Masters Family - Grover Willis Masters - Obituary - page 12

   THE FRESNO BEE, THE REPUBLICAN also carried an article on the death of Grover. This is the Monday evening edition, August 4, 1947.
   The article reads as follows:

 Power Firm Aide, Injured 

In Surf Swimming, Dies

   Grover W. Masters, 31, a switch operator for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company at the Balch powerhouse, died yesterday in a Santa Cruz hospital of a broken neck suffered while swimming in the surf there July 23rd.

   Masters was injured when he dove into a breaker and was struck by the succeeding wall of water. He was in Santa Cruz on a vacation with members of his family.

   A native of Minnesota, he had lived in Fresno since he was a boy. He was a graduate of the Roosevelt High School and served in the navy during World War II, being stationed most of the time in the Aleutian Islands. He was discharged as an aviation machinist mate third class.

   He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Emily V. Winch, 1438 North First Street; three sisters, Mrs. Deborah C.  Haar, Mrs Doris Olson and Miss Lola May Winch, all of Fresno; a brother, Myron E. Winch of Fresno, and his grandparents and other relatives in the East.

   Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Yost and Webb [?] Wednesday at 2 p.m.

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