Alberta Seabold Casey
August 20, 1918 - December 11, 2020
La Jolla
On December 11, 2020, Alberta Seabold Casey, a long-term resident of La Jolla with a storied life as a singer, violinist, actor, painter, and advocate of Esperanto, passed away peacefully at her home. She was 102.
She is survived by her son, David Casey Jr. and his wife, Lisa; her daughter, Julia Fisher; her grandchildren, Deborah Huntington, Jessica Diamond, David Casey III, and Shannon Elizabeth Casey; and her great-grandchildren, Jack Huntington and Kate Huntington.
Alberta Kathryn Seabold was born August 20, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Dr. John Albert Seabold and Delphine Angela McMenamy. Her older sister Miriam went on to become a dancer who performed nationally on many shows, including the Johnny Carson Show, and her older sister Delphine became a civic leader in St. Louis.
Alberta first visited La Jolla in 1929 with her mother when she was 11 years old. La Jolla was a very small village back then, and Alberta was able to ride horses down Pearl Street. She loved La Jolla, and that trip would change her life forever.Growing up, Alberta quickly took to the arts; her first love in life was the violin. By the time she met and fell in love with David S. Casey, an ambitious young attorney in St. Louis, in 1940, she was already an accomplished violinist playing for the St. Louis Women's Symphony. She had attended the Sacred Heart Visitation Academy and later the St. Louis Institute of Music.
When she married, her husband began to practice law with acclaimed St. Louis attorney, Mark Eagleton, the father of future United States Senator Tom Eagleton. They soon had a daughter, Julia Tyson Casey, who was born on March 15, 1941. Alberta loved poetry and wrote a poem about their daughter reflecting that, of all the songs she had learned as a violinist, "with the birth of Julia, to me she is a song of songs.
Aberta's idyllic life was disrupted by the fateful bombing of Pearl Harbor; the following day, her husband enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned aboard the Jeep carrier Santee, leaving behind his family and law practice in St. Louis. Alberta exchanged letters with him regularly throughout the battles of the war. While on the Santee, David ended up being involved in the famous Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was memorialized in the book The Last Stand of the Tin Cup Sailors. He and Alberta decided that, should he survive the war, they would move out of St. Louis to San Diego and La Jolla, which they had both fallen in love with.Alberta, David, and Julia moved to San Diego in 1947. David opened his law practice in July of 1947 and began a law practice, which continues to this day as the Casey Gerry law firm. In 1949, Alberta gave birth to her second child, David Casey, Jr. They moved into La Jolla later that year, and Alberta would remain a resident of La Jolla for the rest of her life.Alberta lived a charmed life in different locations in La Jolla, including residing for a number of years in Bungalow E at the Hotel Del Charro, which in the 1950s and 60s was a gathering place for movie stars and celebrities in La Jolla Shores, including such individuals as J. Edgar Hoover. She loved La Jolla and was a constant presence at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, where she would go to regularly up until the time shortly before her passing.In the 1950s she also developed a love for Warner Springs and its internationally known sulfur pools. She eventually purchased a second home in Warner Springs, where she set up an art studio in order to pursue her painting in a more rustic environment.
In 1957, Alberta and her husband separated. From that time forward, her focus was her family and her pursuit of the arts. She decided to take up painting, which became a passion for her. She painted hundreds of oil paintings of portraits and scenes. Her love of painting reached a crescendo when she worked with the Market Street Group of San Diego, which held a painting exposition in Paris in 1994. Her family flew over to visit with her to see her exposition at that time.
She also enjoyed acting and performing plays at the Coronado Playhouse. She was active in the 1950s in the La Jolla Playhouse. One of her favorite pictures was of her driving a car with Gregory Peck, who was one of the co-founders of the La Jolla Playhouse. Alberta also loved sports and passed on her love of tennis to her children and grandchildren. She had a passion for skiing and was one of the early students of famed skier Stein Erickson, from whom she received lessons at Sun Valley in the 1950s. She instilled in her children and grandchildren a permanent love of skiing.Alberta was a devout Catholic and very active with the Sacred Heart. When the San Diego College for Women opened, she was at the groundbreaking. She was one of the first applicants to enroll in 1952 to the San Diego College of Women, which later became the University of San Diego. She ended up becoming president of the Alumni of the Sacred Heart of the San Diego College for Women. Decades later, her son and grandson would both attend the University of San Diego School of Law. In 2016, a scholarship was set up at the University of San Diego known at the "Alberta S. Casey Legacy Endowed Scholarship," which permanently provides an annual scholarship for women graduates of the University of San Diego who decide to attend the University of San Diego School of Law. Alberta was very active at Mary Star of the Sea Church and was a founding member of the All Hallows Church in La Jolla.
