This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Casias, Sanchez, Sanchez-Holton, Valdez, Williams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hY.2ADE/157 Message Board Post: Monday, Aug. 31, 1998 The Daily News, Obituaries: "PAULINE CASIAS SANCHEZ, 79, RETIRED SALES SUPERVISOR" Pauline Casias Sanchez of Mountain View, whose ancestors arrived in the West in the late 1860's , has died. She was 79. Sanchez died Friday at Stanford Hospital after suffering a stroke. A native of Chama Valley, Colo., Sanchez was the granddaughter of Don Jose Ramon Martinez VALDEZ, who came west in the 1860s. She graduated from St. Mary's School in Walsenburg, Colo. and later attended college in Lawrence, Kan. before marrying Aloysius SANCHEZ, a court clerk in Colorado in 1938. The family grew to include two daughters by the time they moved to San Francisco in 1951. The family moved to Menlo Park in 1957 with the opening of the Emporium Store at Stanford, where Aloysius ["Al"] Sanchez worked in security. She was a sales supervisor with DuPont before retiring in 1972. Sanchez was an accomplished painter, potter and she was an avid reader. A member of the Mid-Peninsula Widow and Widowers Association, Sanchez also volunteered with the California Association for the Retarded. It was at the widow's group where Sanchez met Audley WILLIAMS, who became a companion and traveling partner. She is survived by daughter Kathleen Sanchez-HOLTON, five grandchildren, one great-granddaughter and a great great-granddaughter. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Roller & Hapgood & Tinney at 980 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. Interment will be at Alta Mesa Cemetery.