Beth Winegarner

Oct 26, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Beth Winegarner

Share Audrey Danser, owner of clothes-mending business Salvage Studio, can’t remember a time when she didn’t know how to sew. Danser’s mom taught her how to sew when she was very young, and she remembers playing with old clothes, cutting them up and turning them into something new. “It was a creative household,” she said recently, sitting at her sewing table in her sunny studio apartment a few blocks from Dolores Park.

Oct 26, 2024 | missionlocal.org | Beth Winegarner

Audrey Danser, owner of clothes-mending business Salvage Studio, can’t remember a time when she didn’t know how to sew. Danser’s mom taught her how to sew when she was very young, and she remembers playing with old clothes, cutting them up and turning them into something new. “It was a creative household,” she said recently, sitting at her sewing table in her sunny studio apartment a few blocks from Dolores Park.

Sep 26, 2024 | missionlocal.org | Beth Winegarner

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Apr 25, 2024 | missionlocal.org | Beth Winegarner

This is part two in a series on San Francisco’s unclaimed dead. You can read part one here. One evening in October 2014, a group visiting Lake Merced made an upsetting discovery: A dead body in an encampment in a ravine by the lake. They called the police, and the medical examiner’s office took custody of the body. Investigators struggled to determine the person’s identity.

Apr 23, 2024 | missionlocal.org | Beth Winegarner

This is part one of a two-part series. Read part two here. Dino Smith made his home in San Francisco for more than 30 years, living in apartments and single-room occupancy hotels in the Tenderloin and South of Market. When he died of sepsis in November 2020, he became one of the city’s unclaimed dead. Each year, hundreds of people die in San Francisco whose next of kin either can’t be located, or can’t afford the cost of funeral services.