Charlotte Saemann Kniazzeh Maneikis, a foreign language scholar and retired professor, died Jan. 6, 2001 at the Wesleyan Nursing Home in Georgetown, TX. She was 90. Mrs. Maneikis was born in Oak Park, IL on March 23, 1910 and had five siblings. She graduated from the University of Chicago, and earned a Master’s Degree in French from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Chicago. She extended her dissertation research in ancient Catalan and published the three-volume set, “Vides de Sants Rosselloncses”, with co-author, Dr. E.J. Neugaard. She also studied in Bergamo, Italy, Bogota, Columbia, Barcelona, Spain and Mexico City. During WWII she taught Italian to Army servicemen at the U. of C. She later taught Spanish at Hyde Park High School and the U. of C. evening program. After receiving her doctorate, she taught Spanish at Chicago State University where she chaired the Modern Language Department until retirement in 1974. In 1978 she moved to Sebastian, FL where her membership in the Pelican Island Garden Club helped her establish the Baker Trail marker, and in the United Methodist Women she helped establish the Sebastian Thrift Shop. She also used her linguistic background to further the understanding of Florida’s Spanish colonial period and to help locate Spanish treasure ships off the Florida Coast. In 1936 she married Alfredo Kniazzeh, a banker who predeceased her in 1954. In 1967 she married Walter Maneikis, an English professor who died in 1998. She is survived by two children, Anna Laura Doane of Georgetown, TX and Alfredo Kniazzeh II of Waltham, MA; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001 at Cook-Walden/Davis Funeral Home of Georgetown. Cook-Walden/Davis Funeral Home of Georgetown, 2900 Williams Drive, Georgetown, TX 78628 is handling the arrangements.
