AHERN – in San Rafael Nov 6, 1945, James B., husband of Laura Alice Ahern, father of Mrs. Gertrude Haley, Mrs. Alice Kirby, James B. Ahern, Mrs. Irene Brookins, Mrs. Bessie Curtis, and the late, Maurine Gifford. A native of San Francisco, aged 79 years.
San Anselmo Hearld, Thursday, 8 November 1945, pg 1, column 7,
JAMES B AHERN VETERAN NWP Engineer PASSES
Funeral Services will be held tomorrow morning for James B. Ahern, 79, veteran NWP locomotive engineer who died at his San Rafael home Tuesday. The rosary will be said this evening at the Guy W Jenness and Company chapel, San Anselmo, and tomorrow he will be laid to rest in Mount Olivet Cemetery following the requiem high mass ceremony at St. Raphael’s Church.
Ahern, for several years, since his retirement from railroading, has been superintendent of the Marin Rod and Gun Club’s fishing wharf at San Quentin. He was at the throttle of the first through train into Eureka and before that was on the old narrow gauge from Sausalito to Duncan Mills.
He is survived by a widow, one son, and four daughters.
AHERN – in San Rafael Nov 6, 1945, James B., husband of Laura Alice Ahern, father of Mrs. Gertrude Haley, Mrs. Alice Kirby, James B. Ahern, Mrs. Irene Brookins, Mrs. Bessie Curtis, and the late, Maurine Gifford. A native of San Francisco, aged 79 years.
San Anselmo Hearld, Thursday, 8 November 1945, pg 1, column 7,
JAMES B AHERN VETERAN NWP Engineer PASSES
Funeral Services will be held tomorrow morning for James B. Ahern, 79, veteran NWP locomotive engineer who died at his San Rafael home Tuesday. The rosary will be said this evening at the Guy W Jenness and Company chapel, San Anselmo, and tomorrow he will be laid to rest in Mount Olivet Cemetery following the requiem high mass ceremony at St. Raphael’s Church.
Ahern, for several years, since his retirement from railroading, has been superintendent of the Marin Rod and Gun Club’s fishing wharf at San Quentin. He was at the throttle of the first through train into Eureka and before that was on the old narrow gauge from Sausalito to Duncan Mills.
He is survived by a widow, one son, and four daughters.
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