BREDHOFF

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 11:54:19 :

Independent Journal
Monday, March 31, 1980

KATHERINE BREDHOFF

As she requested, no funeral will be held for Katherine M. Bredhoff, a resident of Larkspur for more than 50 years.

She died Saturday in her home after a lengthy illness. She was 86. She was born in South San Francisco. In 1908, she went to work for Del Monte cereal mill in San Francisco, and stayed on when the plant was purchased by Albers Milling Co., working a total of 51 years in the industry.

For 39 of those years she rode the Sausalito and Oakland ferryboats to and from work in San Francisco and Oakland. She once estimated that she traveled at least 250,000 miles on the bay before the ferryboats went out of business.

The year before she retired, Albers hosted a testimonial dinner in her honor, giving her a gold pin studded with three diamonds. During her career she first worked on the cereal packaging line, then trained packagers, and finally became floor supervisor.

She was the widow of the late William Bredhoff. They had no children. Her only survivor is a niece.

Memorial donations to the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma are preferred.