Dorothea Elizabeth Walker - 221

Ojai - Dorothea Elizabeth Walker

Dorothea Elizabeth Walker age 86 of Ojai died Monday Dec. 13 1999 at home following a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Walker was born May 5 1913 in Orange County Calif. She went on to study literature at UCLA where she met her husband Rodney A. Walker of Ely Nev. She was a junior high school teacher in the early 1940s and a writer for House Beautiful magazine in the early 1950s.

She and her family moved to Ojai in 1956. In addition to raising five children she served on the boards of several community organizations including the Ojai Music Festival the Ventura County Symphony the Ojai Art Center and Happy Valley School.

She and her husband Rodney ran several businesses together including shops in Ojai and Montecito and a condo rental business in Hawaii.

Her passion was music. She founded the Southern California Recorder Society in the early 1950s and played cello in the Ventura County Symphony between 1961 and 1979. In the early 1960s she hosted several Ojai Festival concerts in her home including concerts by cellist Gregor Piatagorsky composer Lukas Foss and may other top musicians.

She is survived by her sister Sue (Jack) Ramsey of Glendale; five children Bruce (Delores) Walker of Westlake Village; Ellen Langston of Reno; Lisa Kaufman of San Rafael; Mark (Peta) Walker of Melbourne Australia; and Craig (Debi) Walker of Ojai; six grandchildren Bonnie and Rebecca Walker of Westlake Village; Charles Langston of Phoenix Ariz.; Brooke Walker of Australia; Rhett and Dylan Walker of Ojai; and one great-grandchild Aerielle Langston of Phoenix.

She was preceded in death by her husband Rodney who died in 1986.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Neptune Society. At Mrs. Walker's request there will be no funeral or public service.

Ventura County Star - December 15, 1999

Dr. Wanless Ray "W.R." Mann - 243S

DR. W.R. MANN, 69, RETIRED PHYSICIAN, DIES

CAMPBELLSVILLE -- Dr. Wanless Ray "W.R." Mann, a retired longtime family practitioner, died of cancer Monday at Taylor County Hospital. Dr. Mann was 69 and lived on Columbia Road. 

He retired as a physician in January after practicing for more than 39 years.

Dr. Mann had been a Campbellsville College trustee and had been a deacon and Sunday school teacher at Campbellsville Baptist Church.

He was a Taylor County native and a graduate of the University of Louisville medical school. Dr. Mann had served in the Army Medical Corps during World War II.

Surviving are his wife, Becky Bower Mann; two daughters, Dr. Barbara Freeman of Anchorage and Beth Reynolds of Campbellsville; two sons, Patrick Douglas Mann of Campbellsville and William Alan "Bill" Mann of Greenville, S.C.; a sister; a brother; and nine grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Campbellsville Baptist Church. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today at the church.

Contributions are suggested to the Dr. W.R. Mann Pre-Med Scholarship Fund at Campbellsville College.

Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - May 6, 1992

1946 All Stars vs. Campbellsville Cokes

Best story ideas sometimes come through our front door - 1946 All Stars vs. Campbellsville Cokes

Central Kentucky News-Journal, The (Campbellsville, KY) - July 10, 2014

Maybe I’m thinking she’ll have a popcorn ball in her vehicle. But, every time I have the luxury of seeing Nell Wise, it makes my day.

One day last week, Ms. Wise came to see me with an old article she found after reading the article on the Campbellsville Cokes.

The story that I’ll run in its entirety below came as a preview of a Sunday, Aug. 30 game that happened in 1959.

I told Ms. Wise, who I refer to as one of the mayors of Spurlington — my hometown, that I wanted to use the article but it would be almost impossible to the aged newspaper photo. (I used to want to go to her and Bob’s house two days before Halloween and two days after to get some of her delicious popcorn balls.)

Then later that day, I ran into Don Shaw at Jeff’s Food Mart and he told me “I’ve got that picture.”

A day later, Shaw brought me that photo which you see below that has he and his brother, Russell, in it. (Don looks more like his youngest son, David, who I know wasn’t around in 1946.)

Ironically, on Monday, Bobby Shaw, Russell’s son, was in the office as he was wrapping up some things at his mother’s place. Liz Shaw was buried on Saturday.

He told me that another player in the photo, “Twister” Garrison, resides in Frankfort like he does.

The 1954 article, which was entitled “Old-Timers of 1946 to return to action against Cokes on Sunday”, read:

“Spectators should be treated to a rare spectacle Sunday, Aug. 30 when the Old Timers team composed of stars of the 1946 Campbellsville Bluegrass league club meet the present Coke team in a contest of skill and stamina on the city high school diamond.

“If the “old-timers” can hold out, they should be able to teach their successors a few tricks. But, wind and skill may have been tapped by that time. However, the game will continue as long as the former stars can manage to wiggle up to the plate.

“Included in the 1946 team lineup will be Paul Coop, Dr. Wanless Mann and George Wright, pitchers; Turney Harding and Paul Cooley, catchers; Russell “Twister” Garrison, Polk Ewing, Paul Campbell, Russell Shaw and Merlin Campbell, infielders; and David Mitchell, Ray Knifley, Frank Ramsey and Romulus Gibson, outfielders.

