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    Doesn't appear to be the same Rickard that Les has mentioned:<br>
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    Social Security Death Index
    <br>
    Name: Thomas E. Rickard
    SSN: 542-34-9026
    <br>
    Last Residence: 98499 Tacoma, Pierce, Washington
    <br>
    Born: 11 Jul 1931
    <br>
    Died: 21 Jan 2011
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    State (Year) SSN issued: Oregon (Before 1951)
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    On 4/7/2011 6:22 PM, Denise Sproed wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=smithd&id=I3473">http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=smithd&id=I3473</a> 
            is a worldconnect file of an individual researching a
            RICKARD family in California that might know where this man
            fits in a RICKARD family tree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);">Denise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
            "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
            125);">A member of the Association of Professional
            Genealogists</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color:
            rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
            "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
            125);">The web page I made for my parents is at:  <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/%7Emerritt/">http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</a></span><span
            style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
            "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
            125);">My genealogy related pages are at:<br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Emerritt/">http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/</a><br>
            and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Emerritt/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</a><br>
            The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site</span><span
            style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
            "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
            125);">User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) <a
              moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.whollygenes.com/">http://www.whollygenes.com/</a></span><span
            style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
            "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
            73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
              font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span
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            "Tahoma","sans-serif";">
            <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>
            [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>] <b>On
              Behalf Of </b>Leslie Chapman<br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:54 PM<br>
            <b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br>
            <b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] Any suggestions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">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.   <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">Les C<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <span class="apple-style-span"><span
                        style="font-family:
                        "Arial","sans-serif"; color:
                        black;">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</span></span><span
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                        style="font-family:
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                        black;"> </span></span><span
                      class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:
                        "Arial","sans-serif"; color:
                        black;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.legacy.com/legacies/university-of-washington/?personid=148280501&affiliateID=1380"
                          target="_blank" title="Visit University of
                          Washington Legacies to see similar profiles"><span
                            style="color: rgb(3, 78, 131);
                            text-decoration: none;">University of
                            Washington</span></a>. 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.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
                        style="font-family:
                        "Arial","sans-serif"; color:
                        black;">Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on
                        February 1, 2011</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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