Anita Stimmler Baffa and her father, Joseph A. Stimmler Summer of 1914
Wildwood, New Jersey
| Parents:
Education: Marriage: |
Joseph Peter Anthony Stimmler Anna M. Hennessy Graduate of 11th grade [Source: 1940 U.S. Census] Richard "Dick" H. Baffa August 18, 1931 Pennsylvania |
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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: | Anita was born in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia on October 26, 1912 to Joseph and |
| Anna M. (Hennessey) Stimmler.
At the time of the Jan. 28, 1920 U.S. federal census, Anita was 7 years old and living with her parents and six older brothers in their own home at 323 Roxborough Ave. in Philadelphia Ward 21, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her 48-year-old father was working as a house plumber as was brother James (age 16), and brother Joseph (age 18) was working as an inspector for the telephone company. In the April 4, 1930 federal census, Anita was living with her parents and four of her siblings (with the exception of second eldest brother John) at 323 Roxborough Avenue in Roxborough, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The family owned their home which was valued at $10,000 (or $100,000 in current 2001 dollars) and they had a radio. Anita was 17 years old at the time. At the time of the Apr. 17, 1940 U.S. federal census, Anita was 27 years old and living with her husband Richard (age 35), their two young sons, Richard (age 7) and Robert (age 3), her parents, Joseph (age 72) and Anna Stimmler (age 69), and her bachelor brother Valentine (age 34) in her folk's old home at 323 Roxborough Ave. in the 21st Ward of Philadelphia City. They had been living in the same place on Apr. 1, 1935. Her husband was working 50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year as a hairdresser in a beauty operation. He had completed 9th grade and 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." from an e-mail dated August 3, 2001 She was the wife of Richard Baffa for 74 years. For many years, Anita and Richard owned and operated Baffa's Hair Salon in Roxborough. She was a graduate of St. John the Baptist High School in Manayunk section of Philadelphia. Anita was a member of St. Joseph Church in Somers Point, NJ, and was a former member of St. Helena's Church in Blue Bell, PA where she was very active in the Women's Club. She had been a member of the Senior Citizens of St. Titus Church and was an active member of St. Teresa of Avila Parish in Valley Forge for 17 years. Anita loved to travel with her husband and children, especially to the casinos in Atlantic City, and motoring to New York City to see the Broadway shows. |
| Ancestry: | The Hennessy Line |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line | |
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