“Porter Hord and Oliver Crouch will return to their old accustomed posts on the coaching lines and will take another fling at managing and coaching.

“The occasion will be a homecoming for several of the former Lions team members, many of whom are now residents of distance climes.

“The Coke lineup will include Wayne Smith, P; Willard “W.D.” Wolford, C; Willard Smith, 1B: Bob Coakley, 2B: Lanny Parrott, SS; James Thompson, 3B; Johnny Pierce, LF; Eddie Claycomb, CF; and J.D. Underwood, RF.”

Still quite an interesting story nearly 55 years later!

• Caption: The stars of the 1946 Campbellsville Bluegrass League, pictured at right, played the Campbellsville Cokes in an all-star game in 1959. The 1946 squad was, from left, front: batboy Don Shaw. Middle: Ray Knifley, Romulus Gibson, George Wright, Russell “Twister” Garrison, Merlin Campbell, David Mitchell and Jack Hord, bat boy. Back: manager Porter Hord, Paul Campbell, Dr. Wanless “W.R.” Mann, Russell Shaw, Paul Coop, Frank Ramsey, Polk Ewing, Dick Crouch, Paul Cooley and manager Oliver Crouch. Absent from this photo is Turney Harding.

Rebekah Frazee Cochran - 1111 - Officially Missing

Rebekah Frazee b. 1934-1941 1945 in either Utah or Louisiana Georgia She married (Charran Glendenning Graham b. 5/1/1942 and) Mr. Randy? Cochran and they lived in Portland, Tennessee in 1986.

Rebekah and Mr. Cochran Graham had two children who are also missing

11111. Wilmonte Cochran, Graham b. 1951-1970 and 11112. Anita Cochran Kay Graham b. 1951-1970

Between the two children and their unknown spouses, they had one child named Michael.  1111X1. Michael ? b. ? He (Bill Frazee later) married a woman named May ? who had four children from a previous relationship.

Their names are Dona, Nancy, Henry and Ray

Michael causes a special problem in that he is not mentioned in the 1986 obituary of his great grandmother, but by the 1996 obituary of his great grandfather, he is married with four kids.  (Again, it wasn't Michael, it was Bill, his great, grandfather who married May) No doubt that was just an oversight on the person who wrote the obituary. 

The existence of Michael would tend to push the birth dates of his parents and grandmother earlier, as it is unlikely that May would have married a teenager.  If he were 26 in 1996, so born in 1970, Wilmonte or Anita were most likely born around 1952, and Rebekah born near 1934 as Rebekah's parents (Wilmonte and Helen) were married in 1933.  His existence also pushes Rebekah's birth location out of Georgia and back to Utah or there's a small chance not until Louisiana.  (See what happens when you misunderstand the wording of an obituary.)

However, this pushing births into tighter and tighter windows and the fact that the people don't show up in those windows tends to make me think that; Rebekah might have been adopted, Rebekah might have been divorced and her first husband and father of her children was not named Cochran, and that Michael could also have been adopted.

Update: Thanks to an email contact with Dona, I have found Becky and can clarify this a bit- whereas the obit says "his great grandson Michael, his wife May and her four kids" It should be clarified that May was not Michael's wife but Bill's second wife. Therefore Rebekah was able to have been born much later - which she was - Rebekah Helen “Becky” Frazee b. 7/18/1945 in Wildwood Georgia d. 10/7/2012 in Fort Oglethorpe, GA and is buried near Calhoun, GA married Graham then Cochran then went back to Graham.

I have added notes to W.D.'s obituary to clarify things and now I would like to find Beck's obituary to add it as well,

Georgia Collins Hughes 1311 - Officially Missing 2017

Georgia Collins Hughes and her four children and five great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild are "missing" - out of reach.  The great grandchildren were possibly all born between 1994 and 1999.  There are several more great grandchildren likely born since 1999.

With the number of generations between her parents: Richard Hill Collins 4/4/1908 to 9/21/1999 and Helen D. ?  12/22/1911 to 2/27/1994, it is unlikely that the 1940 Census for Richard is accurate.  It says that he is 32, single, living with his aunts in Phoenix. For four generations to be born in 58 years, Georgia has to be born in 1941 and for there to be three consecutive 19 year splits.

There was one Georgia G. Hughes, born 5/13/1932, who was connected to Camp Verde, Arizona - the last town Richard and Helen lived - but she did not pan out as a Frazee.

Arizona birth records are sealed for 75 years, and there were no Georgia Collinses born in Arizona before 1942.  Using a phone directory search, there are at least ten Georgia Hugheses born between 1941 and 1944 who were alive in 1999.  None of them have a connection to Arizona.  In 2022, if the Arizona birth records prove fruitless, when the 1950 Census is released, I should be able to narrow the date of birth and return to the search.

Finding Helen's surname has also been a problem.  She was born in Watson, Arkansas. The census area for 1920 is known as Red Fork. There were 1830 residents in Red Fork district in 1920.  Helen Wheeler was born in 1911, but her sisters are Esther and Bernice, not Lola and Ann and she probably married an Acie Dickerson, No other Helens born in 1911/12 appear in the 1920 Red Fork census so it is likely that the family moved before then.  Hopefully, her surname will also be available once the Arizona birth records are unsealed.