Alberta loved to travel internationally. In the summer of 1971, while she was in the cafeteria at the University of London, she overheard people speaking a language she had never heard before. She talked to them and discovered it was an international language called Esperanto, designed by Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof to help bridge communication between all the different nations in the world which had different languages. This was a moment that would forever change her life. She loved the idea of having an international language that was not native to any particular country but could bridge the gaps between the different countries. She became very active in promoting Esperanto and was appointed as a representative of the American Catholic Esperanto Society, as well as a member of the Esperanto League of North America. She would end up being interviewed by the media throughout the world on her promotion of Esperanto. She loved to point out that Einstein had learned Esperanto in one weekend! She attended Esperanto conferences all over the world. In the early 1970s, she even went to China to speak about Esperanto on the radio.
It was during this time that her love of art, singing, and Esperanto merged. She ended up painting numerous portraits of, as well as sculpting, Dr. Zamenhof's image. Alberta began performing songs in Esperanto. She performed at the Esperanto conferences she would attend and in 1977, she produced and sang a record in Esperanto entitled, "Alberta Casey Kantas Esperanto Al Vi De Mi." She produced a second record in 1981 based on San Diego itself entitled, "San Diego Vokos." She later produced another album entitled, "The Best of Alberta Casey in Esperanto: Let There Be Peace On Earth." As a singer, she performed in five different languages, including Esperanto, and sang internationally at Esperanto congresses in Iceland, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, and the Republic of Germany.
She truly lived a full and charmed life. Private masses are being held in remembrance of her at many Catholic churches. Anyone desiring to make donations in remembrance of Alberta can make them to the University of San Diego School of Law, an institution she loved, in support of the Alberta S. Casey Endowed Scholarship Fund supporting women graduates from USD. The donation page can be found at www.law.sandiego.edu/albertacaseyscholarship
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jan. 24, 2021.
Father: Dr. John Albert Seabold
BIRTH 2 OCT 1884 in Emmitsburg, Frederick, Maryland, USA
DEATH 15 MAR 1970 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Mother: Delphine Mary McMenamy
BIRTH 18 FEB 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
DEATH 21 OCT 1969 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, US
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Sept. 17, 1913-Aug. 3, 2003
David S. Casey Sr., 89, of La Jolla died Sunday. He was born in St. Louis and was a founder and partner of Casey Gerry Reed and Schenk, a law firm. He served in the Navy and was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret; daughter, Julia Fisher of Palm Desert; son, David Jr. of La Jolla; stepdaughter, Leslie Sanguinetti of San Diego; stepson Greg Sanguinetti of Oregon; sister, Mary Dixon of Washington; and brother, Robert of San Diego; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services: 10 a.m. tomorrow, Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 7727 Girard Ave., La Jolla.
Interment: El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.
Donations; Zoological Society of San Diego, P.O. Box 120551, San Diego, CA 92112.
Arrangements: Pacific Beach Chapel.
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Aug. 6, 2003.
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CASEY, MARGARET Margaret Hackett Sanguinetti Casey, widow of former California State Bar Association President David S. Casey Sr. and daughter of General Frank Dennis Hackett, died July 3, 2004 at her home in La Jolla, Ca. She was 80. She was active in numerous community and charity groups, but her primary focus for the last 40 years, was her husband's law practice. She was the reining matriarch of a large extended family. Mrs. Casey was an accomplished musician and studied opera at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. In the late fifties she put on Hootenannies at the Scripps Institute auditorium with the likes of Sam Hinton and the Christie Minstrels. She was also an accomplished sculptress and studied under Donal Hord for many years. She was perhaps best known for her extraordinary parties and the lavish gardens, where the festivities often took place. She was as comfortable throwing Wine and Food Society banquets as she was digging in her garden, playing music, carving stone or driving her motor home. Her happiest moments were touring the campsites of America, meeting up every year with her two sisters. Mrs. Casey met her first husband Eugene Francis Sanguinetti during WWII. They were married at the end of the war at Kirkland Field in New Mexico where her father was the Commanding General. They took up residence in Yuma, Arizona, the town Mr. Sanguinetti'sfather helped build, Their house in Yuma is now a historical museum. They purchased a home in La Jolla in 1958. She maintained her primary residency in La Jolla ever since. E.F. Sanguinetti went on to become the Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Art, in Salt Lake City. In 1968 she married prominent San Diego attorney, David S. Casey Sr. Despite the pressures of his practice, they managed to maintain the traveling tradition of annual road tours with her sisters and regular trips abroad. He preceded her in death, in 2003. She is survived by her son Greg Sanguinetti of Portland Oregon, daughter Leslie Sanguinetti of Point Loma, stepson David S. Casey Jr., stepdaughter Julia Fisher of Redmond Wash,. five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She is also survived by sisters Betty Breen of Hollister Calif. and Mary Erickson of Bellevue Wash. Services will be held at Mary Star of the Sea church in La Jolla at 11 a.m. Friday, July 16. In lieu of flowers the family requests contributions to San Diego Hospice or the Zoological Society of San Diego. Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jul. 15, 2004.
