Siskiyou
County
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FELIX J. KUNZ
Felix
J. Kunz, who is conducting a successful undertaking business at Fort Jones,
Siskiyou County, has always lived in this section of the state and has done his
share in promoting the welfare of his community. He was born in Scott Valley, Siskiyou County,
on the 18th of June, 1888, and is a son of Felix and Eliza (Holtzhauser)
Kunz. The father, who was born in
Switzerland and came to the United States in young manhood, was a wheelwright
by trade and did much important work along that line. In 1872 he came to California, locating in
Scott Valley, where he has engaged in the upholstering, furniture and
undertaking business, to the present time, though, being eighty-six years of
age, he is largely taking things easy and enjoying the golden sunset years of
his life in well earned leisure.
Felix
J. Kunz received a good, practical education in the public schools and, having
decided to take up the undertaking business, he entered a school of embalming
in San Francisco from which he was graduated in 1910. He now has funeral parlors in Fort Jones and
Etna and a half interest in a business at Yreka, which is conducted under the
firm name of Bills & Kunz. During
the two decades in which he has followed funeral directing in Siskiyou County
he has earned a reputation for the efficient and satisfactory manner in which
he discharges his duties, being at all times considerate and thoughtful. He has just been elected for the third
consecutive term as coroner and public administrator for Siskiyou County by an
increased majority.
In
1911 Mr. Kunz was united in marriage to Miss Winona Thompson, of Manitou, El
Paso County, Colorado, a woman of good education and splendid personal
qualities. To them
have been born two children, Ida and Betty. Mr. Kunz gives his political support to the
Republican Party. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Fort Jones, the Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots at Dunsmuir and the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks at Modesto. Traveling is his
favorite form of recreation and he has visited many parts of this country. He is cordial and friendly in manner, enjoys
a wide and favorable acquaintance throughout this section of the Sacramento
Valley and is regarded as one of the leading business men and enterprising
citizens of Fort Jones.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J. W. Major,
History of Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 Pages
280-281. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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