Arietta Marie Tinker

Arietta Marie “Renie” Tinker was a 17‑year‑old young woman from Hollywood Beach, Florida. Public records and contemporary reporting place her in the South Florida community where she lived and worked with family and friends during the mid‑1970s. Though only a teenager, Arietta had the responsibilities and ties often found in young adults of her time; contemporaneous accounts note she had married young and was known to relatives and neighbors by the nickname “Renie.”

While many personal details about her daily life — her schooling, friendships, favorite pastimes, and quiet moments — are not available in the public record, the sources that identify her emphasize that she was a real person with family connections and a life cut far too short. Those records show she was last seen on April 9, 1975, and her death on that date is the anchor point in public documentation about her. Rather than reducing her to a headline, what remains important is that Arietta was a daughter and wife, a member of a neighborhood and generation, and someone whose absence was deeply felt by those who knew her.

Because contemporary obituary notices specifically matching her name and the exact date of death have not been located in publicly available archives, public remembrance must rely on the verified facts that exist and on the dignity of remembering a young life rather than the circumstances that ended it. The limits of the public record mean we cannot reconstruct a full portrait of her personality or everyday joys; nonetheless, even limited records show she mattered to others and that her memory endures among family and researchers who seek answers.

This page honors Arietta Marie Tinker by acknowledging her as a young woman from Hollywood Beach whose life held relationships and responsibilities and whose memory deserves respectful recognition. Her life — brief as it was — remains more than the manner of her death; it is a reminder of a person whom family members and a community once knew and loved.