Donald Blair Frazee - 46

Donald Frazee, Pioneer Family Descendant, Dies

OCEANSIDE – Donald Frazee, 76, a life-long resident of Oceanside and a member of one of the city’s earliest and most prominent families, died Sunday.

Frazee, who died in a Carlsbad rest home, was employed with the California Division of Highways as a foreman for many years. He was also a member of the Oceanside Elks Club.

As a boy, Frazee served as a guide and a scout for visitors from the east coast.

Three generations of the Frazee family have made their contributions to Oceanside, beginning with his grandfather, W. D. Frazee.

He wrote an early history of Oceanside that is still used today, entitled “Oceanside, the Gateway of all San Diego County.”

Frazee’s father, Doniphan Frazee, was an important developer in Oceanside, in addition to being its first justice of the peace. His mother was the town’s first teacher.

Survivors include his wife, Eleanor Frazee; his daughter Peggy Myers, and a granddaughter, Nancy.

Services will be held at 10 A.M. Wednesday in the Eternal Hills Mortuary in Oceanside.

Blade Tribune  after June 15, 1975

Mabel G. Frazee 432S

Grandma Frazee was not a storyteller although she was apt to embellish what she said.  I suspect that I spent more time with her than any of her other grandchildren and I was the last family member to see her before she died, but I don't believe we had an especially close relationship.  She tended to play favorites, although her stated goal was to despise that behavior. So, she tended to tell me how nice, smart, and attractive my cousins were and what my problems were pretty matter-of-factly. Fortunately, I am blessed with an excellent memory and I know her compliments shifted to Chris, Jeff, Bonni, James, and my sister Lisa on a regular basis and so it's been easy for me to imagine that when she was alone with one of them, she would also compliment me and point their faults out matter of factly with perhaps a little embellishment.  I'm pretty sure that's how her mind worked.

I wish I could say that she had one favorite person, and that was her husband Edwin. I wish I could say that theirs was a 65-year romance that happily bounced around the globe like a Tommy Dorsey number. It's only fair though to say, matter-of-factly, that Grampa made her happy enough. Certainly comfortable. And that what joys she may have lacked seeing his car drive into the garage after work, she was capable enough to make up for on her own, if she wanted to.  Which, often times she didn't.  

However, she had a long, long life and writing her obituary I imagine how many things she did, she owned, and she shared and it just goes to show you that if you just keep plugging away at things, if you live long enough you accomplish a lot, get to know a lot of people, and have your share of good times.

Mabel Frazee 8-27-1919 to 5-11-2015

Mabel Gweneath Frazee passed away peacefully in her sleep Monday at Silver Oaks Country Estates in Vista, California. She was born August, 27^th, 1919 in Raton, New Mexico to John and Mattie Rohr. The family moved to California in the early 1930’s settling in the North Park neighborhood.

Mabel enjoyed musicals, world travel and her fellow members of the Palomar Model A Ford Club.  She collected Charles Schultz’s Peanuts memorabilia, knitted, and played the trombone.

She was preceded in death by her husband Edwin, her daughter DorisLee, and her sisters Udene Greaser and Jo Kerr.  She is survived by her sister Lane Shepherd, her sons and daughters-in law John and Diane Frazee, James and Janis Frazee, and Harley and Marylou Frazee, six grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.  She was interred at the Eternal Hills Memorial Park in Oceanside.

Robert Smith Frazee - Not descended from W.D. Frazee - Obituary

CALLED FROM DUTY

Sudden and Sad Death of Policeman

Robert S. Frazee

He Retires in His Usual Health, But Dies Quietly in Bed—An Honorable Career.

The sudden death yesterday of Police Officer Robert S. Frazee was a great surprise, as well as the cause of sorrow, to thousands of people in this community, where he had lived and enjoyed their respect for nearly twenty years.

Deceased had performed his usual duty as an officer up to 8 o'clock on the preceding evening, and retired in his usual health an hour or so later, occupying a room by himself, as was his custom. Mrs. Frazee called him shortly before 7 o'clock in the morning, and receiving no response sent one of the children to the room.

The latter reported to his mother that he received no answer to his knock on the door of his father's room, which fact alarmed Mrs. Frazee and she hastened thither herself, only to find her husband dead, although his body was yet warm. The grief of the stricken family was heartrending, and neighbors and friends hurried to the house and did all in their power to comfort Mrs. Frazee and her children.

Robert Frazee was recognized as one of the most industrious, high-minded and faithful officers the city has ever had. He had been a policeman here for many years —in fact, during most of his residence here —and was always a gentleman, a good citizen and kind husband and father.  While it was generally supposed he was a man of ordinarily robust health, the fact was known to several of his fellow officers that he at times complained of trouble with his heart; and only a few weeks ago he asked permission of Captain Lee to go off duty a little earlier than usual on that account. On Sunday he had quite a severe tussle with a couple of peace-disturbers at Snowflake Park. and became considerably excited while ejecting them from the place.

Deceased was one of the first young men to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops to put down the Confederates. He enlisted in Company G, Twenty-Seventh New York Infantry in April, 1861, and served until the close of the war. He was a brave soldier, and was wearing a First Lieutenant's stripes when peace was restored.

The family of deceased consists of his wife and six children, two of whom are grown, and living in the East. Mr. Frazee was prominent in Masonic circles, having been a member of Union Lodge. Hle was also a member of the Workmen's Order, the Druids, and the Hussars,

RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT

The Board of Police Commissioners met yesterday noon and appointed a committee, consisting of Chief of Police Drew, Captain Lee and City Attorney Hart, to draft resolutions of respect to the character of the deceased officer, to be submitted at a meeting to be held in the evening.

The board met again last evening, when the committee submitted the following report, which was unanimously adopted. An engrossed copy thereof will be presented to the widow and children of the deceased:

Whereas, The death-reaper, obeying the inexorable order of the Great Judge of the Universe entered upon the records of Heaven, has caused to be taken from our midst, in the prime of his manhood. R. S. Frazee, for many years one of our much-respected companions and associates in citizenship, and during a period of upward of fifteen an honest and capable public official, discharging duties as such upon the police force of this city; therefore be it

Resolved, By the Board Of Police Commissioners of the City of Sacramento, that while in the enforcement by the All-Wise Providence of His Immutable laws, we at all times recognize acts which, though bringing sorrow to the hearts of many, are for the best, for “He doeth all things well." yet, we cannot but deplore that it should seem best in His great and infinite judgment to take from our midst and transport to the home of eternal peace and happiness the spirit of one who was just in those years to enjoy the splendid fruits of a life well spent, full of honor, full of love for his country, for which he fought upon the field of battle, and full of acts and deeds of kindness and goodness to humanity"—a life, in short, which could not but be accepted as a bright example of conscientious regard for that duty which one owes to his God, to truth and to his fellow-man.

