Washington County, OK - Obituary - Jennie Viva FRIES - f620 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by suescott@fwst.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Bartlesville Enterprise - 21 July 1944 P.4 Col.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Heart Attack Kills Pioneer Stricken while she prepared the family's evening meal, Mrs. Jennie Viva FRIES, 76, died suddenly last night about 7:30 o'clock of a heart attack in her home in Tuxedo. Mrs. Fries had been in apparently good health at the time she was stricken. She left the kitchen and went in to lie down on a divan in the living room where her husband, George Fries, found her body. Mr. and Mrs. Fries came to Bartlesville in 1910 from Wood County Ohio. After engaging in the oil business for sometime, Fries practiced law here until about 1920, when he retired and moved to Tuxedo. The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary three years ago. She was a member of the Bartlesville First Christian Church. Survivors include five sons, Claude Fries, 312 East Fourteenth: C.E. Fries of the army, stationed in Alexandria, La. George M. Fries of the navy, stationed in Brooklyn N.Y.: Dwight R. Fries, with the army in India, and Donald P. Fries of Tulsa: four daughters, Mrs. Rhea Folger and Mrs. Eva Engler both of Tulsa; Mrs Cleo Cassidy and Mrs. Frieda Hensley, both of Los Angeles; one sister Mrs. Amy Ash of Oklahoma City; two half sisters and one half brother; also seven grandchildren. The body is at the Neekamp funeral home. Funeral arrangments are incomplete.