Marrying Robert (Bob) Weeks of San Francisco (d 2000) their senior year ’54 after meeting in freshman English class, they then traveled east where she taught in Maryland while Bob served in the Army. Upon their return to California she taught elementary school in Palo Alto before having 3...
Death often takes us unaware, even when there has been an illness. And in a state of confusion, grief, and fatigue we are expected to attend to practical details, one of which may be encouraging the local paper to write an obituary (the essay-like story about the deceased written by a ...
Edgar Smith died in St. Joseph’s hospital in Elmira, recently, after a paralytic stroke. He was 59 years old, and was born in Sullivan, May 9, 1861, son of the late Jonathan and Leptha Smith. He married Addie J. Decker, who died in 1894. To them were born five children, four ...