Resolved, That in the death of R. S. Frazee the City of Sacramento suffers the loss of a faithful, honest and efficient public officer courageous and vigilant, yet unostentatious in the discharge of his public functions; a good and honorable citizen, kind-hearted, generous, charitable and upright; the sorrowing family have been deprived of a devoted, loving and indulgent husband and father.

Resolved, That the members of the Board of Police Commissioners, of which the deceased has so long been a good and faithful servant, to the bereaved family their heartfelt sympathy and condolence in this their hour of sore affliction.

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the records of this board, and that an engrossed copy be presented to the family of deceased.

Robert Smith Frazee Family - Distant Relation not descended from W.D. Frazee

Officer "Tall Bob" Frazee from the Sacramento Police Department is included here because for one, he is always coming up when I do family research and has almost always been listed as just "Officer Frazee" - So much so that I was beginning to think that Officer was his first name. and for two, he and his family turned out to be very interesting, and three his family doesn't have a genealogist of their own going through and correcting their vital records, so I'm going to do that here for them.  Obit is to quickly follow. Just for length I am not including it here.

(This will give interested relations a chance to see what sort of things I would like to add to their records when I find them:)

Lt. Robert Smith Frazee was born in 1842 Livingston County, NY. He died 2/19/1892 in Sacrameno, California. On 5/27/1878 he married Sarah Ophelia Grant born 3/19/1850 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  He fought for the Union gaining the rank of Lieutenant, of Company G of the 27^th New York Infantry. He fought at first Bull Run, The Battle of West Point, Siege of Yorktown, Seven Days' Battles, Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of South Mountain, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, and Battle of Chancellorsville.

Within the 2/18/1892 issue of the Sacramento Union newspaper there is the story:  “Charged With Battery.  Officer Frazee last evening arrested George Dreinan and Eugene Lamet, two lads who are charged with battery.”  The next morning he was found dead.

He had six children according to his obituary, but apparently only three with Sarah.

#1 Albert Grant Frazee born 2/26/1879 and died 2/17/1949, both in Sacramento. On 1/9/1905 he marries Clare Jenkins born 10/20/1884 and died 7/12/1961. They are divorced by the 1920 Census and on 11/16/1931 Albert marries Katherine Bowden born 1886. In 1910 he was a driver for Ice company who lived with his wife, child and Mother-in-law, Lottie Jenkins. He is a laundry salesman for Sacramento Golden State Laundry in the 1920, 1930 and 1940 Censuses. He lives at 1616 26th St. in Sacramento.

Albert and Clare have a son

#11. Robert S. Frazee born 1/4/1908 died 5/12/1972 in Sacramento. Robert marries Maxine K. Foster b. 1910 in Sacramento. Robert is a truck driver for a furniture company in the 1930 and 1940 censuses.

Robert and Maxine have a daughter

#111 Sally Ann Frazee born 10/29/1934 and died 6/12/2010 in Sacramento. She marries James E. Long born 2/25/1932 divorces him 1/12/1982. She is an accounting assistant.

Sally and James have at least one daughter but her obit lists five grandchildren with surnames of Tucker and Rice.

#1111 Linda Long born ? married Mr. Moore?

#2 Lena Mary Frazee born 12/4/1883 died 7/16/1930. She never marries. She works for a Sacramento newspaper in the 1910 Census. She is a professional vocalist in 1920 in San Francisco and in 1930 she’s the music editor for the San Diego Tribune.  

#3 Roberta S. Frazee b. 3/19/1891 d. 1/27/1955 married Bert Marion Miller b.5/9/1879 in Colorado died 9/2/1948 in San Joaquin County, California. He was an electrician. She was a housewife. They had no children.

Priscilla Penley Frazee 2323S

Priscilla Ann Penley Frazee, 59, passed away on March 2, 2016, surrounded by her immediate family.  She was born in Kingsport, TN in 1956 but moved to Brevard County, FL with her family when she was just a few weeks old. She was an alumnus of Astronaut High School and the University of Central Florida. 

The love of Priscilla's life was her husband of 33 years, Thomas Frazee, who passed in 2009.  After their 1976 marriage, Priscilla and Tom made their home in Winter Park. Three years ago Priscilla moved back to Titusville to be near her family. 

She was employed by Brevard County at the Moore Justice Center in Viera.  Priscilla is predeceased by her father, Mitchell C. Penley, who died in 2001. She is survived by her mother Helen Penley, sisters Linda Novick, Karen Penley (Zack), Michelle Kennedy, and brother-in-law David Kennedy, all of Titusville.   She was especially close to her nephew Joe Zack and his wife Sara of Merritt Island, and niece Jane Zack Tavakoli and her husband Kevin of Birmingham, AL. 

Words cannot express the emptiness and pain felt by her sudden death.  When the pain ends, it is love that survives.  Along with her family that cherished her, she leaves many friends who respected her quick wit, honesty, fierce loyalty and quiet generosity. 

A memorial for family and friends will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, at First Christian Church of Titusville on Jay Jay Road.  In lieu of flowers, friends may donate to the FCC Betty Wattwood Memorial Fund, offering camp scholarships to Lake Aurora Christian Assembly.

Published in FLORIDA TODAY on Mar. 4, 2016
The Penleys also have a family history site that follows their tree and exploits. PenleyPearls.com This photo was taken in 1998 and my best guess is that Priscilla and Tom are standing in the center behind her parents.

Thomas Leonard Frazee 2323

FRAZEE, THOMAS L., passed away on Oct. 29, 2009, at his home in Winter Park, FL with his loving wife of 33 years, Priscilla Penley Frazee at his side. He was born in California in 1948, the son of the late Col. Malcolm and Evelyn Frazee. Leaving the University of Maryland to join the Army in 1968, Tom served with pride in Vietnam as a Chief Warrant Officer helicopter pilot and received an Honorable Discharge in 1971.

After attending Embry Riddle and UCF, he chose a career as a surveyor crew chief. Tom was respected for his honesty, loyalty and quiet generosity. His many friends appreciated his quick wit, keen intellect and tales he shared from a life well traveled. Words are inadequate to convey our loss. Love could not conquer all, but when the pain ends it is the love that survives.

A memorial for friends and family will be at 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 6 at First Christian Church of Winter Park. In lieu of flowers, a donation to Habitat for Humanity or a charity of your choice will honor his memory.

Published in the Orlando Sentinel on Nov. 4, 2009 -

Evelyn Conway Frazee 232S

Evelyn Conway Frazee

ESCONDIDO - Evelyn "Evie" Conway Frazee died Feb. 24 at an Escondido convalescent center. She was 70.

