> Subject: [PALUZERN] Robert Frankenfield > Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:04:30 -0800 > From: Kay Schorah <Markay13@aol.com> > To: PALUZERN-L@rootsweb.com > > Posted on: Luzerne Co. Pa Obits Forum > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/LuzerneObits/6549 > > Surname: Frankenfield, Webster, Singer, Schinert > ------------------------- > > May 10, 1947 Driver is Fatally Stricken; Auto Straddles Guard Rail When > Robert Frankenfield, 45, died of a heart attack while driving to work near > midnight last night, his automobile left Highway 309 in Hanover Township, > straddled a guard rail and came to a stop on the edge of a ravine that > dropped 75 feet to a creek a the bottom. He was a resident of Mountain > Top. > > Deputy Coroner Albert E. Meier ascertained that Frankenfield had died before > the vehicle left the road. Meier was called to the scene by State Policemen, > P.J. Grippi and signed to the accident in response to a telephone call > from an unidentified motorist. > > Frankenfield was driving to work at Askam yards of Central Railroad of > Pennsylvania where he was to begin a shift as brakeman at 12:30. His automobile > left the highway approximately 500 feet inside the Hanover Township boundary > line on Route 309. > > Surviving are his wife, Sylvia; stepson, Walter Webster; two siters, Mrs > Arthur Singer and Mrs Fred Schinert, Wilkes-Barre; borther, Charles, Mountain > Top. > > He was a member of the Presbyterian church, Mountain Top, and Brotherhood > of Railway Trainmen. > > Funeral Services will held on Saturday at 2:30 in the Mountain Top Presbyterian > Church with Rev. James Younger, pastor, officiating. > > Burial will be in the Rippletown cemetery. November 13, 1947. The body > will be removed to the church at 1 Saturday afternoon. > > >From the journal of John Drendall. Relationship of Robert Frankenfield > to John Drendall's sister-in-law Blanch Swartwood Frankenfield (1878-1936)is > unknown. > > ______________________________ Kay, According to the Frankenfield Genealogy by Alfreda Patton published in 1987, Robert B. Frankenfield was born 25 August 1903, died 12 November 1947, and was buried in the Rippletown Cemetery. He was a son of David W. Frankenfield and Blanch Swartwood. There is no information on his marriage. His siblings were: Ethel married Frank Shinert; Mary, b. April 1909, married Arthur Singer; Ruth, d. 1933, married but name not given; and Charles B., b. 29 May 1910, married Margaret Moyer. Charles and Margaret were the parents of Margaret, Charles, Ruth, John "Jack," and Lois. Jack was one of my high school classmates as was Evelyn Drendall. Robert Frankenfield's wife was Sylvia Bloom, daughter of Joseph Bloom and Marion Jay. She was born 1 January 1900 and died 1 March 1988. She married [2] 24 November 1948 as his third wife Raymond Roscoe Rinehimer who taught math at Fairview High School. He was born 20 November 1896 and died in January 1971. On their marriage license [Luzerne Co. #423H] Sylvia stated that her previous husband died 13 November 1947. There is some discrepancy here in Robert Frankenfield's date of death. I hope this helps. David