bitsch/pietsch family genealogy - School of Aquatic and Fishery ...

ut she somehow slipped out of the hospital, took a cab to somewhere on the lake front of
Lake Michigan, got out and ran to the water—the cab driver was alarmed and followed her
and saw her jump off the pier: Amy Lake Seehausen St. John to TWP III, personal
communication, 12 May 2005); buried 19 September 1923 at Graceland Cemetery,
Chicago; three children, two sons and a daughter.
Children of Walter Gray Pietsch and Amy Randolph Lake:
i. Walter Randolph (“Randy”) Pietsch, born 29 November 1902 at Chicago, died 22
August 1974 in Clearwater, Florida; ashes interred in Cedar Grove Cemetery,
Washington, D.C.; educated in Evanston, Illinois, schools, attended Shattuck
Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, and Cornell University (class of 1924);
for many years lived and worked for the government in Washington, D.C.; as of
1966, lived in retirement at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. First marriage, June
1925, Marian Van Campen of Elmira, New York, divorced in 1929 (Marian Van
Campen Pietsch remarried on 5 June 1931, is Mrs. Charles Linsley Quaintance of
New York, New York); second marriage, 1929, Carolyn Newbegin, born 6
November 1909 in Brooklyn, New York, divorced in 1939 (Carolyn Newbegin
Pietsch remarried on 6 November 1965, to career naval officer Captain Donald
Wiley Todd of Seattle, Washington; died 8 June 1996 in Stanwood, Washington;
lived for most of the last 30 years of her life in Seattle, at 6238 29th Avenue NE,
then in a condo at 7001 Sand Point Way); third marriage, 1939, Mrs. Ann Suter of
Chicago's Club Alabam, divorced three months later; fourth marriage, about 1940,
Mrs. Dagney Scully of Winnetka, Illinois (she had a daughter by first marriage),
divorced about 1948; fifth marriage, Mrs. Mary de Sibour, in Las Vegas, Nevada,
a native of Virginia, with two children by first marriage (one, a daughter, Marie
Helene de Sibour, married, Norman Bennett Christie of New York).
Child by first wife, Walter Randolph Pietsch and Marian Van Campen:
i. John Randolph Pietsch, born 17 October 1926 at Evanston, Illinois; died ;
married, June 1948, Patricia (“Pat”) ? of Norwalk, Connecticut, divorced
about 1962; a polio invalid since about 1952, he lived in 1966 at New
Canaan, Connecticut. Two daughters.
Children by second wife, Walter Randolph Pietsch and Carolyn Newbegin:
i. Walter Gray Pietsch II, born Brooklyn 15 March 1936, alive and well as of June
2011; attended Cornell, but dropped out for financial reasons, enlisted in
the Army to get the G.I. Bill; after serving in Korea and while on leave in
Japan, he lived for some time with a Japanese woman (relationship
established by some sort of ceremony, but marriages of this kind were not
recognized by the U.S. military and he had to leave Japan without her);
after his return to the States he graduated from Hofstra University; first
marriage (eloped in 1959) to Carlanne Hall, daughter of Carlyle W. Hall
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