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LAWRENCE F. SANDQUIST
Although
he was born and raised in Cambridge, Illinois, Lawrence F. Sandquist has been
identified with Rosemead for all of his adult life, an identification made all
the more complete by his employment at Rosemead Post Office since 1928,
becoming assistant postmaster in 1943, and attaining his present position of
postmaster in 1953. Although the post
office employed three people in 1928, when Rosemead was a rural area, and now
employs thirty people, it is still one of the smallest in Los Angeles
County. Two of its employees have gone
into the postal inspection service.
Larry
Sandquist was born on February 25, 1909, attended elementary school in his home
town, graduated from Cambridge High School, and came to Rosemead in 1927, where
his parents, Fred W. and Alice (Quirk) Sandquist, are still living. His father had a barber shop in Rosemead on
Valley Blvd. from 1938 – 1958. As a
young man, Larry Sandquist lived in the beautiful old Rose home which had been
built before the turn of the century by Lucky Baldwin’s partner, Leonard Rose,
after whom the town was named. Now
demolished, the house was still standing when Mr. Sandquist came to Rosemead in
his bachelor days. Since coming to
California, Mr. Sandquist has taken extension courses at Los Angeles State
College and at the University of California at Los Angeles. He served in the United States Navy as a mail
specialist during the year of 1945.
Larry
Sandquist has furthered his identification with Rosemead through his active
participation in a variety of community enterprises. He belonged to the old Forum Club and has
continued in the Rosemead Kiwanis Club.
He is presently a director of the Rosemead Chamber of Commerce and has
been for most of the time since 1936; he helped organize and is a past charter
member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, serving as its president in
1945. He also organized and was the
first troop master of Boy Scout Troop Number 3 which is now Number 695. He is active in the Rosemead Young Men’s
Christian Association, for two years was chairman of the Rosemead Miss Universe
Contest and for the past two years was chairman of the American Cancer Society of
Rosemead. Now and for the past six years
he has been active in the Rosemead March of Dimes. His religious affiliation is with the
Rosemead Church of Christ. An activity
which he has particularly enjoyed has been his participation in the
organization of Toastmasters Number 200, of which he is a past president. He is particularly proud of his affiliation
with Rosemead Masonic Lodge Number 702 and his thirty-second degree status in
the Scottish Rite Bodies in Pasadena. He
helped organize and is a member of the Rosemead-El Monte branch of the San
Gabriel Valley High Twelve Club.
Mr.
Sandquist was also married in Rosemead, on September 16, 1932, to the former
Miss Edith Wells of Calera, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Sandquist is a graduate of Southeast State College in Oklahoma and
has been teaching homemaking in El Monte elementary schools since 1942. The Sandquist’s
daughter, Janet, is now Mrs. Roy Worsham. She is a graduate of Muscatel School and
Rosemead High School where she was associate editor of the school paper, “The
Panther’s Tail”. Mrs. Worsham won a scholarship to Pepperdine College, was
president of the Associated Women Students there, and was on the staff of the
paper at Pepperdine for four years. She
teaches third grade at Encinitas School in Rosemead and lives in Alhambra with husband
who is a teacher at Hollenbeck Junior High School in East Los Angeles.
Larry
Sandquist is a zealous golfer. A hobby
that he and his wife share and enjoy doing together is collecting Early
American antiques.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 794-795, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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