Born March 22, 1924, in Carlsbad, she had lived in Valley Center and worked as a homemaker for 52 years.

She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Malcolm Frazee of Valley Center; sons Dennis Lee Frazee of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Thomas Leonard Frazee of Winter Park, Fla.; and brothers Alvin A. Conway of Escondido and Leland W. Conway of Vista; two grandchildren and one great grandchild.

She was preceded in death by son Donald Wayne Frazee, an Air Force lieutenant colonel.

Services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday at Twin Cities Christian Church, 2904 MacDonald St. Oceanside, followed by burial at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

The family suggests donations be made to a charity of choice.

Escondido Times Advocate March 5, p. A-15

Rebecca Jenkinson Frazee 0S

We were pained to hear of the death on yesterday of Mrs. Frazee, wife of Mr. W. D. Frazee, of this city. Mrs. Frazee has for years been suffering from that dread disease, consumption, and with the knowledge of her approaching dissolution continually before her, she continued cheerful to the last. She was honored and respected by all who were fortunate enough to have her acquaintance, and a host of friends followed her to her last resting place. In her, her husband has lost a faithful wife and her children, a fond mother. In common with the entire community, we extend our sympathy to the bereaved family.

San Bernardino Daily Times, September 4, 1876

Poor Great, Great, Great, Grandmother, for her death record she doesn't merit a first name and no one said that she was from Piqua, Ohio.  She's listed as 61 when my records say she was 49.  Then again this says she died on August 20, 1876 and she died on September 3, 1876.

I got this so I could find out what happened to her son Francis who was reported to have died in 1878, but apparently not in San Bernardino.  Instead I find out some things I "know" about her, I didn't really know.  Next search location - Los Angeles County.

Was this Francis James Frazee's cemetery record? The San Bernardino Valley Genealogical Society at the Public Library sys that they have Newspaper records on microfilm from 1867-1948, Pioneer and Agua Mansa cemetery burial records, and City Directories from 1887 to 1968. The latter is important to identify who Delilah Frazee is who died in Jan. 1890 in order to help find if there actually was a 61-year-old Mrs. Frazee who died in San Bernardino in 1876 two weeks before Rebecca.  Unfortunately, the library wants to charge us $20 per hour for the research, so I'm putting it off to see if I can find it for free.

Druzelle Vilas Frazee 43S2

Body of Early Pioneer in Perfect Condidtion - 4

December 3, 1929  OCEANSIDE BLADE

In a state of almost perfect preservation, apparently from some mineral component of the soil, the body of Don Frazee, early Oceanside Pioneer, has been exhumed after having been interred over 30 years, the casket and the clothing showing almost no signs of decay and a flower held in the hand of the dead man even retaining much of its color.

The body was taken from its original resting place in the South Oceanside Cemetery which is being abandoned in the course of street improvement work on the Tolle tract, on the east side of which the old cemetery was located, and was the first burial place after the settlement of Oceanside and Carlsbad.


Note: He was later buried in Oceanside's Oceanview Cemetery, Unit 2, Block 6, space 10. There does not appear to be a headstone for him any longer.

DorisLee Frazee 4322

There could be sooooo many stories about my beloved Aunt DorisLee.  Not only to be charitable, I'm going to say that we all appreciated her, but to be completely honest, I'm not going to say that her life was everything she would have wanted it to be. She had cool stuff - and lots of it.  She went to exotic places - and enjoyed exotic foods when she got there. Her time was all her own - as were most of her choices. She was extremely helpful to the family and she was gorgeous and mostly healthy throughout her life.  You put everything on a balance sheet and you'd think she'd have that sly twinkle in her eye and wide smile every time you saw her.  Life doesn't work that way, though.  To use a baseball analogy, the Angels can win 98 and lose only 64 and not win the World Series, and if that's what you judge your season on, most often you're going to be disappointed.

DorisLee Frazee

DorisLee Frazee, 55 died July 13, 1998 at the San Diego Hospice.  Born July 7, 1943 in Oceanside, CA. She enjoyed her family and friends, baseball, and traveling.  She will be missed by all who know and loved her.  She is survived by her mother Mabel and Father Edwin Frazee of Rancho Santa Fe.  Brothers John Frazee and wife Dianne, Jim Frazee and wife Jan, Harley Frazee and wife Marylou, six nieces and nephews.  The family suggests donations to the Cancer Society or to San Diego Hospice, 4311 Third Ave., San Diego, CA 92103-1407.  Arrangements are being handled by Eternal Hills Mortuary.

North County Times

Kathleen Louise Richéy 112A1

Kathleen L. Richéy

Kathleen Louise Richéy passed away on Monday, April 12, 2004, at St. Macy’s in Reno. She was 65.

Mrs. Richey was born in Montebello, CA on June 1, 1938, the daughter of Robert and Patricia Crowell. One of the highlights of her youth was the 1952 “Second Grand National Pillsbury Bake-off”, while they lived in Western Spring, IL. Kathleen was contestant for her “Johnny Appleseed” cake, and in New York at the Waldorf Astoria, she met many stars, but most importantly, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

She graduated from Portland Union Academy in Portland, OR in 1956, and worked a short time for Dun and Bradstreet before moving to A
lbuquerque, NM where she worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1962 she married J. Robert Finn, who was in the U. S. Navy.  In 1963 they moved to Kingsville, TX, and in 1965 they were transferred to Athens, Greece, where their daughter, Susan was born. In 1967, they relocated to Quonset, Rhode Island and in 1969 to Adak, Alaska, where her son Michael, was born. In 1970, they moved to to Pt. Hueneme, CA, and eventually settled in Camarillo, CA for 17 years.

In 1976, she worked at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, CA in DEMS administration. In 1982 she was Personnel Manager at Pennington Manufacturing, where in 1984 she met Dave Richey, from Lafayette, LA. They were married February 14, 1985 in a New Orleans style wedding. After the death of her husband in 1986, she relocated to Petaluma, CA, and worked as a Real Estate Broker.  In 1995, she moved to Cabo San Lucas, Baja, Mexico and opened her own tourist rental business.  After seven years in sunny Mexico, she wanted to return to the states, and on September 11, 2001, she found Yerington, a lovely small town she knew would be a wonderful place to retire.

She is preceded in death by the Crowells and Dr. and Mrs. Titus Frazee of Portland, OR, her mom and dad. 

She is survived by her sons, Kenneth Johnson and his wife Rennane of Allentown, PA, and their daughters, Melissa, Krista, and Kassandra, Keith Johnson; Michael T. Finn and his wife Nadine of Petaluma, CA, daughter, Susan Eileen Finn-Demers and her husband Patrick of Santa Rosa, CA and their daughter Erica Lyn; sisters, Merrijean Phillips or Cottage Grove, OR, and Melinda Donaldson of Portland, OR.

