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Los Angeles Times
Monday, 19 March, 1928

         Homage to Dead Paid in Valley
         
         Business Suspends and Flags Fly Low
           as Thirteen Are Laid at Rest
           
         Reconstruction and rehabilitation work in the
       Santa Clara Valley paused awhile yesterday and
       the toilers in the flood-swept area paid homage
       to the dead.
       
         On a sun-bathed hillside at the Santa Paula
       Cemetery, approximately 2000 persons gathered
       to hear the simple services.
       
         Songs welled as the caskets were lowered into
       the graves surrounded by huge banks of flowers.
       
         Business houses in Santa Paula suspended busi-
       ness from 1:30 until 3 p.m. and flags were at
       half-mast throughout the district.
       
         Thirteen were laid to rest, including members
       of the LIMA, TORRES, GUITERREZ, SAMANIEJO and
       PEREZ families. Other funerals will follow as
       identifications are made.
       
         Twenty-two victims have been buried from San
       Fernando since Friday. Bodies of five others
       are being held at morgues there awaiting rela-
       tives.
       
         Among those buried from San Fernando are
       ALBERT RIVERA, HARRY GARCIA, TOOTSIE GARCIA,
       J. PEDRO GARCIA, and the entire RISING family,
       composed of MRS. JULIA RISING, the mother;
       DOLORES, ADELINE and ELENORE. Services also have
       been conducted for MRS. CLARA WILMOT and VELMA
       and RAYMOND WILMOT, her children. MISS ETHEL
       COCHEMS also has been buried there.
       
         ROSANO ERROTHINO (sic ERRATCHUO) and her son
       ROLAND were taken to the RUIZ Cemetery after
       San Fernando services, and LOUIS GARCIA and his
       2-year-old son, FRANCIS, were buried at Oakwood
       Cemetery.
       
         The bodies of RICHARD E. PIKE, RICHARD ALLEN
       PIKE, KENNETH HALEN, LEON HALEN and EDWARD PRICE
       are held awaiting relatives. The body of O. R.
       WESTBROOK has been sent to Hutchinson, Kan.
       
         EDWARD VICKERY of Lemon Cove was buried at
       Exeter. Funeral arrangements are being made at
       Porterville for GERALD KIMBALL. OSCAR J. DOTY
       was buried there Sunday.
       
         Services for HENRY MATHIS and his wife, 
       DOROTHY, will be conducted today at Pierce
       Brothers chapel. Their baby daughter was 
       buried Saturday at Newhall.
       
         The entire family of CARL J. MATHIS (sic MATHEWS], 
       SR., the cabinet maker of San Francisquito Canyon, 
       rest side by side in a Sierra Madre morgue. Besides
       the father are CHARLEY, 6; THELMA, 11; MILLIE
       MATHES, 26, and CARL J., JR, 2.
       
         EUGENE FRAZIER, his wife, MINNIE, and their son,
       MELVIN, 12, were buried yesterday at Gardena. The
       father's body was recovered near Newhall, the wife's
       near Santa Paula and the son's near Ventura.
       
         The body of a 2-year-old baby boy with brown
       curly hair and blue eyes, which has lain unclaimed
       for three or four days in the improvised morgue at
       Newhall, has aroused the sympathy of everyone.
       Hundreds have viewed the body without being able
       to shed any light on the child's identity.
       
         Yesterday WILLIAM S. HART, motion picture
       actor, had a beautiful floral piece of pink and
       white rosebuds sent to the morgue to be placed
       by the body. MRS. GLADYS HARNISCHSEGER, waiting
       at the morgue while workers search for the body
       of her own 6-year-old son, added bouquets of
       sweet peas.
       
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