Individual Notes
Note for: Maxine Evelyn Fox, 13 AUG 1917 - 1 NOV 2004
Index
Graduation: Date: 1933
Place: Rochester Senior High School, Rochester, Olmsted , Minnesota
Occupation: Registered Nurse
Place: Detroit, Herman Keifer Hospital, Michigan
Event: I2294
Type: REFI
Individual Note: Met Bernard at a YMCA dance. Dated for 4 years
Individual Note: Taken April 4, 1944
Individual Note: With GreatGrandpa and Grandma Chapman and Father Frank Fox
Taken about 1920
Individual Note: Not confirmed that it is Michaels son or Chris Bowman
Individual Note: 1942 in front of Myra Fox home, NE Rochester, Minnesota
Individual Note: L to R. Back, Celeste Strassman Bowman, Front Row, Richard, Maxine, Mike Strassman, 1991
Individual Note: Maxine Strassman, Frances Thompson, Albert Thompson 1992
Individual Note: At Nursing graduation
Individual Note: At Al Thompsons 50th Wedding Anniversary (1987)
Individual Note: 1981
Individual Notes
Note for: Frances Arlene Fox, 1 NOV 1919 - 30 MAY 1994
Index
Occupation: Store Clerk and Dental Assistant
Place: Rochester, Olmsted , Minnesota
Event: I2295
Type: REFI
Event: In the notes
Type: Timline
Note: Custom Timeline
For Frances Fox Thompson
1919 to 1994
1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 4
1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 17
1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from before birth until age 1
1914-1919: World War I from before birth until age 0
1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from before birth until age 1
1918-1933: Prohibition from before birth until age 14
1919: Shortwave Radio at age 0
1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 0
1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 1 to 10
1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 1
1920: Palestine established at age 1
1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 2 to 5
1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 3
1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 6 to 9
1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 6
1926: Sound in Movies at age 7
1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 8
1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 8
1928: Geiger Counter at age 9
1928: Video Recordings at age 9
1928: Penicillin invented by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 9
1928: Television at age 9
1929-1939: Great Depression from age 10 to 20
1929: Stock Market Crash at age 10
1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 10 to 13
1930: Pluto Discovered at age 11
1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 12 to 14
1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 14
1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 14 to 26
1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 14
1933: Radio Astronomy at age 14
1935: Dustbowl at age 16
1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 16 to 17
1936: Helicopter at age 17
1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 17 to 33
1936: Spanish Civil War at age 17
1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 17
1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 18
1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 18 to 26
1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 19
1939-1945: World War II from age 20 to 26
1939: Digital Computer at age 20
1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 20
1940: Color Television at age 21
1940: 1st black general in US army at age 21
1941-1945: Manhatten Project from age 22 to 26
1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 23
1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 23
1945: United Nations formed at age 26
1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 26
1945: Hypertext at age 26
1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 26 to 33
1946-1989: The Cold War from age 27 to 70
1946: The Bikini at age 27
1947: Transistor at age 28
1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 28
1948: NATO formed at age 29
1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 29
1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 29
1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 29
1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 30
1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 30
1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 30
1950-1953: Korean War from age 31 to 34
1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 31 to 35
1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 31
1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 31
1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 32
1952-2000: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 33 until after death
1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 33
1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 34 to 41
1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 35
1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 36
1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 36
1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 37
1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial)satellite at age 38
1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 39
1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 39
1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 39
1958: Integrated Circuit at age 39
1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 40
1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 40
1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 40
1960: Laser at age 41
1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 41
1960: Pantyhose at age 41
1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 41
1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 42 to 51
1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 42
1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 42
1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 42 to 44
1962-1965: Vatican II from age 43 to 46
1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 43
1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 44
1963: 1st artificial heart at age 44
1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 44 to 49
1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 44
1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 45 to 56
1964: US civil rights bill at age 45
1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 46
1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 46
1966: 8-track tape players at age 47
1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 47
1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 48
1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 48
1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 48
1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 48 to 51
1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 48
1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 49
1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 49
1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 50
1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 50
1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 50 to 55
1970: Microprocessor at age 51
1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 51
1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 52
1971: Pakistani civil war at age 52
1973: The Internet at age 54
1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 54
1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 55 to 57
1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 55
1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 56
1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 56
1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 57
1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 57
1976: American Bicentennial at age 57
1977: Neutron bomb at age 58
1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 58 to 61
1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 59
1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 59
1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 60
1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 60
1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 61
1981: IBM PC ships at age 62
1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 62 to 69
1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 62
1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 62
1982: 1st geneticly engineered product - insulin at age 63
1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 64
1983: Compact Disks at age 64
1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 64
1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 65
1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 65
1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 66
1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 67
1986: Mir space station deployed at age 67
1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 67
1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 68
1988: Turin shroud carbon dated from 1330 AD at age 69
1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 70 to 73
1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 70
1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 70
1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 70
1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 70
1990: World Wide Web at age 71
1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 71
1991-2000: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 72 until after death
1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 72
1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 73
1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 74 until after death
1993: Terrorist bombing of World Trade Center at age 74
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Burial: Date: 2 JUN 1994
Place: - Orion Center Cemetery, Cumminsville, (Chatfield) , Minnesota
Note: Feature Name: Orion Center Cemetery
Feature Type: cemetery
State: Minnesota
County: Olmsted
USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Marion
Latitude: 435300N
Longitude: 0921526W
Individual Note: From the family Group Sheet (written by Deanna Thompson) and submitted for the Tompkins picnic, 1996.
