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| Gaye Lenahan in 2010. Photo: Lacy Atkins, San Francisco Chronicle |
Gaye Lenahan, a longtime CGS member and volunteer, passed away at home on October 29, 2018. Her contributions to CGS, her community, and other organizations are too numerous to list, but she was widely beloved and appreciated. Gaye was a docent for 20 years at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, and in 2010 published her extensive research on the cemetery’s “Strangers’ Plot,” which served as the burial place for indigents, unknowns, suicides and criminals from 1863 until World War I. Gaye was featured in a Chronicle article on the subject. Kathryn Doyle’s post in this blog gives more information about Gaye’s diligent work on this little-known resting place.
Gaye’s family wrote in her obituary, “She will be remembered by all who knew her as a kind, generous and brave spirit who did her part to leave the world a little better place.” The full obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle can be read online here.
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