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Note: Frances was a bachelorette and led an interesting life. She worked for many years at the A&P grocery store in Canton and had several outside interests. Covered bridges was her main interest in life. She traveled across the entire United States looking at and taking pictures of all the bridges. She collected postcards of them and other country-site subjects. And along with all her other photos, it is safe to assume she had well over 1000 postcards and pictures, if not more, in her collection. The pictures told of her artistic talent and because of that talent, painting was another of her hobbies. She completed her first painting in the early 1950's and had painted over 50 country themes including, of course, covered bridges, before her eyesight started failing. They were very good paintings but she never entered them into contests or "showed" them. Frances also was very good with a bow and arrow; she received the 1960 First Place trophy from the Susquehanna Bowmen, one of many trophies she had received from 1955 to 1960. She had lived in the same apartment in Canton for over 50 years and then she moved into a personal care home in Canton in January, 1999. Frances died at the Troy Community Hospital.
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