(Birthdate) Saturday, November 01, 1919
Top Headlines This Quarter
SHOWING SIGNS OF EXHAUSTION, WILSON SUFFERS A STROKE IN COLORADO. THE SENATE REFUSES TO RATIFY THE VERSAILLES TREATY BY A VOTE 55-39. THE MOST POPULAR WAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO A SQUABBLING END WITH OPPORTUNITIES LOST AND HOPES FORECLOSED.
Top Songs For 1919
The Lamplit Hour - Thomas Burke My Isle Of Golden Dreams -Gus Kahn
Peggy - Harry Williams Swanee - Irving Caesar
Letter Song - William Lebaron Ask The Stars - Frank Stammers
Indian Summer - Victor Herbert Dardanella - Fred Fisher
Prices US President
House $5,626.00 Woodrow Wilson
Car $500.00 US Vice President
Milk $.62 Thomas Marshall
Gas $.09 November 01 Birthdays
Bread $.10 Gary Player - 1935
Postage Stamp $0.03 Larry Flynt - 1942
Avg Income $1,155.00 Betsy Palmer - 1926
Fine Arts
Art: Art- Claude Monet Painted "Nympheas."
Film: Film- "Madame Dubarry" And "The Devil's Passkey." Film- "Madame
Dubarry" And "The Devil's Passkey."
Music: Music- Harry Tierney-"Irene" In New York. Music- Harry Tierney-"Irene" In
New York.
1919 Sports Headlines
CINCINNATI BEATS CHICAGO 5 GAMES TO 3 TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES. J. TOFTUS RIDES SIR BARTON TO VICTORY IN KENTUCKY DERBY. HOWARD WILCOX WINS INDIANAPOLIS 500 AVERAGING 88.1 MPH. SIR BARTON BECOMES FIRST TRIPLE CROWN WINNER. JACK DEMPSEY BECOMES NEW HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION.
Death Note: From obituary included in the Tompkins booklet (Tompkins Picnic 1996)
Presumed to be Rochester Post-Bulletin, dated 6/1/94
Frances Thompson of Rochester dies---
Frances A. Thompson, 74, of Samaritan Bethany Heights, a lifelong Rochester resident, died of cancer Monday afternoon (May 30, 1994) at the nursing home.
Frances A. Fox was born Nov. 1, 1919 in Rochester and grew up here and graduated from Rochester High School. On March 20, 1937, she married Albert Thompson in Cresco, Iowa. She was a homemaker. Her husband retired from IBM and Universal Ford. Mrs. Thompson was a member of the Rochester Methodist Hospital Pink Ladies Auxiliary, Homestead United Methodist Church and the church choir. She enjoyed playing bridge.
Survivors include her husband; three sons, Keith of Worthington, Ohio, Bruce of Plymouth, Minn. and Jeff of Rochester; a daughter, Deanna (Mrs. Dean) Sanden of Winona; nine grandchildren; three great grandchildren; two step great grandchildren; and two sisters, Maxine Strassman of New Athens, Ill., and Marge Mills of Glendale, Ariz. A sister and a grandson preceded her in death.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Homestead United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bruce Buller officiating. burial will be in Orion Center Cemetery in Cummingsville, Minn.
Friends may call from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Macken Funeral Home and an hour before the services Thursday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society, Samaritan Bethany Foundation, or Homestead United Methodist Church.
Social Security Number Note: FRANCES Thompson Request Information
SSN 477-07-7644 Residence: 55901 Rochester, Olmsted, MN
Born 1 Nov 1919 Last Benefit:
Died 30 May 1994 Issued: MN (Before 1951)
Individual Note: Taken 1978 for Church photo
Individual Note: Extracted from group picture of Mom Thompson, Dad Thompson and Grandson, Erik Thompson
Individual Note: Double gravestone for Frances and Albert Thompson
Individual Note: Orion Center Cemetary
Individual Note: Article pubulished in Post Bulletin, year unknown. Presumed to be near Christmas time from other articles surrounding the doughnut story.
Individual Note: Approximately 1937
Individual Note: Approximately 1937 in Rochester, Minn
Individual Note: Taken approximately 1941 by their insurance company
Individual Note: ca 1938
Individual Note: With Keith Thompson, ca. 1937
Individual Note: 50th Wedding Anniversary
Individual Note: Pictures from High School Yearbook
Individual Note: L to R.
Babe Spaniel
Cora Matthews
Bette Colebeck
Betty Roy
Bette Trusler
Fran Thompson
Jo Seibert
Lois Hansen
Individual Note: Frances Thompson modeling them
Individual Note: 5 years old
Individual Note: Graduation picture, 1937
Individual Note: Reunion, August 1981
Individual Note: Christmas 1972
Individual Note: February 1983
Individual Note: Good friends of Fran and Al Thompson
Photo taken 1981
Individual Note: August 1981
L to R:
Jean (Fox) Kaufhold
Maxine (Fox) Strassman
Chuck Kaufhold
Frances (Fox) Thompson
Al Thompson
Individual Note: Front side of card
Individual Note: Inside of card with text.
Individual Note: Orion Cemetery, Chatfield Minnesota