Ancestral Ties: Helen Rex Frazier

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Helen Rex (1913-1982) lived on Wilson Avenue while attending Salt Lake LDS High School 1928-1929

Salt Lake LDS High School Campus (notice Salt Lake Temple)

Salt Lake LDS High School Campus (notice Hotel Utah)

Brother Durham was a favorite teacher.

Helen is in the right center of the picture

looking all the world like her daughter Susan.

Helen (on the right) and a friend in Liberty Park

are looking back cousin Jerry Morgan.

Helen was invited to stay with Earl and Marin Morgan

because Grandma Morgan's house was full.

Jerry is on the right, Jack and John

(Jack Clayton, John Morgan?) are to his left.

Earl and Marin Morgan's Wilson Street home.

Helen is the photographer.

Jerry on the left of two of her classmates.

Jerry is with Helen in front of his Wilson Avenue home.

Cousins of about the same age

Magazines for the years Helen resided in Salt Lake City.

Monday, September 14, 2020

Glenn and Helen Rex Frazier. New Draft Document compels me to POST.

Glenn Frazier and Helen Rex met at one of her high school dances. She graduated in 1931. They courted for several years.

In mid-1937 Helen traveled to California where Glenn was living and working. Soon after her return to Randolph the following appeared in a Rich County newspaper.

Its presumed Glenn and Helen are standing in front of their Derby Street, Oakland, California address listed in the following Draft Registration.

Glenn was good at checkers. He loved to tell us he'd won our mother Helen's hand in marriage by winning her mother Bessie Morgan Rex in a game of checkers.

Glenn certainly looks content having dozed off reading the current Life Magazine. Note his need for a new pair or shoes, or new shoe soles.

In 1941 Glenn and Helen hosted her family (PH Rex, Mary, Morgan, Maeser, Flora) for Thanksgiving Dinner in their apartment.

One night walking home from the movies an unknown photographer snapped this unsolicited picture of Glenn and Helen walking in the cold. Note Helen's hands tucked into the sleeves of her brown wool coat topped with a velvet collar.

This newly discovered document shared by Family Search instigated this Post. It told me several things I hadn't yet learned about my parents' lives in Oakland. It needed to be saved and shared.

Helen and some friends in Oakland shared a social the year she and Glenn moved from there to Woodruff, Utah.

Glenn and Helen are sitting on the floor front and center at a Young Marrieds Halloween Party in Oakland probably days before they began their move to Woodruff, Utah. They spent Halloween night at a motel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Their children Rex and Bessie are waiting for public transportation in Oakland. Please note the coats they are wearing. Made by their Great Aunt Maude Frazier Eastman. She picked apart and refashioned adult wool coats she then sewed from the usable pieces for children. We were lucky recipients of more than one of her lovely coats. Mine may have been fashion from the coat Helen wore ten years earlier--velvet collar and all.

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Helen Rex's May 21, 1931 Autograph Book. South Rich High School, Randolph, Utah

Thursday, January 30, 2020

1937 - Helen Rex's trip to Los Angeles to visit her fiance Glenn Frazier

Helen wrote:

We surely had a Grand Time. I mean Glenn and I.

My father, Glenn Frazier moved from Woodruff, Utah to Los Angeles, California in 1936. There he lived, attended school, and worked. He left his girlfriend, Helen Rex behind in Randolph, Utah. There she worked in the Rich County Court House where she saved and planned for their future marriage.

Both on Bridge of Los Angeles River

where it goes into the ocean May 19, 1937

In May 1937 Helen vacationed in Los Angles, California with her fiance Glenn. Upon her return to Randolph she wrote a three page letter to her brother Harold Morgan Rex. He was serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil. The pictures she saved and her letter to her brother described her WONDERFUL trip to California. Grateful I am to her brother and family for saving her letter for me. And for Helen! I'm so PROUD of her for pulling off that dream trip.

Helen at Forest Lawn Memorial Park May 16, 1937.

The pool with "Finding of Moses"

May 18, 1937 Charlie Chaplain's home

Long Beach Hotel

May 19, 1937

Ronald Coleman's home

May 18, 1937

4062 Oakwood Ave., L. A.

May 23, 1937

Glenn Frazier on left. I presume this man is his room mate.

I don't know his name.

Helen wrote her brother Harold: "A fellow from Mississippi is living with him, and he doesn’t even have any kind of work. So Glenn does feel pretty good about his luck."