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Her four children and several of the grandchildren were assembled here already to celebrate Mother's 101st birthday and so were all here when she died so shortly afterward. It is never easy, but she went down hill so fast after her birthday and was so helpless. She hated being that way, and there was nothing we could do for her except be here. She and we are so fortunate that she was relatively independent and mentally alert with sense of humor and personality for 101 years and the end was so relatively short. Now she is at peace and without pain. [JHJ Sep 2010] A photograph of a very young Frances can be seen at Photo [RFSS Sep 2010] United States Census, 15 Apr 1910 Name: Frances Willett Event Place: Boyer, Harrison, Iowa, United States Gender: Female Age: 0 Marital Status: Single Race: White Race (Original): White Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Daughter Birth Year (Estimated): 1910 Birthplace: Iowa Father's Birthplace: Iowa Mother's Birthplace: Colorado District: 67 Sheet Number and Letter: 20B Household ID: 516 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: M1283 GS Film number: 1374418 Digital Folder Number: 004328300 Image Number: 00059
United States Social Security Death Index Given Name: Frances Middle Name: H Surname: Giesecke Birth Date: 19 September 1909 Social Security Number: 467-60-6901 State: Texas Last Place of Residence: El paso, Colorado Previous Residence Postal Code: 80904 Event Date: 24 September 2010 Age: 101 [RFSS Nov 2010] United States Department of Veterans Affairs GIESECKE, FRANCES WILLETT HEWINS DATE OF BIRTH: 09/19/1909 DATE OF DEATH: 09/24/2010 BURIED AT: SECTION 13 SITE 64-A ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY C/O DIRECTOR ARLINGTON, VA 22211 WIFE OF HEWINS, SPENCER F CAPT US COAST GUARD [RFSS Jan 2011] The following appeared on the Find A Grave website by an unknown author. Frances Willett Hewins Giesecke, daughter of Samuel Nathaniel Willett and Bell Sinton Willett died on Cape Cod after her family had gathered to celebrate her 101th birthday. She was independent and mentally alert with sense of humor up until the end. Frances was educated as a Physical Education Teacher at Colorado State Teachers College at Greeley [but never taught as she married before graduation, though she finished and graduated while her husband was at sea. jhj]. She married Spencer Foster Hewins who served in the US Coast Guard. Some years after Spencer's death in 1972, she married a college classmate Albert S. Giesecke who was an award-winning artist known for his portraits, landscapes and still lifes in oil, pastel and watercolor. Albert died in 1998. She is survived by her four children, Martha Bell (Hewins) Parker, Frances Joy (Hewins) Jones, Charlotte Elizabeth "Beth" (Hewins) Bryson and Lyman Willett Hewins. After a memorial ceremony, her ashes were buried with her first husbands at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. |
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| MARRIAGE NOTES |
| Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006
Name: Spencer F. Hewins Event Date: 11 Sep 1930 Event Place: Colorado Springs, Teller, Colorado, United States Age: 21 Birth Year (Estimated): 1909 Spouse's Name: Frances L. Willet Spouse's Age: 21 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1909 Page: 3662 GS Film number: 001690088 Digital Folder Number: 005203187 Image Number: 00483 [RFSS Sep 2013]  Wedding record for Spencer Foster Hewins and Frances Louisa Willett |
| SOURCES |
| [ s1240 ] | Social Security Death Index - United States of America - SS#: 467-60-6901 |
| [ s1302 ] | Military Record - United States Department of Veterans Affairs - Burial of Frances Willett Hewins Giesecke in Section 13, Site 64-A, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia, United States of America - ML2010-24-09-FWHG |
| [ s3014 ] | Marriage Registration - Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006 - Marriage of Spencer F. Hewins and Frances L. Willet on 11 September 1930 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, United States of America - Page: 3662, GS Film number: 001690088, Digital Folder Number: 005203187, Image Number: 00483 - MR1930-11-09-SFH-FLW |
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