August 20, 1918 - December 11, 2020
La Jolla
On December 11, 2020, Alberta Seabold Casey, a long-term resident of La Jolla with a storied life as a singer, violinist, actor, painter, and advocate of Esperanto, passed away peacefully at her home. She was 102.
She is survived by her son, David Casey Jr. and his wife, Lisa; her daughter, Julia Fisher; her grandchildren, Deborah Huntington, Jessica Diamond, David Casey III, and Shannon Elizabeth Casey; and her great-grandchildren, Jack Huntington and Kate Huntington.
Alberta Kathryn Seabold was born August 20, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Dr. John Albert Seabold and Delphine Angela McMenamy. Her older sister Miriam went on to become a dancer who performed nationally on many shows, including the Johnny Carson Show, and her older sister Delphine became a civic leader in St. Louis.
Alberta first visited La Jolla in 1929 with her mother when she was 11 years old. La Jolla was a very small village back then, and Alberta was able to ride horses down Pearl Street. She loved La Jolla, and that trip would change her life forever.Growing up, Alberta quickly took to the arts; her first love in life was the violin. By the time she met and fell in love with David S. Casey, an ambitious young attorney in St. Louis, in 1940, she was already an accomplished violinist playing for the St. Louis Women's Symphony. She had attended the Sacred Heart Visitation Academy and later the St. Louis Institute of Music.
When she married, her husband began to practice law with acclaimed St. Louis attorney, Mark Eagleton, the father of future United States Senator Tom Eagleton. They soon had a daughter, Julia Tyson Casey, who was born on March 15, 1941. Alberta loved poetry and wrote a poem about their daughter reflecting that, of all the songs she had learned as a violinist, "with the birth of Julia, to me she is a song of songs.
Aberta's idyllic life was disrupted by the fateful bombing of Pearl Harbor; the following day, her husband enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned aboard the Jeep carrier Santee, leaving behind his family and law practice in St. Louis. Alberta exchanged letters with him regularly throughout the battles of the war. While on the Santee, David ended up being involved in the famous Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was memorialized in the book The Last Stand of the Tin Cup Sailors. He and Alberta decided that, should he survive the war, they would move out of St. Louis to San Diego and La Jolla, which they had both fallen in love with.Alberta, David, and Julia moved to San Diego in 1947. David opened his law practice in July of 1947 and began a law practice, which continues to this day as the Casey Gerry law firm. In 1949, Alberta gave birth to her second child, David Casey, Jr. They moved into La Jolla later that year, and Alberta would remain a resident of La Jolla for the rest of her life.Alberta lived a charmed life in different locations in La Jolla, including residing for a number of years in Bungalow E at the Hotel Del Charro, which in the 1950s and 60s was a gathering place for movie stars and celebrities in La Jolla Shores, including such individuals as J. Edgar Hoover. She loved La Jolla and was a constant presence at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, where she would go to regularly up until the time shortly before her passing.In the 1950s she also developed a love for Warner Springs and its internationally known sulfur pools. She eventually purchased a second home in Warner Springs, where she set up an art studio in order to pursue her painting in a more rustic environment.
In 1957, Alberta and her husband separated. From that time forward, her focus was her family and her pursuit of the arts. She decided to take up painting, which became a passion for her. She painted hundreds of oil paintings of portraits and scenes. Her love of painting reached a crescendo when she worked with the Market Street Group of San Diego, which held a painting exposition in Paris in 1994. Her family flew over to visit with her to see her exposition at that time.
She also enjoyed acting and performing plays at the Coronado Playhouse. She was active in the 1950s in the La Jolla Playhouse. One of her favorite pictures was of her driving a car with Gregory Peck, who was one of the co-founders of the La Jolla Playhouse. Alberta also loved sports and passed on her love of tennis to her children and grandchildren. She had a passion for skiing and was one of the early students of famed skier Stein Erickson, from whom she received lessons at Sun Valley in the 1950s. She instilled in her children and grandchildren a permanent love of skiing.Alberta was a devout Catholic and very active with the Sacred Heart. When the San Diego College for Women opened, she was at the groundbreaking. She was one of the first applicants to enroll in 1952 to the San Diego College of Women, which later became the University of San Diego. She ended up becoming president of the Alumni of the Sacred Heart of the San Diego College for Women. Decades later, her son and grandson would both attend the University of San Diego School of Law. In 2016, a scholarship was set up at the University of San Diego known at the "Alberta S. Casey Legacy Endowed Scholarship," which permanently provides an annual scholarship for women graduates of the University of San Diego who decide to attend the University of San Diego School of Law. Alberta was very active at Mary Star of the Sea Church and was a founding member of the All Hallows Church in La Jolla.
