Lake County Obituaries

Kate McVickers

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The Clear Lake Observer, Lower Lake, CA, February 2, 1938

KATE McVICKERS, NATIVE DAUGHTER, BURIED MONDAY. 
Lower Lake.—Forty-eight hours after she had undergone an operation by which it 
was hoped her life might be prolonged, Mrs. Kate McVickers, native daughter of 
Lake County, passed away early Friday evening at Polytechnic Hospital, in San 
Francisco. Funeral rites were held Monday afternoon at the Lower Lake Community 
church, with interment in Odd Fellows cemetery. 
Daughter of a pioneer who operated an early day flour mill at Lower Lake, Mrs. 
McVickers, mother of Fred Luebow, had passed most of her life in this county. 
Born in Lakeport sixty-nine years ago she had lived there, then on Cobb 
Mountain, later in Lower Lake, and for a time, in St. Helena. Throughout the 
county she was well known and leaves a host of friends startled by the 
suddenness of her passing. 
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Young, early day settlers. Not long after 
her birth at Lakeport, the parents acquired the Pine Grove property on Cobb 
mountain, now owned and operated by the Herb Egans who purchased the 640 acre 
site from Mrs. Young about a dozen years ago and just prior to her death. 
It was while the family lived on Cobb mountain that Mr. Young operated a flour 
mill on the old Link property in Lower Lake and it was here that Kate Young met 
the father of Fred Luebow, who had come from the east on a visit and remained to 
work at the flourishing brewery then operated by Link. 
The wedding was a double ceremony, for Minnie Young, a sister, was wed at the 
same time to Ed Kinney. 
Shortly after the birth of their two children, Fred and Marie, the Luebows moved 
to St. Helena and in 1913 Mr. Luebow passed. Two years later the widow was 
married to Frank Farnham, who died in 1917. Going to Placerville, to care for 
her aged mother, Mrs. Farnham there met Mr. McVickers to whom she was married, 
and who, also, passed away about three years ago. 
Surviving relatives are the two children by her first marriage, five 
grandchildren and six brothers and sisters: Henry Young, Napa; Asa Young, El 
Dorado county; Walter Young, Tonopah, Nevada; Ella Young, Tonopah; and Mrs. 
Minnie Clendenon and Mrs. Margaret Campbell, Laytonville. >dd?Mrs. McVickers had 
been seriously ill for several months but had regained sufficient strength so 
that it was thought she could withstand an operation to lengthen her life span. 
Taken to San Francisco by Dr. L. J. Calahan she was operated on a week ago 
today, rallied and then on Friday, sank rapidly. The final rites were conducted 
by Mrs. Henry James, of Community Church. 
Mrs. Howard Glandon sang. Pall bearers were Frank Mahon, Frank Barnes, Tom 
Smith, Ellis Morrell, Clarence Corum and W. C. Freeman.