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Los Gatos Weekly-Times file photograph
Kenneth Peake's Guernsey cows were pampered and loved.
Kenneth Peake
Former Claravale Dairy owner dies at 91
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Ken Peake, 91, died Thursday of natural causes in his small white farmhouse at the Claravale Dairy. Peake founded the farm in 1931, when he moved his herd out to Monte Sereno from Campbell. And after that, it didn't change a whole lot. When he sold the dairy last year, it was the only dairy left in Northern California that sold unpasteurized milk directly to customers. Peake stubbornly held on to the farm for all those decades while all the valley's farms were subdivided and conquered, and never changed the way he ran the place. He woke up every morning before dawn and milked the cows by hand. Then he put the bottles in his green '69 Chevy pickup and delivered them to his customers. It was more or less the same way he started in 1927 on his mother's farm in Campbell with his first cow.
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