Individual Details
Rita Therese Gossens Spiecker
(9 Sep 1898 - 27 Mar 1988)
Daily Palo Alto Times and Palo Alto News and Palo Alto Shopping Review (Palo Alto, California), Thu, Aug 28, 1947, Page 9
Mrs. Rita Spiecker, on the faculty of the German department at Stanford, entertained a group of local friends at a luncheon today at the Allied Arts Guild.
Daily Palo Alto Times and Palo Alto News and Palo Alto Shopping Review (Palo Alto, California), Wed, Oct 28, 1953, Page 7
County accepts bid for well
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County supervisors have accepted the bid of Mrs. Rita Duval for purchase of title and interest to a well located on county right of way near the intersection of Purissima and Robleda Aves. in the Los Altos foothills.
Mrs. Duval's bid, the only one received by the board, was $200.
The well was originally drilled by the county but was used for several years by the Los Altos School District in connection with the now-abandoned Purissima School. The well site is adjacent to Mrs. Duval's property.
Thus, County Counsel Howard W. Campen pointed out, Mrs. Duval is the only property owner who could make use of the well.
Palo Alto Times (Palo Alto, California), Tue, Aug 2, 1966, Page 2
Council OK's using school as Hills chapel
The 60 - year old Purissima School in Los Altos Hills is to be converted into a nondenominational chapel by the Episcopal Laymen's Fellowship in Los Altos.
The Los Altos Hills City Council approved issuing a use permit to the 70-family fellowship to remodel the one-room school at the corner of Duval Way and Robleda Avenue.
The fellowship plans to restore the school to close to what it was when it was built, a spokesman said.
The chapel project will cost about $26,000 for purchase of the school's one-acre lot and about $10,000 to bring the structure up to building code standards and add chapel fixtures.
Present owner of the school is Mrs. Rita Duval, who purchased the property when the now-defunct Purissima School District abandoned it many years ago.
The council decided the building could not be sold to another church without obtaining a new use permit.
Mrs. Rita Spiecker, on the faculty of the German department at Stanford, entertained a group of local friends at a luncheon today at the Allied Arts Guild.
Daily Palo Alto Times and Palo Alto News and Palo Alto Shopping Review (Palo Alto, California), Wed, Oct 28, 1953, Page 7
County accepts bid for well
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County supervisors have accepted the bid of Mrs. Rita Duval for purchase of title and interest to a well located on county right of way near the intersection of Purissima and Robleda Aves. in the Los Altos foothills.
Mrs. Duval's bid, the only one received by the board, was $200.
The well was originally drilled by the county but was used for several years by the Los Altos School District in connection with the now-abandoned Purissima School. The well site is adjacent to Mrs. Duval's property.
Thus, County Counsel Howard W. Campen pointed out, Mrs. Duval is the only property owner who could make use of the well.
Palo Alto Times (Palo Alto, California), Tue, Aug 2, 1966, Page 2
Council OK's using school as Hills chapel
The 60 - year old Purissima School in Los Altos Hills is to be converted into a nondenominational chapel by the Episcopal Laymen's Fellowship in Los Altos.
The Los Altos Hills City Council approved issuing a use permit to the 70-family fellowship to remodel the one-room school at the corner of Duval Way and Robleda Avenue.
The fellowship plans to restore the school to close to what it was when it was built, a spokesman said.
The chapel project will cost about $26,000 for purchase of the school's one-acre lot and about $10,000 to bring the structure up to building code standards and add chapel fixtures.
Present owner of the school is Mrs. Rita Duval, who purchased the property when the now-defunct Purissima School District abandoned it many years ago.
The council decided the building could not be sold to another church without obtaining a new use permit.