Alberta loved to travel internationally. In the summer of 1971, while she was in the cafeteria at the University of London, she overheard people speaking a language she had never heard before. She talked to them and discovered it was an international language called Esperanto, designed by Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof to help bridge communication between all the different nations in the world which had different languages. This was a moment that would forever change her life. She loved the idea of having an international language that was not native to any particular country but could bridge the gaps between the different countries. She became very active in promoting Esperanto and was appointed as a representative of the American Catholic Esperanto Society, as well as a member of the Esperanto League of North America. She would end up being interviewed by the media throughout the world on her promotion of Esperanto. She loved to point out that Einstein had learned Esperanto in one weekend! She attended Esperanto conferences all over the world. In the early 1970s, she even went to China to speak about Esperanto on the radio.
It was during this time that her love of art, singing, and Esperanto merged. She ended up painting numerous portraits of, as well as sculpting, Dr. Zamenhof's image. Alberta began performing songs in Esperanto. She performed at the Esperanto conferences she would attend and in 1977, she produced and sang a record in Esperanto entitled, "Alberta Casey Kantas Esperanto Al Vi De Mi." She produced a second record in 1981 based on San Diego itself entitled, "San Diego Vokos." She later produced another album entitled, "The Best of Alberta Casey in Esperanto: Let There Be Peace On Earth." As a singer, she performed in five different languages, including Esperanto, and sang internationally at Esperanto congresses in Iceland, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, and the Republic of Germany.
She truly lived a full and charmed life. Private masses are being held in remembrance of her at many Catholic churches. Anyone desiring to make donations in remembrance of Alberta can make them to the University of San Diego School of Law, an institution she loved, in support of the Alberta S. Casey Endowed Scholarship Fund supporting women graduates from USD. The donation page can be found at www.law.sandiego.edu/albertacaseyscholarship
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jan. 24, 2021.
Father: Dr. John Albert Seabold
BIRTH 2 OCT 1884 in Emmitsburg, Frederick, Maryland, USA
DEATH 15 MAR 1970 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Mother: Delphine Mary McMenamy
BIRTH 18 FEB 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
DEATH 21 OCT 1969 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, US
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Sept. 17, 1913-Aug. 3, 2003
David S. Casey Sr., 89, of La Jolla died Sunday. He was born in St. Louis and was a founder and partner of Casey Gerry Reed and Schenk, a law firm. He served in the Navy and was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret; daughter, Julia Fisher of Palm Desert; son, David Jr. of La Jolla; stepdaughter, Leslie Sanguinetti of San Diego; stepson Greg Sanguinetti of Oregon; sister, Mary Dixon of Washington; and brother, Robert of San Diego; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services: 10 a.m. tomorrow, Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 7727 Girard Ave., La Jolla.
Interment: El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.
Donations; Zoological Society of San Diego, P.O. Box 120551, San Diego, CA 92112.
Arrangements: Pacific Beach Chapel.
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Aug. 6, 2003.
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CASEY, MARGARET Margaret Hackett Sanguinetti Casey, widow of former California State Bar Association President David S. Casey Sr. and daughter of General Frank Dennis Hackett, died July 3, 2004 at her home in La Jolla, Ca. She was 80. She was active in numerous community and charity groups, but her primary focus for the last 40 years, was her husband's law practice. She was the reining matriarch of a large extended family. Mrs. Casey was an accomplished musician and studied opera at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. In the late fifties she put on Hootenannies at the Scripps Institute auditorium with the likes of Sam Hinton and the Christie Minstrels. She was also an accomplished sculptress and studied under Donal Hord for many years. She was perhaps best known for her extraordinary parties and the lavish gardens, where the festivities often took place. She was as comfortable throwing Wine and Food Society banquets as she was digging in her garden, playing music, carving stone or driving her motor home. Her happiest moments were touring the campsites of America, meeting up every year with her two sisters. Mrs. Casey met her first husband Eugene Francis Sanguinetti during WWII. They were married at the end of the war at Kirkland Field in New Mexico where her father was the Commanding General. They took up residence in Yuma, Arizona, the town Mr. Sanguinetti'sfather helped build, Their house in Yuma is now a historical museum. They purchased a home in La Jolla in 1958. She maintained her primary residency in La Jolla ever since. E.F. Sanguinetti went on to become the Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Art, in Salt Lake City. In 1968 she married prominent San Diego attorney, David S. Casey Sr. Despite the pressures of his practice, they managed to maintain the traveling tradition of annual road tours with her sisters and regular trips abroad. He preceded her in death, in 2003. She is survived by her son Greg Sanguinetti of Portland Oregon, daughter Leslie Sanguinetti of Point Loma, stepson David S. Casey Jr., stepdaughter Julia Fisher of Redmond Wash,. five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She is also survived by sisters Betty Breen of Hollister Calif. and Mary Erickson of Bellevue Wash. Services will be held at Mary Star of the Sea church in La Jolla at 11 a.m. Friday, July 16. In lieu of flowers the family requests contributions to San Diego Hospice or the Zoological Society of San Diego. Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jul. 15, 2004.
