Leonia Van Arsdale obituary, 1918
from the New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918 Word comes to his family in Lanoka of the death in San Francisco on Aug 10 of Leonia Hortance, wife of William P. VanArsdale. Mrs. Van Arsdale was the daughter of the late Hubert LeHousse, a native of Belgium, her mother, Mrs. Leonie LeHousse being still living. She was the mother of Ines, Mabel and the late Leon VanArsdale. Funeral services were held at Notre Dame des Victories Church, where requieum high mass was celebrated; burial at the Holy Cross cemetery. William VanArsdale was the son of a well known Lanoka family, and as he grew up went first to New York, where he was employed for several years, and then in November 1881 to San Francisco, CA where he went into business for himself. The big San Francisco earthquake in 1906 destroyed both his home and his business place on Market street. He had for years been collecting rare manuscripts and rare books, and they wre also all destroyed by the fire that followed the earthquake, along with al...