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Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
​Utilizing the monkey see monkey do approach
Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
Cooking and Drinking
Fredrick Harold Kelsey
Aug. 25th 1913 - Dec 23rd. 1999
Pat married Lucy Whitis
Born March 9th 1914
Died July 25th 1990
Lucy was a nurse at Mercy Hospital in South Buffalo
(many of my family were born there, me included)
Born in Ohio
Grew up in Buffalo
Married in Arizona
Died in Florida
Married 45 years when she died Dec. 23rd 1999
1940 Census
Pat is 26, not married and living at home. 176 Crystal Ave, S. Buffalo, NY
70" is 5' 8" tall at 255 pounds
Eileen, Frederick. A.k.a., Patrick and my father, Frank.
C 1941 Making Pat 28, Eileen 16 and Frank about 8 years old.
My old records say Pat was a medic during the war.
Fredrick (Pat) at the dentist ha ha
Top row:
Pat, Dan, Frank, Lillian (Kelsey) Ferguson, Eileen, Last 3 people???
Bottom row:
Marie (Kelsey) Marong, John Kelsey, Elizabeth Kelsey, Dick and wife Dolores M. (Shea) Kelsey, the next 2 people??, and Joe last.
Photo date May 11th 1946
I think this is the only correspondence I have between Frederick AKA Pat and my father. Frederick died December 23rd 1999 and my father died March 2, 2000. sad.
Lucy's mothers name was Lizzie Vanhook.
1930 census showing Lucy Whites. Ended up marring Fredrick Kelsey They married in AZ.
1930 Census Decatur, Indiana
1950 Census
Both Pat and Lucy are both 36 years old living one block away from public school 29. Who knew. Well, before we were living on Aldridge Place. We didn't move there until approximately 1966.
Frederick. A.k.a. Pat, was working as a sheet-metal worker and wife Lucy was a nurse. Lucy M. Kentucky.
Lucy Head quite a large family. (I think 12 in all) Kids being born from 1901 through 1926.
Below are the deaths of her father, James and her mother, Rebecca.
Lucy's father John
Lucy's mother Rebecca
I've seen it written somewhere on ancestry.com that John and Rebecca had 16 children in all.
Lucy and Pat Kelsey and the middle couple June 1946
All I know is Grandma Eliz. is the 2nd from the left and Lucy Kelsey (Fredrick's wife 2 nd from the right.
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