Alberta Seabold Casey
August 20, 1918 - December 11, 2020
La Jolla
On December 11, 2020, Alberta Seabold Casey, a long-term resident of La Jolla with a storied life as a singer, violinist, actor, painter, and advocate of Esperanto, passed away peacefully at her home. She was 102.
She is survived by her son, David Casey Jr. and his wife, Lisa; her daughter, Julia Fisher; her grandchildren, Deborah Huntington, Jessica Diamond, David Casey III, and Shannon Elizabeth Casey; and her great-grandchildren, Jack Huntington and Kate Huntington.
Alberta Kathryn Seabold was born August 20, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Dr. John Albert Seabold and Delphine Angela McMenamy. Her older sister Miriam went on to become a dancer who performed nationally on many shows, including the Johnny Carson Show, and her older sister Delphine became a civic leader in St. Louis.
Alberta first visited La Jolla in 1929 with her mother when she was 11 years old. La Jolla was a very small village back then, and Alberta was able to ride horses down Pearl Street. She loved La Jolla, and that trip would change her life forever.Growing up, Alberta quickly took to the arts; her first love in life was the violin. By the time she met and fell in love with David S. Casey, an ambitious young attorney in St. Louis, in 1940, she was already an accomplished violinist playing for the St. Louis Women's Symphony. She had attended the Sacred Heart Visitation Academy and later the St. Louis Institute of Music.
When she married, her husband began to practice law with acclaimed St. Louis attorney, Mark Eagleton, the father of future United States Senator Tom Eagleton. They soon had a daughter, Julia Tyson Casey, who was born on March 15, 1941. Alberta loved poetry and wrote a poem about their daughter reflecting that, of all the songs she had learned as a violinist, "with the birth of Julia, to me she is a song of songs.
Aberta's idyllic life was disrupted by the fateful bombing of Pearl Harbor; the following day, her husband enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned aboard the Jeep carrier Santee, leaving behind his family and law practice in St. Louis. Alberta exchanged letters with him regularly throughout the battles of the war. While on the Santee, David ended up being involved in the famous Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was memorialized in the book The Last Stand of the Tin Cup Sailors. He and Alberta decided that, should he survive the war, they would move out of St. Louis to San Diego and La Jolla, which they had both fallen in love with.Alberta, David, and Julia moved to San Diego in 1947. David opened his law practice in July of 1947 and began a law practice, which continues to this day as the Casey Gerry law firm. In 1949, Alberta gave birth to her second child, David Casey, Jr. They moved into La Jolla later that year, and Alberta would remain a resident of La Jolla for the rest of her life.Alberta lived a charmed life in different locations in La Jolla, including residing for a number of years in Bungalow E at the Hotel Del Charro, which in the 1950s and 60s was a gathering place for movie stars and celebrities in La Jolla Shores, including such individuals as J. Edgar Hoover. She loved La Jolla and was a constant presence at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, where she would go to regularly up until the time shortly before her passing.In the 1950s she also developed a love for Warner Springs and its internationally known sulfur pools. She eventually purchased a second home in Warner Springs, where she set up an art studio in order to pursue her painting in a more rustic environment.
In 1957, Alberta and her husband separated. From that time forward, her focus was her family and her pursuit of the arts. She decided to take up painting, which became a passion for her. She painted hundreds of oil paintings of portraits and scenes. Her love of painting reached a crescendo when she worked with the Market Street Group of San Diego, which held a painting exposition in Paris in 1994. Her family flew over to visit with her to see her exposition at that time.
She also enjoyed acting and performing plays at the Coronado Playhouse. She was active in the 1950s in the La Jolla Playhouse. One of her favorite pictures was of her driving a car with Gregory Peck, who was one of the co-founders of the La Jolla Playhouse. Alberta also loved sports and passed on her love of tennis to her children and grandchildren. She had a passion for skiing and was one of the early students of famed skier Stein Erickson, from whom she received lessons at Sun Valley in the 1950s. She instilled in her children and grandchildren a permanent love of skiing.Alberta was a devout Catholic and very active with the Sacred Heart. When the San Diego College for Women opened, she was at the groundbreaking. She was one of the first applicants to enroll in 1952 to the San Diego College of Women, which later became the University of San Diego. She ended up becoming president of the Alumni of the Sacred Heart of the San Diego College for Women. Decades later, her son and grandson would both attend the University of San Diego School of Law. In 2016, a scholarship was set up at the University of San Diego known at the "Alberta S. Casey Legacy Endowed Scholarship," which permanently provides an annual scholarship for women graduates of the University of San Diego who decide to attend the University of San Diego School of Law. Alberta was very active at Mary Star of the Sea Church and was a founding member of the All Hallows Church in La Jolla.
