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Francis George Schaaf

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Francis George Schaaf

Birth
Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota, USA
Death
18 Sep 1965 (aged 72)
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Plot
Section K, Site 518
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Eldest of the twelve children of Valentine George Schaaf (1868-1940) and Caroline Elizabeth (Carrie) Jordan (1875-1967), Frank (or Sid, as he was sometimes called) spent his early years farming with his family in Swift County, MN. The 1910 census lists 16 year old Frank as a "farm laborer" on the "house farm" in Dublin. Frank's first marriage, on 21 July 1915, was to Ethel M. Ryan (1890-1958). Frank served in the First World War as a Private in Company C of the 5th Pioneer Infantry. The Pioneer Infantries were specially trained in combat engineering.

Frank and Ethel's daughter Catherine Charlotte, born in 1920, died at age 10 of osteogenesis, devastating her parents. The year Charlotte was born, the couple lived with Ethel's widowed mother in Minneapolis and Frank worked as a "statistical engineer" for a "liquid air company." Still in Minneapolis in 1930, the year before Charlotte died, Frank was a police patrolman, following the profession of his brother Charles Joseph, who was also on the force in that city.

By 18 June 1938, when he married for the second time, Frank and Ethel had divorced. Tragedy fell for the new marriage, as well, when Frank's wife Elsie Bell Bailiff (1890-1941) died in hospital of an embolism cause by the extraction of a molar. The couple had no children. The Minneapolis City Directory of 1938 lists Frank as a policeman and his wife as Elsie B. The 1940 census also records that Frank is a city policeman.

On the last day of the year in 1941, Frank married Hazel Lucille Kuehmichel (1905-1972). In 1943, they adopted an infant they named Pamela Lucille (1943-2007), who was a loving daughter to them.

Frank died in a single-car accident in the city, his vehicle hitting a guard rail at a railroad overpass. He possibly had suffered stroke or heart attack and was found dead at the scene.
Eldest of the twelve children of Valentine George Schaaf (1868-1940) and Caroline Elizabeth (Carrie) Jordan (1875-1967), Frank (or Sid, as he was sometimes called) spent his early years farming with his family in Swift County, MN. The 1910 census lists 16 year old Frank as a "farm laborer" on the "house farm" in Dublin. Frank's first marriage, on 21 July 1915, was to Ethel M. Ryan (1890-1958). Frank served in the First World War as a Private in Company C of the 5th Pioneer Infantry. The Pioneer Infantries were specially trained in combat engineering.

Frank and Ethel's daughter Catherine Charlotte, born in 1920, died at age 10 of osteogenesis, devastating her parents. The year Charlotte was born, the couple lived with Ethel's widowed mother in Minneapolis and Frank worked as a "statistical engineer" for a "liquid air company." Still in Minneapolis in 1930, the year before Charlotte died, Frank was a police patrolman, following the profession of his brother Charles Joseph, who was also on the force in that city.

By 18 June 1938, when he married for the second time, Frank and Ethel had divorced. Tragedy fell for the new marriage, as well, when Frank's wife Elsie Bell Bailiff (1890-1941) died in hospital of an embolism cause by the extraction of a molar. The couple had no children. The Minneapolis City Directory of 1938 lists Frank as a policeman and his wife as Elsie B. The 1940 census also records that Frank is a city policeman.

On the last day of the year in 1941, Frank married Hazel Lucille Kuehmichel (1905-1972). In 1943, they adopted an infant they named Pamela Lucille (1943-2007), who was a loving daughter to them.

Frank died in a single-car accident in the city, his vehicle hitting a guard rail at a railroad overpass. He possibly had suffered stroke or heart attack and was found dead at the scene.

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