Frances MAYER

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1943-MN-000105

Notes:

She was still at home with her parents and siblings in the 1900 census and the 1905 state census.

In the 1920 census, as Francis Vorwerk, she is a 41 year-old boarder with the Luke Toole family in Rose Twp, Ramsey County. She is listed as single and works as a clerk in an office.

In the 1940 census, she is Frances M Ward, age 60, an inmate at the “Anoka State Hospital (Insane Asylum).” Five years earlier, she had lived in St. Paul. She had an eighth-grade education.

Frances died at the Anoka State Hospital where she had been an inmate for five-and-a-half years. The death certificate showed that she was married but her husband was unknown. She died of tuberculosis and had been institutionalized due to “psychosis.” Frances had been a stenographer in her earlier life and had lived in St. Paul.

Birth:
Her death certificate says 1880 which would be inconsistent with her brother’s birthday.

Died:
as Frances M Ward

Frances married Louis H VORWERK about 1906, and was divorced before 1923. Louis (son of Fred VORWERK, Sr and Mary Meyers VORWERK) was born on 20 Jun 1886 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 25 Dec 1932 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Dec 1932 in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Charles WARD after 1932. Charles died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]