Frances Kargol kept her finger on the pulse of Hamtramck for nearly 50 years as owner and operator of the Citizen newspaper. The 10,000 circulation weekly publication remains in Mrs. Kargol’s family after she retired in 1986. She and her husband, Joseph Kargol bought it after they wed in 1937.
Born a coal miner’s daughter in Jerome, Pa she moved with her Russian family to Detroit in the late 1920’s during a United Miner Workers’ strike.
The seventh child in a family of nine, she was the first in her family to graduate from high school, Hamtramck High School. During high school the former Frances Burlockoff met her future husband on one of the Boblo Island boats.
They ran the paper with a small staff and when Joseph Kargol took ill in the 1970’s Mrs. Kargol became publisher. In 1974 she took over completely. She retired in 1986, selling the paper to her elder daughter. “She was a rarity and a real role model,” said Karen Spang, now owner and publisher of the Hamtramck Citizen.
Mrs. Kargol was a 30-year member of the Soroptimist International club of Hamtramck and served three times as its president. She was elected to the Hamtramck High School Hall of Honor in 1995.
She is also survived by a daughter, Susan Johnston, two sisters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,
A memorial service was held at Sawyer-Fuller Funeral home and burial followed in Roseland Park Cemetery in Berkley.
26 Jan 2000
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
Born a coal miner’s daughter in Jerome, Pa she moved with her Russian family to Detroit in the late 1920’s during a United Miner Workers’ strike.
The seventh child in a family of nine, she was the first in her family to graduate from high school, Hamtramck High School. During high school the former Frances Burlockoff met her future husband on one of the Boblo Island boats.
They ran the paper with a small staff and when Joseph Kargol took ill in the 1970’s Mrs. Kargol became publisher. In 1974 she took over completely. She retired in 1986, selling the paper to her elder daughter. “She was a rarity and a real role model,” said Karen Spang, now owner and publisher of the Hamtramck Citizen.
Mrs. Kargol was a 30-year member of the Soroptimist International club of Hamtramck and served three times as its president. She was elected to the Hamtramck High School Hall of Honor in 1995.
She is also survived by a daughter, Susan Johnston, two sisters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,
A memorial service was held at Sawyer-Fuller Funeral home and burial followed in Roseland Park Cemetery in Berkley.
26 Jan 2000
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
Frances Kargol kept her finger on the pulse of Hamtramck for nearly 50 years as owner and operator of the Citizen newspaper. The 10,000 circulation weekly publication remains in Mrs. Kargol’s family after she retired in 1986. She and her husband, Joseph Kargol bought it after they wed in 1937.
Born a coal miner’s daughter in Jerome, Pa she moved with her Russian family to Detroit in the late 1920’s during a United Miner Workers’ strike.
The seventh child in a family of nine, she was the first in her family to graduate from high school, Hamtramck High School. During high school the former Frances Burlockoff met her future husband on one of the Boblo Island boats.
They ran the paper with a small staff and when Joseph Kargol took ill in the 1970’s Mrs. Kargol became publisher. In 1974 she took over completely. She retired in 1986, selling the paper to her elder daughter. “She was a rarity and a real role model,” said Karen Spang, now owner and publisher of the Hamtramck Citizen.
Mrs. Kargol was a 30-year member of the Soroptimist International club of Hamtramck and served three times as its president. She was elected to the Hamtramck High School Hall of Honor in 1995.
She is also survived by a daughter, Susan Johnston, two sisters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,
A memorial service was held at Sawyer-Fuller Funeral home and burial followed in Roseland Park Cemetery in Berkley.
26 Jan 2000
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
Born a coal miner’s daughter in Jerome, Pa she moved with her Russian family to Detroit in the late 1920’s during a United Miner Workers’ strike.
The seventh child in a family of nine, she was the first in her family to graduate from high school, Hamtramck High School. During high school the former Frances Burlockoff met her future husband on one of the Boblo Island boats.
They ran the paper with a small staff and when Joseph Kargol took ill in the 1970’s Mrs. Kargol became publisher. In 1974 she took over completely. She retired in 1986, selling the paper to her elder daughter. “She was a rarity and a real role model,” said Karen Spang, now owner and publisher of the Hamtramck Citizen.
Mrs. Kargol was a 30-year member of the Soroptimist International club of Hamtramck and served three times as its president. She was elected to the Hamtramck High School Hall of Honor in 1995.
She is also survived by a daughter, Susan Johnston, two sisters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,
A memorial service was held at Sawyer-Fuller Funeral home and burial followed in Roseland Park Cemetery in Berkley.
26 Jan 2000
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
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