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Claude H. Seelye

SEBASTOPOL – Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday for Claude H. Seelye, who died at his home at 3932 Hesselrd, Saturday. He had been ill for a month.

Mr. Seelye was former owner of Seelye’s Red Barn Furniture Co., Sebastopol, which he sold a year ago. Previously he had operated the Seelye Salow Co., Santa Rosa furniture, dry goods and drapery shop for 20 years. As a young man he had been employed by the W. & J. Sloane Furniture Co., San Francisco. He was a native of Ohio.

He is survived by his wife, Helen Seelye, Sebastopol.

Services will be held at the O’Leary Mortuary, followed by a High Mass at St. Sebastian’s Church. Recitation of the Rosary will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the mortuary.

Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Monday, December 7, 1959, page 6

SEELYE – In Sebastopol, December 5, 1959, Claude H. Seelye, beloved husband of Mrs. Helen Seelye of Sebastopol. A native of Ohio.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral services, Wednesday, December 9, 1959, at 9 A.M. from the Chapel of the O’Leary Funeral Home in Sebastopol, thence to St. Sebastian’s Church, where High Mass will be offered fot the repose of his soul commencing at 9:30 A.M. Interment, Calvary Cemetery, Santa Rosa. The Rosary will be recited Tuesday evening at 8 p’clock at the O’Leary Funeral Home Chapel.

Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Monday, December 7, 1959, page 6