[or-roots] Any suggestions

[Sue Steward]

    Social Security Death Index

Name: 	Thomas E. Rickard
SSN: 	542-34-9026
Last Residence: 	98499  Tacoma, Pierce, Washington
Born: 	11 Jul 1931
Died: 	21 Jan 2011
State (Year) SSN issued: 	Oregon (Before 1951)


There is a private family tree on Ancestry.com and it is possible to 
contact the individual who posted it through Ancestry if you want to 
follow-up on that or have someone else follow-up.  I'd be happy to help 
in any way I can.

Sue Steward
>
> On 4/6/2011 4:54 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
>> 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 theUniversity 
>> of Washington 
>> <http://www.legacy.com/legacies/university-of-washington/?personid=148280501&affiliateID=1380>. 
>> 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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