Services Held for Former Mayor Otis
Funeral services for Frank Otis, former mayor of Alameda and one of the last two members of the first graduating class of the University of California, were held at 1 o'clock today at the Alameda Elks Club. The Elk's ritual for the dead was given, with Rev. Frank S. Brush, former pastor of the Alameda First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Interment was in the Otis family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. The body of the former mayor, who passed away at the Alameda Sanatorium on Thursday, lay in state today from 10 until 1 o'clock in the rotunda of the Alameda City Hall.

Honorary pallbearers at the funeral included Chief Justice Waste of the California Supreme Court, Al Latham, J. B. Lanktree, Mayor Ellsworth of Piedmont, President Sproul of the University of California, Joseph R. Knowland, Robert Sibley, secretary of the California Alumni Association; Charles W. Griffin, George E. Plummer, Major C. L. Tilden, A. W. Porter an Clarence J. Wetmore, last surviving member of the class of '73. Active pallbearers were member of the Alameda Elks Club.

In a statement yesterday concerning Mr. Otis' death, President Sproul of the University said:

"The passing of Frank Otis destroys another link in the chain which binds the University to its beginnings. He was a member of the first class of 1873, which set the standard for all the classes to come. Personally, he exemplified the high degree the qualities of loyalty and service to home, to city and to the larger community that a state has a right to expect of the graduates of its University. We have been proud of Frank Otis living; we mourn him dead."

Mr. Otis is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucretia Otis, and by two sons, Edwin M. Otis of Alameda, and Stephen F. Otis, Sacramento attorney.
Berkeley Daily Gazette; 09 Jan 1932

Services Held for Former Mayor Otis
Funeral services for Frank Otis, former mayor of Alameda and one of the last two members of the first graduating class of the University of California, were held at 1 o'clock today at the Alameda Elks Club. The Elk's ritual for the dead was given, with Rev. Frank S. Brush, former pastor of the Alameda First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Interment was in the Otis family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. The body of the former mayor, who passed away at the Alameda Sanatorium on Thursday, lay in state today from 10 until 1 o'clock in the rotunda of the Alameda City Hall.

Honorary pallbearers at the funeral included Chief Justice Waste of the California Supreme Court, Al Latham, J. B. Lanktree, Mayor Ellsworth of Piedmont, President Sproul of the University of California, Joseph R. Knowland, Robert Sibley, secretary of the California Alumni Association; Charles W. Griffin, George E. Plummer, Major C. L. Tilden, A. W. Porter an Clarence J. Wetmore, last surviving member of the class of '73. Active pallbearers were member of the Alameda Elks Club.

In a statement yesterday concerning Mr. Otis' death, President Sproul of the University said:

"The passing of Frank Otis destroys another link in the chain which binds the University to its beginnings. He was a member of the first class of 1873, which set the standard for all the classes to come. Personally, he exemplified the high degree the qualities of loyalty and service to home, to city and to the larger community that a state has a right to expect of the graduates of its University. We have been proud of Frank Otis living; we mourn him dead."

Mr. Otis is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucretia Otis, and by two sons, Edwin M. Otis of Alameda, and Stephen F. Otis, Sacramento attorney.
Berkeley Daily Gazette; 09 Jan 1932