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Frances Elaine “Fran” Crozier Gates

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
11 Feb 1978 (aged 76)
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes scattered. Specifically: Her ashes were scattered near their summer home in Yonderhill, Vinalhaven Island, Maine Add to Map
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Fran met Percy while she attended the University of Chicago. She graduated in Jun 1922 PL. B degree, Phi Beta Kappa. On 14 Jun 1922 their engagement announcement was published in the New York Times and in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 19 Jun 1922. They were married on 7 Oct 1922 in Chicago. Fran spent her life as a homemaker.

In her later years she suffered from bi-polar depression and died from an overdose of sleeping pills. She died on 11 Feb 1978 just eight months before her husband's death. Her body was cremated and the ashes were spread along with Percy's in the Fox Island thoroughfare, Vinalhaven Island, Maine, off their summer home called "Yonderhill".
Fran met Percy while she attended the University of Chicago. She graduated in Jun 1922 PL. B degree, Phi Beta Kappa. On 14 Jun 1922 their engagement announcement was published in the New York Times and in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 19 Jun 1922. They were married on 7 Oct 1922 in Chicago. Fran spent her life as a homemaker.

In her later years she suffered from bi-polar depression and died from an overdose of sleeping pills. She died on 11 Feb 1978 just eight months before her husband's death. Her body was cremated and the ashes were spread along with Percy's in the Fox Island thoroughfare, Vinalhaven Island, Maine, off their summer home called "Yonderhill".


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