Fritz Patrick Drake (1922 - 1999)

Born 25 Apr 1922 in Exchange Branch, Braxton, West Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Francis Pauline (Brown) Drake — married 1945 in Webster, West Virginia, United States

Died 7 Mar 1999 at age 76 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Jack Drake served in the United States Navy in World War II
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Jack Fritz Patrick Drake was born on April 25, 1922, in Braxton County, West Virginia ^[1] to Oscar Drake and Susie Ellis. He died on March 7, 1999, in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76. ^[2] He is buried in Butternut Ridge Cemetery, Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, USA^[3] Marker shows he was in the US NAVY WORLD WAR II

Jack Fritz Patrick Drake and Frances Brown married on January 24, 1945, in Webster, West Virginia, United States. ^[4]Record

Children listed in his Obituary :^[5]

1. Robert Drake
2. Rita Drake Eckhart
3. Sheila Drake
4. Susie Drake Dunfee

• Fact: Residence (1930) Gassaway, Braxton, West Virginia, United States^[6]
• Fact: Residence (1940) Fort Lick Magisterial District, Webster, West Virginia, United States^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.[1]Fritz Patric Drake in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
2. ↑ "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VKYQ-DBD : 8 December 2014), Fritz P Drake, 07 Mar 1999; from "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-2007," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2010); citing vol. 31901, certificate number 023105, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus; Ohio Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, Columbus.
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q2SS-2SFH : 15 March 2016), Fritz P Drake, 1996; Burial, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States of America, Butternut Ridge Cemetery Find A Grave: Memorial #156851198
4. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FTKL-G5Q : 4 December 2014), Jack Fritz Patrick Drake and Frances Brown, 1945; citing Webster, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 593,533.
5. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK53-H68D : 26 October 2016), Mr Fritz P Or Jack Drake, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 09 Mar 1999; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Plain Dealer, The, born-digital text.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XMC6-1C2 : accessed 12 December 2016), Jack F Drake in household of Oscar C Drake, Gassaway, Braxton, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 14B, line 93, family 322, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2527; FHL microfilm 2,342,261.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K783-J18 : accessed 12 December 2016), Jack Drake in household of Oscar Drake, Fork Lick Magisterial District, Webster, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 51-2, sheet 14B, line 70, family 243, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4451.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 13 December 2016, 00:28), entry for Jack Fritz Patrick Drake(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LR7J-2KQ); contributed by various users.

Personal knowledge (Dad's brother) - Official name is Fritz Patrick, Jack is not official - Jack found this out while in the US Navy.