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David Arthur “Mr. Rotary” Heagerty

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Birth	:	5 Jan 1928 Alameda, Alameda County, California, USA
Death	:	7 Jul 2016 Santa Clara County, California, USA
Burial	:	Gate Of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Los Altos, Santa Clara County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.3289030, -122.0802930
Plot	:	Veterans Section, Row 10, Grave 619
Description	:	David Arthur Heagerty January 5, 1928 – July 7, 2016 Resident of Cupertino "Mr. Rotary" Dave passed away Thursday, July 7, 2016 of natural causes. He was eighty-eight years old. Born January 5, 1928 to Edina Caroline (Kaas) Heagerty and David Henry Heagerty at Alameda General Hospital, Alameda, CA, he was raised in nearby Oakland, CA., a city he called home for thirty years. Dave was preceded in death by his grandparents —David Michael and Kathryn Gillick Heagerty and George Arthur and Edith Jones Kaas — his parents, uncles, aunts, several cousins, and his grandson, Jordan Harris. Read More	David Arthur Heagerty January 5, 1928 – July 7, 2016 Resident of Cupertino "Mr. Rotary" Dave passed away Thursday, July 7, 2016 of natural causes. He was eighty-eight years old. Born January 5, 1928 to Edina Caroline (Kaas) Heagerty and David Henry Heagerty at Alameda General Hospital, Alameda, CA, he was raised in nearby Oakland, CA., a city he called home for thirty years. Dave was preceded in death by his grandparents —David Michael and Kathryn Gillick Heagerty and George Arthur and Edith Jones Kaas — his parents, uncles, aunts, several cousins, and his grandson, Jordan Harris. Dave is survived by his siste, brother, his wife of sixty-two years, and five children; thirteen grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; numerous cousins, nephews and nieces. Growing up during the 1930's, Dave's childhood was marked by successfully overcoming non-paralytic polio in 1937, lots of Post-Enquirer baseball, and fond memories of fishing with his cousin George Coakley and his grandpa "Pa" Kaas on the shore of Oakland's Lake Merritt and its interconnected waterways. Cousin George, six months younger and his future 20-year business partner, remained Dave's life-long closest friend. Dave attended Oakland public schools, graduating from Castlemont High in June 1945, where he ran 880-yard dash and high hurdle distances as a member of the track and field team. Also, he edited the Castlemont's newsweekly, Ye Castle Crier. In 1944, in the second year of summer employment at the Bohemian Grove, Monte Rio, CA, Dave joined a team that dove, trolled and recovered Metropolitan Opera and Broadway star John Charles Thomas' wristwatch from the depths of the Russian River. The dramatic and successful retrieval of the famed baritone's watch caught the attention of legendary columnist Herb Caen, and appeared as a prominent item in Caen's best read, "It's News to Me," daily column in the San Francisco Chronicle. After graduating early, at the close of World War II, Dave trained with the San Francisco Junior College football team during the summer of '45. On September 2, 1945, Dave entered service to his country. It was the same day Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers General Douglas MacArthur formally accepted terms of unconditional surrender from officials of the Empire of Japan on the deck of the battleship USS. Missouri, anchored on Tokyo Bay. Dave was sent immediately to the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, to begin his college studies. Following successful studies during two quarters at Utah, Dave was assigned to Ft. McClellan, AL, for basic training and regular army duties. En route to Alabama, in April 1946, Dave survived a massive train wreck. As a member of the Army's 23rd Infantry Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Division, Dave later moved to Ft. Lewis, WA, where he was domiciled until his honorable discharge as Private First Class, in April 1947. Transferring credits earned at Utah, Dave enrolled immediately at San Jose State College, taking a heavy course load and graduating early, in March 1950, with a BA in Journalism. At State, while perfecting his journalism skills, Dave made an early, eloquent and audacious statement on behalf of gender equality, becoming the first and to that time only male Society Editor of the Spartan Daily newspaper. Active in the Delta Upsilon fraternity, where he lived on campus, he served for a term as its chapter president. This was a fruitful time for Dave, as he joined several community groups, helped develop campus events, notably Sparti Gras, and various intramural sports activities. In 1957, Dave served as president of the SJSC Alumni Association during the college's centennial year. Upon the unexpected death of his great-uncle Charlie Kaas — his grandfather's brother and business partner — Dave took a position with Kaas Quality Papers, a sales agency in San Francisco representing East Coast-based paper mills. This move coincided with his graduation from SJSC. Dave was employed at KQP for the next five years. Continuing his sports management activities, Dave began organizing semi-professional club football teams and leagues. He served as its business manager and played for the Castlemont Athletic Club for six seasons. The "AC" dazzled early- '50s football-passionate audiences at Castlemont High Field in Oakland, several locations in Alameda, and finally, in 1952, at the Pacific Coast League Oakland Oaks' Ball Park in Emeryville. At the same time, classic match-making intervention by two former classmates, from his teenage years at Castlemont High, Will & Clarisse