George Fairbanks

- 1946

• Name	George Fairbanks
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Nov 1946	Emmett, Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  Person ID	I3487	Rossville
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Frank Lester Fairbanks, Sr.
  Mother	Rena Ethel Blaylock Fairbanks,   b. 18 Dec 1890, St. Clere, Pottawatomie County, Kansas ,   d. 7 Nov 1968, St. Marys, Pottawatomie County, Kansas  (Age 77 years)
  Married	20 Dec 1913	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Documents		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.
  Family ID	F3105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Fairbanks, George NAVY VET KILLED IN PASTURE TRAGEDY Spill with Horse Is Fatal for One of 6 Brothers, All Tars. George Fairbanks, one of the six sailor sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fairbanks who got nation-wide notice in World War II, was killed Nov. 27 in an alfalfa field west of Emmett. The horse which he was riding apparently at a gallop, stepped into a gopher hole to turn end over end – crushing the lad’s body and fracturing his skull. The tragedy occurred near Emery Johnson’s ranch, on the old Phil Joyce quarter-section, a “spread” which the ex-seaman had purchased out of the savings from his service pay. Just as it had four millions who responded to the colors, the threat of war had meant risks for the young Cross Creek cowman. But death in combat had not been his lot. Death just as violent was reserved for him back home, the day before Thanksgiving, in the serenity of the wide-open spaces he always cherished. The tragedy was [missing part] pastoral scene that had promised all a farm-reared youth could ask of the future – a place he could call his own, in the peace and solitude of God’s outdoors. George would have said that it just couldn’t happen there. He had even bought a horse for himself – a big, black stallion full of ginger and throbbing vitality. Prouder than he could ever say of his mount, the young ex-serviceman was never happier than when wearing his boots and spurs and racing down a draw to round up a string of mares. This was the job he loved and the job he was doing the last hour of his life. The body was discovered by a passing motorist as it lay near a fence on the road leading to the bombing range. The stallion stood a hundred yards away, virtually unharmed. It was shortly before noon when the stranger notified a neighbor, Fritz Johnson. George’s death is the second to be recorded among members of the naval sextette in his family. The first, a gold star sacrifice, was that of his brother, Douglas, who gave his life in the Battle of the Casper Straits, near Java. At the special request of Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, Mother Fairbanks traveled to San Francisco in the summer on 1942 to christen the USS Chickasaw. [missing rest]