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Dedication ceremony for Mill Valley City Hall, August 1, 1936
Mill Valley City Hall Dedication Ceremony, August 1, 1936       


The Mill Valley Oral History Committee has been documenting the memories of Mill Valley residents since the early 1970's. Over one hundred oral histories are available at the Mill Valley Public Library. You may check out the transcripts of the interviews and listen to the tapes in the Lucretia Hanson Little History Room.

If you would like to be interviewed for an oral history, or would like to help us collect them, please e-mail oral-histories@millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org. Those interested in conducting an interview should view the documents listed below.

Below is a list of the people who have contributed their thoughts and memories to help document our town's past. Click on an underlined name to view an excerpt of that person's oral history or to see all our online excerpts, visit our Oral Histories Narratives page.

  • Abrams, Rita
  • Allen, Ida
  • Anderson, Ellis
  • Andre, Marion Klyce
  • Angel, Jane Merriman
  • Bagshaw, Albert
  • Bagshaw, Thomas Frederick
  • Baldwin, Florence Lind
  • Balmer, Bert
  • Barber, Roger
  • Barkan, Fritz
  • Barnard, Jean
  • Behrens, Edna
  • Bickerstaff, Thomas A.
  • Bingham, Chrysta
  • Bjornstrom, Cora Burt
  • Bostwick, Helen
  • Boussy, Henri
  • Bowie, Ruth White
  • Brainerd, Lawson
  • Brindley, Jeanne
  • Brindley, Peter
  • Budds, Carol
  • Bullard, Esther
  • Burnham, Louise Scheffauer
  • Burt, Cora++
  • Burt, Elinor
  • Byrne, Clarissa
  • Canepa, Frank
  • Cavalli, Alice
  • Chestnut, Helen
  • Clinton, Helen
  • Close, William Henry (Harry)
  • Clouette, Harry
  • Coan, Delphia
  • Coffin, Irene
  • Collins, Daniel A.
  • Connally, Nelda
  • Connally, Paul
  • Connelly, Karin Lundquist
  • Crawford, Chuck
  • Delaplane, Stanton
  • Dillon, Richard
  • Dittle, Frank
  • Douglas, Winona
  • Dowd, Margaret
  • Draper, Benjamin
  • Drexler, Fred
  • Dreyfus, Helen
  • Egger, E. Laurence (Larry)
  • Elder, Lyn
  • Evans, Nora
  • Fenton, Themla
  • Ferrario, Charles R.
  • Filippi, Bob
  • Filippi, Marie Moraes
  • Filippi, Walt
  • Finn, John III
  • Fleming, Patricia Johnson
  • Folker, Camille Weissich
  • Forbes, John
  • Foster, Edna
  • Foster, Gordon
  • Fowler, Carol Donnan
  • Gattini, Pearl Heckman
  • Geary, Ida
  • George, John
  • George, Virginia
  • Goddard, John
  • Goddard, Lorraine
  • Goheen, George
  • Gravander, Valborg (Mama)
  • Hallin, Edward
  • Hamilton, William A.
  • Hansen, John Theodore
  • Harker, David
  • Harris, Thomas H.
  • Hartman, Rodney B.
  • Hartwell, Ben
  • Hatch, Margaret
  • Jenkins, Eleanor (Dolly)
  • Kappelman, Rae Buttner
  • Karla, Constance
  • Kearney, Nello (Mrs. Philip)
  • Keiler, Jean Ward
  • Kellers, Elsie
  • Kliewe, Melanie
  • LaPlant, Helen Eloesser
  • Larkins, Shirley Dias
  • Lescohier, Ruth
  • Losh, William J.
  • Maguire, S. Edna
  • Mancha, Mildred Folker
  • Marcus, William
  • Marsh, George R.
  • Martin, Frederick LeRoy
  • Martin, Wheeler
  • McDonald, Archie
  • McLellan, Keith
  • McVae, Jeanne Marchisio
  • Menzies, Colin Jr.
  • Meyer, Hertha
  • Mielenz, Elizabeth Muller
  • Mills, Edward
  • Mills, Katherine
  • Mosher, Carl
  • Nunez, George
  • Oman, Don
  • Ortman, Norman C. (Bud)
  • O'Shaughnessy, Elizabeth
  • Park, Helen Van Cleave
  • Patterson, James Crosbie
  • Pimlott, George
  • Pooley, Edith M
  • Postel, Lloyd
  • Provines, William
  • Purser, Inez Sollem Mills
  • Reichmuth, Edward
  • Resek, Bella
  • Robinson, S.O.L.
  • Roseveaare, Lillian++
  • Ross, William
  • Sanborn, Margaret
  • Santos, George
  • Schneider, Bernice Mattos
  • Schneller, Sibyl
  • Schultz, Vera
  • Seitz, Marie Weissich
  • Seymour, Elliott
  • Seymour, Kent
  • Sherman, Cornelia Ripley
  • Sherman, Frederick Barreda
  • Smith, Girard E.
  • Snead, Thomas I.J.
  • Spalding, Virginia Stolte
  • Sterner, Ralph H.
  • Stocking, Gene
  • Stolte, Frank
  • Strong, Ray 1+2
  • Switzer, Charlotte Dowd
  • Taylor, Ruby M.
  • Terwilliger, Elizabeth
  • Terzich, Dan
  • Thomas, Dorothy
  • Thompson, Joseph S.
  • Thoney, Clinton L.
  • Thran, Bill
  • Totheroh, Dan
  • Uhrig, Jacob
  • Upham, Janet
  • Voigts, Jean Ramsey
  • Walsh, William
  • Wegscheider, Jean
  • Weir, Bob
  • Wellman, Grace Finn
  • White, Marjorie
  • Wilson, Joe
  • Wilson, Marie Brunini
  • Wilson, Ruth
  • Wood, George M.
  • Wyckoff, Lucy Marsh

Documents pertaining to the interview process include:



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Last updated: 8/19/10