Obituaries
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Jeane Chambers Bulotti Widow of Charles F. Bulotti Jr. Born Peoria, IL, June 22, 1921, died September 30, 2008. Came to California in 1929 when her father was made western manager of the five-year-old Caterpillar Tractor Company. Attended Lincoln Grammar School and Alameda High School, graduating from Anna Head School in Berkeley before going to Stanford, where she was a member the Alpha Phi sorority and Cap and Gown Honor Society. Jeane worked briefly for the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board in San Francisco before her marriage in February 1943. The couple were in Boston, Miami and East Port Orchard, Washington, as Charles finished naval training before his ship sailed out of Bremerton in December. At war's end, they lived in San Francisco and moved to San Mateo in 1953. Jeane was active in many volunteer activities, being an early president of the Little Children's Aid Junior Auxiliary, and editor of the Junior League magazine. As chairman of the League's San Mateo unit she was a founding member of what is now Coyote Point Museum. She was a longtime Girl Scout leader, an instigator of the Burlingame Friends of the Library, and at the time her death was still active in the Hillsborough auxiliary to Poplar-Recare and remained an emeritus member of the Junior League. She is survived by her children Suzanne Sutherland (Jerry) of Sacramento, Carla Newbre of Eugene, OR, and Richard Bulotti (Linda) of Nevada City; seven grandchildren, Timothy Sutherland, Elizabeth Hubert, Andrew Sutherland, Thomas Newbre, Peter Sutherland, Midge Newbre, and Elena Bulotti; and seven great-grandchildren, Mary Hubert, Sarah Hubert, Eleanore Sutherland, Davin Sutherland, Charles Whitten, Joseph Sutherland and Samuel Sutherland. Memorial service to be held at a later date. |
Harriet Boardman Webster
April 19, 1906 - Sept. 9, 2008 Harriet Boardman Webster of San Mateo died September 9 at Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame after a brief respiratory illness. She was 102 years old. Harriet Lois Boardman was born to Harry Lincoln and Alice Dorris Boardman in Oakland on April 19, 1906, the day after the Great Earthquake in San Francisco. Her four older sisters called her their "Earthquake Baby". During her growing up years, she lived in Yakima and Walla Walla, Washington before moving to Riverside, California with her family at the age of 10 years. Her father was a Baptist minister and later a college professor. Harriet attended grammar school and high school in Riverside, and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Philosophy in 1928. After her marriage to Paul Kimball Webster, Harriet lived in Glendale, California, with her husband and their three children before moving to San Mateo in 1939. When Paul Webster took a leave of absence as a senior partner with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) to work in the Eisenhower Administration as the Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, they lived in Washington, D.C. from 1954 to 1956. Paul Webster passed away in 1957. After her husband's death, Harriet spent several years at the Northfield School for Girls in Massachusetts where the headmaster was a family friend. She returned to San Mateo in 1960, and in 1973 she build a wonderful home at Sea Ranch where she lived for 30 years. In 2002 she returned again to San Mateo to be near her family. Through the years Harriet was active in the American Association of University Women, The Volunteer Bureau of San Mateo County, P.E.O., the Children's Home Society Auxiliary and the Congregational Church of San Mateo. She is survived by her children, Judith W. Barton, Joyce W. Hetts, and Steven K. Webster and by five grandchildren and three great grandchildren, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. In accordance with her request, there will be no memorial service. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Congregational Church of San Mateo, 225 Tilton Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401, to the Parkinson's Institute, 675 Almanor Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085, or to the charity of your choice.
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Jeanne Welch Entered into rest after a brief illness on July 23, 2008.
Beloved mother of Laurel Landes, Susan Landes Gray and Evan Welch.
Jeanne worked for Bohannon Development Company for many years and
retired at the age of 77. She enjoyed extensive worldwide travel.
Jeanne was born in The Bronx, NY, on April 9,1926 to Grace Eitel and
Robert Smith. She grew up in Thomes River, NJ. Jeanne married George
Landes in New York on July 13, 1949. They moved out west to Tucson, AZ,
in 1959 in the proverbial station wagon with their two small girls in
tow. Jeanne later married Jason Welch in 1962 and they made their home
in California before his job took Jeanne and their son Evan and
daughter Susan to Puerto Rico, Philippines and Indonesia. She is deeply
missed by her family and friends. Jeanne's memorial will be held at 1
pm. on Saturday Sept. 20th at First Presbyterian Church of San Mateo,
194 W. 25th Ave., 650-345-1633.
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