Theodore Sanchez was my Grandpa Don’s only brother (they had a lot of sisters). He and his wife died tragically of carbon dioxide poisoning in their home in San Mateo, CA in 1977. As far as I know, they didn’t have any children.
30 January 1977, The Times, San Mateo, CA
THEODORE SANCHEZ
BILLIE G. SANCHEZ
Double funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, for Theodore Sanchez, 66, and his wife, Billie G. Sanchez, 63, who perished of carbon monoxide gas in their air-tight South San Francisco home last Sunday.
The couple lived at 132 Drake St. for 17 years.
Sanchez was a native of Minnesota and a retired warehouseman, according to a spokesman for the San Bruno Funeral Home, where services will be conducted in San Bruno.
He is survived by a brother, Donald, of Centralia, Wash., five sisters, Leonarda Rindahl, Luella Keene, and Charlotte Runte, all of Seattle, Wash., and Geneva Hanson and Juanita Lorees, both of Minneapolis, Minn.
Mrs. Sanchez, a native of Alaska, is survived by her mother, Mrs. Jennie Murphy of Seattle.
Interment will be at Skylawn Memorial Park.
