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</b>Birth place First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Â
IowaAlbert JFryhoffHeadMarriedMale381892Transcription
IowaEdna MFryhoffWifeMarriedFemale341896Transcription
IowaRuth AFryhoffDaughterSingleFemale51925Transcription
MichiganNinabelleTaylorBoarderSingleFemale201910Transcription
OhioBeatrice MKuntzBoarderSingleFemale141916Transcription
OhioRachall ERaveleBoarderSingleFemale81922Transcription
<b>Census details
</b>First name(s) Rachall E
Last name Ravele
Relationship Boarder
Marital status Single
Gender Female
Age 8
Birth year 1922
Birth place Ohio
Race White
Father's birth place United States
Mother's birth place United States
City/township Cleveland
County Franklin
State Ohio
NARA series T626
NARA roll 1797
Record set US Census 1930
Category Census, Land & Substitutes
Record collection Census
Collections from United States & Canada
She was at the City Hospital and Training School for Nurses in Springfield, Ohio at the time of the 1940 US census.
She was 18 years of age and single.
She is buried in the Elk's Plot at the Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau. Her remains were cremated and intered with her husband Kenneth, Father-in-Law, Mother-in-Law, and Brother-in-Law, Kenneth M. "Grassy" Lowe.
She was orphaned at an early age. Her mother passed away, shortly thereafter her father deserted the family and moved to the west coast. He did not regain contact with her and her siblings until the early to mid-1950's.
As a result she moved from the home of one relative to another with periods in various childrens homes scattered about Ohio and West Virginia.
Rachel trained for three years at the Springfield City Hospital as a nurse.
Rachel was an officer and a gentleman by an act of Congress. She was so commissioned as a Nurse during World War II. She was discharged as a 1st Lieutenant. Her serial number was N-767443. She served from 15 Jun 1943 - 27 Feb 1946, being stationed at Louisville, Kentucky, North Ireland, England, France and Germany.
During the war years she had faithfully sent money home to her grandmother for use following the war. Upon her return, she found that the money had all be spent. In some indignation she arranged travel from Columbus, Ohio to the furthest point possible with the money in her possession. She ended up in Juneau, Alaska.
As a nurse, she went to work the next day at St. Ann's Hospital. She met her husband Ken, at the hospital. Ken came to the hospital to visit a girl friend who had sustained a skiing injury. He subsequently proposed on the "garbage dump" located along Basin Road.
Rachel was 5' 9" tall and had hazel colored eyes. She weighed 142 lbs. during the war years.
As a teen she went by the name of Ellen. She graduated high school at Ceredo-Kenova High School, Ceredo-Kenova, West Virginia on 22 May 1939.
Following her marriage to Lea she remained a home maker and mother for a number of years. Circa 1962 she returned to nursing at the Ketchikan General Hospital. She was getting more exercise and taking vitamins, she attributed this with being significant. She shortly thereafter became pregnant with her youngest daughter Sue-Jane Lea.
She was extremely bright with a voracious appetite for knowledge. The end result was that the guys at the Union Oil Company bulk plant in Ketchikan would settle all arguments by saying "Lets call Rachel". Her idea of light reading was the Britannica Encyclopedia, combine that with her near photographic memory and you had a significant base of knowledge.
She especially enjoyed reading about the Holy Lands and current archeological discoveries.
She was a practicing but unaffiliated Christian lady.
Following her husband's retirement, they spent a couple years touring the United States in a motorhome. Being a home body, she did this for her husband in as much as she would much preferred remaining at home with her books.
She died at home in her own bed following a lengthy fight with cancer.
The following was added by my sister Sue-Jane Lea, Oct 2010.
I have a few things to add that mother told me-she remembered being left in their home when their father took off ( impaired by alcohol, on a train according to Mom,apparently) and the children were left alone in their home until family members went to check on them. Mom said it was about three days, and she remembered quite vividly trying to get Chloe Louise (or is it Louise Chloe) to not eat the soap, as it was the only thing in the house.
Mom also told me that the other children were put up for adoption, but she was not, as Eldon Ross felt that she was his only biological child. He didn't believe that he could have fathered a red headed child, or a "defective" child. Aunt Louise was a red head, but so was their grandmother Rose Althea Smith (as is John). Lawrence was not born deaf, but his hearing was affected by scarlet fever. Mom remembered her parents letting Lawrence go up in a plane (a BIG deal in those days) trying to help his hearing. She also told me that during Lawrence's time at the orphanage he was unwillingly given a vasectomy (Hitler wasn't the only one to believe in Eugenics), although that is proven false by his fathering a later child. As far as I know he was not adopted.
It surprises me that he served in the military, due again to his alleged hearing loss-lit couldn't be that bad if he was accepted. Mom's memory of the hearing loss may have been misconstrued by her as a child with all of the adults talking around her.
It is sad that he died so early-its not the years its the miles that get you.
I do know that Mom got into contact with her father sometime in the 1960"s (as I recall), but did not write to him, so much as to his second wife, and they did not continue a correspondence for long.
I hope that this is a help in your research, or at least is interesting and helps put facts in order. Reminisces are not useful in a serious study of genealogy, but does help flesh out the characters of those you study.
Thanks.
Sue
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