14 Aug 1892 – 27 Nov 1960
Husband of Irene Ricks Bastow
Heart Attack Kills Former Port Official
Joseph G. Bastow, 68, who retired in 1959 after 33 years with the Port of Oakland, died yesterday of a heart attack. Mr. Bastow, of 17 Dulwich Road, left the port as assistant executive director. He had joined it as a structural designer the third employee to be hired.
Prior to taking a job with the port, Mr. Bastow served four years as a missionary in the Samoan Islands before World War I and during the first war was a combat pilot with the Army’s famed First Aero Squadron.
MASTER’S DEGREE
Mr. Bastow studied at Utah State College and earned his master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of California. He had also worked for a steel company, a water company and an oil company before joining the port.
He was given a civic banquet when he retired in September 1960.
THREE SONS
Mr. Bastow is survived by his wife, Irene; three sons, Comdr. Joseph Bastow Jr., of the U.S. Coast Guard in Seattle; Wendell R. and Paul G.; both of Los Altos, and seven granddaughters. He also has brothers and a sister in Utah.
Services are pending at the Robinson Brothers Mortuary, 1901 Fruitvale Ave., and the Oakland Church of the Latter-Day Saints, 4780 Lincoln Ave.
-Published in the Oakland Tribune, Monday, November 28, 1960, Page E 9
Golden Gate National Cemetery, Bruno, San Mateo County, California
