Mariposa Gazette, 6 apr 1923:
DEATH SUMMONS MERCED PIONEER AT OAKLAND HOME
Funeral services fo G. GARIBALDI, well-known property owner and pioneer of the San Joaquin valley, who passed away at his home in Oakland Friday afternoon, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 from the family home on Twenty-first and L streets. The services will be under the direction of the Yosemite Lodge No. 99, F. & A.M. of which the deceased was a member. Internment will be in the family vault in the Catholic cemetery.
Mr. GARIBALDI was 79 years old and had been ill since last November. Three of his daughters were at his bedside at the time of his death.
G. GARIBALDI was born in Italy in 1844 and came to th eUnited States in 1858, opening a store in the Colorado district. Later in 1872 he came to Merced, where he entered into partnership with Andrew OLCESE and together they operated the grocery store of Olcese and Garibaldi until 1901. At that time Mr. GARIBALDI moved to Oakland, maintaining, however, his home in Merced. For fifteen years he was in the importing business in the bay city in the firm of Granucci, Levaggi & Garibaldi.
Mr. GARIBALDI was a prominent figure in the early days of the San Joaqquin valley. With his partner, Mr. OLCESE, he built one of the main business buildings in Merced at the corner of Seventeenth and L streets, known as the O. & G. building. A business block in Fresno bears the same name and was erected and owned, as numerous other property in the district, by the deceased. During the pioneer days of this city he was a member of the first city board and of the Eureka Hose Company.
Deceased, in addition to his widow, is survivied by eight living children, one daughter, Lida, having died some four years ago. His sons are: John, Frank and James, tax collector of Merced county, and five daughters, Misses Mary, Jane, and Stella GARIBALDI and Mrs. M. J. DUNCAN of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Kathryn SCHULTZ.
The remains will arrive in Merced today at 1:15 and will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. J. B. OLCESE of Bakersfield. Mrs. GARIBALDI and her daughter.-Merced Star, Apr. 1.