California certificate of death of Emil Charles Pfeiffer, Los Angeles, 25 Nov 1934

The State of California standard certificate of death, typed, with the coroner’s part in hand. Read from the image by Claude, 11 Oct 2026.

• Place of death: Los Angeles, at 3715 Keystone Avenue, Palms. Residence: the same.
• Name: Emil Charles Pfeiffer. Male, “Cauc.”, married. Wife: Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer.
• Born May 2, 1865; age 69 years, 6 months, 23 days. Birthplace “Portsmith” [sic], New Hampshire.
• Occupation: “Advertising Mgr”, in a newspaper office. Last worked 11-1918 [?]; 15 years in this occupation.
• Father: Joseph S. Pfeiffer, born Bohemia. Mother: Genevieve Karche, born Bohemia.
• Length of residence: 6 years in the city; 29 years in California.
• Informant: signed “Frances H. Pfeiffer,” 3715 Keystone Ave., Palms.
• Disposal: cremation, Los Angeles Crematory, 28 Nov 1934. Funeral director Francis V. Hall [?] & Son, Ltd., 1607 So. Flower St. [?]
• Coroner’s certificate: after an autopsy, death from “Hemorrhage from Chronic Duodenal Ulcer.” Signed Frank R. Webb [?], M.D., autopsy surgeon, Coroner’s Office, L.A.; Frank A. Nance, coroner, by a deputy.
• Filed Nov. 26, 1934.

The Harvard class bulletin of 1935 gives his death as 3 Dec 1934 (reports-harvard-class-1889-pfeiffer); the certificate, filed the next day, is the record of the date. The bulletin also says he was an invalid in his last years, “resulting from paralysis.” His gravestone at Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, reads 1865-1935 (findagrave-emil-pfeiffer).