Colusa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Kaufman, Charles Conrad September 3, 1951
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Colusa Sun Herald, September 4, 1951
Colusa Sun Herald, September 4, 1951
Last Rites Tomorrow At Lourdes
Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Our Lady of Lourdes Church 
for Charles Conrad Kaufman, 75, retired theatre owner and resident of Colusa for 
40 years, who died at 9:45 a.m. yesterday in Colusa Memorial Hospital. The 
passing of Charlie Kaufman, as he was known to his many friends, brought deep 
regret in the community in which he was so well known and liked. His death was 
not expected for his condition had been serious in the last few days. Charlie 
operated the Gem theatre, which recently sold to the City of Colusa for a new 
city hall, for many years. He retired from the theatre business about 15 years 
ago. The survivors are his wife, Mrs. Genevieve Highstreet Kaufman; son, Robert 
Kaufman; brother, H. E. (Jeff) Kaufman; grandsons, Phillip and Blair, all of 
Colusa; and sister, Mrs. Celia Butz of Azusa, Calif. Mr. Kaufman was born in 
Meadville, Pa., and came to Colusa 40 years ago. Rosary will be recited tonight 
at 8 o'clock in Sullivan Brothers Chapel. Interment will be made in Colusa 
Catholic Cemetery tomorrow following the services with Sullivan Brothers 
directing. Mr. Kaufman, always a genial and obliging man, came to Colusa in 1910 
and was first employed by the late B. A. Pryor, who operated a little movie 
house on Fifth Street. Ambitious and enterprising Charlie started his first 
movie theatre where A. W. Berry Store is now located, on Market Street. Later he 
brought about the construction of the Gem Theatre and was its proprietor for 15 
years. He was a very successful showman and Colusans recall that Charlie brought 
the first talking pictures to his community. He retired from the theatre 
business in 1935. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman were married in 1917. The death of 
Charlie Kaufman, for more than two score years a respected citizen of the 
community occasioned deepest sympathy for members of the family today.


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