Please contact me if you know anything more about ROYAL and his family.
Thank you,
Jeanne E. Killick [email protected]
Obituary:
ROYAL BREWSTER
Funeral for Royal Stanley Brewster, 85, of Sonoma, formerly of Novato, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Bates Evans and Fehrensen Funeral Home in Sonoma.
Brewster died at his home in Sonoma Thursday.
He lived in Novato from 1967 to 1969 and married Florence Rhoades, a long-time resident of Novato in 1968, Born in Hastings, Neb., he moved to Lincoln, Neb., as a young man, then to Indianola, Iowa, in 1960.
He was a pioneer in the telephone industry and a director and officer of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company, largest independent phone company in the country when he was working for it.
He quit in 1940 to run the Program Service Company of Lincoln, the first company to supply piped in music. He retired in 1958. Listed among his achievements were setting up the first answering service in the nation and heading the first company to achieve 100 per cent dialing.
Also surviving are a son, Boyd L. Brewster of Novato, a daughter, Mrs. Donald Lentz (Marilyn D.) of Indianola, two brothers, Robert Brewster of Des Moines, Iowa, and Willis Brewster of Eugene, Ore., also seven grandchildren.
He is to be buried at Mountain Cemetery, Sonoma.
Daily Independent Journal
(San Rafael, CA)
January 16, 1971
Please contact me if you know anything more about ROYAL and his family.
Thank you,
Jeanne E. Killick [email protected]
Obituary:
ROYAL BREWSTER
Funeral for Royal Stanley Brewster, 85, of Sonoma, formerly of Novato, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Bates Evans and Fehrensen Funeral Home in Sonoma.
Brewster died at his home in Sonoma Thursday.
He lived in Novato from 1967 to 1969 and married Florence Rhoades, a long-time resident of Novato in 1968, Born in Hastings, Neb., he moved to Lincoln, Neb., as a young man, then to Indianola, Iowa, in 1960.
He was a pioneer in the telephone industry and a director and officer of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company, largest independent phone company in the country when he was working for it.
He quit in 1940 to run the Program Service Company of Lincoln, the first company to supply piped in music. He retired in 1958. Listed among his achievements were setting up the first answering service in the nation and heading the first company to achieve 100 per cent dialing.
Also surviving are a son, Boyd L. Brewster of Novato, a daughter, Mrs. Donald Lentz (Marilyn D.) of Indianola, two brothers, Robert Brewster of Des Moines, Iowa, and Willis Brewster of Eugene, Ore., also seven grandchildren.
He is to be buried at Mountain Cemetery, Sonoma.
Daily Independent Journal
(San Rafael, CA)
January 16, 1971
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