Funeral services will be 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, 2004 at Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home in Yerington, NV. Burial will be at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in California.

Arrangements are under the direction of Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home in Yerington.

Mason Valley News April 14,2004

Frazee Scorecard - Who is Who by the numbers

Pauline Minor Frazee 112S2

A memorial service will be held February 28 for Pauline Minor Frazee of Cottage Grove, who died February 14 of age related causes. She was 92.

Frazee was born January 4, 1907, in Auburn, Nebraska, to Fredrick and Perle Rohrs.

She married Titus Frazee on July 29, 1935. He died January 10, 1984.

A graduate of Pacific Union College, Frazee taught kindergarten, first grade and high school Latin and English. She also was a piano teacher.

In addition to music, her interests included gardening and cooking. She also enjoyed spending time with her family. Frazee was a member of Cottage Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Survivors include three daughters, Kathleen Richey of Cabo San Lucas, Baja, California, Merrijean Phillips of Cottage Grove and Melinda Donaldson of Portland; two sisters, Louise O’Connor of Petaluma, California, and Esther McLean of Claremont, California; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Sunday’s service will be at 2:30 p.m. at Cottage Grove Seventh day Adventist Church. Burial will be at Sears Cemetery in Cottage Grove, Smith Land Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove is in charge of arrangements.

The Register Guard, Friday, February 26, 1999

Helen D. Collins 131S

Helen D. Collins, 82, of Camp Verde, a retired nurse, died Feb. 27, 1994. She was born in Watson, Ark. Survivors include her husband, Richard; daughter, Georgia; sisters, Lola and Ann; and four grandchildren. Services: 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, St. Francis Cabrini Catholic Church, Camp Verde. Hepler Funeral Home.

Arizona Republic, Wednesday March 2, 1994

Note: her maiden name of "Dickerson" was added to her record on Findagrave, however, the only Helen A. Dickerson I find in the Los Angeles Area in 1940 is married to Thomas, and rather than divorcing him,   Helen moves with him to Oregon for the 1950 census. The most likely could be a nurse, Helen Dickerson, who is in Yuma in 1940, and she's single. Besides, the Maricopa County marriage records have his marrying Helen Barlet in 1948, and Barlet is two years younger, from Pennsylvania, and recently from Chicago according to the marriage license.

Richard Hill Collins 131

OBITUARIES Richard H. Collins, 91, of Camp Verde, a highway inspector, died Sept 21, 1999. He was born in El Paso. Survivors include his daughter, Georgia Hughes; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. Services: 1:30 p.m. Friday, Tempe Mortuary, 405 E. Southern Ave., Tempe. 

The Arizona Republic Friday, September 24, 1999 

Frank Coulter Frazee 43

I was born on Pa’s 73^rd birthday, reportedly because there was a lot of fresh corn on the cobb at his party and the corn and I couldn’t both fit.

I can’t remember my first memory of Pa.  My earliest memories would be sitting at the coffee table eating dinner on Christmas Eve and trying to touch the moose’s beard in the living room. Pa was just always there, and for years I figured he always would be.

There was the Sanka, the Buckwheats, the sweeping the leaves from the dirt, the hunting stories. I never worried about writing any of them down because he would always be there.  Grandma Cilley did, so once at the Cabin at Tom’s place she hid a tape recorder by her side in her chair and tried to get Pa to tell some stories.  He had recently had surgery to remove some melanomas from his ear though, and he had become quiet and self-conscious.  So, to the best of my knowledge, no stories were ever recorded.

He always lived his life occupied and with something on his mind. It was the best lesson I’ve ever learned. Creativity is nothing more than the mindset never to be bored and filled with self-pity.

F. Frazee Colorful Character

By DAWN GARCIA

Staff Writer

OCEANSIDE – This former coastal farming town has lost an historic and dear friend: 90-year-old Frank Frazee.

An industrious flower grower, an avid outdoors-man and storyteller par excellence, Frazee was the oldest man born in Oceanside still living here. He died in his sleep Tuesday night, only a block from where he was born.

Although not a public figure like his son – Assemblyman Robert Frazee R-Carlsbad – his presence in Oceanside will be missed nonetheless.

Frazee could be seen caring for the trees and flowers on his 10 acres next to Interstate 5 long after his children and grandchildren took over the booming Frazee Flower business. And up until just a few years ago, he continued to ride a tractor to plow his field.

In expressing his love for Oceanside, he used to say he’d had “the heart out of the melon,” friends remember, meaning he had seen Oceanside’s best years.

He used to tell stories of the days when the Frazee family cow delivered enough milk to sustain the people of Carlsbad and when Oceanside was nothing more than farms and ocean.

Storytelling was one of his favorite pastimes, with some of the tales maybe just a little “tall,” his families says, claiming he went by the old adage: “never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.”

His father was Oceanside’s first city clerk and his grandfather touted the beauty of the area to friends before the city was even a city.

“His grandfather was quite the advertiser,” said David Meikle, Frazee’s son-in-law.

Frazee used to live where South Oceanside School now sits before he moved 46 years ago to a large homestead at the corner of Cassidy and Stewart streets.

His life spanned the horse and buggy era as well as the first moon landing.  Between those times, he saw Oceanside change dramatically.

The small coastal farming community grew into a city of more than 80,000 people and his 40 acres of flower-covered land was whittled down to a 10-acre lot by the construct of a freeway and busy streets.  It was here Frazee lived out his final years, enjoying his family and his flowers.

(In) A family photo taken more than 30 years ago there shows a man with strong farmer’s hands clutching a hoe, his smiling, beard-stubbly face peeking out from a wide-brimmed felt hat with rows of flowers behind him.

His face and activities changed little for many years from what that picture showed while Frazee continued to farm his lot, seemingly oblivious to the changes time has brought to his native land. When asked if he minded the noisy freeway nearby, he once said, “It’s all right. It has to go somewhere.”

He once agreed that Oceanside’s next-door-neighbor Carlsbad was changing just “a little too fast.”

A pine tree he planted as a child now raises its branches to 120 feet from his land to the sky above Oceanside. This tree and the acres of rainbow-colored gladiolas that cover North County are living monuments to one of the area’s first fans.

Frazee is survived by a sister, Alma Bonds, five children – Marjorie Meikle, and Edwin, Ernest, Elmer and Robert Frazee – and 11 grandchildren.

Services will be held at Eternal Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary on Saturday at 11 a.m.

Blade Tribune June 24, 1982.

