Mendocino-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Cannarr,  Robert C. December 28, 1882 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  116 - 117
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     ROBERT C. CANNARR and his wife, Mrs. Grace Cannarr, comprise the firm of 
Cannarr & Cannarr, undertakers and funeral directors at Fort Bragg. Both are 
licensed embalmers, and have devoted their abilities and professional talents 
to the building up of a service which represents the last word in funeral 
directing in Mendocino County.

     Robert C. Cannarr was born at Rock Rapids, Iowa, December 28, 1882, a son 
of David F. and Amanda (Wallace) Cannarr. His father was a railroad engineer. 
When Robert C. Cannarr was a child his parents died, and the opportunities and 
advantages that came to him were largely of his own making. He attended school 
in Chicago. As a youth he had some training in the undertaking business at 
Muscatine, Iowa, beginning at the age of sixteen. Two years later he returned 
to Chicago, and on reaching the age of twenty-one enlisted in the regular army 
and was in the military service until 1910. During the last two years of his 
service he was first sergeant of K Troop, First Cavalry.

     On being released from duty he came to San Francisco and in 1912 located 
at Fort Bragg. Here for two years he was an employee of the store of the Union 
Lumber Company. Mr. Cannarr then went back to Chicago, where he found 
employment and continued his apprenticeship and study as an embalmer. On May 
4, 1915, he received a diploma after a post-graduate course in embalming and 
immediately returned to Fort Bragg. In 1917 he became embalmer at Sacramento 
for the firm of Clark, Booth & Yardley.

     In the early part of 1920 he returned to Fort Bragg and organized the 
Cannarr & Cannarr Company, Incorporated, with his wife, Grace T. (Turner) 
Cannarr, as his partner. Mrs. Cannarr graduated from the Carpenter College of 
Embalming at Iowa City, Iowa. She was born in New Hampshire and came to 
California in 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Cannarr started their business at Fort Bragg 
in 1920, and in 1927 completely rebuilt and remodeled their establishment. 
Their facilities include four pieces of motor equipment, and they are 
adequately equipped to perform their service throughout the North Coast 
district of the state.

     Mr. and Mrs. Cannarr have one son, William Francis, now a student in the 
San Rafael Military Academy. The firm is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. 
Mr. Cannarr for eight years has been deputy county coroner. He is a member of 
the Masonic Order, Fort Bragg Lodge No. 361, and Mendocino Chapter No. 88, R. 
A. M., is a past officer of the Knights of Pythias, a past officer of the 
Improved Order of Red Men, and has been a member of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows for a quarter of a century. He also belongs to the B. P. O. Elks 
and Fraternal Order of Eagles. Mrs. Cannarr is a member of the Eastern Star, 
is a past officer of the Rebekahs, a past officer of the Pythian Sisters, 
member of the Daughters of Pocahontas, and the Business and Professional 
Women's Clubs, of which she has served as secretary.

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