Sunday, March 1, 2015

Frances Virginia Wilcoxen

Frances Virginia Wilcoxen
I almost didn't buy this photo. I walked past it a few times and then ultimately decided it was too adorable not to go back for.

I also put off researching it because the photo has no photographer's mark or hint of location. The only identification on the photo says "Frances Wilcoxen, Stella's daughter". Tonight I happened to pull up the back a bit to find that it was a postcard photograph and had started to be addressed to "Aunt Gussie". So I ran with that and blindly started researching the first Frances Wilcoxen I could find who had Stella listed as her mother. Many census records later... I found Aunt Gussie!

Frances Virginia Wilcoxen was born November 11, 1916 in Fayetteville, Arkansas to parents Clarence Alva Wilcoxen and Stella Adair Miller. She married John "Jack" Albert Weeks April 13, 1940. They had 2 children - Betty J and Roy J Weeks. Frances died May 20, 1995.


Graves of Frances V & Jack A Weeks
photos by k75evad via FindAGrave.com


Jack A. Weeks, 65, of 4218 E 62nd, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital. He was born in Osage County Missouri and had lived in the Kansas City area most of his life. He retired in 1969 after 15 years as a business agent for the International Brotherhood of Painters District Council No. 3. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Frances V. Weeks of the home; a son, Roy J Weeks, 5723 E 40th Terrace; a daughter, Mrs. Betty J Ruzick, 1519 N 45th Terrace, Kansas City, Kansas; two brothers, William P. Weeks, Golden, Mo., and Edward E. Weeks, Moline, Ill.; five sisters, Mrs. Cecil T. Stoneking, Westmont, Ill.; Mrs. Sara M. Mahany, 6300 Farrow, Kansas City, Kansas; Mrs Hazel E. Hunt and Mrs. Elsie A Olson, both of Golden, and Mrs. Elma L. Kendall, Dayton, Ohio, four grandchildren and a great-grandson. Service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Floral Hills Chapel; burial in Floral Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.


I've tracked her family down to her great great grandson... and while I can't seem to find an email address for him online, I have found his snail mail address (yay White Pages!). So I'll mail him a little note on Monday and see if he's interested in the photo or if somebody else in his family is the family historian.