John C. Frazee - 4321 & Family "The Very Early Years"

Beatrice “Betty” Elizabeth Frazee - 211S

Beatrice “Betty” E. Frazee

Beatrice “Betty” E. Frazee, a resident of Bend since 1981, died July 23 at a local foster home following an extended illness. She was 79.

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. July 28 at Bend Church of the Nazarene, of which she was a member. The Rev Ron Wells will officiate. A graveside service will be conducted at 1:15 p.m. July 31 in Riverside (Calif.) National Cemetery.

The daughter of Harris and Ruth Lillian (Moore) Butters was born in Lansing, Mich., on Sept. 26, 1916.

She married Wilton J. Frazee in San Marcos, Calif. on Aug 4, 1979. He survives at the family home.

Other survivors include a daughter, Shirley Ann Day of Bend; two sons, Loid Leo Watts of Hacienda Heights, Calif., and Bill Frazee of Arizona, 12 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Frazee was preceded in death by a son, George and a brother, Leo.

Memorials to Hospice of Bend, 1303 NW Galveston Ave., Bend 97701, would be appreciated.

Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Bend Bulletin July 24, 1996 p. C-10

Ruth Woudstra Frazee 231S

RUTH FRAZEE

ONTARIO – Ruth W. Frazee, 73, of Ontario died Sept. 15, 1997, at San Antonio Community Hospital, Upland.

She was born May 6, 1924, in San Diego and lived in Ontario eight years.

She was a homemaker.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Ontario.

She was a member of Holt International Adoption Services, Upland Traveler’s, Traveler’s Aid, Ontario, and Friends of the Airport, Ontario.

Mrs. Frazee is survived by a son, Steven Frazee of Upland; two daughters, Kathleen Kinley of Ontario and Peggy Gregory of Hanford; three granddaughters; and two great grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held at 12:15 today in Riverside National Cemetery, Staging Area No. 2.

Services will be at 3 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church.

Memorial contributions may be made to Traveler’s Aid, Ontario.

Richardson-Peterson Mortuary, Ontario, is in charge of arrangements.

Inland Daily Bulletin on September 18, 1997, page B5

Roderic Alan Frazee - 231

RODERIC FRAZEE

Roderic Alan Frazee, 68, of Ontario died Jan. 29 at Ontario Community Hospital.

A quality assurance inspector for 20 years, he was a native of San Diego and an Ontario resident for two months.

He was a World War II Army veteran.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth; two daughters, Kathleen Kinley of Ontario and Peggy Frazee of Bakersfield; a son, Steven of Ontario; a brother, Malcolm of Valley Center; a sister, Joan Smith of Renton, Wash.; and two granddaughters.

Friends may call at Richardson-Peterson Mortuary from 10 a.m. to noon Friday.

Memorial services will be held at noon Friday at Richardson-Peterson Mortuary Garden Chapel. Interment will be in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside.

Richardson-Peterson Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Ontario Daily Report on January 31, 1990, pg. B8

Susan Isabel Frazee - 3

Susan Isabel “Sadie” Frazee was born on Friday, April 13, 1860, her lucky day she would explain. Her family, led by parents William and Rebecca Frazee moved from Indianapolis to a large ranch near San Bernardino, California in 1872.  With her little sister, Minnie, dying before the move and her mother dying four years later, by 16 she was the only woman and level head in a family of four adventurous, creative men*.  Her first California schooling was at Downey Academy and by 1878 she was teaching school at the Coahuila Indian Reservation near San Jacinto.  Later she moved to the back country of San Diego as she called her home near Oceanside.  In the 1880’s she began her course of study at Los Angeles Normal School, later taking work at Stanford and the University of California.

She began teaching at Pasadena High School in 1902, retiring in 1934.  She said, “I was supposed to be teaching English, but I was not, I was teaching life, preaching sermons, teaching what is life.” And then she added that her brothers taught her more than what she learned in college.  With gleaming eyes, she said, “Teaching is a joy when you make it a fundamental of truth.”

She wrote three books, one for fifth and sixth grades, one for grammar, a sort of dictionary for grammar, and one for grammar and practice written in collaboration with Professor Wells of the University of California.  Since her retirement, she has written pamphlets on education.  She was very proud to live to ninety-seven.  She died at the Rose Garden Convalescent Home in Pasadena on October 28, 1957.

To read her book Grammar and Practice from 1921, click on the title.

* her baby brother Frances is known to have outlived his mother, but died sometime before 1880.