1906 Quake Survivor Dies at 107

NBC Bay Area ^ | Sun, Jan 3, 2010

[nickcarraway]

Jeanette Scola Trapani, one of the oldest survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, has died at age 107.

Dolores Legge told the San Francisco Chronicle that her mother had been suffering from pneumonia and passed away at her home in El Dorado Hills on Monday. A funeral Mass will be held Monday at St. Vincent de Paul Church.

"My mother was married in that church," Legge said. "We wanted to bring her back to San Francisco." Trapani had clear memories of the disaster, even though she was only four years old at the time, Legge said.

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A Look Back: October 17, 1989 "She vividly remembered the terrible smell of the smoke from the burning city and how she and her family had to live in a tent in the Presidio," Legge said.

The April 18 cataclysmic quake was followed by days of fire that left much of San Francisco in ruin. Trapani rode in a 1931 Lincoln last April 18 to mark the 103rd anniversary of the quake. She sat next to 103 year old William Del Monte. Both smiled and waved to the crowd gathered at Lotta's fountain.

Trapani was born on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill on April 21, 1902 and she was raised in the city. She married Vincent Trapani in 1929, and they remained married until his death in 1996.

[2banana]

A Look Back: October 17, 1989 "She vividly remembered the terrible smell of the smoke from the burning city and how she and her family had to live in a tent in the Presidio," Legge said.

WHAT!!! No FEMA trailer? No $500 FEMA gift cards. No free government food, housing, shelter for years after the earthquake????

How did people make it???

[SIDENET]

Dolores Legge told the San Francisco Chronicle that her mother had been suffering from pneumonia and passed away at her home in El Dorado Hills on Monday.

...as a result of the earthquake.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[fhayek]

1906 Quake Survivor Dies at 107

Bush's fault

[VanDeKoik]

And likely she believed that the city should have stayed destroyed considering what it became 100 years later.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

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[Quick Shot]

My Grandfather was 6 years old in the S.F. train station for the earth quake. He said all he could remember was the fires and smoke. He was stuck there for days, but got out. He died at 87 in ‘87. Smoked 4 packs of cigarettes most of his addult life, so guess he got used to the smoke after a while. I am sure I never smoked because he was the messiest smoker that ever lived.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[fieldmarshaldj]

She lived long enough to see the city go from a Republican bastion to a Stalinist one. To go from the smoking ruins of 1906 to a city of pole smokers.