Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 05:08:38 :
Independent Journal
Friday, January 19, 1968
Page 4
ELMER PFAFF
Elmer F. Pfaff, 48, of Healdsburg, a former resident of Southern Marin, collapsed and died yesterday of an apparent heart attack.
Pfaff had been a conductor for 27 years for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad but had been off work for 10 months with a heart condition. He returned to work Jan. 8. Pfaff collapsed in the railroad switching yard in Santa Rosa and died of an apparent heart attack, the Sonoma County coroner’s office reported. An autopsy is planned.
Pfaff had resided in Sausalito from 1935 to 1949, and in Mill Valley from 1949 until 1962, when he moved to Healdsburg.
He was a member of Seapoint Parlor of Native Sons of the Golden West in Sausalito. He had served in the anti-aircraft artillery in the South Pacific during World War II.
Pfaff is survived by his wife, Doris Pfaff and three children, Janet, Robert and David Pfaff, all of Healdsburg; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Cole of Petaluma; two brothers, Lewis Pfaff of Fairfax and Warren Pfaff of Daly City.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the chapel of Fred Young and Co., Healdsburg. Private inurnment will be at Chapel of the Chimes, Santa Rosa.
The family requests donations to the Heart Association.
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A Death Notice in the Jan. 20 paper adds information: he was survived by 4 nieces and nephews, and was a native of El Verano, Calif.
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