Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Obituaries for 1924

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Gobbi Paul 240626 p1, 19240626-p1b
Young Man is River Victim; Third Fatality of Season in San Joaquin Is Recorded Sunday Morning Providing the San
Joaquin with a third victim in a season scarcely started, Paul Gobbi, 24-year old newcomer to the Colony, was drowned
Sunday morning in a slough just off the main river a little over half a mile below the Crows Landing bridge. Gobbi was
not a swimmer.  He went to the river with two other young Swiss and watched them awhile, then decided to wade in
himself.  They say he waded out to where the water was three to four feet and then unexpectedly stepped off a shelf into
twenty feet of water.  Utterly unable to help himself, he went down, and the two watchers neither good swimmers and
much smaller men than Gobbi who was a powerful man, were unable to give any aid.
Body Recovered;  The accident occurred about 10 o'clock Sunday morning and the alarm was immediately sounded and
searchers went from town under the direction of Deputy Coroner J. H. Evans.  The hunt was not successful until Walter
Davis arrived from Newman with special hooks, however, which brought the body up about two-thirty. The remains were
brought to Davis undertaking parlors at Newman.  Funeral services were held at the Newman Catholic church yesterday,
at 10 and with interment at the Newman cemetery. Paul was an advance representative of his family, which recently
purchased the 80-acre ranch of Cascaret. Bros on Pomegranate east of Sycamore, together with 100 head of dairy stock,
and upon completion of a dwelling now under way, the family plans to remove here from Duncan Mills, Sonoma county.
The deceased had arrived here Saturday and was engaged in work on the ranch Sunday when the events transpired that
led to his death.