In a message dated 1/11/10 3:48:13 PM, mbmichaels@gmail.com writes: > Quite a while ago I found out there is an announcement about the divorce > of > my great-great-grandparents, Heinrich and Sophie Janicke, in the San Jose > newspaper, I think in 1894. > Might have been GenealogyBank.com. I have found the San Jose paper in their database in the past. Cathy Marin Co., CA

http://www.kingcityrustler.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=283&page=75 Orrin Howard Harder, formerly of Soledad Orrin Howard Harder died at home in Walnut Creek on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. He was born in Soledad almost 87 years earlier, on New Year's Eve in 1921 to Beth and Otto Harder. His grandparents, Henry and Emelia Harder, immigrants from Germany, had homesteaded in the hills just south of town in the 1880s, where they raised five children: Hertha, Otto, Hilda, Roy, and Alma. The girls married and moved to the Bay Area, but the boys raised their families in Soledad. Otto drove a school bus for many years and Roy was a mail carrier. He married Katie Baetschen of King City. Beth's grandparents, Heinrich and Sophie Janicke, also had a homestead in the same area. They had also come from Germany, along with their five children: Elizabeth, Mary, Johanna, Albertina, and Charly. Johanna married a butcher, John Krumholz, in San Francisco, but the other four all married local homesteaders. Elizabeth married Joseph Fabry. Mary married Henry Schmidt. Albertina married Charles Nonneman, and Charly married Jesse Smith. Only Mary moved away. After their house burned in the 1906 earthquake, Johanna and John Krumholz moved to the Janicke ranch with their two daughters, Beth and Emily, who attended the old Orchard School, located on the road to the Pinnacles, where Beth met her future husband. Beth and Otto were married after World War I. They raised their two sons, Orrin and Roy on Dixie Street in Soledad. Orrin had many fond memories of growing up in Soledad, where he hunted rabbits by the river and rode horses to the Pinnacles. He loved to play bicycle tag with his young friends. Their only rule was that they could not go outside of the city limits. The town was much smaller in the 1920s. He also used to ride his bike out Metz Road to pick up milk from a dairy for his mother. He enjoyed the big local picnics, where steaks and enchiladas were the main attractions to a growing boy. He loved to watch the trains run through town, and developed a lifelong love of steam engines. Orrin attended the Soledad Grammar School and Gonzales Union High School. As a young man he had a job drying apricots in Greenfield. Then he went to Hartnell Community College and planned to become an engineer. But the attack on Pearl Harbor interrupted his plans, so he went to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point in New York, where his education consisted mostly of serving on a Liberty Ship, the Peter H. Burnett, until it was hit by a torpedo in 1943. He graduated with a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. He spent most of the next two years at sea. Some of his strongest memories were of his participation in landing troops at Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Salerno in Italy, and St. Tropez in France. After the war he attended UC Berkley, where he lived at the International House and graduated with a degree in civil engineering. In 1947 he married Norma Miller of San Francisco, had two daughters and moved to Walnut Creek, where he lived from 1957 to 2008. He began working for East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, where he rose to the position of chief engineer. Over the years he was involved in many projects, including the planning and building of Camanche Dam, completed in 1964. He retired in 1984, about the same time he retired as a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Orrin enjoyed traveling in the U.S. and Europe with Norma, building model airplanes, camping and hiking at California's National and State Parks with his family, planting a big annual vegetable garden, and taking walks with his dogs: Kobuk, Bouncer, and Blackie. He grew delicious tomatoes, but the pride and joy of his garden were the blackberry and grape vines he had grown from cuttings taken from his parent's house in Soledad, which had originally come from old local stock. As an adult he made many visits to his family and friends in Soledad. He enjoyed leading his daughters through the caves at the Pinnacles, teaching them to stay away from poison oak at the Arroyo Seco, and taking them to visit the ruins of the old Soledad Mission. The most memorable visit to the Mission was when the family discovered a dead, smelly skunk in the chapel! Orrin was preceded in death by his wife, Norma. He is survived by his daughters; Marybeth Michaels of Anderson, Alaska, and Susan Harder of Washougal, Wash., his brother, Raymond Harder of Santa Rosa; by cousins Bernice Benadom of Salinas, and George Panzer of Guinda; by his close friends Marvin and Karla Wolfe of Salinas; and by many other cousins, nephews, family members and friends. A memorial gathering was held in Walnut Creek on Nov. 23. ----- Original Message ----- From: <cylgowdy@aol.com> To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 15:52 Subject: Re: [NORCAL] divorce announcement > > In a message dated 1/11/10 3:48:13 PM, mbmichaels@gmail.com writes: > > >> Quite a while ago I found out there is an announcement about the divorce >> of >> my great-great-grandparents, Heinrich and Sophie Janicke, in the San Jose >> newspaper, I think in 1894. >> > > Might have been GenealogyBank.com. > I have found the San Jose paper in their database in the past. > > > > Cathy > Marin Co., CA > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > NORCAL ARCHIVES: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > Enter NORCAL. 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