Dr. Charles Crocker

From the San Mateo Times of Tuesday, March 14, 1961:

Dr. Crocker dies in N.Y.

Dr. Charles Crocker, 57, a member of California's banking and railroad family, died yesterday in New York City of pneumonia. Dr. Crocker was the brother of Hillsborough resident William W. Crocker, San Francisco board chairman of Crocker-Anglo National Bank.

Dr. Crocker's grandfather, Charles Crocker, was one of the railroad's "Big Four" of California history and also founded the bank which bore his name.

Born in San Francisco in 1904. Dr. Crocker attended St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire, and was graduated from Yale in 1926. He received a degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 10 years later, and then studied medicine at the University of Vienna. Dr. Crocker was an executive secretary of the Pan American Medical Association.

His first marriage to Virginia Bennett of Denver ended in divorced in 1936, and he married his current wife, the former Margaret "Peggy" Brokaw, two years later.

He is survived by:

• his wife
• two daughters
  • Mrs. Marianne Elrick of Caracas, Venezuela, and
  • Miss Suzanne Crocker of New York
• two sisters
  • Mrs. Henry Potter Russell of San Francisco, and
  • Mrs. Andre de Limur of Washington, D.C.
• and a brother, William W. Crocker, of Hillsborough.

Inurnment will be in New York City, with private services to be held later in California.