Tiesiera, Dave was introduced to the future Mrs. Heagerty, Evelyn Ann Pestoni, from St. Helena, CA. Their first blind date was at Playland at the Beach in San Francisco. In November 1953, Dave married his wife, who had been the team volunteer nurse for one of his teams, the Oakland Owls. The newlyweds lived in various locations in Oakland, including initially at family-owned Mae Apartments. Dave joined West Virginia Pulp & Paper (later Westvaco) in January 1955. Dave was promoted to manage the WVP&P office in Pittsburgh, PA, in early 1958. While still in Oakland, the family added two children to the Heagerty household. In October 1958, the Heagerty family of four was blessed with their only non-native Californian arrived shortly after the family settled in Pittsburgh. In 1961, the family moved to suburban Winnetka, IL, after Dave was assigned to co-manage the company's Chicago office. Dave stayed with WVP&P until 1962. These were productive years for Dave. In mid-1962, a cousin offered Dave a partnership in the fledging G. Coakley & Co. advertising and PR firm, which had opened the prior year and was growing rapidly in burgeoning San Jose. Originally formed to handle the then new and very fashionable Town & Country Village Shopping Center account (present site of Santana Row), the newly renamed Coakley Heagerty quickly became a force in retail marketing throughout the region. Remembered today by many for its shrewd public relations that brought the world the iconic "Pet Rock," 1975-76, which Time Magazine called "the Marketing Phenomenon of the 1970s," Coakley Heagerty emerged under Dave's talented efforts to become an innovator for new home advertising/PR and savvy, successful political campaigns. Those campaigns and much more did their part to help transform sleepy San Jose into the dynamic 10th largest city in the U.S. it is today. The move back to California by the Heagertys was productive at home as well with the births of a so and a daughter. Dave's political prowess, which began with the first election in 1966 of legendary California state legislator John Vasconcellos, now deceased, scored 40 "wins" out of 50 campaigns waged during the last one-third of the twentieth century. Included among the successes were the Bay Area radio promotion on behalf of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy during the political presidential primary of 1968, s series of state legislature campaigns for former appellate court jurist and Mayor of Saratoga Jerry Smith, and on behalf of numerous other candidates, municipal contests and local measure referenda. Coakley Heagerty's marketing efforts on behalf of many of California's most innovative and successful builder-developers are credited today by the industry to have helped sell more homes in Northern California than by any other ad/PR firm. This was attributed, in part, to the fact that Coakley Heagerty literally outlasted every other ad/PR firm in Silicon Valley. In an industry known for its meteoric rises and falls of short duration, CH broke all local records for its longevity (54 years of continuous operation). Although Dave spent three years considering options for his future business life early in the 1970s, even opening The Dave Heagerty Companies, Dave remained an integral part of the Coakley Heagerty he joined in 1962, until he retired in 2006. Formerly residents of Saratoga for 31 years and later San Jose for 13 years, Dave and his wife moved to The Forum at Rancho San Antonio, Cupertino, in March 2008. Service Above Self, the motto of Rotary International, was Dave personified. Drawing on his many philanthropic and community-based interests, Dave was an active Rotarian with 40 years' perfect attendance. He served as president of his 400+ member Downtown San Jose Club, 1982-83. Ten years later, 1992-93, Dave became Rotary District Governor, overseeing fifty-five (55) Northern California-based Rotary clubs with over 4,000 members. Serving on many national and international committees, Dave attended 17 annual Rotary International conventions throughout the world. Among his proudest possessions, Dave loved wearing his "Red Coat" at special Rotary functions. He had been awarded a Red Coat by then Rotary International President Cliff Dockterman for exemplifying the true mission of Rotary in serving people's needs worldwide. As a polio survivor, Dave was particularly active in Rotary health-related activities, including the Rotary-led coordinated effort to eradicate the poliomyelitis virus from humanity worldwide. Reiterating what many observed over the years, County Assessor Larry Stone, a long-time Rotarian himself, called Dave, "Mr. Rotary of San Jose." Dave served as board member of Silicon Valley Faces (formerly National Conference of Christians and Jews), Bay Area High School Sports Alumni Association, Easter Seal Society, Muscular Dystrophy, Rotacare, Castlemont Athletic Club, Big Knife & Fork, and Aptos Owls. His affection for classic movies and the music of bandleader Glenn Miller were things he enjoyed in his downtime. However, in Dave Heagerty style there was never really downtime. He spent countless hours perfecting his Glenn Miller collection during the 80's and 90's and hosted a radio show honoring Glenn Miller, interviewing former band members and playing his favorites on KLIV during this time as well. Burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 22555 Cristo Rey Dr, Los Altos, CA. Full Obituary at Darling & Fischer Garden Chapel http://www.darlingandfischergardenchapel.com/

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Latitude: 37.3289030
Longitude: -122.0802930

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