Lewis Wilmer Trussell 215S

Lewis Trussell, 92, of San Marcos, a member of a pioneering San Diego County family passed away January 5, 2013. He was born October 16, 1920 in San Marcos, the son of Wilmer Trussell and Frances Lewis Trussell. He was raised on the family dairy farm, attended San Marcos Elementary School, Escondido High School, and Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He was a pitcher on the Cal Poly baseball team.
Mr. Trussell was a long-time member of the San Marcos United Methodist Church and President of the Board of Trustees. He was instrumental in the formation of the San Marcos School District; a member of the San Marcos Historical Society; was a Mason and belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star. He was an avid square dancer and caller, belonging to several clubs including Palomar Square Dance Association. He was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II, flying fifty bombing missions over Europe and Africa.

He was married for thirty-five years to Jean Frazee Trussell, a member of one of the oldest families in North County. Her grandfather, Isaac Frazee, built the castle in Moosa Canyon, which Old Castle Road is named after.

Mr. Trussell is survived by his three daughters: Drinda Pennini, Diana Corbin and Donna Trussell; four granddaughters: Daniela Pennini, Nicole Peacock, Heidi Oldenburg and KuiYan Trussell; two great-grandsons: Scott Applegarth and Nathan Peacock; and two sons-in-law: Michael Pennini and Kelly Corbin.

A memorial service will be held at McLeod Mortuary Chapel on Wednesday January 9th at eleven AM, officiated by Rev. Dr. Tae Kim of the San Marcos United Methodist Church.

The family has suggested that those who care to do so, in lieu of flowers, make contributions to their favorite veteran's charity.

Lowell Beverly Frazee 213

Lowell B. Frazee

Graveside services for Lowell B. Frazee, 57, of 3106 Washington Boulevard, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Frazee died Saturday at his home. Born in Glenn County, Calif., he served in the Army about 20 years, retiring as a warrant officer in 1964. He lived in Indianapolis 26 years and was a member of AU Saints Episcopal Church. Survivors include two sons, Val J. Frazee of Indianapolis and George R. Frazee, on military duty in Turkey.

THURSDAY, JUXE 30, 1977 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, PAGE 61 - OBITUARIES

Phyllis Dawn Rice 214

Phyllis D. Rice passed away August 9, 1996. Mrs. Rice came to the Antelope Valley in the 1950s. She was a member of several civic organizations, including the Mojave Rebekah Assembly, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Preceded in death by Martin C. Rice, she is survived by her children, Rita Rice, Flaninghaw, PA; Gregory Rice, Idaho; Avis Rice, Troxler Poway, CA; Alice Rice-Healy, Lancaster, CA; Ruth MacAdams, San Marcos, CA; and grandchildren Jessica, David and Sarah Healy, Antelope Valley, CA and Leza Pizinger, Hillcrest, CA.

Private family services were held at graveside and family requests that donations be made in Mrs. Rice's name to the American Cancer Society.

Mojave Desert News, August 12, 1996

Now that's growth!

Growing Like Frazee

Flower Family Sprouts New Bulb

By John Burrus

Blade-Tribune Staff Writer

Oceanside-Edwin Frazee recently paid an $8 fine to the Oceanside Rotary Club. The club raises funds for charity by fining members for everything from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Frazee was fined one dollar per pound for the fourth generation of the famous flower family. Little David weighed in at Oceanside Hospital July 20 and ounce under eight pounds, but Rotarians don’t make change easily.

Facts about the youth’s arrival are scarce. When the Blade-Tribune called, the youth’s mother had the fourth generation in the sink giving him a bath and was a little reluctant to carry on a long conversation.

In Oceanside, the expression “Growed like Topsy,” could be changed to “Grew like Frazees.” It would be better grammatically and just as appropriate.

The fourth generation of flower growers – his grandfather refers to the diaper-clad youth as the “irrigator” – is the first son and second child of Mr. and Mrs.

The original bulb of the famous bulb-growing family was Doniphan Frazee, who served as the first city clerk in Oceanside. The present patriarch of the clan is Frank Frazee, 72, who was born in a home where the South Oceanside School is now located.

His four sons are all associated with Frazee Flowers. In addition to Edwin, there is Ernest, 45, and Elmer, 43. Growing tired of names that began with E, the Frazees named the son born seven years later, Robert.

Edwin recalls the elder Frazee and his three sons were planting bulbs in south Oceanside the day Robert was born. It was 1928 – also the year Frazee Flowers started to grow.

The growth of the firm has been steady and continued “from the time we started,” Edwin Frazee told the Blade-Tribune, “we have grown about 20 percent each year.  That means we double in size every five years.”

Many Additions

The equation gets quite large when carried to the seventh power. In 1958, Frazee Flowers moved to a warehouse on Oceanside Boulevard “big enough to handle any conceivable growth.”

In 1960, the firm added a 6,000-sq-foot building where cut flowers are now processed. That fall, another 5,600-sq-foot addition provided facilities for drying the 10,000 named and numbered varieties of gladiolas handled by the firm each year. In 1962, a 12,000-sq-foot cooler and a maintenance shop were added.  Now the firm and its financial mother, the Bank of America, need a new 15,000-square-foot building to move the processing of cut flowers out to make room to process bulbs so they can be planted to grow more flowers to process.

The endless chain of flower production, according to Edwin Frazee, goes on 26 hours a day, 9 days a week. In the area between Camp Pendleton and Green Valley extending three miles inland it’s possible to grow gladioli blooms the year round. Bulbs maybe grown farther inland where the sun sears the blossoms but doesn’t stunt the growth of the bulbs.

Frazees grow well in the same climate. Edwin has three boys and a girl. They are John, 22, Jim, 18, Harley, 13, and Doris Lee, 21.

Elmer has a boy and two girls – Doniphan Blair, 16, Shelley, 14, and Terry, 11. Ernest has a couple of step daughters, Joan and Betty. Robert has two girls, Susan 9, and Nancy, 2.

The four brothers have an older sister, Mrs. Marjorie Meikle, who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. She has two boys, Frank and Jim. There are 16 direct descendants of Frank Frazee living in the area.

Here’s a tip to the Oceanside Rotary Club president, who has been known to fine members when the get their name in the paper. Newspaper advertising is paid for by the column inch – perhaps Edwin might rather pay that way or at $1 a head for the Frazee descendants.

Carolyn Marge Frazee 434S

You think you know the family, and then it takes an obituary to find out your great aunt's first name. Marge was a fun lady to be around, just to listen to her voice and her laugh. Living her whole life in So Cal, she still had an almost oriental sounding voice with the words coming from way back in her mouth, and she also sounded a bit Canadian because many of her sentances ended at a higher pitch, like she was asking a lot of questions instead of making statements.

