Male, born 1940-08-31


Professional History

Teaching

Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Landscape Architecture Department, Seattle, WA, c. 1986.

Education

High School / College

Graduate, San Rafael High School, San Rafael, CA, c. 1957.

B.S., Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, c. 1962. In 1960, Richard Untermann was listed as a student living at home in the San Rafael, California, City Directory, 1960, (p. 581.)

Personal

Relocation

The landscape architect Robert Karl Untermann was born in CA on 08/31/1940, just before America's involvement in World War II.

In 04/1950, nine-year-old Richard Untermann lived on I Street in San Rafael, CA, with his parents and three younger siblings. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: San Rafael, Marin, California; Roll: 550; Sheet Number: 72; Enumeration District: 21-41, accessed 05/02/2023.) Ten years later, the Untermanns continued to live at 27 I Street in San Rafael. (See San Rafael, California, City Directory, 1960, p. 581.)

Retired, Untermann lived in Santa Barbara, CA, in 2022.

Parents

In 1950, his father, Karl F. Untermann (born c. 1912 in Germany) was a nurseryman, selling plants on the retail level in San Rafael, CA. Anne S. Wagner(born c. 1917 in CA), his mother, worked at the nursery and in the household raising their four children. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: San Rafael, Marin, California; Roll: 550; Sheet Number: 72; Enumeration District: 21-41, accessed 05/02/2023.) In 1960, the Untermanns' business was known as the "West End Nursery." (See San Rafael, California, City Directory, 1960, p. 581.)

His siblings included Dennis Untermann (born c. 1943 in CA), Thomas Untermann (born c. 1948 in CA) and Jean Untermann (born c. 07/1949 in CA).

Spouse

He married Pamela A. Lark in Cambridge, MA, in 1968. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013, accessed 05/02/2023.) They divorced on 05/24/1983 in King County, WA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington State Divorce Indexes, 1969-2014, accessed 05/02/2023.)

He wed Gail Eileen Elnicky (born 09/16/1945 in Hennepin County, MN) on 11/29/1945 in King County, WA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013; Reference Number: kingcoarchmc851206_07544, accessed 05/02/2023.) Her parents Michael J. Elnicky (born 09/01/1911 -d. 02/20/1978 in Minneaopolis, MN) and Olga Rose Matasovsky (born c. 1919 in MN-d. 08/22/2010 in Scottsdale, AZ) wed on 11/29/1941 in Hennepin County, MN.


PCAD id: 7744