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DONALD
RICHARDS KRAG
The
only father and son attorney team in Alhambra does not talk much about politics
because the son, Donald Richards Krag, is a Republican and the father, Donald
O. Krag, is a Democrat.
A
native Californian, Donald R. Krag was born on February 7, 1927, in Pasadena,
California. He is the son of Donald O.
and Dorothy (Hibbard) Krag. His late
grandfather, Louis Richards Hibbard, a tool and die maker, was active in the
Alhambra Police Commission and other civic endeavors.
Young
Mr. Krag attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena, and the Catalina Island
School for Boys, which is now called Cate School. He attended the University of California at
Los Angeles from 1946 to 1948, after serving two years with the United States Navy
in the Pacific Theater. He was trained
in aviation radio school and later became an aviation photographer’s mate,
third class. He was graduated from
Southwestern University College of Law, in Los Angeles, California, in 1951,
and passed the Bar in 1952, after which he became associated as a partner in
his father’s law firm.
A
member of the San Gabriel Valley Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar
Association, the State of California Bar Association and the American Bar
Association, Mr. Krag is a member of the board of directors and 1957 past
president of the Plaintiff’s Trial Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. He is affiliated with the National
Association of Claimants Counsel of America and the American Judicature
Society.
In
1956 this busy young attorney served as president of the Duarte Rotary Club and
is currently a member of the Alhambra Rotary Club, and the Alhambra Chamber of
Commerce. He is a member and past
president of the board of trustees of the Arcadia Congregational Church.
Mr.
Krag’s fraternal affiliations are the Phi Kappa Sigma; the Granada Masonic
Lodge No. 608 of Alhambra; the Pasadena Consistory; the Al Malaikah Shrine; the
Rio Hondo Shrine Club and the Alhambra High Twelve Club.
Mr.
Krag married Miss Merrilyn
Joan Waters of Whittier, on October 18, 1947, in the Episcopal Church of Our
Savior in San Gabriel. Mrs. Krag is an
alumnus of Whittier College and Chatham College. She is an active member of the Alhambra
Rotary Ann’s. The Krag’s have five
sons: Theodore Richards, age 11; Daniel
Russell, age 9; William Robert, age 5, all of whom attend Santa Anita
Elementary School; and Thomas Raymond, age 3, and Charles Randall, age 1.
Especially
interested in sports, Mr. Krag is an avid golfer, holding a membership in the
Glendora Country Club. The history of
the United States and its well-being is of prime concern to Donald R.
Krag. He and his father have an
extensive library of American Heritage books, which they display in their
office.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 683-685, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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