Born Wednesday 11 Feb 1903 at 10 am in Armourdale, Kansas, Franklin Fernando Adell was the second child of George Norton Adell and Claudia CHANCE. As the story was told by Frank's daughter Beverly, a close friend of George Adell's was the one after whom Frank received his middle name. Frank's older brother Bruce, died from Diphtheria in 1904 at the age of three, and sometime after 1910, the family moved near Butte, Montana, where Frank attended school thru the 9th grade. At age 18, he enrolled at the Ambu, Electrical Engineering Institute of Chicago, completing a 50-day residency course on automobile electrical systems. As a member of their 7 Nov 1921 graduating class, Frank pursued a years-long career in the automotive industry, working primarily for Western Auto Supply and also Martin Auto Supply in sales and management.
Frank probably met his future wife Josephine Alkire in school, although evidence suggests their fathers George and Archie may have also been acquainted. The couple obtained their marriage license in Butte, on 2 Jun 1922 but were not married until 24 Sep in Portland, Oregon, the birthplace of their first child Bruce in 1923. From Portland, the family moved to California, first living in Santa Rosa into the late '20s, followed by a move to Napa thru 1937 and then Sacramento for about a year before moving to Roseville, as Frank followed his employment opportunities. Their daughter Beverly had been born in Santa Rosa in 1926 and their son Franklin in Sacramento, just as the family was preparing their move to Roseville in December 1939. Frank and Jo rented their small house at 505 Shasta Street for about 10 years, before buying it for $5,000.00 from the Taylor family, local grocers who lived next door. A quiet man, Frank had always used an economy of words and enjoyed smoking his pipe. On the living room wall behind his easy chair, hung an orientalist revival print, purchased by his mother Claudia in the 1930's at Breuner's Furniture in Sacramento. Next to Frank's chair was a lamp table with a small cupboard used to store his collection of pipes and a palm-sized melted piece of metal, retrieved from the 1944 wreckage of his son's B-24 Liberator. Given to Bruce recovering at the base hospital by a service member on the scene, it was mailed home to his father Frank, who kept it for the rest of his life. A rather grim reminder of his son's brush with death, it wasn't noticed as missing, until after his wife Jo's death in 1996.
In the 1950s, Frank left the automotive industry, to work for the State of California's Department of Agriculture as a Deputy Sealer. An Agricultural Inspector specializing in plant quarantine inspection and nursery inspection for Placer County, Frank remained in this position until his 1970 retirement. The Placer County exhibit at the old State Fairgrounds in Sacramento, which was often manned by Frank and visits to see him there, was always on the family agenda when attending the fair. Frank was active in the Roseville Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the First Methodist Church of Roseville as well. He passed away on 25 May 1989 at the age of 86.
Scott Adell
2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Frank probably met his future wife Josephine Alkire in school, although evidence suggests their fathers George and Archie may have also been acquainted. The couple obtained their marriage license in Butte, on 2 Jun 1922 but were not married until 24 Sep in Portland, Oregon, the birthplace of their first child Bruce in 1923. From Portland, the family moved to California, first living in Santa Rosa into the late '20s, followed by a move to Napa thru 1937 and then Sacramento for about a year before moving to Roseville, as Frank followed his employment opportunities. Their daughter Beverly had been born in Santa Rosa in 1926 and their son Franklin in Sacramento, just as the family was preparing their move to Roseville in December 1939. Frank and Jo rented their small house at 505 Shasta Street for about 10 years, before buying it for $5,000.00 from the Taylor family, local grocers who lived next door. A quiet man, Frank had always used an economy of words and enjoyed smoking his pipe. On the living room wall behind his easy chair, hung an orientalist revival print, purchased by his mother Claudia in the 1930's at Breuner's Furniture in Sacramento. Next to Frank's chair was a lamp table with a small cupboard used to store his collection of pipes and a palm-sized melted piece of metal, retrieved from the 1944 wreckage of his son's B-24 Liberator. Given to Bruce recovering at the base hospital by a service member on the scene, it was mailed home to his father Frank, who kept it for the rest of his life. A rather grim reminder of his son's brush with death, it wasn't noticed as missing, until after his wife Jo's death in 1996.
In the 1950s, Frank left the automotive industry, to work for the State of California's Department of Agriculture as a Deputy Sealer. An Agricultural Inspector specializing in plant quarantine inspection and nursery inspection for Placer County, Frank remained in this position until his 1970 retirement. The Placer County exhibit at the old State Fairgrounds in Sacramento, which was often manned by Frank and visits to see him there, was always on the family agenda when attending the fair. Frank was active in the Roseville Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the First Methodist Church of Roseville as well. He passed away on 25 May 1989 at the age of 86.