"J.D. you don't put your fingers in that frosting, eh" with the emphasis on "frosting, eh." So me, being an evil-minded six-year-old would think, "It's not the putting my fingers in the food that was bad, it was just the frosting she was trying to protect. "Let's try the pudding."

Caroline "Marge" Frazee passed away Sunday, December 15, [2002] at her home with her family by her side. Born April 6, 1922, she lived her entire life in Carlsbad and Oceanside. She was a graduate of Oceanside-Carlsbad High School, Class of 1941. Her prime interest in life was her family.

She was married May 6, 1945, to her husband of 57 years, Elmer Frazee, who survives her. That marriage brought together two of the oldest pioneer families of the area, the Marrons and the Frazees. Other survivors include two brothers, Reginald and Sylvester Marron and her sister, Polly Frazee; son and daughter-in-law Blair and Joyce Frazee; daughter and son-in-law Shelley and Jim Boyce and daughter Teri Frazee. Also, grandchildren Angela, Carin, Jennifer, Bert, Tara and Erin; and great-grandchildren Anthony, John, Gillian, Kayla, Dax, Mckenna, Kristopher and William.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Friday, December 20, 2002, at the San Luis Rey Mission.In lieu of flowers, friends who wish to donate in her memory are asked to contribute to the American Cancer Society (800) ACS-2345 or www.cancer.org or to the Mission San Luis Rey Restoration Fund.

From the Dec. 18, 2002 edition of the North County Times

Edwin Harley Frazee 432

Grampa, or Papa Frazee in simple terms was a workaholic, and was a "care-aholic" in not so simple terms. He could relax when he cared to do so, but he would relax the right way by leading a tour of his well-kept yard checking the progress of this bush or that peach tree on the way, or by traveling to exciting places with nice cameras with which to record the visits. I don't remember ever fishing with him: your feet up, watching the pole bend slightly up and down because the weighted line is held loosely by the water as the boat sways in each wave, seldom catching anything except for the hook in your finger while trying to bait it. I got the feeling that very little of his life was ever so meaningless - by design.

You know the advice to live every day as if it were to be your last? Grampa took that advice as best as anyone could.

Flower industry icon Edwin Frazee dies at 87

By: TIM MAYER - Staff Writer

CARLSBAD ---- Edwin Harley Frazee, whose family helped found the flower industry of San Diego County and was described as a quiet, hardworking farmer, died at the age of 87 on July 22 [2004] at a local retirement home.

Frazee, whose health had declined after a stroke several years ago, was born in Carlsbad on May 12, 1917, and was a longtime resident of Oceanside and Rancho Santa Fe.

He is credited with developing hybridized gladiolus and ranunculus and helping to turn the flower business into a thriving local industry.


Youngest brother and former state legislator Robert "Bob" Frazee of Carlsbad said Wednesday his brother was the eldest of five children and had quit high school after the 10th grade to work in the family business with their father, Frank.

"Our father had been a farmer all his life and started growing flowers in 1928," Robert said.

Robert Frazee said he always felt closer to Edwin Frazee than any other member of the family, and it was he who gave him his chance to get back into the family business in the 1950s after serving in the Marine Corps.

Edwin Frazee, who headed up Edwin Frazee Inc., had expanded it to include the wholesale marketing and distributing business Frazee Flowers and brought Robert Frazee in to run it ---- which he did for the next 18 years.

"The thing I really have to thank him for was the opportunity to get back into the family business and the flower business where I kind of had grown up," said Robert Frazee. "That was kind of an opportunity of a lifetime."

That also led to a career in politics, said Robert Frazee, who served as mayor of Carlsbad before being elected to the state Assembly, serving there from 1978 to 1994.

"He was always supportive of my efforts, even though it took time away from my job with the family business," Robert Frazee said.

Robert Frazee described his brother as a quiet, "hardworking, out-in-the-field, hands-on type of guy."

That was echoed Wednesday by Eric Larson, executive director of the San Diego County Farm Bureau.

Edwin Frazee "was a real, quiet guy," Larson said. "He was kind of a throwback to another era. They use the word pioneer, but he was just a hardworking farmer.

"He just loved to produce crops," Larson said. "That's what he wanted to do and that's what he did all day long. I'm not sure he ever retired. He continued to stay involved in the (Carlsbad) Flower Fields even long after his family wasn't actually running it."

Larson credited the Frazee family with putting San Diego County on the map for commercial floral and nursery crops, now a $900 million-a-year business. "That's the vast majority of what we do here in agriculture."

Edwin and Robert Frazee were named the bureau's Farmers of the Year for 1997, Edwin for his work in the industry and Robert for his work on behalf of agriculture in the Legislature, Larson said.

Edwin Frazee was preceded in death by his daughter, Dorislee Frazee, in 1998.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mabel, of Oceanside; sons and daughters-in-law John and Dianne Frazee of Carlsbad; James and Jan Frazee of Oceanside; Harley and Marylou Frazee of San Jose; and brothers and sisters-in-law Ernest and Ellie Frazee of Carlsbad; Elmer Frazee of Oceanside; and Robert and Dolores Frazee of Carlsbad; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

A celebration of life in his honor is set for 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Heritage Park in Oceanside.

Contact staff writer Tim Mayer at (760) 901-4043 or tmayer@nctimes.com.

Elmer Frazee 434

Elmer always called me J.D. I guess that it was because of the family's history of using initials. I always wanted to think of a nickname for him, but the name Elmer didn't lend itself to any. He really belongs on the hidden valley frazee blog because of how he lived so close and I'd see him time and time again, but except for the few years he lived at Pa's house taking care of him, I didn't know when he would arrive and when he left. I'd like to say it's because he was a quiet man, but that wasn't exactly it. He was just waiting for the opportunity to say something great, and if he didn't have something great to say, he just didn't say anything at all.

Obituaries - 9/02/2006 By: North County Times and The Californian

Elmer Frazee, 85

OCEANSIDE - Elmer Frazee, 85, died at his home Aug. 29, 2006. Born Jan. 28, 1921, in Oceanside, he lived there all his life. (Except when he lived in Carlsbad as a young boy) He enjoyed spending time at the family cabin, playing cards, music and going to thrift stores. Mr. Frazee was preceded in death by his wife, Marge. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Blair and Joyce Frazee; daughters and sons-in-law Shelley and Jim and Teri and Mark; six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. A graveside was held Friday, Sept. 1. Following the service there was a celebration of life in Oceanside.

Remembering Elmer Frazee : Oceanside man known as a 'laid-back' family man By: SCOTT MARSHALL - Staff Writer OCEANSIDE -- Sunday afternoons for Elmer Frazee's family meant getting together and playing cards, especially Shanghai rummy, into the evening. Regular trips to a family cabin in Tom's Place, between Bishop and Mammoth, also were part of the family norm for decades, said Frazee's daughter, Teri Buckley, 53, of Oceanside.

