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Born of Manuel D Swartz and Maud Johanna Pomin, in San Francisco Calif., Anita lived most of her life in California. She was able to dance to the Charleston, but didn’t think of herself as a flapper. She snacked on Oreo cookies when they first came on the market and enjoyed the “Peanuts” cartoon strip when it was first published. She had fun with hula hoops. As a young girl, Anita lived off and on in Oakland, Calif., and Lake Tahoe. In Oakland, she worked at Cardinet Candy Co. At Lake Tahoe, she worked in a laundry. During her stay at Lake Tahoe, her uncle and father were captains of the steamers Tahoe and Nevada. After some 70 years, she returned to the lake and took a ride on a modern tourist paddle wheeler, the M.S. Dixie.
Anita married George Irvin Stancil on March 7, 1931. She has one son, Daryl Stancil of Crescent City, Calif., and one daughter, Doloras Stowe of Sierra Vista, Ariz. She was a grandmother of five: Deborah Stowe Gearty (Mike) of Sierra Vista, Rebecca Stowe Gomes (deceased), Michael Stowe of Sierra Vista, Stephen Stowe (Barbara) of Raymond, Wash., and Tracy Stancil Atwood (Dustin) of Katy, Texas. Anita also was a great-grandmother of eight: Sean Gearty, Kelly Gearty, Andrew (Rojas) Stowe, Melanie Stowe, Shauna Tungate, Norman Tungate, Derek Atwood and Sierra Atwood.
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Anita lived the century that started with steam-powered ships and ended with the space shuttle. She saw horses replaced by automobiles and the first footsteps on the moon. She saw United States women receive the right to vote. She experienced the Great Depression and Prohibition. She toe-tapped and hummed the songs from Hollywood, Broadway, rock ’n’ roll (especially Elvis Presley), and pop music. Anita saw the eradication and control of widespread childhood diseases through vaccines. She came to experience fast food and big-box stores. She experienced the advent of the Internet and cell phones. Medical technologies we take for granted such as MRIs would have been miraculous when she was a teenager. When jet engines made air travel commercially viable, Anita traveled to Hawaii prior to it becoming a state. Anita enjoyed hiking, camping, rock collecting, crocheting, knitting, and making all kinds of crafts with her husband, Irvin. Irvin preceded her in death in November 1988.
Anita’s memorial service will be held at the Chapel of the Pines, 2855 Cold Springs Road, Placerville, Calif., at 11 a.m. on Aug. 2, 2008. Interment will be at the Westwood Hills Cemetery beside her beloved husband, Irvin.
