Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 05:52:21 :
The Marin Journal
Thursday, September 13, 1917
Page 1
Death Calls For “Bob” Struve
Great men and famous have died, the world is shocked for a day, but the next sun beams down upon a placidity that reveals no hint of the seemingly irreparable calamity of the day before.
“Bob” Struve had not yet etched his name on the scroll of fame that is passed down in unending posterity. He was too young.
Last Saturday death claimed him. It was not until this saddest of announcements was made that the countless friends of Robert D. Struve were discovered. Quiet, unobtrusive but straight-forward, honest and efficient, he had gained friends, but no person knew the vast number of these until “Bob” was gone. He counted them in hundreds among automobilists. An indefinable something about him made every person with whom he came in contact a life friend.
For the past three or four years he had been the chief mechanic at Riede & Codoni’s garage, and there and in his home is the deepest sorrow. Prior to his employment there he had been associated with other San Rafael automobile dealers, all of whom feel keenly the death.
“Bob” was taken ill about eight weeks ago, and was removed for treatment to a San Francisco hospital. He grew steadily worse, and the physicians decided Saturday to perform an operation to remove the appendix. Death occurred on the operating table.
The funeral, held Tuesday at Sawyer’s Parlors, was one of the largest that had ever taken place there. Although the deceased was not a member of the Catholic Church, Father McElroy, of St. Raphael’s, through friendship, preached the funeral sermon. The parlors were banked with flowers, the devoted offering of the mourners.
The San Rafael Aerie of Eagles, of which the deceased was a member, held services at the Mt. Tamalpais cemetery.
The sincere sympathy of all those who knew the couple is extended to the bereaved widow, a wife of two years. She was Miss Mollie Nave of Novato.
The surviving relatives are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claus Struve, of Penngrove; Mrs. Frieda Crigler, Mrs. Martha Gallagher, Mrs. Ella Taxearia, Miss Bertha Struve and Miss Anna Struve, sisters, and Edward Struve, an only brother.
The pallbearers were Alex Enos, Adolph Bernall, Al Barrow, Frank Riede, Frank Smith, and L(eo?) Dalessi.
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