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Richardson, Grimm

[Parents arrived from (Nebraska and Oklahoma) (Ohio and Germany)]
They met and married in Washington State, raised family in Oregon and overseas.

Alfred Joseph Richardson

Born: 26 September 1922
Place: Raymond, Pacific County, Washington, USA
Religion: Methodist
Married: 9 March 1951
Place: Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Wife: Anna Louise Grimm (Anne)
Occupation: Machinist
Divorced: 26 February 1998
Married:
Place: [Florida?]
Wife: [Sue ?]
Died: 4 June 2004
Place: Nashville, Tennessee
Physical: Eyes, hazel; Hair, black; Height, 5'5"; Blood, B+;

Anna Louise Grimm (Anne)

Born: 2 March 1927
Place: Menlo, Pacific County, Washington, USA
Religion: Methodist
Married: 9 March 1951
Place: Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Occupation: Writer/photographer
Divorced: 26 February 1998
Died:
Place:
Physical: Eyes, blue; Hair, light brown; Height, 5'6.5"; Blood, B-;
Husband: (Alfred Joseph Richardson)

Children

Alfred Charles Richardson (1952) Eyes, blue; Hair, brown; Height, 5'7"; Blood, 0+;
Allan George Richardson (1955) Eyes, blue; Hair, brown; Height, 5'5"; Blood, B+;
Anne Marie Richardson (1957) Eyes, hazel; Hair, brown; Height, 5'8"; Blood, B-;

Background

On a trip home to Pacific County from Seattle where both were living, they were introduced by her brother. They married in Seattle and with side trips to Menlo and South Bend to see their parents, on a rare March day in the Pacific Northwest with deep snow on the ground, drove with all their collected personal possessions in the trunk and back seat of a car, to Portland. He went to school at the Diesel Training Institute where he had paid tuition before they met, and she to work at drafting for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph ... because no service representative job to which she could transfer from Seattle was open. She supported them until he finished school.

Their children were all born in Portland where he worked mainly at ship repair. Married more than 16 years, he applied to and was accepted by the Panama Canal Company as qualified indoor/outdoor/marine machinist, and went to work at Gatun Locks where he remained until retirement a little more than 17 years later, at top position of Senior Lockmaster. As in Portland, she continued to write, and again produced a published newspaper column -- plus selling to US magazines with photos from her darkroom and color transparencies included, had original paintings and drawings accepted in juried art shows and after a cartooning class did some of that too -- while all three children one by one grew up and returned to the United States.

Having made five trips by recreation vehicle between the Pacific Northwest and Panama, the couple shipped the motorhome to Florida and drove with dog and cat aboard, north to Maine, southeast to Southern California, north to Seattle and south via the coastal highway to Pacific County and Naselle ... where she started her small publishing business on the motorhome dinette table before they could move to property bought two years earlier.

After she spent the month of July in a Domestic Violence shelter in 1997, the divorce was final on 26 February 1998. He remarried.

URL: http://www.willapabay.org/~anne/gen04.htm

E-mail Anne

Member National Society of Newspaper columnists

Anne Louise Grimm
434 - 6th Street # 206
Raymond WA 98577-1804, USA