Alberta loved to travel internationally. In the summer of 1971, while she was in the cafeteria at the University of London, she overheard people speaking a language she had never heard before. She talked to them and discovered it was an international language called Esperanto, designed by Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof to help bridge communication between all the different nations in the world which had different languages. This was a moment that would forever change her life. She loved the idea of having an international language that was not native to any particular country but could bridge the gaps between the different countries. She became very active in promoting Esperanto and was appointed as a representative of the American Catholic Esperanto Society, as well as a member of the Esperanto League of North America. She would end up being interviewed by the media throughout the world on her promotion of Esperanto. She loved to point out that Einstein had learned Esperanto in one weekend! She attended Esperanto conferences all over the world. In the early 1970s, she even went to China to speak about Esperanto on the radio.
It was during this time that her love of art, singing, and Esperanto merged. She ended up painting numerous portraits of, as well as sculpting, Dr. Zamenhof's image. Alberta began performing songs in Esperanto. She performed at the Esperanto conferences she would attend and in 1977, she produced and sang a record in Esperanto entitled, "Alberta Casey Kantas Esperanto Al Vi De Mi." She produced a second record in 1981 based on San Diego itself entitled, "San Diego Vokos." She later produced another album entitled, "The Best of Alberta Casey in Esperanto: Let There Be Peace On Earth." As a singer, she performed in five different languages, including Esperanto, and sang internationally at Esperanto congresses in Iceland, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, and the Republic of Germany.
She truly lived a full and charmed life. Private masses are being held in remembrance of her at many Catholic churches. Anyone desiring to make donations in remembrance of Alberta can make them to the University of San Diego School of Law, an institution she loved, in support of the Alberta S. Casey Endowed Scholarship Fund supporting women graduates from USD. The donation page can be found at www.law.sandiego.edu/albertacaseyscholarship
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jan. 24, 2021.
Father: Dr. John Albert Seabold
BIRTH 2 OCT 1884 in Emmitsburg, Frederick, Maryland, USA
DEATH 15 MAR 1970 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Mother: Delphine Mary McMenamy
BIRTH 18 FEB 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
DEATH 21 OCT 1969 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, US
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Sept. 17, 1913-Aug. 3, 2003
David S. Casey Sr., 89, of La Jolla died Sunday. He was born in St. Louis and was a founder and partner of Casey Gerry Reed and Schenk, a law firm. He served in the Navy and was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret; daughter, Julia Fisher of Palm Desert; son, David Jr. of La Jolla; stepdaughter, Leslie Sanguinetti of San Diego; stepson Greg Sanguinetti of Oregon; sister, Mary Dixon of Washington; and brother, Robert of San Diego; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services: 10 a.m. tomorrow, Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 7727 Girard Ave., La Jolla.
Interment: El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.
Donations; Zoological Society of San Diego, P.O. Box 120551, San Diego, CA 92112.
Arrangements: Pacific Beach Chapel.
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Aug. 6, 2003.
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CASEY, MARGARET Margaret Hackett Sanguinetti Casey, widow of former California State Bar Association President David S. Casey Sr. and daughter of General Frank Dennis Hackett, died July 3, 2004 at her home in La Jolla, Ca. She was 80. She was active in numerous community and charity groups, but her primary focus for the last 40 years, was her husband's law practice. She was the reining matriarch of a large extended family. Mrs. Casey was an accomplished musician and studied opera at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. In the late fifties she put on Hootenannies at the Scripps Institute auditorium with the likes of Sam Hinton and the Christie Minstrels. She was also an accomplished sculptress and studied under Donal Hord for many years. She was perhaps best known for her extraordinary parties and the lavish gardens, where the festivities often took place. She was as comfortable throwing Wine and Food Society banquets as she was digging in her garden, playing music, carving stone or driving her motor home. Her happiest moments were touring the campsites of America, meeting up every year with her two sisters. Mrs. Casey met her first husband Eugene Francis Sanguinetti during WWII. They were married at the end of the war at Kirkland Field in New Mexico where her father was the Commanding General. They took up residence in Yuma, Arizona, the town Mr. Sanguinetti'sfather helped build, Their house in Yuma is now a historical museum. They purchased a home in La Jolla in 1958. She maintained her primary residency in La Jolla ever since. E.F. Sanguinetti went on to become the Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Art, in Salt Lake City. In 1968 she married prominent San Diego attorney, David S. Casey Sr. Despite the pressures of his practice, they managed to maintain the traveling tradition of annual road tours with her sisters and regular trips abroad. He preceded her in death, in 2003. She is survived by her son Greg Sanguinetti of Portland Oregon, daughter Leslie Sanguinetti of Point Loma, stepson David S. Casey Jr., stepdaughter Julia Fisher of Redmond Wash,. five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She is also survived by sisters Betty Breen of Hollister Calif. and Mary Erickson of Bellevue Wash. Services will be held at Mary Star of the Sea church in La Jolla at 11 a.m. Friday, July 16. In lieu of flowers the family requests contributions to San Diego Hospice or the Zoological Society of San Diego. Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jul. 15, 2004.
