CA Tiburon- off Paradise Dr, WhtFem 45-60, Red Dress, White coat UP12018 Dec '66

[TootsieFootsie]

I'm so glad she has her name back.

What a beautiful woman.

 

[victoriarobinson642]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-

disappeared-20242169.php
Fantastic article from SFGate with new info about her and an interview with her daughter.

 

[DS2021]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-

disappeared-20242169.php
Fantastic article from SFGate with new info about her and an interview with her daughter.View attachment 574025

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-disappeared-20242169.php

 

[victoriarobinson642]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-disappeared-20242169.php

Ah geez, I have no idea why the link cut off.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

The story is all there for me, I'll have to read it later.
Thanks so much for posting it @victoriarobinson642.

 

[madamx]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-

disappeared-20242169.php
Fantastic article from SFGate with new info about her and an interview with her daughter.View attachment 574025

Thank you for posting the article it really was good my heart goes out to Penelope and her family and may her mother Rest In Peace

 

[Curious Me]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-disappeared-20242169.php

Thanks for getting the full link posted. It's a really well written, interesting article. I only hope the family finds healing and any further answers to this story that will help them. Any chance her name, Dorothy Williams (Vaillancourt), can be added to the thread title now? ​

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-disappeared-20242169.php

 

[Melt71]

A beautiful and heartbreaking tribute. @pnlpV you do her proud and really bring your Mum to life with your words.

 

[summergirl1]

I wonder if she really was the woman at the fire station. It does sound like it, but from this distance it can never be 100 percent sure.

 

[summergirl1]

I found the record on Find a Grave of the Herman Hess buried at Colma. It lists no birthdate and there is no photo of his grave, if it's marked. I requested someone photograph it for Find a Grave, as I am curious to see what his birthdate is if it is marked or if it is marked at all.

It may not be the same guy, but I felt some more info might shed light on the subject. I couldn't find the Hermann Hess who died in 1985 in online cemetery indexes for Colma (Cypress Lawn). I did find a Herman Hess who died in 1953 or something, but obviously that's not relevant. Unfortunately, it's a common German name or was at one point in time.

 

[iamshadow21]

DNA solved mystery of Australian-born Jane Doe found on Californian cliff

Dorothy Jean Vaillancourt moved to the United States for love. Decades later she has been identified as a Jane Doe whose body was found in California in 1966, leaving her relatives searching for answers.

www.abc.net.au

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Thanks @iamshadow21

What a beautiful yet sad article.

Rest in Peace Dorothy. Condolences to her family and friends.

 

[SophieRose]

I found the record on Find a Grave of the Herman Hess buried at Colma. It lists no birthdate and there is no photo of his grave, if it's marked. I requested someone photograph it for Find a Grave, as I am curious to see what his birthdate is if it is marked or if it is marked at all.

It may not be the same guy, but I felt some more info might shed light on the subject. I couldn't find the Hermann Hess who died in 1985 in online cemetery indexes for Colma (Cypress Lawn). I did find a Herman Hess who died in 1953 or something, but obviously that's not relevant. Unfortunately, it's a common German name or was at one point in time.

I don't think that's the guy. I went to the actual cemetery files and it's actually one guy, a Hermann Hess born in 1885 and died in 1953, with the family (including his wife) buried together.

I looked at immigration files for San Francisco and found a Hermann Hess born 2/4/1911 in Germany, entered USA 10/30/1963, port of entry Richmond VA.

 

[iamshadow21]

I don't think that's the guy. I went to the actual cemetery files and it's actually one guy, a Hermann Hess born in 1885 and died in 1953, with the family (including his wife) buried together.

I looked at immigration files and found a Hermann Hess born 2/4/1911 in Germany, entered USA 10/30/1963, port of entry Richmond VA.

If nobody's finding the right guy, there's the possibility it's an alias. Herman Hesse is a novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

MOO

 

[SophieRose]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/family-lived-sf-painted-lady-mother-disappeared-20242169.php

I was wondering why the children were sent to an orphanage in Ukiah, which is about 115 miles from The City, or a two hour drive. I found this.

In our opinion: A sad ending

The news Thursday that Trinity School in Ukiah would be closing on July 31 was a surprise to the community and a sad ending to a century”s effort in this town to care for troubled youth. Trin…

www.ukiahdailyjournal.com

Trinity School was started by a group of Catholic Dominican nuns as a home for needy children in 1903 – basically an orphanage, which came to be called The Albertinum.

From there it grew into a publicly funded place where the most severely abused young people in our state”s system of care were housed to be treated and educated.

The young people sent to Trinity School were not from Mendocino County. They came from all over the state; a policy of sending these kids out of their own county stemmed from the need to get them away from abusing parents and dysfunctional families.