Ms. Bruins, a Southern California native, has been living in Citrus Heights since 1984. She was very involved in CHIP – the Citrus Heights Incorporation Project.
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Dick Cowan
This is my recollection of Christmas, 1954 in Citrus Heights where my parents, Frank and Doris Cowan, had built a house for their family of three kids, baby sister Jan, middle child Ron, and me on Lucky Lane, then a private, gravel road off of San Juan Avenue.
Elwin Bruce Ellithorpe
Elwin Bruce Ellithorpe was born in Fair Oaks but his family moved around a lot during the Depression and in 1937 he and his family moved to Citrus Heights.
Richard Kniesel
Richard Kniesel was born in Yugoslavia and emigrated to America in 1952 when he was 12. In 1965 he purchased a gas station in Citrus Heights which would eventually become Kniesel’s Auto Shop.

Burton Lauppe
Burton Lauppe’s great grandfather, Rudolph emigrated from Switzerland in 1832 and lived at the historic Fourteen-Mile House.