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Richard Rondel Pfiffer
M, #28, b. 16 September 1894, d. 21 July 1966
Biography
Richard Rondel Pfiffer was born on 16 September 1890.1,2,3 He was born on 16 September 1894 in Nanuet, Rockland County, New York.4,5,6 He was born in September 1895 in New Jersey.7 He and Constance Marie Blatchley were married on 28 December 1933 in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada.
He died on 21 July 1966 at age 71 in Yuba County, California.1,8
He died on 21 July 1966 at age 71 in Yuba County, California.1,8 Richard Rondel Pfiffer served in the military in 1917 in Illinois. Pop
In Camptonville because the heavy winters might hinder attendance of the majority of children on the bus routes a whole month vacation was taken after Christmas. The first Christmas in Camptonville we four kids came down with scarlet fever! About three days into the siege when mother was at her wits end, "That Man" appeared at the door.
He had been living in North Bloomfield when he received a premonition that mother needed help. He didn't have a car at that time so he set out on foot from North Bloomfield, striking straight across the mountain ridges and valley streams to get there. I learned his name was Richard Rondel Pfiffer, and he introduced us to 'Graveyard Stew' with lots of garlic.
Mister Pfiffer stayed til the crisis was over, but while he was there he took care of all the things that mother could not. He then returned to North Bloomfield. I waited for the mail every day because he had promised me a BB gun when I was sick. It never came. Mother bought me one for my birthday one million years later.
By 1936, Mr Pfiffer had married mother and became "Pop". He was a veteran of WWI and a member of the 1st Aero Squadron at Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois. Pop used his veteran's bonus and bought the property on Jackson Street, as well as many building suplies from people in the surrounding countryside.
The old house on the property provided lots of salvage; lumber, windows, doors, sills and nails. I spent hours pulling and straightening nails and piling lumber, which was used for concrete forms, protective sheds for the new lumber, and hothouse frames using old window sashes. In them we started tomato plants and used them for the production of parsley. -- David C. Church He appeared in the census in 1940 in Camptonville, Yuba County, California.9 He had Social Security Number.5,3 He lived in Camptonville, Yuba County, California, on 5 March 1941.5 He served in the military in 1942 in Oakland, Alameda County, California. CA SGT US ARMY WW I – died Yuba Co.4,8,6
In Camptonville because the heavy winters might hinder attendance of the majority of children on the bus routes a whole month vacation was taken after Christmas. The first Christmas in Camptonville we four kids came down with scarlet fever! About three days into the siege when mother was at her wits end, "That Man" appeared at the door.
He had been living in North Bloomfield when he received a premonition that mother needed help. He didn't have a car at that time so he set out on foot from North Bloomfield, striking straight across the mountain ridges and valley streams to get there. I learned his name was Richard Rondel Pfiffer, and he introduced us to 'Graveyard Stew' with lots of garlic.
Mister Pfiffer stayed til the crisis was over, but while he was there he took care of all the things that mother could not. He then returned to North Bloomfield. I waited for the mail every day because he had promised me a BB gun when I was sick. It never came. Mother bought me one for my birthday one million years later.
By 1936, Mr Pfiffer had married mother and became "Pop". He was a veteran of WWI and a member of the 1st Aero Squadron at Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois. Pop used his veteran's bonus and bought the property on Jackson Street, as well as many building suplies from people in the surrounding countryside.
The old house on the property provided lots of salvage; lumber, windows, doors, sills and nails. I spent hours pulling and straightening nails and piling lumber, which was used for concrete forms, protective sheds for the new lumber, and hothouse frames using old window sashes. In them we started tomato plants and used them for the production of parsley. -- David C. Church He appeared in the census in 1940 in Camptonville, Yuba County, California.9 He had Social Security Number.5,3 He lived in Camptonville, Yuba County, California, on 5 March 1941.5 He served in the military in 1942 in Oakland, Alameda County, California. CA SGT US ARMY WW I – died Yuba Co.4,8,6
Citations
- [S2444] CA Vital Records Deaths recorded as Extract #3034 California Death Records, online www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as Ca Deaths.
- [S9370] CamptonvilleYUBCA Cemetery recorded as Extract #10806 Camptonville Cemetery, online http://www.yubaroots.com/cemetery/camtonvl.htm. Hereinafter cited as Camptonville Cemetery.
- [S5622] US SSDI recorded as Extract #7883 Everton Publishers, online http://rro.everton.com/cgi-shl/ssmdinon.exe, U.S. (Logan, UT), downloaded 29 Jun 1998.
- [S10116] US Military WWII Army Enlistment recorded as Extract #11374 U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8939&enc=1 (: Ancestry.com). Hereinafter cited as WWII Army Enlistment.
- [S10800] US Social Security Applications recorded as Extract #11553 U.S., United States Social Security Applications ()
- [S10801] US Military WWII Draft Reg Cards recorded as Extract #11554, (: http://www.ancestry.com.)
- [S10461] NY Census 1900 recorded as Extract #11428 US Government, 1900 New York Census Index. Hereinafter cited as 1900 New York Census.
- [S8933] YubaCoCA Cemeteries recorded as Extract #10538 YUBA COUNTY CEMETERIES - Camptonville Cemetery, online http://yubaroots.com/cemetery/camtonvl.htm. Hereinafter cited as Camptonville Cemetery.
- [S14397] CA Census 1940 recorded as Extract #13403
California 1940 Federal Census, Original.