Brandrup, Ralph Jesse



DIED: 8/22/1915


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RALPH BRANDRUP

Redwood City Democrat

August 16, 1915

Ralph Brandrup killed when auto turns over.

Ralph Brandrup, a well known Redwood City boy and son of Mrs. A. Rasmussen of Selby Lane, was fatally injured at Fresno last Saturday morning when an automobile he was driving turned over three times. Brandrup was thrown forty feet from the car when it made the last somersault. The unfortunate young man died the same night at a Fresno Sanitarium. The accident was caused by a tire exploding.

The body was shipped to this city. The funeral will take place today from the Congregational Church at 10 o’clock and interment will be in Union Cemetery. The deceased was born in Redwood City and was 22 years old, Besides his mother and stepfother, he is survived by one brother, Joseph Brandrup and a sister, Mrs. Vincent Rodgers of Palo Alto.

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