An integral part of those family gatherings will be missing in the future. Elmer Frazee died Tuesday at his Oceanside home. He was 85.

"He was very laid back," Buckley said of her father. "He just wanted to take care of his family."

Born Jan. 28, 1921, in Oceanside, Frazee was part of a pioneering family in North County that has been credited with helping turn the local flower business into a multimillion-dollar industry. Buckley said her father and his brother, Edwin Frazee, worked together in the flower business their father, Frank Frazee, had started. Their younger brother, Robert "Bob" Frazee, a former mayor of Carlsbad and former state Assemblyman, also worked in the family business, sharing Farmer of the Year honors with Edwin Frazee in 1997.

When Edwin Frazee died in 2004 at the age of 87, Eric Larson, the executive director of the San Diego County Farm Bureau, credited the Frazee family with putting San Diego County on the map for commercial and nursery crops, which had become a $900 million-a-year business at the time.

Buckley said her father never wanted to get involved with politics like his younger brother did. Elmer Frazee was involved with the Alhambra group, a service group at St. Mary's by the Sea that provided scholarships, for about 10 years, and enjoyed playing cards with his family every Sunday afternoon, Buckley said.

"He was a very quiet man with a very dry sense of humor and could really make you laugh at an unexpected time," Buckley said. "When he got laughing, we used to say he had a belly laugh."

Robert C. Frazee 435

I think to Uncle Bob, I was the relative who crawled out of the woodwork. Dad would take me to work when I was little and I would never have anything to do. Usually I would watch Lyle and Micky in the shop just to smell Lyle's pipe (Sadly he died of cancer) and hear Micky's laugh. Sometimes they told me it was too dangerous and I had to find something else interesting.

I might wander over to the offices where Wes would not be glad to see me, but I don't remember much about Wes because he died when I was so young and Bob took his place. Bob, as I remember it, was always on the phone. Whether there was actually someone on the other end, I'll never know. Often someone would chase me out so I couldn't interrupt him, but other times I'd just look around his office. It had two things which to me were really fascinating. One was the selection of large color photographs of gladiolas with (often) cartoon characters of hula dancers or leprechauns or 1890's piano players - that reminded me of Farrel's Ice Cream Parlor. On the opposite wall there was a huge framed road map of the United States on cork board with hundreds of colored pins. Three or four of the pins also had colored flags. Looking at the map opened up the world for me. The pins meant that our family had a connection all over the country, and albeit only my name and the flowers represented by those photographs, part of me had visited every major city - like Sioux Falls, Kalamazoo, and Gallup.

Bob, Dad, Grampa, and I would talk about roads, hotels, people, restaurants. We had a brotherhood of the road.

Obituary: Robert Frazee; saw politics as means to solve needs of residents
By Michael Burge
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. January 27, 2009

Robert Frazee
CARLSBAD — Former Carlsbad mayor and longtime Assemblyman Robert Frazee died while on a cruise in the South Pacific, family members said yesterday.
Frazee, 80, was first elected to the Carlsbad City Council in 1972, then as mayor in 1974. In 1978, he was elected to the state Assembly, where he represented North County and part of Orange County.
He retired from the Legislature in 1994.
Susan Kurner, Frazee's daughter, said she received a call from her mother Sunday morning that her father had died suddenly of an apparent heart attack after her parents' ship had left Bora Bora. She said the couple were avid travelers.
Frazee, a Republican, was known for his soft-spoken but persuasive style.
“He told me one of the reasons he moved to the state Assembly was because he didn't think there were enough businesspeople” in Sacramento, said Richard Ledford, Frazee's longtime chief of staff.
“Politics was just a means of solving community needs” to Frazee, Ledford said. When Frazee's Assembly district was redrawn to take in part of Orange County, Ledford said, the lawmaker walked the streets of San Clemente and Dana Point to become familiar with constituents' concerns.
Ledford said Frazee crossed party lines to vote for measures he thought were good for the state, such as aid for the disabled, and was a coastal advocate.
“He viewed (coastal preservation) as one of those quality-of-life issues in North County,” Ledford said. “He worked with (U.S. Rep.) Ron Packard to restore sand on North County beaches.”
Frazee was instrumental in the construction of Carlsbad's sea wall and promenade that extends between Tamarack and Pine avenues. That section of beach is named Robert C. Frazee State Beach, and a road in Oceanside's San Luis Rey Valley is also named after him.
“He was my mentor; I followed in his footsteps,” said Packard, who served on the Carlsbad council with Frazee and succeeded him as mayor. “There's “fewer men I've held in higher esteem than Bob Frazee.”
Packard said Frazee's quiet but firm hand made an imprint on the Carlsbad City Council and administration that persists to this day. Frazee also set policies in motion that diversified the city's economy and broadened its tax base, Packard said.
Frazee also helped found the North County Transit District and was one of its original board members.
Frazee was born Sept. 1, 1928, in the San Luis Rey River Valley and was a 1946 graduate of Oceanside High School.
Kurner said he met his future wife, Dolores Hedrick, while he was attending college classes that were held at Oceanside High and she was a high school student. They married in 1951.
Frazee served as a radio technician in the Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952, during the Korean War, Kurner said, but he didn't go overseas.
He was the president of Frazee Flowers, the shipping arm of the Frazee family's flower-growing enterprise.
Frazee sold his share of the business to other family members after he was elected to the Assembly to eliminate any possible conflict of interest, said John Frazee, Robert Frazee's nephew and business associate.
“He was well-respected, very honest and straightforward with people,” in business and politics, John Frazee said.
Frazee is survived by his wife; his two daughters, Kurner and Nancy Frazee; son-in-law Rick Kurner; and two grandchildren. Memorial services are pending.

Ernest Charles Frazee 433

Sadly Uncle Ernie's obituary didn't show up in the Escondido edition of the North County Times, nor was it available online when I've searched for it.  I was pretty certain that none was ever published before finding it while going through my Grandmother's papers. I say this because Uncle Ernie was NOT an afterthought!

Uncle Ernie was a storyteller.  All of his generation was, of course, but his were different because they were hard-to-believe-crazy, but believable enough and he was sincere enough when he told them that you figured some of what he said must have been true.

