Dura C. Northway

   Cause of his death was Heart failure.

  General Notes:

www.ancestry.com - CA birth indexName: Dura C Northway - Birth Date: 26 Aug 1909 Gender: Male Mother's Maiden Name: Straw Birth County: San Diego
CA death index - Name: Dura C Northway - Gender: Male Birth Date: 26 Aug 1909 Birth Place: California Death Date: 21 Nov 1992 Death Place: San Diego Mother's Maiden Name: Straw

San Diego City directory 1937 - Dura C. Northway and Lelia

1976 - lived in Ramona, CA

San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Tuesday, November 24, 1992
Deceased Name: Dura C. Northway, 83; built Dudley's Bakery
Dura C. Northway, the man who built Dudley's Bakery in Santa Ysabel and talked small-time baker Dudley Pratt into closing his El Cajon shop and moving north nearly three decades ago, died Saturday of heart failure at his Ramona home. He was 83.
Mr. Northway was born in San Diego and left the county only once in his lifetime, for two years to attend college in Northern California. During his high school years, he was excused from classes to practice with the San Diego Symphony.
He played the clarinet with the symphony until he left for college in the 1920s.
When he returned, his first job was working behind a desk at the state Department of Weights and Measures.
In 1944, less than a decade later, he traded in his scales, pencil and paper for two mom-and-pop grocery stores in El Cajon. That's when he met Dudley Pratt and fell in love with his homemade breads. In 1957, Old Highway 8 crossed his land, and Mr. Northway and his wife, Floy, were forced to sell their property. The couple moved to a cattle ranch in Mesa Grande, west of Julian.
By day, Mr. Northway fixed machinery and mended fences. When the sun went down, he took his clarinet to town and played with bands, including the Charlie Clark Dance Band at the original Tent City in Coronado. Mr. Northway had played in bands since he was 14. "His passion was music," said his wife. "In fact, the day before he died he was playing his clarinet for a social function in Ramona." He built Dudley's Bakery in 1963 and friends thought he was crazy. Who, they asked, would come so far out of their way for bread? The answer, over the next decades, was hundreds of thousands of people.
Mr. Northway sold his ranch in 1976 and moved to Ramona. He gave up ranching but continued to play both the clarinet and organ for numerous organizations, including the Elks Lodges in El Cajon and Poway.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Northway is survived by two daughters, Carla Swanson and Maurjo Reser, both of San Diego; and four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bonham Brothers and Lee Chapel in Ramona. Entombment will follow in Greenwood Memorial Park. The family suggested contributions to the Elks Lodge in Poway for its building fund.

Dura married Floy D. Hacker. (Floy D. Hacker was born on 17 Jul 1919 in Kansas and died on 8 Jun 2009 in Borrego Springs, San Diego County, California.)