Joan Spengler (Richard) Bickle
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Title
Joan Spengler (Richard) Bickle
Subject
Bickle, Joan "Jo" Spengler Richard (1928-2017)
Description
Portrait photograph of Joan (Spengler) Bickle when she was young.
Joan was the daughter of Harry "Jake" and Mabel (Clark) Richard.
She was raised on Delray Farm in Strasburg but spent every summer from the time she was 14 riding horses for Pringle Brothers Stable of Oshkosh, Nebraska.
She rode in local fairs and even competed in the Ladies Relay during a "Frontier Days" event in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
In 1945, she spent the spring on tour with J.E. Revoke participating in several Quadrille (square dancing on horseback) events.
Joan married J.C. "Bud" Bickle in Grand Canyon, Arizona, in 1946.
Their children were: Virginia Mae (Bickle) Hamrick, Teresa Lee (Bickle) Garrard, and Rhett Clark Bickle.
Joan was the daughter of Harry "Jake" and Mabel (Clark) Richard.
She was raised on Delray Farm in Strasburg but spent every summer from the time she was 14 riding horses for Pringle Brothers Stable of Oshkosh, Nebraska.
She rode in local fairs and even competed in the Ladies Relay during a "Frontier Days" event in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
In 1945, she spent the spring on tour with J.E. Revoke participating in several Quadrille (square dancing on horseback) events.
Joan married J.C. "Bud" Bickle in Grand Canyon, Arizona, in 1946.
Their children were: Virginia Mae (Bickle) Hamrick, Teresa Lee (Bickle) Garrard, and Rhett Clark Bickle.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
ca 1941 or 1942
Contributor
Identified on an undated ID form by Joan (Richard) Bickle herself, who provided a brief biography.
Also identified in 2007 by Graham Conner, who remembered she loved horses and always dressed like a boy.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Identifier
002225
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “Joan Spengler (Richard) Bickle,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed February 4, 2026, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/26581.
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