Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. SEVERINA GIANNETTI
MRS. SEVERINA GIANNETTI.--The Ryde Hotel, located at Ryde, Cal., is being successfully conducted by Mrs. Severina Giannetti, whose well-prepared meals are known throughout the locality. Her birth occurred in Lucca, Italy, and she was a daughter Stefano and Assunta Casella, both natives of the same place. Stefano Casella was a fuel-dealer, and lived and died in his native country; the mother of our subject died when Severina was only a year old. Mrs. Giannetti is the youngest of a family of four children; Zaraide, Lelio, Julia, and Severina.
Severina Casella was educated in the grammar and high schools in Lucca. In Lucca, on April 7, 1908, Miss Casella was married to Caesare Giannetti, a native of Lucca, Italy, a son of Lorenzo and Georgia Giannetti. He was the youngest of five children, the others being Tobia, Antonetta, Grace and Giacomo. Caesare Giannetti came to California when he was eighteen years of age, and was employed in hotels on the Sacramento River until he returned to Italy, where he was married. Immediately after his marriage he brought his bride to California and again found employment in a hotel in Sacramento. Then he leased the Simoni Hotel at Vorden, which he operated until 1917, when he took a ten-year lease on the Ryde Hotel, a twenty-four room hotel. With the aid of his wife he had gotten nicely started in business here, when he passed away, on July 4, 1918, aged forty-four years. Just before his passing, however, on June 11, 1918, the hotel and all their belongings were completely destroyed by fire, and there was no insurance to cover their loss. The owner rebuilt the hotel, but Mr. Giannetti died before it was completed. Mr. Giannetti was past president of the Druid Lodge of Sacramento. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Giannetti; Lorenzo, Grace and Rinato.
Since her husband's death Mrs. Giannetti has conducted the hotel along the same progressive and pleasing lines and is making a fine success of the business. The cooking and cuisine are most excellent, and the fame of her good meals is known far and wide, drawing trade from different parts of the adjoining counties. On Sundays many come to her place from Sacramento, Woodland, Stockton, Suisun, and numerous other places, even from Oakland and San Francisco. She superintends the preparation of the food, and sees that it is served in courses in the most appetizing way.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 830. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.