Named for Wealtha Rempp (1887-1978) on 1923’s Stonehurst Manor tract, established by her husband Albert Paul “Pep” Rempp (c. 1882-1961) on land owned by Thelma Davis. Wealtha Louise Harris, a Michigander, was living in Los Angeles when she married Rempp, a German-born hotel waiter, in 1909. The newlyweds soon moved up to San Francisco and then Suisun City, where Rempp opened a bar. “Pep” was a cagey sort – he variously gave his birth year as 1882, 1885, and 1891, and often claimed he was born in Chicago – and trouble followed him: he was arrested in 1914 for selling booze to minors, then again in 1916 for embezzlement. This second charge may have provoked the couple to relocate to the Windy City, where Rempp got into real estate. They were back in L.A. by 1922… and Rempp was convicted of mail fraud four years later. Wealtha, fed up with Pep’s nonsense, dumped him by 1930. She found work as a housekeeper and officially secured her divorce in 1943. (Three years earlier, in the 1940 census, Rempp was residing in Oakland with his “wife” Julia.) Wealtha wed baker Norman Beard in 1944 and spent her final years in Banning.
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