[or-roots] Any suggestions

[Leslie Chapman]

The only lead I can think of for this is to go the University to see if they have anything that would help. I am assuming that these folks are the folks who ended up with Toms stuff that are looking for his next of kin. I know he had a lot of photography and artsy kind of stuff. Anyway this is an old friend of the family whose Oregon connection for me is I met him here in Reedsport on the family farm and he shared many of his pictures of that farm with me as well as he and i spent quite a bit of time sharing genealogy on Milan M. Melvin the first and his descendants. 
What I am hoping for is someone might have access to the Cal birth index and that information might give some clues to family if he has any at all.   Les C
Thomas
Rickard Thomas Rickard was born in California 74 years ago. He died January 21,
2011 in Tacoma, Washington, where he had lived for the past fifty years. He
received degrees in Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon and in
Architecture from the University of
Washington. For most of his professional career he practiced
landscape architecture with the firm of Chaffee Zumwalt & Associates in
Lakewood, where he started a "TGIF" tradition which will continue Tom
was a man of many talents and interests. His academic training included fine
art at the University of Oregon and he produced paintings in oil and
watercolors. The latter medium was his favorite, and his paintings have been
exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the Northwest. Early in
his architectural career he developed an interest in the works of Frank Lloyd
Wright. He traveled far and wide photographing the "master's"
completed works. He became an acknowledged expert in this field and his
lectures on Frank Lloyd Wright were informative, entertaining, and most
memorable.
Published
in News Tribune (Tacoma) on February 1, 2011

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