Corte Madera Memories
  • WELCOME
    • HOW IT ALL BEGAN....
  • EARLY HISTORY
    • WHAT'S IN A NAME?
    • FIRST SETTLERS
    • RACETRACKS IN CORTE MADERA?
    • A VILLAGE EMERGES >
      • BITS & PIECES >
        • 1913 "BOOSTERS" >
          • RAILROADS
        • 1899 to 2014 VIEWS
        • VIEWS FROM EAST PEAK
    • CHURCHES
    • SCHOOLS
  • CORTE MADERA BECOMES A TOWN
    • LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    • CHRISTMAS TREE HILL HISTORY >
      • EARLY MAP - CHRISTMAS TREE HILL
      • HOMES ARE BUILT
      • HISTORIC PHOTOS
      • HISTORIC PLACES
      • CM WOMEN'S CLUB IN THE 2000'S >
        • CORTE MADERA WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORY
      • 1926 Aerial View from 15,000 Feet
      • MEADOWSWEET DAIRY
    • BIG CHANGES AFTER WW II >
      • 1952 MASSIVE GROWTH
      • BIG CHANGES AFTER WW II
      • BUSINESS BOOM
      • LIBRARY
      • SCHOOLS
    • CHRISTMAS TREE HILL HISTORY
    • REAL ESTATE AD
    • FAMILIES GROW
    • OLDTIMERS' MEMORIES SHARED >
      • WILLIAM ISAAC PIXLEY
      • HARRY RICHARDS
      • SONIA DELEW
      • SUE BIGALL
      • LLOYD REA
      • HAROLD & MARY BATES
      • LAURA ROWE RICHARDS
      • EDITH SCHLOBOM
      • ELSIE THIERBACH
      • AUDA BORDANARO
      • WILLIAM TALLEY
      • FRED MORRIS
      • EARL & DONNA HART FAMILY
      • LOUISE LAMB
      • KURT NORSTAD
      • ELVA WILSON
      • JAN VALK
      • LUIS KUBICHEK
      • BILL & PEGGY THOMAS
      • ALBERT & JEAN LEVESQUE
      • ANDY VIRENO
      • AUGUSTINE HALL
      • HARRY & ANNETTE SCHRIEBMAN
      • MARY SCHWERDT
      • GERALD GRANUCCI
    • MARINER COVE
    • VISTA DEL BAHIA
    • MIRA VISTA
    • BUSINESSES
    • MADERA DEL PRESIDIO >
      • NEW ZONING ORDINANCE CUTS DENSITY
      • PUBLIC OPEN SPACE
      • RING MOUNTAIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE
      • CORTE MADERA NORTHRIDGE
    • OLD TOWN SQUARE
  • 50TH ANNIVERSARY
  • CORTE MADERA MARSHES
  • SHARE YOUR OWN STORY
    • A VISIT WITH DOROTHY MALMGREN
    • LUIS KUBICHEK & BOYS' SOCCER
  • CORTE MADERA ECOLOGICAL RESERVE
  • SCENIC VISTAS
  • MARQUART LAGOON REGATTA
  • CELEBRATIONS
  • 4th of JULY PARADES
  • WOMEN'S CLUB 100TH BIRTHDAY
  • CENTENNIAL YEAR EVENTS 1916-2017
    • 75TH ANNIVERSARY
    • NEW YEAR'S EVE KICKOFF
  • LOCAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
    • LAURA ROWE RICHARDS >
      • PAGE 1
      • PAGE 2
      • PAGE 3
      • PAGE 4
      • PAGE 5
      • PAGE 6
      • PAGE 7
      • PAGE 8
      • PAGE 9
      • PAGE 10
      • PAGE 11
      • PAGE 12
      • PAGE 13
  • THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF CORTE MADERA
  • THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF CORTE MADERA
  • WELCOME
    • HOW IT ALL BEGAN....
  • EARLY HISTORY
    • WHAT'S IN A NAME?
    • FIRST SETTLERS
    • RACETRACKS IN CORTE MADERA?
    • A VILLAGE EMERGES >
      • BITS & PIECES >
        • 1913 "BOOSTERS" >
          • RAILROADS
        • 1899 to 2014 VIEWS
        • VIEWS FROM EAST PEAK
    • CHURCHES
    • SCHOOLS
  • CORTE MADERA BECOMES A TOWN
    • LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    • CHRISTMAS TREE HILL HISTORY >