I remember one story in which he crossed the Atlantic to fight in WWII in the hold of a freighter; it didn't have staterooms or showers or regular baths so they just opened up a porthole and they put down two planks in a V heading out the window.  Then they pumped seawater along the channel to keep it somewhat clean and hung up blankets to give the guys privacy.  Well, Ernie got the idea to make a little paper boat.  He then got the idea of going into the "stall" the farthest from the porthole, lighting the boat on fire and letting it take a little trip under the row of guys sitting to do their business (Ah, Ernie wouldn't say it that way) take a shit.  It was a real hit as the flames caught the unsuspecting GIs on its way to the sea.

CARLSBAD -- Ernest Charles Frazee, 87, died at home, Monday, Nov. 27, 2006.
   Born, June 11, 1919, in Oceanside, he lived in Carlsbad.  He served in the U.S. Army. He was a farmer and a member of the Palomar Model "A" Club.
   Mr. Frazee is survived by his wife of eight years, Eleanor Frazee of Carlsbad' stepson James Schubert of Las Vegas; stepdaughters and stepsons-in-law Joan and Wayne Moore and Betty and Stoney Stonebreaker, all of Oceanside, and Ann Capozzoli of Las Vegas; 11 step-grandchildren; and 35 step-great-grandchildren.
   A graveside service is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec 5, at Eternal Hills Memorial Park, 1999 El Camino Real in Oceanside.
   Eternal Hills Mortuary is handling arrangements.

Dorothy Elizabeth Bressi 443

I wish I could add a funny story or two about Aunt Dottie.  The problem being that I only saw her during large family reunions, and only then in the group of sisters, Marie, Dottie, and Beebs. I got a warm feeling from them when they were together, though. I felt like I was a puppy and they'd want to get me talking so they could see what cute thing I was going to say.
                      

Bressi, 'Dottie' Dorothy Elizabeth OCEANSIDE -- On March 12, 2015, Dorothy (Dottie) Elizabeth Bressi, 89, left this earth to take her place in heaven. She will be greatly missed by all who had the plea
sure of knowing her. Dottie, a California native born and raised in Oceanside, lived a full rich life as a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She was always there with her beautiful smile, a warm hug and of course a card for every occasion. Join our family for a Celebration of her Life at 1:30 pm, on April 17, at St. Marys Catholic Church, 609 Pier View Way, Oceanside, CA, followed by a reception at Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation, 1580 Cannon Rd, Carlsbad.

Samuel Otis Logan 413S

Samuel 'Sam' Otis Logan

CLEARLAKE OAKS -- On a warm sunny day, in the not too distant past, "Big John," one of the Logan family's prized appaloosa horses, lay down in a grassy field amongst the wild flowers, went to sleep, and never woke up.

Wednesday evening, Jan. 24, 2001, Samuel Otis Logan of Clearlake Oaks joined "Big John."

Sam, 85, beloved father of Sam, Doug and Ila Logan, father-in-law of Marie and Donna, grandfather of Sam and Jennifer, husband of the late Helen Claire Logan, passed away at Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek of complications relating to a broken hip.

Born on Jan. 21, 1916, in Oklahoma, Sam lived the majority of his life in California, first visiting Lake County in 1942. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army horse cavalry, and the U.S. Navy, in which he served during World War II. He was a prisoner of war and the recipient of many medals, including two purple hearts and the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal.

He was a member of Plumbers Local 38, the Clearlake Oaks Moose Lodge, the Live Oak Seniors and the Lake County Sheriffs Posse. He will be remembered for his love of animals.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Jones & Lewis Clear Lake Memorial Chapel in Lower Lake.

In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated at the Live Oak Senior Center in Clearlake Oaks or the Clearlake Oaks Fire Department.

Peggy Jean Myers 463

Myers, Peggy Jean January 26, 1928 - September 19, 2012 Peggy Myers was born on January 26, 1928, in Oceanside CA where she grew up in her large and extended sixth generation Californio family. While working for Pan American Airlines in the 50's (based out of Los Angeles), she met Farlan Myers. Peggy and Farlan were married June 28, 1957 and they remained married for over fifty years. They started out in Park La Brea and developed a reputation for winning mixed doubles tennis tournaments. They moved to the westside in the early 1960s and in 1965 their daughter Nancy was born. Peggy was an avid gardener. She volunteered at a local school where she helped non-English-speaking students learn the skills necessary to transition to the public school system. She also acted as the U.S. representative for a Spanish Language Institute in Costa Rica. Peggy is survived by her daughter Nancy. She will be remembered by her family and friends as someone who fully expressed her love for those around her and, as someone for whom it was very easy to return that love. Peggy loved to dance, tell jokes and perform card tricks. She will be deeply missed. Donations in Peggy's name may be made to the National Parkinson's Foundation and Nature Conservancy.    LA Times

Peggy Jean Myers 1928 ~ 2012 OCEANSIDE -- Peggy Myers was born Margaret Jean Frazee on January 26, 1928, in Oceanside, Calif., where she grew up in her large and extended sixth generation Californio family. She learned to love dancing during the Big Band era and over her life broadened her repertoire to include Jazz and Zydeco. Crowned Miss Oceanside in the 1940s, Peggy soon was attending San Diego State and shortly thereafter became a flight attendant with Pan American Airlines. She developed a strong love of travel during this time, working in Europe and especially the Latin American circuit where her Spanish language skills were particularly valued. While based in Los Angeles, she met Farlan Myers who was working with J. Walter Thompson Advertising. Utilizing his executive level advertising persuasion skills, Farlan was able to convince her to marry him on June 28, 1957 and they remained married for over fifty years. They started out in Park La Brea and developed a reputation for winning mixed doubles tournaments at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. They moved to Bel Air in the early 1960s, and in 1965, their daughter Nancy was born. Peggy's wanderlust was satisfied through Farlan's business travels that took his family on many adventures to Europe. It was Hawaii that became one of their fondest destinations, inspiring the creation of their Maui Kula Onion business that sold the Island crop to Southern California Specialty markets for over twenty years. In the 1990s, Peggy had enough additional energy to act as the U.S. Representative for a Spanish Language Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica. Peggy was an avid gardener and spent hours per day tending to her flower garden. She volunteered at a local school where she helped non-English-speaking students learn the skills necessary to transition to the public school system. Peggy is survived by her daughter, Nancy. She will be remembered by her large and extended family as someone who fully expressed her love for those around her and as someone for whom it was very easy to return that love. She will be remembered as someone who loved to tell jokes and perform card tricks. She will be deeply missed. Services will be held at 2 p.m., on Saturday, October 13th, at Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside. Donations, in Peggy's name, may be made to the National Parkinson's Foundation and Nature Conservancy.    NCTIMES

NOTE: Peggy is listed as 463, but no obituaries will appear for her two older siblings as they both died as infants.  Elizabeth Marie Frazee - 461 was born 12/9/1923 but died 1/1/1924, and Joseph Frazee 462 was both born and died 12/30/1924.