Peter J. Flesher, 71, a native of Weston, W. Va., who had been a resident of Santa Cruz 21 years, died in a local hospital yesterday following a short illness. Mr. Flesher started working in the Oil fields of West Virginia as a small boy and followed the progress of the oil industry west, finally moving to Taft, Calif., in 1908. He remained there until he retired from the oil business in 1928 and moved his family to Santa Cruz, where he operated a poultry ranch until the time of his death.
Although of a quiet retiring disposition he was greatly loved and respected by all who knew him. The family home is on Seventh avenue, Twin Lakes district.
Mr. Flesher was a member of the Masonic lodge of Taft, No. 426, and he held a life membership in the Los Angeles Consistery. His widow, Mrs. Georgia M. Flesher, his daughter, Mrs. Helen Stohsner and granddaughters, Judith Ann and Linda Lee Stohsner of San Jose and three brothers, Charles L., J. L., and Emory, and two sisters, Mrs. J. D. White and Mrs. Clyde Winter, all of whom reside in the east, survive.
Services will be held from Wessendorf mortuary Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Ed Cunningham and officers of Santa Cruz Lodge No. 38, F. & A. AL, officiating. Interment will be in Oakwood cemetery.
Published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on January 12, 1949
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Georgia Mildred Flesher
1874–1961 (m. 1920)
