This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Frieze, McCullough, Gooding, Ellis, Burns, Lynn, O'Brien Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACI/446 Message Board Post: ?The Owosso Argus? 27 March 1980 JOHN FRIEZE DURAND -- John Frieze of Gould City, Mackinac County, a former Durand resident, died Thursday at the Durand Convalescent Center. Mr. Frieze, 86, had been in failing health for four years. A member of the Knights Templar and life member of the Masons, he worked for the Grand Trunk Railroad for 46 years as an engineer, retiring in 1958. Mr. Frieze was born on May 18, 1893, in Texas to Jake and Amanda Frieze and was married to Frances McCullough. She died in 1946. On June 27, 1955, he married Genevieve Gooding. He is survived by daughter Mrs. Lippert (Jane) Ellis of Durand, step-sons Harold Gooding of Framington, Gerald Gooding of Flint, brother William of North Carolina, sisters Mrs. Lena Burns and Mrs. Lela Lynn, both of North Carolina and four grandchildren. The funeral will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bellows Funeral Home of Durand, with the Rev. James Martin officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Vernon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Frieze also had another wife before he married Frances McMullough. She was Vinnie O'Brien (1892-1918). She is also buried in Greenwood Cemeter with her family. She was the daughter of John and Catherine O'Brien of Durand.