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Family: Frank Lester Fairbanks, Sr. / Rena Ethel Blaylock Fairbanks (F3105)

m. 20 Dec 1913


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  • Father | Male
    Frank Lester Fairbanks, Sr.

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    Married  20 Dec 1913  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Mother | Female
    Rena Ethel Blaylock Fairbanks

    Born  18 Dec 1890  St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  7 Nov 1968  St. Marys, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  10 Nov 1968  St. Clere Cemetery, Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Joseph Blaylock | F534 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Lourina Dooley Blaylock | F534 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Male
    + Joseph L Fairbanks

    Born  27 Nov 1915  St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  29 Jan 1996  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Cremated    Body donated to University of Kansas Medical Center; St. Clere Cemetery, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Helen Taffee Fairbanks | F2845 
    Married     
    Spouse  Doris White Norris Fairbanks Conklin | F6845 
    Married  1974   

    Child 2 | Male
    + Charles W Fairbanks

    Born  17 Mar 1920  St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  17 Aug 1987  Kansas City Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  21 Aug 1987  St. Clere Cemetery, Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Norma Marshall Fairbanks | F3109 
    Married  14 May 1985   

    Child 3 | Male
    + Frank Lester Fairbanks

    Born  2 Feb 1922  St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  12 Sep 1977  Kansas City Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  15 Sep 1977  Green Lawn Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Opal Fairbanks | F3106 
    Married     

    Child 4 | Male
    + Hugh Leo Fairbanks

    Born  23 Oct 1926  Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  23 Aug 2011  St. Marys, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Body donated to University of Kansas Medical Center; St. Clere Cemetery, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Geneva Alice Keller Fairbanks | F3107 
    Married  18 Jun 1948  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 5 | Male
    George Fairbanks

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    Died  27 Nov 1946  Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Child 6 | Male
    Gerald Fairbanks

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    Child 7 | Male
    Carl Douglas Fairbanks

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    Died  1941   
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    Child 8 | Female
    Ruth Fairbanks Zetmeir

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    Child 9 | Female
    Rena Faye Fairbanks Powers

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    Child 10 | Female
    Doris Fairbanks Fiorino Johnson Poynter Lange

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  • Documents
    Anniversary- Fairbanks, Frank and Rena
    Anniversary- Fairbanks, Frank and Rena
    Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Fairbanks to Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Fairbanks will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday, October 20, with a reception in the Methodist Manse in Emmett, Kansas. Friends and relatives are cordially invited to call from 2 to 4 p. m.

    Frank L. Fairbanks of St. Clere, Kansas, and Rena Ethel Blaylock, St. Clere, were united in marriage in the home of her uncle, Robert Meredith, a minister of the United Brethern Church in Topeka, Kansas, on December 20, 1913. Before her wedding, Mrs. Fairbanks taught school for five years. She taught two years in Pottawatomie County at the Little Rock and St. Clere schools, and three years in Bourbon County.

    Most of their married life has been spent in the St. Clere and Emmett vicinities. Mr. Fairbanks has been a farmer and stockman most of this time.

    They have seven living children: Mrs. Ruth Zetmeir, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Rena Powers, Denver, Colorado; Doris Fiorino, Norwalk, California; Charles, Kansas City, Missouri; Frank Jr., Kingsville, Missouri; Joseph, Emmett, Kansas; and Hugh, Delia, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks have 19 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.