Thomas P. Boyd family.
Surviving Mrs. Wiles are a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy E. Vannoy of Santa Rosa; a son, Orlo Daniel Wiles Jr. of San Rafael; a sister, Mrs. Lydia Gaffino of Switzerland; and five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be Tuesday, at 2 p.m. at the Williams and Heffernan Mortuary in San Rafael. Burial will follow at the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 9 a.m. Sunday.
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A Death Notice in the same paper mentions that she was the daughter of the late Carl and Elizabeth Gerber; grandmother of David and Mary Wiles, Mrs. Nancy Huntsinger, Daniel and Julie DeFoe; great-grandmother of Janette and Daniel Huntsinger, Tracy and Amy DeFoe. She was a native of Lenk, Switzerland.
[Transcriber’s note: the filming job was not too good. I believe the town was Lenk, but I could be wrong. The sister, Lydia, was, I think, living in Bael, Switzerland.]
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