Catholic wife and mother
Mrs. Volkmer was the daughter of Anton SCHERWING and Mary HIMMELBERT, a Missouri farming couple. At 19, Frances was teaching in a public school in Chariton County, Missouri, living with her parents and siblings on the family farm. She married when she was 27 and became the mother of five children: Paul, Richard, Harold, Robert, and Sue Ann.
As a Catholic wife and mother in her 30s, she campaigned for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, approaching store owners asking them to place FDR posters in their store fronts. With her as she would go from store to store was her young son Harold. She told her son that, in order to make a real difference in the world, he would have to be inside the State Capitol. Her son grew up to serve first in the Missouri State House and then for twenty years as a Congressman from Missouri in the U.S. Capitol.
Mrs. Volkmer was the daughter of Anton SCHERWING and Mary HIMMELBERT, a Missouri farming couple. At 19, Frances was teaching in a public school in Chariton County, Missouri, living with her parents and siblings on the family farm. She married when she was 27 and became the mother of five children: Paul, Richard, Harold, Robert, and Sue Ann.
As a Catholic wife and mother in her 30s, she campaigned for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, approaching store owners asking them to place FDR posters in their store fronts. With her as she would go from store to store was her young son Harold. She told her son that, in order to make a real difference in the world, he would have to be inside the State Capitol. Her son grew up to serve first in the Missouri State House and then for twenty years as a Congressman from Missouri in the U.S. Capitol.
Catholic wife and mother
Mrs. Volkmer was the daughter of Anton SCHERWING and Mary HIMMELBERT, a Missouri farming couple. At 19, Frances was teaching in a public school in Chariton County, Missouri, living with her parents and siblings on the family farm. She married when she was 27 and became the mother of five children: Paul, Richard, Harold, Robert, and Sue Ann.
As a Catholic wife and mother in her 30s, she campaigned for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, approaching store owners asking them to place FDR posters in their store fronts. With her as she would go from store to store was her young son Harold. She told her son that, in order to make a real difference in the world, he would have to be inside the State Capitol. Her son grew up to serve first in the Missouri State House and then for twenty years as a Congressman from Missouri in the U.S. Capitol.
Mrs. Volkmer was the daughter of Anton SCHERWING and Mary HIMMELBERT, a Missouri farming couple. At 19, Frances was teaching in a public school in Chariton County, Missouri, living with her parents and siblings on the family farm. She married when she was 27 and became the mother of five children: Paul, Richard, Harold, Robert, and Sue Ann.
As a Catholic wife and mother in her 30s, she campaigned for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, approaching store owners asking them to place FDR posters in their store fronts. With her as she would go from store to store was her young son Harold. She told her son that, in order to make a real difference in the world, he would have to be inside the State Capitol. Her son grew up to serve first in the Missouri State House and then for twenty years as a Congressman from Missouri in the U.S. Capitol.
Gravesite Details
same stone as Paul VOLKMER
