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Note: in street in Buffalo, Wyo. At age 3, the family moved to the approximate location of Crazy Woman and Powder River. Where he attended school and how many years he attended school is unknown at this time. At some time in his life, he must have attended either a military school or entered the U.S. Army, as he was a 2nd Lt. in the National Guard. He also acquired the training in being a telegrapher.It is believed that his first wife's father may have taught him telegraphy. Fred at one time while working for the CB&Q railroad, also ran a small grocery store that he owned at Garry Owen, Montana on the Crow Indian Reservation. Possibly at this time he married Ethel as she is believed to have been living in Hardin, Mt. Mary, his first child was born in 1926. We know that in approximately 1935 he was a cook at a CCC Camp in the Big Horn Mtns just west of Sheridan, Wyo. The next that is known is that he was in Alaska maybe as early as 1936 or 1937. He married Rose in 1939. He ran the Northern Commercial store in Circle City, Alaska where Rose was the Postmistress. The family residence was in the back of the store. The FCC isuued to Fred a Restricted Telephone Operator Permit to operate a short wave radio on April 2, 1942. He was called to active duty in the Army as a 2nd Lt. and reported to Seattle, where he did not pass his physical for entering active Army duty. He received an honorable discharge on April 21, 1943 from the Officer's Reserve Corp. He then returned to Circle City and remained there until he moved the family to "the outside" after Shirley was born in Fairbanks. The reason for the move was because Fred's mother, who lived in Sheridan (625 Canby Street), was ill. Fred moved to that address in the house behind that building. Fred worked for the railroad and was in various locations. He found a railroad boxcar that he converted to a residence and moved his family to that location in Frannie, Wyo. Fred was a telegrapher as previously stated. He later moved to a farm house between Frannie and Deaver. Fred was later transferred to Greybull, Wyo. and there purchased a farm a mile or so East of town.
Cause of death was Metastatic Carcinoma of Head and Neck.
Fred Powers retired as the station agent in Greybull, WY for the C. B. & Q Railroad about 1971. He began working for them in 1920 in the Sheridan, WY division. He left the railroad in 1932 (and went to Alaska) and returned in 1938. (Source: news story in Greybull newspaper at the time of his retirement).
Note: Not much is known about the early life of Fred. Fred was born when the family lived on the ma
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