DIANE RAE STIMLER
(née ANDERSON)

Born: June 17, 1932   Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
Died: January 20, 1999   Daly City, San Mateo, California
Buried: Golden Gate National Cemetery   San Bruno, San Mateo County, California

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Walter Hodgson Anderson
Alice Ruth Stickney

Wayzata High School
Graduated June 8, 1950
University of Minnesota
(did not graduate)

Richard Paul Stimler
Long Beach, California
February 26, 1951

Worked briefly as teller in bank
Housewife and mother
Secretary at Design Engineering Group
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Late 1960s to early 1970s
Secretary at Marquess & Associates, Architects in Medford, Oregon for approximately ten years

Diane Rae Anderson, high school graduation

Children:	Rae Page	Sept. 8, 1952
	Sandra Lee	Sept. 26, 1953
	Dana Diane	July 27, 1955	† Oct. 14, 2009
	Jody Kay	Jan. 10, 1960
	Paul Wayne	Aug. 19, 1961

Notes:

In June 1932 when Diane was born, her parents were living at 3649 Elliot in Minneapolis, MN with her maternal

grandparents. Her father was self-employed as a music arranger at the time. He and Alice were divorced when Diane was six years old. Her beloved grandfather, Frank Stickney, who lived with them passed away a few weeks later. These early events had a profound, long-lasting effect on her.

At the time of the Apr. 15, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Diane was 7 years old and living with her 30-year-old stepfather Richard B. Qvale, her 26-year-old mother, Alice R., and her 53-year-old widowed grandmother, Ruby Stickney, in a home rented for $35/month located at 2600 Tenth Avenue South, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. In April 1935 her stepfather had been living in St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, but she, her mother and grandmother had been living in the same house in which they were currently residing. Her stepfather had had five years of college education, her mother had attended high school through her junior year, and her grandmother had completed her freshman year of high school. Diane was currently in first grade. In 1939 her stepfather was employed as a draftsman for Northern Pump. He worked 40 hours a week for 13 weeks and earned $225, although he had additional income from other sources. Her mother was employed as a saleswoman at a retail store; she worked 15 weeks in 1939 and earned $175.

Diane's stepfather, Dick Qvale, picked her future husband, Dick Stimler, out of a local newspaper, noticing that Stimler had recently graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was visiting his home town of Wayzata. Although they had a whirlwind romance and were engaged after just three dates, apparently for Diane it was not a love match. Late in life she confided to her family that she had married to escape the embarrassment of flunking out of college; upon attending the University of Minnesota she insisted on switching her major from English to Engineering against entreaties and advice to the contrary. She bore five children, all of whom survived to adulthood.

Diane was an avid cinema buff. Her favorite actor was John Wayne (whom her husband resembled), followed in later years by Jean Claude Van Damnne.

Ancestry:	The Anderson Line
	The Balder Line [through marriage]
	The Franz Kampa Line [through marriage]
	The Johannes Keller Line [through marriage]
	The Knud Line
	The Roth Line
	The Robert Stickney Line
	The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage]
	The Stephen Webster Line
	The Webster-Hunt Line [through marriage]