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Lawrence Earl Frame

Birth	:	29 Mar 1894 Buffalo, Dawson County, Nebraska, USA
Death	:	3 Mar 1984 Julesburg, Sedgwick County, Colorado, USA
Burial	:	Mount Hope Cemetery, Lapeer, Lapeer County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.0558014, -83.3236008
Description	:	Husband of Nora Mable Frame and Anna Frame Buried March 8, 1983 Lot 550 Space- Lawrence E. Frame March 29,1894-March 3,1984 Lawrence Earl Frame was the third child of eight born to Peter Obadiah Frame and Carrie Grace Perkins. He was born in a sod house at Mahila in Buffalo County, Nebraska on March 29, 1894. (Mahila was a cluster of sod and frame buildings that sprung up around a post office which opened in 1882 and was located within a general store. It was located about 12 miles west of Ravenna, in Loup Township.) His father, P.O.... Read More	Husband of Nora Mable Frame and Anna Frame Buried March 8, 1983 Lot 550 Space- Lawrence E. Frame March 29,1894-March 3,1984 Lawrence Earl Frame was the third child of eight born to Peter Obadiah Frame and Carrie Grace Perkins. He was born in a sod house at Mahila in Buffalo County, Nebraska on March 29, 1894. (Mahila was a cluster of sod and frame buildings that sprung up around a post office which opened in 1882 and was located within a general store. It was located about 12 miles west of Ravenna, in Loup Township.) His father, P.O. Frame, was the postmaster there before Lawrence was born. While the family lived in this location, P.O. and Grace had five of their children: Ray, Elgin, Lawrence, Mabel and John. In 1900 when Lawrence was about 6 years old, they moved about 8 miles south east to Pleasant Valley (later known as Pleasanton) in Buffalo County, Nebraska. The Frame siblings playfully gave each other nicknames, and his was “Buck”. Lawrence attended school in a one-room frame building which was built on land near the Loup river which belonged to the Frame family. A second room was added in 1901, but in 1907 the building was destroyed by an ice gorge and the school was rebuilt further away on a hill. As Ray, Elgin and Lawrence got older, they virtually took over the farming and their father branched out and ran a hardware and farm implement store. It is believed that he sold some of the first Chevrolets in the area. In 1918, when Lawrence was about 24, his father bought a farm three miles west of Lisco in Garden County, Nebraska and moved his family about 200 miles west. An adult now, Lawrence decided to return to the girlfriend he’d left in eastern Nebraska. He married Nora Mabel Fry on the 4th of June 1919 in North Platte. She was the daughter of Oliver F. Fry and Cora Hollingsworth who lived near Hershey in Lincoln County, Nebraska. The newlyweds farmed southwest of Hershey for several years, and while living there, the couple had three sons: Laurel, Donald and Thomas who were born in 1920, 1922, and 1927 respectively. They moved from Hershey to the P.O. Frame farm at Lisco, Nebraska sometime in the late thirties. The lived there until 1946 when they bought a ranch (some 1799 acres) between Sedgewick and Crook, Colorado. It was called the “Red Lion Ranch” because there had once been a town nearby called Red Lion. Tragically, their middle son, Donnie, was kicked by a horse and killed when he was just eight years old. The horse was a gentle work horse who was apparently startled by something. After Donnie died, Lawrence limited the use of horses, and while farming at Lisco, everything became quite mechanized. He designed and built a loader to transport sugar beets from the ground to a truck. This machine was especially valuable during the war when labor was scarce. He also built two portable walls between which hay was stacked. The walls greatly reduced the work of keeping the stack straight while it was going up. Two hay bucks were mounted on automobile chassis that had been shortened and turned around so that the steering wheels were in back. Hay racks, and almost everything else that moved, were equipped with rubber tires. Back when Lawrence was farming at Hershey, he was the first one in the community to own a combine. The combine made it feasible to harvest wheat even if it was such poor yield that threshing was not worthwhile. His work at the Red Lion Ranch was much different than working the farms at Lisco or Hershey. Now there was no farming except for harvesting some 600 acres of prairie hay once each year. When they first moved there, he stocked the pastures with about 400 head of cattle and gradually increased the herd in later years. Larry Rice recalled the following about his uncle: “After working hard for many years, they enjoyed a life of comparative leisure in Colorado. Lawrence Frame was an interesting man to know. He was a student of history, geography, genealogy, farming, auto racing and baseball.” “In 1954, they stopped in Albuquerque, New Mexico to see us. They were driving a new Chevrolet. Evie asked Aunt Nora where they were going, and she said that she didn’t know. Lawrence had only said that he thought they should try out the new car. He always travelled with a relaxed schedule, or no schedule except when going to Indianapolis. He had to be there when the race started!” “The last time that we saw Aunt Nora, about 1956, she was at a picnic in Sterling. She looked healthy and pretty. Then, in 1957, they were travelling in La Mesa, San Diego County, California and their car was run into and she was killed. Her body was sent home and she was buried in the North Platte Cemetery in North Platte in Lincoln County, Nebraska.” “Lawrence told me that for the first three years after Nora died, he averaged driving 3,000 miles a month. When the going got rough, that was his means of escape.”On the 23rd of March 1965, Lawrence married Anna Estergard. He finally retired from the ranch and moved into Sedgwick. Lawrence died on the 5th of March 1983 in the Julesburg hospital. He and Nora are buried together in the North Platte Cemetery. His widow, Ann, moved to Calloway, Nebraska, while son Laurel lived in Sedgewick, and Tom was in nearby Julesburg.

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Where is Lawrence Earl Frame's memorial?
Lawrence Earl Frame's memorial is located at: Mount Hope Cemetery, Lapeer, Lapeer County, USA.
When did Lawrence Earl Frame death?
Lawrence Earl Frame death on 3 Mar 1984 in Julesburg, Sedgwick County, Colorado, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Lawrence Earl Frame's memorial?
Latitude: 43.0558014
Longitude: -83.3236008

Family Members:

Parent

Peter Obidiah Frame

(1862 - 1950)

Grace P. Perkins Frame

(1871 - 1951)

Spouse

Anna Rachel Waldron Frame

(1917 - 2000)

Nora Mable Fry Frame

(1902 - 1957)

Siblings

Raymond Lester “Doc” Frame

(1891 - 1961)

Mabel Frame Rice

(1896 - 1988)

John “Pat” Frame

(1898 - 1967)

Fred Gerald Frame

(1901 - 1945)

Children

Donald G. Frame

(1922 - 1930)

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23. Hadley Community Church Cemetery
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