      • EARLY MAP - CHRISTMAS TREE HILL
      • HOMES ARE BUILT
      • HISTORIC PHOTOS
      • HISTORIC PLACES
      • CM WOMEN'S CLUB IN THE 2000'S >
        • CORTE MADERA WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORY
      • 1926 Aerial View from 15,000 Feet
      • MEADOWSWEET DAIRY
    • BIG CHANGES AFTER WW II >
      • 1952 MASSIVE GROWTH
      • BIG CHANGES AFTER WW II
      • BUSINESS BOOM
      • LIBRARY
      • SCHOOLS
    • CHRISTMAS TREE HILL HISTORY
    • REAL ESTATE AD
    • FAMILIES GROW
    • OLDTIMERS' MEMORIES SHARED >
      • WILLIAM ISAAC PIXLEY
      • HARRY RICHARDS
      • SONIA DELEW
      • SUE BIGALL
      • LLOYD REA
      • HAROLD & MARY BATES
      • LAURA ROWE RICHARDS
      • EDITH SCHLOBOM
      • ELSIE THIERBACH
      • AUDA BORDANARO
      • WILLIAM TALLEY
      • FRED MORRIS
      • EARL & DONNA HART FAMILY
      • LOUISE LAMB
      • KURT NORSTAD
      • ELVA WILSON
      • JAN VALK
      • LUIS KUBICHEK
      • BILL & PEGGY THOMAS
      • ALBERT & JEAN LEVESQUE
      • ANDY VIRENO
      • AUGUSTINE HALL
      • HARRY & ANNETTE SCHRIEBMAN
      • MARY SCHWERDT
      • GERALD GRANUCCI
    • MARINER COVE
    • VISTA DEL BAHIA
    • MIRA VISTA
    • BUSINESSES
    • MADERA DEL PRESIDIO >
      • NEW ZONING ORDINANCE CUTS DENSITY
      • PUBLIC OPEN SPACE
      • RING MOUNTAIN OPEN SPACE PRESERVE
      • CORTE MADERA NORTHRIDGE
    • OLD TOWN SQUARE
  • 50TH ANNIVERSARY
  • CORTE MADERA MARSHES
  • SHARE YOUR OWN STORY
    • A VISIT WITH DOROTHY MALMGREN
    • LUIS KUBICHEK & BOYS' SOCCER
  • CORTE MADERA ECOLOGICAL RESERVE
  • SCENIC VISTAS
  • MARQUART LAGOON REGATTA
  • CELEBRATIONS
  • 4th of JULY PARADES
  • WOMEN'S CLUB 100TH BIRTHDAY
  • CENTENNIAL YEAR EVENTS 1916-2017
    • 75TH ANNIVERSARY
    • NEW YEAR'S EVE KICKOFF
  • LOCAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
    • LAURA ROWE RICHARDS >
      • PAGE 1
      • PAGE 2
      • PAGE 3
      • PAGE 4
      • PAGE 5
      • PAGE 6
      • PAGE 7
      • PAGE 8
      • PAGE 9
      • PAGE 10
      • PAGE 11
      • PAGE 12
      • PAGE 13
  • THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF CORTE MADERA
  • THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF CORTE MADERA
Corte Madera Memories

    SONIA BRANDT DELEW LIVED IN CORTE MADERA FOR 90 YEARS

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Sonia at age 14, waiting for the train to come.
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Sonia Brandt came to Corte Madera from San Francisco in 1916 with her parents and her brother when she was just six years old and starting school. The family moved into one of the big new homes on the hill above the train station, where the front windows looked out across the marsh and the bay.  In 1995, Sonia talked about her long life in Corte Madera during a visit with Gerrie Reichard and Jana Haehl at that same home, in which she and her husband, Dick DeLew, had raised their son, Richard, who continued to live there and care for Sonia throughout all of her later years.

Enjoy the 17-minute video recording from that visit by clicking first on Part I and then on Part II.