| Parents: Education: Marriage: Occupation: |
Nicodemo Baffa Vincenza Ferrante Graduated from 9th grade [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] Anita M. Stimmler August 18, 1931 Pennsylvania Barber in barber shop [Source: 1930 U.S. Census] Hairdresser in a beauty operation [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] |
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| Children: | Richard "Dick" Louis | Aug. 19, 1932 | † Nov. 28, 2006 |
| Robert "Bob" J. | Mar. 24, 1937 | † Mar. 23, 2013 | |
| Mary Anita | Mar. 13, 1942 | ||
| Notes: | At the time of the April 5, 1930 federal census, Richard was 23 years old, single and a roomer in a apartment with |
| Griffith and Anna Millor which they rented for $25 a
month. They did not have a radio. He was working as a barber
in a barber shop, and spoke both Italian and English. He said he and both his parents were from Corsenza, Italy
[Source: 1930 Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T626-2103; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 602].
At the time of the Apr. 17, 1940 U.S. federal census, Richard was 35 years old and living with his 27-year-old wife Anita, their two young sons, Richard (age 7) and Robert (age 3), his inlaws, Joseph (age 72) and Anna Stimmler (age 69), and his bachelor brother-in-law Valentine (age 34) at 323 Roxborough Ave. in the 21st Ward of Philadelphia City. They had been living in the same place on Apr. 1, 1935. He was working 50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year as a hairdresser in a beauty operation; he also had income from other sources. Richard had completed 9th grade and wife Anita had three years of high school. Paul Stimmler writes of his Aunt Anita and Uncle Dick: "From all appearances they would seem to have had a very loving relationship and truly cared for one another. I used to see quite a bit of them for the first 21 years of my life because my grandmother and grandfather lived with them. I never heard either of them make a disparaging remark about one another (not even in jest as some married couples do for comic relief). "Neither of them had a drivers license for the first 40 years of their lives and either took public transit from their home and beauty shop in Roxborough, or my dad would drive them to other places. Aunt Anita and my Dad were very very close. "Uncle Dick, as we still call him, emigrated from Naples Italy at age 15 in 1922, landed in Manayunk (or Stimmlerville as my wife and children jocularly refer to it) and went to work in a textile mill there. He had a cousin Alfred already here who went on to open a once famous and popular restaurant called "Baffa's" (natch). The restaurant was in Belmont Hills which is the town adjoining Manayunk and right across the Green Lane Bridge over the Schuylkill canal and River. It is still home to predominantly Italian Americans." from an e-mail dated August 3, 2001 Richard died on Feb. 3, 2007 in Somers Point, Atlantic, New Jersey at the age of 102. |
| Ancestry: | The Hennessy Line [through marriage] |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] | |
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