Florrie

She has her "birthdate" profile already, but this morning I woke up from a dream and couldn't get back to sleep right away. I kept thinking about Florrie Winkler, daughter of Henry and Caroline. I never knew her last husband's name, and thus never knew her death date. I knew she lived in SF and Sonoma county... She is the only child of theirs I didn't have a death date for.

anyway

I did a wild search in the California Vitals (which I thought I did before) pulling all F*or* in case she spelled it different, born in February of 1883... and through process of elimination (no Winkler maiden names listed, so it had to be a blank, would have been born in CA) I found one in Marin

DIPERNO, FLORENCE H born 1883 / 2 / 21 FEMALE born in CA died in MARIN 1974 / 6 /4

and finding her in the SSDI again makes perfect sense she died in Fairfax, CA, the same town her daughter lived in. She probably came to stay with her daughter as age began to grip her. She was 91 when she passed. Wow... now to find some Obit's...

(I thought maybe she would be buried at Mt. Tam, where her daughter is, but she isn't)

Then of course 1920 and 1930 censuses she shows up with Joe Diperno, with her daughter assuming his name, so she may have remarried not long after Nicholas' death. They lived in Santa Rosa, then in Glen Ellen, out in the country just North of Sonoma and West of Napa. The census images did not have the addresses on them, harumph!, but I can look them up in city directories later on. There must have been some discarded correspondence between these cousins, they stayed so close... I can't stand the thought of relations living so close in proximity and being so distant.