A memorial service for Claire Giannini Hoffman, daughter of Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini, has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Matthew's Catholic Church in San Mateo.
Mrs. Hoffman died December 20 at the age of 92 at the Giannini family home in San Mateo, the city where she was born the year her father founded the Bank of Italy, which became the Bank of America in 1930.
The memorial service will honor the life of a woman who was steadfast in her commitment to honor her father's legacy of "banking for the people," and who was herself a significant figure in international banking and business circles.
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She was the first woman to sit on Bank of America's board of directors, as well as Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s board, and she was appointed to senior-level financial and banking-related positions by several U.S. presidents during the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
St. Matthew's Catholic Church is at El Camino Real and Ninth Avenue.
