Contra Costa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Milnes, Guy Ellsworth November 18, 1945
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Richmond Independent newspaper
 GUY MILNES FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY

  "Funeral services for Guy Ellsworth Milnes, pioneer California newspaper 
man, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m. from the Wilson and Kratzer 
funeral home with Rev. Fred H. Busher, pastor of the St. Luke's Methodist 
church, officiating.
   Active pallbearers will be Senator T. H. DeLap, Superior Judge A. F. Bray, 
Sheriff James N. Long, Police Judge Clare Horner, Attorney Tsar N. Calfee, and 
John L. Rhin, assistant, manager of the Bank of America.
   Seventy-five city and county officials and other friends of Mr. Milnes will 
serve as honorary pall bearers.
   Private commital services will follow at Sunset View cemetery.
   Mr. Milnes, owner and publisher of the Richmond Record-Herald and Contra 
Costa newspaperman since 1898, died Sunday following a brief illness.  He was 
73.
   A native of Eddyville, Iowa, he came to California when he was three years 
old, spending his early lifetime in Mendocino and Humboldt counties, and 
residing in Richmond for the past 33 years. During his newspaper career he 
established two newspapers, one at Pittsburg, then known as Black Diamond, and 
the other the Point Richmond Record.  In 1912 he merged three newspapers, 
Record, Leader and Herald, under the name of the Record-Herald.
   Among survivors are his son, Grover E. Milnes, three daughters, Mrs. John 
Peterson, Mrs. Thelma Holtz, all of Richmond, and Mrs. Wilma deJong of 
Concord; a brother, Dr. Harold E. Milnes, pastor of the Methodist church at 
Burlingame and eight grandchildren."



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