Events
| Birth | 9 Sep 1898 | Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | Bef 1930 | Frank Xaver Spiecker | |||
| Census (family) | 1930 | Evanston, Cook, Illinois, United States - Frank Xaver Spiecker |  | ||
| Naturalization | 5 Mar 1941 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 4 Aug 1948 | California, United States - Arthur Fredrick "Fred" Duval | | | |
| Census | 1950 | Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 1951 | Carson City, Carson City (city), Nevada, United States - Hampton Rice Reeves | | ||
| Death | 27 Mar 1988 | Santa Clara, California, | | | |
| Soc Sec No | 337-24-1728 | |
Families
| Spouse | Arthur Fredrick "Fred" Duval (1888 - 1949) |
| Spouse | Frank Xaver Spiecker (1890 - ) |
| Spouse | Hampton Rice Reeves ( - ) |
| Father | Gossens ( - ) |
Notes
Census (family)
Spiecker, Frank, Head, Germany, married, Rita, Wife
Naturalization
Spiecker, Rita Therese1505 1/2 Oak Ave. Evanston, Ill.
P-217046 CN 5124128, U.S. Dist. Chgo. Ill.
Birth: Germany, Sept. 9, 1898
Date of naturalization: March 5, 1941
Witnesses: Nina Haensel 724 Simpson St. Evanston, Ill.
Virgil B. Heltzel 1570 Oak Ave. Evanston, Ill.
Marriage
[Daily Palo Alto Times, Wednesday, August 4, 1948]MRS. RITA SPIECKER MARRIED TO FRED DUVAL AT LAKE TAHOE
A wedding of more than ordinary interest to Palo Altans took place this morning at Lake Tahoe, uniting two long-time local residents, Mrs. Rita Spiecker, member of the Stanford German faculty, and Fred Duval of Los Altos. Mr. Duval has been connected with the Palo Alto Hardware for a number of years.
The newlyweds will honeymoon at Lake Tahoe, and as soon as it is ready, will occupy a new home being built for them on Robleda Ave. in Los Altos.
Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, also of Robleda Ave., were hosts at a a barbecue supper Sunday night in honor of the about-to-be weds. Other special guests at the affair which served 26 neighbors together, were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sherman and their house guest, Miss Mary Alice Allfree of Chicago.
The new Mrs. Duval is former of Evanston, Ill., where her late husband was on the faculty of Northwestern University.
Census
Rita Duval, Head, WF, 51 [1899], widowed, GermanyMarriage
Daily Palo Alto Times and Palo Alto News and Palo Alto Shopping Review (Palo Alto, California), Sat, Nov 17, 1951, page 7Mrs. Rita Duval, Hampton Reeves, wed in Nevada
Mrs. Rita Spiecker Duval, former member of the faculty at Stanford University, became the wife of Hampton Rice Reeves of San Francisco Wednesday in Carson City, Nev.
The couple was wed at the home of Milton Badt, chief justice of the Nevada supreme court.
Mrs. Badt served as matron of honor for the 5 p.m. rites, and Charles Oliver of Carson City was Mr. Reeves' best man. Also present for the ceremony was U.S. Senator Mangus Thomli of Nevada, a close friend of the bridegroom.
Mr. Reeves, a San Francisco industrial engineer, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Reeves of San Bruno.
The couple was honored at a wedding supper at the Badt home following the ceremony. They will be at home at 440 Santa Rita, Palo Alto, after Thanksgiving.
Death
Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place Death Place Residence Death Date SSN AgeDUVAL RITA SPIECKER 09/09/1898 fathers last name: GOSSENS F REST (OTHER) SANTA CLARA 03/27/1988 337-24-1728 89 yrs
SS# prefixes indicate the state it was issued.
337 prefix: Illinois 318-361
Also, there is a death date for Rita S Duval of Oct 1981, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, California, age 83 birthday 9 Sep 1898, birthplace Illinois, in the United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch.
The birthdates match, but the deathdates do not.
Soc Sec No
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER STATE CODES - 318-361 Illinois (IL)Endnotes
1. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.
2. Heiken (Duval), Marion., Family oral history; Duval, Weber, Breuer, Guizlo. (Santa Rosa, CA, 2000-2008.).
3. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.