Beatrice Dassler
Beatrice Dassler was born on 3 May 1899 in New York. Her father, Henry W. Dassler, was a New Yorker born about 1860 to German parents, and her mother was Emelia Dassler. Her full name was probably Beatrice J. Dassler.
She married Fitzwilliam Dalrymple Jr. at Greenwich, Connecticut, probably on 20 July 1921. He was twenty-eight and a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve's flying corps, the only surviving son of Dr. Fitzwilliam Dalrymple of New Rochelle. Fifteen months later the doctor died, leaving his widow and his son.
Four daughters were born to Beatrice and Fitzwilliam: Beatrice Elizabeth on 12 April 1923, Joan about 1925, Patricia on 5 January 1926, and Joy on 3 March 1928.
In 1930 Beatrice was living in New Rochelle in her parents' house. Henry W. Dassler, seventy, was the head, and Emelia Dassler, seventy, was there too. Beatrice, thirty, had Joan, five, and Joy, two, with her. The household also held a William and Wanda Peterson with their son Richard, and a Henry Dassler of fifteen and a Frances Dassler of nine. Her husband was not living with her.
On 2 January 1940 Fitzwilliam Dalrymple Jr. died, aged forty-six. That April the census found Beatrice, forty, still in New Rochelle with all four girls, in a household headed by Lillian Dalrymple, a widow of seventy-seven born in Pennsylvania. Lillian had lived in the same house since at least 1935, and she was very probably Fitzwilliam's mother.
Beatrice worked. In 1950 she was the head of the household at 59 Meadow Lane in New Rochelle, fifty years old and a receptionist for what the census called U.S. Welfare, a government office. She was married again by then. The census lists John Dalrymple, forty-eight, an auto mechanic whose parents were both born in Ireland, as her husband. He cannot have been a brother of her first husband, who in 1922 was the doctor's only son. How he came to bear the name Dalrymple, or whether the enumerator simply gave him hers, is not known.
Her house that April was full of her daughters' families. Joan was there with her husband, Robert B. Hoyt, and their two-year-old son. Patricia was there with Jack Massman and two baby girls, Dorothy and Nancy. Joy was there with her husband, Max A. Bishop. Beatrice Elizabeth had married Roger A. Bertram.
Beatrice married David A. Ritacco, probably in 1954. He was nine years younger, born 6 June 1908, and had served in the Second World War as a technician fifth grade in the Transportation Corps. They settled in St. Petersburg, Florida. By the spring of 1956 she had a brand new house there, and her daughter Joan arrived with the children on 1 April of that year. Her grandson Bob later called David her "great second husband" and "a real straight arrow."
Beatrice and David held Lot 20, Block 9, Meadow Lawn, in St. Petersburg, under an agreement of 28 July 1963 and a mortgage of 19 April 1964. David died on 21 December 1967. His death certificate was recorded in Pinellas County on 27 August 1968, and the same day Beatrice deeded the lot to Marjorie B. Stackhouse.
Beatrice died on 28 November 1969, aged seventy. She is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Petersburg, beside David. Her bronze marker reads "Beatrice Dassler Dalrymple Ritacco, beloved mother and grandmother."
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Cite: Heirology, "Beatrice Dassler (1899-1969)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/beatrice-dassler-1899-1969-756c8f.