The Passing of my Second Cousin

 

-- Obituary --

"Frances Ivadelle was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 4, 1932. God's plans for her life began to unfold at about age 6 when she went to the altar to accept Jesus as her savior.  Her mother Betty Fraser worked to provide for her as well as her sister Ruthie.  Her grandparents helped raise her in the love and fear of God.

Upon graduating from High School, she began work as an operator for the Pacific Telephone Co., but her desire was to be in the mission field.

At age 19 she entered a School of Evangelism and was then sent to Mexico with her friend Carmen Perez. They traveled throughout different states and shared the gospel in many villages. Upon arrival to Mexico City, she and  the missionary team she worked with started a School of Evangelism and it is there that she met the one to be her future husband, Carlos Angeles.

On one assignment, they traveled to a remote village to bring the Good News. It is there that when the indigenous people discovered their message was not of Catholic origin, they were asked to remove their shoes and run for their lives. The stones began to fly with the intent to kill them, but with the Lord's intervention, they lived to tell of it.

Shortly thereafter, in 1954, they were married and continued to evangelize, have home Bible studies, and eventually founded a church "Templo Belen".  This church still operates today.

The Lord blessed them with 6 children, and in 1970, the family relocated to the U.S. After raising their children, they moved to a senior community where they led Sunday Chapel services in the recreation hall.

Frances never wavered from her desire to share the Good News. Whether we knew her as Mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, cousin, or friend, we are blessed to have shared in her life and in her love.

She leaves behind a truly powerful testimony for the Glory of God.

Frances is survived by her 6 children, along with her sister Ruth Cione. She was blessed with 12 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and many extended family members."

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved his appearing."    II Timothy 4:7&8

My Second Cousin 

Frances Ivadelle (Fraser) Angeles

1932-2025

May her memory be a blessing,

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1950 graduating class - Frances Fraser

 Another cool yearbook find

The "Caerulea" of the Polytechnic High School 
Long Beach, California

My question was "CAERULEA". Why is that the name of the yearbook, what does that mean?

So my friend Google says...

"Caerulea is the Latin word for "sky blue". It is often used as a specific epithet in scientific names for plants and animals that have blue coloring, such as the Nymphaea caerulea (Egyptian blue water lily) and Passiflora caerulea (blue passionflower)."

Well, that didn't help, did it?

     still confused,

1940 Census - Chicago, Illinois - Thure and Evelyn Johnson

2117 W. Gladys Chicago, Cook, Illinois

The 1940 US Census finds Thure and Evelyn Johnson living in Chicago with his widowed mother. Also in the same house is Thure's divorced sister, Mildred. Thure's two younger siblings, Stanley and Florence also live in the home. Now add Thure's sister Emma, Emma's husband Charles and Emma and Charles daughter, Thure's niece, Georgia. That's correct, there are nine people living in this rented single family home which most likely has just three bedrooms! With today's values and circumstances it would be easy to say..what a bunch of dead beat kids still living off their widowed mother! It is important to know and appreciate the times and the culture they were living in.  These last ten years in Chicago and the rest of the Western world and for the Johnson family were very tough indeed.  In the early part of the 20th century Chicago was booming and growing. Then came the Great Depression. Chicago grew by only an additional 20,000 folks in the 10 years from 1930 to 1940. Most came from the farming South, hoping to find work. Immigration from Europe had all but ceased. The work just wasn't there, 20% of Chicago was out of work. In the 1930 census Thure's parents, Thure and Frances, owned their own home. They now lived in a rented house and you see that Frances is a widow, Thure Sr. had died. In the 1940 census the government tried to get a sense of how folks had fared by asking where they were in 1935. The Johnsons were in the "same place". 1935 was the year Thure Sr. died at the young age of 50. Perhaps due to the depression or his death the family no longer could afford the mortgage and lost their home. The adult children were perhaps not working themselves or working to help their mother pay her rent, so she and the younger kids have a home. Another possibility? No where to go. During the depression virtually no new building went on and in 1940 the US is soon to enter the war raging in Europe which would revive the economy but take all building supplies, raw materials and manpower for the war effort. Extended families living together, sharing expenses or renting out your bedrooms to boarders were common and often necessary occurrences in the 30's and 40's of Chicago.

The young couple, Thure and Evelyn, had just been married 4 months previously. Living with your mother is not an ideal way to start out a marriage but when you are young and in love the future always promises to be bright.

my first cousin once removed

Evelyn Jacobson

b. 16 July 1916 Moline, Rock Island, Illinois

d. 3 December 1987 West Chicago, DuPage, Illinois

her husband

Thure Walter Johnson

b. 12 September 1912 Chicago, Cook, Illinois

d. 10 August 1994 West Chicago, DuPage, Illinois

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