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Galligher Robert J 980210 p3
Robert J. Galligher, 70;  Burial at sea is pending for Robert Joseph Galligher, 70, who died Feb. 1 of a rare form of
cancer.  A native of Lima, Ohio, he came to California at an early age and settled with his family in Randsburg, a tiny
town in the heart of the Mojave Desert.  It was there that he began a lifelong love of California's wilderness and wildlife.
He was a true outdoorsman, practicing and advocating respect, reverence and preservation for all things wild and free.
He was a hunter, not a sportsman, of a wide variety of wild fowl and game.  As a true hunter, he had a deep love of his
quarry and worked to preserve the habitat in which it thrived.  In his later years he often traveled the Pacific flyway with
camera and telescope mounted to his pickup, following the flight south of Arctic Snow geese and duck.  He also was a
fisherman whose first love was fly-fishing in High Sierra streams, but who also enjoyed lake, surf and deep sea fishing.
During his lifetime he was a member of the Old Fisherman's Club of Stanislaus County, the Stanislaus County Fly
Fisherman's Club, Ducks Unlimited, the Sierra Club, The Audubon Society, and the Nature Conservancy.  He also
supported the efforts of many California wildlife refuges.  During World War II he served as a seaman aboard the U.S.S.
Arthur Middleton and also served tours of duty in the U.S. Coast Guard and the merchant marine at the close of the war.
He worked as a manager for Safeway Stones, Inc. for 30 years, both in San Francisco and the Central Valley.  He then
worked for six years in parks maintenance at the Manteca Municipal Golf Course.  He then lived in retirement in Crows
Landing the past 15 years.  Survivors include his wife, Shirley Warner Galligher of Crows Landing; daughters Patricia
Galligher Breen of Oakdale and Judith McElhaney of Modesto; two granddaughters; a brother, Patrick Galligher of Don
Pedro; and three sisters, Janet McMillen of Desert Hot Springs, Rosemary Stolz of Las Vegas, and Juanita Galligher of
Bakersfield.  Remembrances should be made to The Nature Conservancy, California Regional Office, 201 Mission St.,
4th Floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94105.