Elsie May Frisch

© Blackwell Journal Tribune

Sunday, July 24, 1977

Elsie May Frisch of 825 South 2nd, died Friday at the Hillcrest Manor nursing home. She was 86.

Services for Mrs. Frisch will be at 2 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Otto Elling of the Prairie View Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in the Riverview Cemetery southwest of Tonkawa under the direction of the Hamiton-Porter Funeral Home.

Born Aug 27, 1890 in Cheney, Kansas, she married William H. Frisch June 1, 1922 in Enid. The couple lived on a farm east of Blackwell from 1922 to 1945 when they moved into Blackwell.

Mr. Frisch died in 1973

Survivors include a son, Owen of Albuquerque, N.M.; two daughters, Willa Mae Overman of Ponca City and Velma Ann Carmichael of Washington; two brothers, Haul Clavin of Wichita and Oren Clavin of Billings; two sisters, Maude Kirkpatrick of Billings and Ethel Spengler of Winfield, Ks.; ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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