I am so proud of my Missionary heritage and work by and doing the same work today as my Great Grand Uncle/Father did in San Francisco, Sausalito and Bay Area As a young missionary to the Finnish sailors and other sailors and he had the Lutheran Church financing him and I have been financing myself as a missionary too Sausalito, write too the New Covenant Evangelistic Association Inc. P.O. Box 2404 San Anselmo Ca. 94979, for tax exempt support to keep the missionary work going that my Great Uncle/Father who sat were I sit in1990 and ministering to the waterfront people and anchorouts and sailors like I do today, is a family tradition and while he waiting For the Ferryboat too San Francisco like I do today talking to sailors and waterfront people and anchorouts like I do todaand then he founded the Finnish Seamens Mission in San Francisco, serving the whole San Francisco Bay Area and it's most famous Anchorage in Sausalito and his Mission developed into Gethsemene Lutheran Church and then merged with a Danish Lutheran Church and is now called Saint Francis Church on Church Street off of Van Ness Boulevard in the now called Tenderlion District of which used to be called Finn Town for all the Finnish people that lived there and eventually became known as the Gay District, after all of the Gays that moved into the Community of Saunas and Bath Houses that the Finniah left of which were closed down by the Health Director after the Aids epidemic outbreak which started there. I ironically I married a prominant Sea Sea Captain's daughter and Marin County Supervisor and Chairmen of the Vallejo Maritime Acadamy in California and was Sienot member of the then called the State Harbors and Navigation Board and appointed first by Governor Pat Brown and the reappointed by Governor Ronald Reagan and failed to get reappointed by Governor Jerry Browm in spite of the fact that his father former Governor Pat Brown wrote a letter to him asking that he be reappointed and saying, that he was the best appointment he ever made. He also had General Eisenhower Supreme Head of the Allies at his Captains Table on his ship in the Mediteranian and also General Patton and said the Eisenhower was a quite and gentile man and Patton was as usual, himself in so many words. He s
also said that a bomb hit his ship while in the mediteranian and that he had to pull his gun out and threatened to shoot anyone trying to abandone ship and get into a lifeboat, on another occation while he was Merchent Marine Captian of apparently a Libery Ship, possiblyvbuilt in Sausalito ?! He said that he rescued two thousand Canadian troops in the Mediterranean after thier ship was hit by a German bomb and was awarded the Silver Cross for his rescue, but said that in the confustion of the war, that he never recieved the metal.mental. My missionary ancestor recieved a metal from the Czar of Russian, when Finland was sf till under Russian control or part of Russia, for his worldwide missionary activities, as head of Finlands Missionary Society. I talked to the last in the of the Czars, who lives in Marin County, Prince Andrew Romanov and shared that with him and his son is named Prince Peter Romanov. Going back to my late Father in law he owned more property on land and even on the water here in Sausalito then one could imagine. House in rental house in Santa Rosa California, the first house he ever built, in Albany iin East Bay, where my wife was born and cofounded the the Locaters real estate business in Richmond also in East Bay and went into partnership with State Senator William Bagley into buying apparently all the land behind the Rod and Gun Club in Marin County and parceled it out and made a fortune and bought at beautiful and scenic dairy ranch in Bolins, which is now part of of the Golden Gate National Seashore Recreation Area and the Victorian looking small two story white boarded up ranch house is now being used officially as a bat sanctuary or declared to be and my future wife attended a one rom school house in Bolinas and is still there. She told me a story how a bully took everyones straws and drank through them and it reminded me of my late father in law might have have have been as a child when she told me this story I laughed out loud in my heart and when his former ranch, house becoming a bat sanctuary it was hilarious in my mind and just imagining all the bat poop that went down in the attic and or upstairs and his cowpond became a local clothing optional swimming hole.Then with the compensation fro. the Federal Goverment, for his land, he apparently used it to buy the S Bar S Ranch and also known, as the Lost Spring Ranch in Lake County California near Kelseyville and that ranch had an historical Stagecouch Inn on it saa nd being used by a Rancher tenant named Babe and meet him in Church one day in the area and somewhere along the way I heard, or it sounded like he got a raw deal along the way and had to move on, and I know the feeling especially after my divorce and all. The ranch was around twelve hundred acres and one of the most beautiful, in California and situated next to an extinct volcano in a valley that reminded me of a dramatic movie setting and he even had an Atari looking four wheel drive on the ranch that either he owned to drive around or his Rancher, who lived in the stagecoach Inn. There were a number of Native American historical site on a survey map of the ranch and all I could find, were the tailings of flint mining activities, on the surface of the places I looked. There were boulders of flint, Beverlseen so much, in my life and apparently they transported traded or sold it all over the area, if not all over Northern California. Meanwhile at the ranch was also an older period ranch house with a heated swimming pool and Cabanas with showers for guests and he used it as a getaway and as a duck and deer hunting lodge and bringing all his friends, connections in business , politics and judges no doubt and even his car mechanic, every year totaling some thirty people for hunting parties. He even brought former Governor Pat Browns secretary once and some and a family of guests, were swimming naked in one of the ponds or in the pool and he sent out an agitated letter to family and friends, that no nudity allowed I public on his ranch or out in the open and Interesting enough that his forme ranch has a public swimming hole on it, that is clothing optional funny Karma.
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