August 20, 1918 - December 11, 2020
La Jolla
On December 11, 2020, Alberta Seabold Casey, a long-term resident of La Jolla with a storied life as a singer, violinist, actor, painter, and advocate of Esperanto, passed away peacefully at her home. She was 102.
She is survived by her son, David Casey Jr. and his wife, Lisa; her daughter, Julia Fisher; her grandchildren, Deborah Huntington, Jessica Diamond, David Casey III, and Shannon Elizabeth Casey; and her great-grandchildren, Jack Huntington and Kate Huntington.
Alberta Kathryn Seabold was born August 20, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Dr. John Albert Seabold and Delphine Angela McMenamy. Her older sister Miriam went on to become a dancer who performed nationally on many shows, including the Johnny Carson Show, and her older sister Delphine became a civic leader in St. Louis.
Alberta first visited La Jolla in 1929 with her mother when she was 11 years old. La Jolla was a very small village back then, and Alberta was able to ride horses down Pearl Street. She loved La Jolla, and that trip would change her life forever.Growing up, Alberta quickly took to the arts; her first love in life was the violin. By the time she met and fell in love with David S. Casey, an ambitious young attorney in St. Louis, in 1940, she was already an accomplished violinist playing for the St. Louis Women's Symphony. She had attended the Sacred Heart Visitation Academy and later the St. Louis Institute of Music.
When she married, her husband began to practice law with acclaimed St. Louis attorney, Mark Eagleton, the father of future United States Senator Tom Eagleton. They soon had a daughter, Julia Tyson Casey, who was born on March 15, 1941. Alberta loved poetry and wrote a poem about their daughter reflecting that, of all the songs she had learned as a violinist, "with the birth of Julia, to me she is a song of songs.
Aberta's idyllic life was disrupted by the fateful bombing of Pearl Harbor; the following day, her husband enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned aboard the Jeep carrier Santee, leaving behind his family and law practice in St. Louis. Alberta exchanged letters with him regularly throughout the battles of the war. While on the Santee, David ended up being involved in the famous Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf, which was memorialized in the book The Last Stand of the Tin Cup Sailors. He and Alberta decided that, should he survive the war, they would move out of St. Louis to San Diego and La Jolla, which they had both fallen in love with.Alberta, David, and Julia moved to San Diego in 1947. David opened his law practice in July of 1947 and began a law practice, which continues to this day as the Casey Gerry law firm. In 1949, Alberta gave birth to her second child, David Casey, Jr. They moved into La Jolla later that year, and Alberta would remain a resident of La Jolla for the rest of her life.Alberta lived a charmed life in different locations in La Jolla, including residing for a number of years in Bungalow E at the Hotel Del Charro, which in the 1950s and 60s was a gathering place for movie stars and celebrities in La Jolla Shores, including such individuals as J. Edgar Hoover. She loved La Jolla and was a constant presence at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, where she would go to regularly up until the time shortly before her passing.In the 1950s she also developed a love for Warner Springs and its internationally known sulfur pools. She eventually purchased a second home in Warner Springs, where she set up an art studio in order to pursue her painting in a more rustic environment.
In 1957, Alberta and her husband separated. From that time forward, her focus was her family and her pursuit of the arts. She decided to take up painting, which became a passion for her. She painted hundreds of oil paintings of portraits and scenes. Her love of painting reached a crescendo when she worked with the Market Street Group of San Diego, which held a painting exposition in Paris in 1994. Her family flew over to visit with her to see her exposition at that time.
She also enjoyed acting and performing plays at the Coronado Playhouse. She was active in the 1950s in the La Jolla Playhouse. One of her favorite pictures was of her driving a car with Gregory Peck, who was one of the co-founders of the La Jolla Playhouse. Alberta also loved sports and passed on her love of tennis to her children and grandchildren. She had a passion for skiing and was one of the early students of famed skier Stein Erickson, from whom she received lessons at Sun Valley in the 1950s. She instilled in her children and grandchildren a permanent love of skiing.Alberta was a devout Catholic and very active with the Sacred Heart. When the San Diego College for Women opened, she was at the groundbreaking. She was one of the first applicants to enroll in 1952 to the San Diego College of Women, which later became the University of San Diego. She ended up becoming president of the Alumni of the Sacred Heart of the San Diego College for Women. Decades later, her son and grandson would both attend the University of San Diego School of Law. In 2016, a scholarship was set up at the University of San Diego known at the "Alberta S. Casey Legacy Endowed Scholarship," which permanently provides an annual scholarship for women graduates of the University of San Diego who decide to attend the University of San Diego School of Law. Alberta was very active at Mary Star of the Sea Church and was a founding member of the All Hallows Church in La Jolla.
