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’s great grandfather, Rudolph emigrated from Switzerland in 1832 and lived at the historic Fourteen-Mile House.
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.
Jean Duncan was married to Jack Duncan whose grandmother recalls fondly how much she loved shopping at Sylvan Corners.
Back in the summer of 1979, a project that started off as an attempt by his High School Drafting Teacher to keep him from cutting class, actually put Richard Deatherage on the path to his career.
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.
