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BORN IN: Palo Alto
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AGED: 77
DEATH LOCATION: San Mateo
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OBITUARY ---------------FRANK S. COOLEY
San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader
June 2, 1948
Death Takes F. S. Cooley
Frank S. Cooley, 76, 102 Pope St., North Palo Alto, pioneer Peninsula resident, died at his home this morning after a long illness. He was a native of Palo Alto, and for years was one of the leading ranchers and He was a native of Palo Alto, and for years was one of the leading ranchers and contractors in Palo Alto and Northern Santa Clara county.
He is the brother of the retiring supervison, C. P. Cooley of Santa Clara county, and the father of William and Harold Cooley, operators of Cooley Industries, San Carlos.
When Cooley was born in 1872 on the ranch owned by his father, a close friend of Leland Stanford, the only building in Palo Alto was a leanto railroad station to pick up farm produce.
In addition to his brother, Supervisor Cooley, he is survived by five sones. Gerald, Harold, William, Commander C. P. Cooley, USN.. and Francis, all of San Carlos, and another brother, Captain W. L. Cooley, Los Altos.
Funeral services will be conducted from the Franklin and Crowe chapel, Redwood City, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the family plot at Union cemetery, Redwood City.
----- June 3, 1948 San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader -------------
The death of Capt. Frank Sutton Cooley, which occurred at his home, 102 Pope St., North Palo Alto, Wednesday morning, marks the passing of another pioneer resident.
He was born in 1871 at the old town of Ravenswood, now East Palo Alto, where his father, the late L. P. Cooley, established a ranch and a boat landing near the bay after coming to California from Vermont in 1868.
His boyhood was spent on the Cooley ranch and he attended school with the sons and daughters of other early residents of this area. he was the brother of Capt. W. L. Cooley of Los Altos and County Supervisor C. P. Cooley of Palo Alto.
During his varied career, he operated boat on San Francisco bay and hauled stone for the construction of Stanford University from the norther part of the bay to Cooley's landing at Palo Alto, and water pipes for the city of Palo Alto were also transported by his boats. He also was a rancher and road contractor, and in the 1922 purchased and established the original San Carlos airport, which he and his sons operated for 10 years.
He was the husband of the late Mary E. Cooley and is survived by five sons, Gerald M. of San Mateo, Harold and Francis W. of Palo Alto, William L. and Lieut. Cmdr. Charls P. Cooley of San Carlos, and 10 grandchildren. He was the father of the late Mrs. Elizabeth C. Lemon., and was the brother-in-law of Miss Agnes A. Bracesco of Menlo Park. His mother was the late Mrs. Geraldine E. Frisbie.
Funeral services are being held tomorrow at 2 p. m. from Franklin, Crowe and Lorentzen chapel, 926 Middlefield road, Redwood City, with interment in Union Cemetery.
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