Alberta loved to travel internationally. In the summer of 1971, while she was in the cafeteria at the University of London, she overheard people speaking a language she had never heard before. She talked to them and discovered it was an international language called Esperanto, designed by Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof to help bridge communication between all the different nations in the world which had different languages. This was a moment that would forever change her life. She loved the idea of having an international language that was not native to any particular country but could bridge the gaps between the different countries. She became very active in promoting Esperanto and was appointed as a representative of the American Catholic Esperanto Society, as well as a member of the Esperanto League of North America. She would end up being interviewed by the media throughout the world on her promotion of Esperanto. She loved to point out that Einstein had learned Esperanto in one weekend! She attended Esperanto conferences all over the world. In the early 1970s, she even went to China to speak about Esperanto on the radio.
It was during this time that her love of art, singing, and Esperanto merged. She ended up painting numerous portraits of, as well as sculpting, Dr. Zamenhof's image. Alberta began performing songs in Esperanto. She performed at the Esperanto conferences she would attend and in 1977, she produced and sang a record in Esperanto entitled, "Alberta Casey Kantas Esperanto Al Vi De Mi." She produced a second record in 1981 based on San Diego itself entitled, "San Diego Vokos." She later produced another album entitled, "The Best of Alberta Casey in Esperanto: Let There Be Peace On Earth." As a singer, she performed in five different languages, including Esperanto, and sang internationally at Esperanto congresses in Iceland, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, and the Republic of Germany.
She truly lived a full and charmed life. Private masses are being held in remembrance of her at many Catholic churches. Anyone desiring to make donations in remembrance of Alberta can make them to the University of San Diego School of Law, an institution she loved, in support of the Alberta S. Casey Endowed Scholarship Fund supporting women graduates from USD. The donation page can be found at www.law.sandiego.edu/albertacaseyscholarship
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jan. 24, 2021.
Father: Dr. John Albert Seabold
BIRTH 2 OCT 1884 in Emmitsburg, Frederick, Maryland, USA
DEATH 15 MAR 1970 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Mother: Delphine Mary McMenamy
BIRTH 18 FEB 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, USA
DEATH 21 OCT 1969 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, US
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Sept. 17, 1913-Aug. 3, 2003
David S. Casey Sr., 89, of La Jolla died Sunday. He was born in St. Louis and was a founder and partner of Casey Gerry Reed and Schenk, a law firm. He served in the Navy and was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret; daughter, Julia Fisher of Palm Desert; son, David Jr. of La Jolla; stepdaughter, Leslie Sanguinetti of San Diego; stepson Greg Sanguinetti of Oregon; sister, Mary Dixon of Washington; and brother, Robert of San Diego; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services: 10 a.m. tomorrow, Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 7727 Girard Ave., La Jolla.
Interment: El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego.
Donations; Zoological Society of San Diego, P.O. Box 120551, San Diego, CA 92112.
Arrangements: Pacific Beach Chapel.
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Aug. 6, 2003.
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CASEY, MARGARET Margaret Hackett Sanguinetti Casey, widow of former California State Bar Association President David S. Casey Sr. and daughter of General Frank Dennis Hackett, died July 3, 2004 at her home in La Jolla, Ca. She was 80. She was active in numerous community and charity groups, but her primary focus for the last 40 years, was her husband's law practice. She was the reining matriarch of a large extended family. Mrs. Casey was an accomplished musician and studied opera at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she received a Bachelor of Arts. In the late fifties she put on Hootenannies at the Scripps Institute auditorium with the likes of Sam Hinton and the Christie Minstrels. She was also an accomplished sculptress and studied under Donal Hord for many years. She was perhaps best known for her extraordinary parties and the lavish gardens, where the festivities often took place. She was as comfortable throwing Wine and Food Society banquets as she was digging in her garden, playing music, carving stone or driving her motor home. Her happiest moments were touring the campsites of America, meeting up every year with her two sisters. Mrs. Casey met her first husband Eugene Francis Sanguinetti during WWII. They were married at the end of the war at Kirkland Field in New Mexico where her father was the Commanding General. They took up residence in Yuma, Arizona, the town Mr. Sanguinetti'sfather helped build, Their house in Yuma is now a historical museum. They purchased a home in La Jolla in 1958. She maintained her primary residency in La Jolla ever since. E.F. Sanguinetti went on to become the Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Art, in Salt Lake City. In 1968 she married prominent San Diego attorney, David S. Casey Sr. Despite the pressures of his practice, they managed to maintain the traveling tradition of annual road tours with her sisters and regular trips abroad. He preceded her in death, in 2003. She is survived by her son Greg Sanguinetti of Portland Oregon, daughter Leslie Sanguinetti of Point Loma, stepson David S. Casey Jr., stepdaughter Julia Fisher of Redmond Wash,. five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She is also survived by sisters Betty Breen of Hollister Calif. and Mary Erickson of Bellevue Wash. Services will be held at Mary Star of the Sea church in La Jolla at 11 a.m. Friday, July 16. In lieu of flowers the family requests contributions to San Diego Hospice or the Zoological Society of San Diego. Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com
Published in San Diego Union-Tribune on Jul. 15, 2004.
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