Scott Adell
2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Born Wednesday 11 Feb 1903 at 10 am in Armourdale, Kansas, Franklin Fernando Adell was the second child of George Norton Adell and Claudia CHANCE. As the story was told by Frank's daughter Beverly, a close friend of George Adell's was the one after whom Frank received his middle name. Frank's older brother Bruce, died from Diphtheria in 1904 at the age of three, and sometime after 1910, the family moved near Butte, Montana, where Frank attended school thru the 9th grade. At age 18, he enrolled at the Ambu, Electrical Engineering Institute of Chicago, completing a 50-day residency course on automobile electrical systems. As a member of their 7 Nov 1921 graduating class, Frank pursued a years-long career in the automotive industry, working primarily for Western Auto Supply and also Martin Auto Supply in sales and management.
Frank probably met his future wife Josephine Alkire in school, although evidence suggests their fathers George and Archie may have also been acquainted. The couple obtained their marriage license in Butte, on 2 Jun 1922 but were not married until 24 Sep in Portland, Oregon, the birthplace of their first child Bruce in 1923. From Portland, the family moved to California, first living in Santa Rosa into the late '20s, followed by a move to Napa thru 1937 and then Sacramento for about a year before moving to Roseville, as Frank followed his employment opportunities. Their daughter Beverly had been born in Santa Rosa in 1926 and their son Franklin in Sacramento, just as the family was preparing their move to Roseville in December 1939. Frank and Jo rented their small house at 505 Shasta Street for about 10 years, before buying it for $5,000.00 from the Taylor family, local grocers who lived next door. A quiet man, Frank had always used an economy of words and enjoyed smoking his pipe. On the living room wall behind his easy chair, hung an orientalist revival print, purchased by his mother Claudia in the 1930's at Breuner's Furniture in Sacramento. Next to Frank's chair was a lamp table with a small cupboard used to store his collection of pipes and a palm-sized melted piece of metal, retrieved from the 1944 wreckage of his son's B-24 Liberator. Given to Bruce recovering at the base hospital by a service member on the scene, it was mailed home to his father Frank, who kept it for the rest of his life. A rather grim reminder of his son's brush with death, it wasn't noticed as missing, until after his wife Jo's death in 1996.
In the 1950s, Frank left the automotive industry, to work for the State of California's Department of Agriculture as a Deputy Sealer. An Agricultural Inspector specializing in plant quarantine inspection and nursery inspection for Placer County, Frank remained in this position until his 1970 retirement. The Placer County exhibit at the old State Fairgrounds in Sacramento, which was often manned by Frank and visits to see him there, was always on the family agenda when attending the fair. Frank was active in the Roseville Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the First Methodist Church of Roseville as well. He passed away on 25 May 1989 at the age of 86.
Scott Adell
2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Frank probably met his future wife Josephine Alkire in school, although evidence suggests their fathers George and Archie may have also been acquainted. The couple obtained their marriage license in Butte, on 2 Jun 1922 but were not married until 24 Sep in Portland, Oregon, the birthplace of their first child Bruce in 1923. From Portland, the family moved to California, first living in Santa Rosa into the late '20s, followed by a move to Napa thru 1937 and then Sacramento for about a year before moving to Roseville, as Frank followed his employment opportunities. Their daughter Beverly had been born in Santa Rosa in 1926 and their son Franklin in Sacramento, just as the family was preparing their move to Roseville in December 1939. Frank and Jo rented their small house at 505 Shasta Street for about 10 years, before buying it for $5,000.00 from the Taylor family, local grocers who lived next door. A quiet man, Frank had always used an economy of words and enjoyed smoking his pipe. On the living room wall behind his easy chair, hung an orientalist revival print, purchased by his mother Claudia in the 1930's at Breuner's Furniture in Sacramento. Next to Frank's chair was a lamp table with a small cupboard used to store his collection of pipes and a palm-sized melted piece of metal, retrieved from the 1944 wreckage of his son's B-24 Liberator. Given to Bruce recovering at the base hospital by a service member on the scene, it was mailed home to his father Frank, who kept it for the rest of his life. A rather grim reminder of his son's brush with death, it wasn't noticed as missing, until after his wife Jo's death in 1996.
In the 1950s, Frank left the automotive industry, to work for the State of California's Department of Agriculture as a Deputy Sealer. An Agricultural Inspector specializing in plant quarantine inspection and nursery inspection for Placer County, Frank remained in this position until his 1970 retirement. The Placer County exhibit at the old State Fairgrounds in Sacramento, which was often manned by Frank and visits to see him there, was always on the family agenda when attending the fair. Frank was active in the Roseville Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the First Methodist Church of Roseville as well. He passed away on 25 May 1989 at the age of 86.
Scott Adell
2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
