Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Arthur Lathrope Collins 13S1

ARTHUR LATHROPE COLLINS 

20 November 1881 to 20 February 1954

TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 1954 - Funeral Planned for Arthur Collins, Engineer who had lived in Los Angeles 33 years. He was a member of the Tucson Consistory, Knights Templar; he was a 32nd degree Mason and belonged to Perfect Ashlar Lodge 12, Funeral services for Arthur Lathrop Collins, 72, construction engineer, who died of a heart attack Saturday evening in his home at 5136 Ellenwood Place, will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the St. Barnabas Church, Eagle Rock. Masonic services will be conducted at the graveside in the Grandview Cemetery. Mr. Collins was the superintendent of construction at the F&AM, Bisbee, Ariz. He leaves his widow, Mabel T. Collins; two sons, Richard H. and Arthur S. Collins, both of Los Angeles, and a brother, Whitney Collins, of Long Beach. Arrangements are under the direction of the Utter-McKinley-Cresse Eagle Rock Mortuary, 4824 Eagle Rock Blvd.

Los Angeles Daily News

 Los Angeles Times February 23, 1954

 Please note that it was not Mabel Troutman who was the Frazee. She was his third wife. His first was Helen Isabel Frazee - 13 who divorced him in 1930. His second wife was Alcea Mack Blair with whom he seems to have been having a long standing affair while he was off in far off places working as an engineer.  Alcea died  21 May 1949 and he doesn't actually marry Mabel until 19 October 1952.  Their marriage only lasts 16 months, but Mabel lives another 35 years.  This comes of little surprise because she was 19 years younger than her husband with the bad heart.

 

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  1. AndymanMarch 17, 2023 at 8:19 AM

    Hello! My name's Andy Brennan. I am wondering if I am related in some way, because my grandmother was Reva Frazee. If this website is accurate (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187821335/reva-l-brennan) then Reva's mother was Anna Naomi Frazee, and Reva's father was Lowell Frazee. I believe they all lived in Indianapolis. I just started researching so I'm not sure of much. Anyway, perhaps we're related? I started filling out my ancestors on wikitree.com to see if I could connect to anyone. Feel free to shoot me an email at andykbrennan-~at~-gmail.com and have a good one!

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    1. DavidMarch 22, 2023 at 2:06 PM

      Thanks for adding the findagrave link - very helpful.

      In one of those amazing coincidences, we did have a Lowell Frazee marrying an Anna, who lived in Indianapolis. However, our Lowell was born 3/23/1920 in Glenn County, California, and the Anna was Anna Semecnovna Fesunoff - or something like that spelling as it was originally in Cyrillic. I haven't yet made contact with their two sons who should still be alive and living in Indianapolis, Val and George Frazee.

      If you believe the everchanging "reality" of our distant Frazee ancestors, we have to go back all the way to the first Frazee in America: Joseph Ephraim Frazee (1640 - 1714) with two brothers Elisha and John. From that, it would be that we are 8th cousins, once removed. Over the years, I've seen a few changes in J.E. Frazee's wives and birth locations and ancestors, so I'm looking forward to what we'll all find out using genetic testing. I think it can settle things that old documents and the internet make cloudy.

      Best of luck with your research!

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