1939 �" 2014
Cliff McDaniel, a resident of San Francisco, succumbed to cancer February 23, 2014. Born in Los Angeles, Cliff came to the Bay Area in the early 1970s and soon had many friends in San Francisco and the East Bay. He had a quick wit and always had everyone around him laughing. He particularly enjoyed the ambiance of the bars in the Castro. After moving to the Bay Area he went to work for Amtrak, holding a variety of positions in San Francisco and Oakland. As an Amtrak supervisor of on-board services, he tried to instill a sense of service to customers such as he had experienced as a young man riding the streamliners of that era �" in particular the service on the Union Pacific Railroad. After retirement, Cliff continued to work on the rails aboard private cars and special trains. In his last days he was comforted and assisted by his good friends Chris Pagni, Edgar Benhard, Bill Kluver, and Bob Andrade.