As the 1950 Census has come out now, Richard Hill Collins is listed with Helen Collins born in Pennsylvania in 1913 (although I can't find her there under that name) and Georgiana Collins was born in 1934 in Illinois.  The Arizona marriage records say that Richard marries Helen Barlet in 1948.  Given his 1940 Census record, the marriage and the age of Georgia, I highly suspect that she is adopted by Collins and her birth name would be Georgiana Barlet, in Chicago.  There is a George Barlet in Chicago in the 1940 census, living alone with his parents, but he is married.  If only I could find any other source record for that man.

In Lola Raydar's obituary, it lists Helen Collins, so it shows that at least one of Richard's wives was Helen Dickenson born in Watson, Arkansas in 1911.  It would seem that Georgia was the daughter of another of Richard's wives, Helen Barlet born in Pennsylvania in 1913 but, I don't know whether Barlet was Helen's married name (the opinion of several contributors to Familysearch who believe that Helen Dickerson (Dickenson) of Arkansas for some reason lied about every detail in the Census as well as changing the spelling of her maiden name.

Dr. Carl Henry Eckart - 27S

I have been able to find a few biographies and encyclopedia articles on Dr. Eckart, husband of Edith Louise Frazee, but what follows is the only obituary I have found.  Despite his importance to San Diego, an obit was not published in the San Diego Union. 

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri May 4, 1902 to Will and Lilly Hellwig Eckart.  UCSD says that he married  Eda Lou Major while at Princeton, which suggests that Eda Lou was married prior to meeting him, but I have not been able to find any verification of this. The marriage lasted 18 years and was briefly described in his biography on Page 209. 

In 1958, a decade after the divorce, he married the widow of his good friend, John von Neumann. Karla Dan von Neumann died in 1963 drowning in the Pacific.

Carl Eckart

Carl Eckart, a geophysicist at the University of California, San Diego, died on 24 October. He was 71 years old.

Eckart was the founder and first director of the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He also served for a brief period as director of the Scripps Institution (1948-1950) before returning to his former post with the Marine Physical Laboratory.  Eckart was recently awarded the Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics Medal by the Acoustical Society of America (see PHYSICS TODAY, November 1973, page 75) 

Physics Today - January 1974 p. 87

Isaac Jenkinson Frazee - 2

Death Closes Painting Career Of 

Isaac J. Frazee, Laguna Artist 

LAGUNA BEACH— Death yesterday claimed another of Laguna’s famous artists in the passing of Isaac J. Frazee, 84, of 495 El Bosque street, frequently mentioned as the dean of the artist colony.

Born in Winchester, Indiana, he first came to Laguna Beach Aug. 15, 1878, when he camped on Main Beach for several days on what he described as a pioneer painting expedition. With his wife they returned here in 1921 to make Laguna Beach their permanent home.

Frazee erected a studio home which has been the rendezvous for many of Laguna’s and visiting artists. Father Frazee, as he was familiarly known, had devoted a lifetime to his profession as poet and dramatist. Shortly after settling here in 1921 he wrote, produced and directed a pageant-drama (Great Spirit! -"Kitshi Manido”) the proceeds were collected for the erection of Laguna's art gallery.

His paintings were widely known for a delicacy of composition rarely attained by his contemporaries.

Isaac J. Frazee is survived by his wife, Bettie Dickinson Frazee, whom he married June 27. 1885.  Had he lived they would have celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary on Saturday

Mrs. Frazee is now reported in poor health due to a constant vigil at his bedside during his two-weeks illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Frazee were members of a family group who recently attended a birthday celebration for Mrs. Julia Bracken Wendt, the wife of artist William Wendt who died Monday.

Survivors include Mrs. Christian A. Worsley, Fullerton: Mrs. William M. Bower, Los Angeles; Mrs. Samuel M. Wheeler, Los Angeles: Mrs. Paul L. Moses, Ontario, Mrs. Carl Eckart, La Jolla and William C. Frazee, Twin Oaks, California.

Funeral services are announced for Saturday, June 27, at 11 a. m. at the Laguna Beach Funeral Chapel. Efforts to contact Rev. Raymond I. Brahams, pastor of the Community Presbyterian church, to conduct the services had not been completed. Interment will be at Loma Vista Cemetery, Fullerton.  

 (Photo Caption)

Isaac Frazee, pioneer painter of the Orange County scenery, whose death took place at Laguna Beach yesterday, is shown standing beside a huge painting of Laguna Beach as he first saw it on an 1878 camping trip. The Painting, which later won first prize in a San Diego exhibit, shows travelers on the crowded Coast Boulevard—winding between eucalyptus trees sheltering a scattered group of cabins. One of these in the foreground occupies the present site of the big Laguna Hotel. The wagon driver on the trail is Joseph Thurston, pioneer Laguna Beach developer hauling a load of melons to market.

Santa Ana Register - June 24, 1942