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Resurrecting the dead: the ghosts of past Jewish San Franciscans

By Frances Dinkelspiel | November 4, 2014 | 3

Adolph Sutro, the former mayor of San Francisco, stood by his wife’s grave, a long slab of granite nestled on a slight incline near the top of the Home of Peace cemetery in Colma. Sutro then pointed to his name, chiseled on a step near his wife’s tomb, and explained that he really wasn’t buried…

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