Duncan Shaw, 90; Former President of L.A. Police and Utilities Commissions
Duncan Shaw, former president of both the Los Angeles Police Commission and the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, is dead at age 90.
Shaw, a retired economic adviser and supermarket executive, died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital.
A Marine Corps veteran of both world wars, Shaw came to Los Angeles in 1927 and retired as vice president and treasurer of the Market Basket Food Stores in 1964. He had lived in Hancock Park since 1929.
After retirement he served the city nearly 20 years, beginning with his appointment by Mayor Fletcher Bowron to the power board in 1947. He was president of that board from 1950 to 1953. In 1958 Mayor Norris Poulson appointed Shaw to the Police Commission and he became head of that board, serving until 1961.
In 1954 Shaw founded the Devil Pups Inc., an organization that each year sends underprivileged boys aged 14 to 17 to summer camp at Camp Pendleton.
A widower, Shaw is survived by his son, Duncan Jr.; a daughter, Joan Shaw Budinger; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held Monday at 11:30 at Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale.
The family asks contributions to Devil Pups Inc. Youth Fund, c/o C. F. Forbes, One Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2000, Los Angeles, 90017.
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