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OBITUARY ---------------MRS. GERALDINE COOLEY FRISBIE
Redwood City Standard
Thursday, March 7, 1929
Hundreds of friends gathered at the James Crowe funeral home in this city Tuesday afternoon to pay homage to Mrs. Geraldine Cooley Frisbie, beloved pioneer resident of the Peninsula and prominent for many years in Relief Corps circles, who passed away at her home in San Mateo early Monday morning following an illness of two weeks. Rev. C.H. Stevens of Palo Alto who officiated at the services, paid a glowing account of Mrs. Frisbie, telling of her many years of active and useful life in the community; of her devotion to her family and friends, of her many deeds of kindness and charity, and of her unceasing interest and labors in behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman’s Relief Corp.
A duet composed of Mrs. W.A. Crowell and Mrs. W.H. Doxsee rendered “No Night There” and preceding the impressive ritualistic service of the Gen. George S. Evans Woman’s Relief Corp., which followed the services of Rev. Stevens, Mrs. Harry Zimmerman sang “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere”.
The parlors were completely filled with beautiful flowers and floral offerings sent by friends and various organizations
Entombment took place following the services in the family vault in Union Cemetery. The following acted as pallbearers: Geo. McNulty, Enamel Donnclly, J.P. Flynn, Wm Lipp, T.C. Rice and John Poole, Corps No. 36 Women’s Relief Corps of this city, she having been elected on February 12, 1887. In 1890, she was elected president of the Department of California and Nevada with Mrs. Sarah Fox, the only surviving charter member of the local corp., as her secretary. At the National Convention in 1912 held at Los Angeles, Mrs. Frisbie was made National President, the highest honor in he Women’s Relief Corps. She had been president of the Women’s Relief Corps Home in Santa Clara County for 34 years.
Born in New York 82 years ago, Mrs. Frisbie came to California as a young girl with her uncle, the late O. P. Sutton, a forty-niner and head of the Pacific Bank in those days. Soon after her arrival, she met L.P. Cooley, at that time a mining engineer in Northern California. They were married in San Francisco and settled on a large dairy farm near that city. There, their eldest son, W. L. Cooley, now captain of a Sacramento river boat, was born. The other two children, Charles P. of Palo Alto, and Frank S. of San Mateo, were born after the family’s removal in 1867 to the Ravenswood ranch embracing 400 acres. Here the husband died and some years later, Mrs. Cooley married Will Frisbie, druggist in this city. Following the death of her second husband, Mrs. Frisbie made her home with her son in Palo Alto, but for many years had resided with her son in San Mateo.
Mrs. Cooley remaincd active in Relief Corps work up to the last few months before her passing. During the latter part of January, she visited Redwood City and installed the officer of Gen. Geo. S. Evans Relief Corps, although at the time she was not in the best of health. She had endeared herself to every member of the local organization and to hundreds of others on the peninsula, who will deeply grieve over her passing
NOTE: An addition to this 1929 obituary was added by Geraldine's great great grandaughter in August, 2012.
She states that W. L. Cooley was captain of the Sacramento river boat the Delta Queen.
She also says that Lester Cooley, Geraldine's first husband, died in 1882, and Geraldine married Will Frisbie
in 1883. Apparently Lester and Will were close friends, and Will was also a recent widower.
Also, O. P. Sutton was Owen P. Sutton. She supplied this link that describe Geraldine's contributions
with the Relief Corps .
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