| Husband: Bernard Joseph Fritchie | |||
| Born: | 14 Feb 1884 | at: | Prairie View, Logan Co, AR |
| Married: | 25 May 1909 | at: | St Joseph Church, Paris, AR |
| Died: | 3 Feb 1937 | at: | Prairie View, AR |
| Father: | Joseph Fritsche | ||
| Mother: | Karoline Heider | ||
| Spouses: | Nora Marie Flynn | ||
| Notes: | [70] [71] | ||
| Wife: Nora Marie Flynn | |||
| Born: | 17 Apr 1880 | at: | Ivy Bluff, Warren County TN |
| Died: | 13 Feb 1976 | at: | Booneville, AR |
| Father: | Dennis Flynn | ||
| Mother: | Malinda Jane Hopkins | ||
| Spouses: | Bernard Joseph Fritchie | ||
| Notes: | [72] | ||
| CHILDREN | |||
| Name: | Caroline Nora Fritchie | ||
| Born: | 13 Feb 1911 | at: | Booneville, AR |
| Married: | 26 Nov 1953 | at: | Van Buren, Crawford Co, AR |
| Died: | 6 Feb 1998 | at: | Ft Smith, AR |
| Spouses: | Augustine A Pennartz | ||
| Name: | Theresa Marie Fritchie [73] | ||
| Born: | 27 Apr 1913 | at: | Branch, AR |
| Died: | 25 Nov 2002 | at: | Ft Smith, AR |
| Spouses: | |||
| Name: | Helen Josephine Fritchie [60] | ||
| Born: | 29 Dec 1915 | at: | Near Prairie View, Logan Co, AR |
| Married: | 12 Jan 1946 | at: | St Meinrads, Prairie View, AR |
| Died: | at: | ||
| Spouses: | Clare Edward Wolf | ||
| Name: | Bernard Joseph Fritchie [74] | ||
| Born: | 17 Nov 1926 | at: | |
| Married: | 2 Feb 1951 | at: | California |
| Died: | 1 Dec 1980 | at: | California |
| Spouses: | Mary Irene Brockman | ||
[70]
Click for Bernard and Nora Fritchie wedding photo
Pictured left to right:
Fred Konert, Bernard Fritchie, Nora Fritchie, Agnes Verkamp.
[71] Click here for photo of Augustine and Caroline (Fitchie) Pennartz.
[72]
Encouraged by her Uncle, George Hopkins of Branch, AR, Nora (Flynn) Fritchie
came from her home in Tennessee to work in Ft Smith, AR, where she and Bernard
Fritchie first met. After marriage they both worked as cooks in various
hotels and restaurants in Ft Smith, Paris & at the TB Sanatorium in Booneville
AR, where Caroline was born. They lived for a year on a farm near Branch, AR
where Theresa was born and then moved to a farm near Prairie View, AR, where
Helen was born. Theresa became a nun at St Scholastica Convent, in Ft Smith.
[73]
Theresa Fritchie became Sister Eleanora, OSB at St Scholsatica Convent in
Ft Smith and, therefore, never married. She was also a Registered Nurse
Click here for photo of Sister (Theresa) Eleanora OSB
Photo taken on the day of her graduation as a Registered Nurse from Nurses Training School.
[60]
Clare & Helen Wolf lived first at Barnum,. IA for 2 years, then moved
in January 1948 to live on a farm near Prairie View, AR. Clare served 48
months with the 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Division from Iowa in WW II. He
was overseas 44 months in North Ireland & Scotland, took part in the invasion
of North Africa at Algiers & later served in Italy. His unit spent more time
in combat in WW II than any other US Army unit. He was Honorably Discharged
at Ft Sheridan, IL, on August 31, 1945.
[74]
Bernard Joseph Fritchie is a descendent by adoption. After his marriage he
resumed his original family name of Donnelson and abandoned the use of his
adoptive name.
Mail comments and questions to Clare Wolf
