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SAN FRANCISCO _ As the architect of California's Golden Era, former Gov. Edmund G. ``Pat'' Brown's political achievements were legion. But it was his high spirits, good humor and larger-than-life personality that were most on the minds of the family members who spoke here Wednesday at his funeral.
``He never, ever hesitated to laugh at himself,'' daughter Kathleen Brown, herself a recent gubernatorial candidate, told the nearly 1,000 family members, old friends and political supporters who gathered at St. Cecelia's Catholic Church. ``He was a man of pride but not of vanity.''
The elder Brown, who died Friday at age 90, had reason to be proud.
Born in San Francisco in 1905 and reared amid the rubble of the Great Earthquake of 1906, Brown never went to college but attended night law school ...