Francis Etha (Holden) Stapp (1905 - 1987)

Born 3 Oct 1905 in Columbia Township, Brown County, South Dakota, United States

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Died 1 Nov 1987 at age 82 in California, USA

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Biography

FRANCES ETHA "Tootsie" HOLDEN STAPP

FRANCES ETHA HOLDEN was born on 3 October 1905, at Columbia, Brown County, South Dakota, United States. She was the daughter of MARTE MARGRETHE "Maggie" RASMUSSEN and FRANCIS MARION HOLDEN.

She married ANDREW LEONARD "Pete" STAPP born on 27 January 1905, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, the son of MARTHA JANE MORGAN and SAMUEL DAVID STAPP. He died on 6 June 1988, in San Joaquin County, California, and is buried in Rio Vista Odd Fellows and Masonic Cemetery, Rio Vista, Solano, California.

Their children were

1. • MERWIN ANDREW STAPP Sr. (1922–2008) ​
2. • WALLACE 'Wally' LEE STAPP (1925–1985)​​
3. • VELMA MAY STAPP CARDOZA (1927–2000)

"Tootsie"

Memories of my great-aunt, FRANCES ETHA ‘Tootsie’ HOLDEN STAPP

She was my grandmother's younger sister. And while my grandmother always seemed to enjoy uniquely close relationships with all her siblings, there was indeed something special about the relationship between her and 'aunt' Frances.

Our usual occasion to gather as a family was every Sunday for lunch at my grandmother’s. She would normally be found hurridly fussing about as the meal was being prepared. There are only a few times I can recall anything or anyone being able to disrupt that usual and customary routine…most of them I recall, was during visits by my great-aunt Frances and Uncle Pete.

And when I say ‘disrupt’ I do not mean in an intentional way to derail my grandmother’s preparation, but I do add the very probable “intentionally mischievous” to the thought. Because only Frances seemed to possess the ability to say a word or phrase or recount a part of a shared memory of the two of them, just at the right moment, and then there’d be suggestive giggling from my grandmother….then there'd be a little cackling…and then came that glorious SNORT from my grandmother immediately followed by both women's uproarious peels of laughter! My grandmother loved to laugh, but Frances alone could tease out one of those snorts, quite unlike anyone other. And I cannot even begin to qualify what I mean by ‘uproarious’ but will say that Frances and Sadie shared an almost identical sound and character of laughter. And when you combined the two together, well, let's just say no one in ear-shot missed the event! If you’d ever experienced them during one of these events you already knew you need not enter the kitchen to know what was going on. One by this time would be learning on the other, half hugging, half to keep from falling down, and both laughing so hard neither could speak for some time….

Yes, I do say almost all of the Holden siblings shared special sibling relationships but Frances and Sadie had something very special. And as long as I live I will remember the sound of their absolutely infectious, raucous laughter and that snort.

~ Joachim P Hawn.

FRANCES ETHA STAPP died on 1 November 1987, in San Joaquin County, California, and is buried next to her beloved "Pete".

Sources

• Joachim Hawn
• Richard Stapp
• "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KXZM-PVW : 24 June 2015), Frances E. Stapp, died 01 Nov 1987; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Rio Vista Oddfellows and Masonic Cemetery, Rio Vista, Solano County, California, United States. Burial: BillionGraves Birth Date: 03 Oct 1905 Death Date: 01 Nov 1987; Burial. Cemetery Name: Rio Vista Oddfellows and Masonic Cemetery; Latitude:38.16329; Longitude: -121.6999; Cemetery Physical Address: 1016 State Highway 12 Rio Vista, Solano County, California United States; Affiliate Create Date: 2013-01-311818:18; Affiliate Image Identifier: 3004928
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVGS-3G3X : 13 December 2015), Frances E Stapp, 1987; Burial, Rio Vista, Solano, California, United States of America, Rio Vista Odd Fellows and Masonic Cemetery; citing record ID 108874439, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JGS9-JTR : 19 May 2014), Frances E Stapp, 01 Nov 1987; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VG1Y-HG5 : 26 November 2014) Holden for Wallace Lee Stapp, 12 Mar 1985; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPMF-1SB : 26 November 2014), Frances Edith Stapp, 01 Nov 1987; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XC61-7YH : accessed 16 July 2017), Frances Stapp in the household of Andrew Stapp, Tulare, Tulare, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 66, sheet 6A, line 24, family 142, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 226; FHL microfilm 2,339,961.
• "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2014," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QKD8-8SBW : 2 September 2015), Francis Holden, 03 Oct 1905; citing Birth, Brown, South Dakota, United States, South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre; FHL microfilm.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH3L-WSQ : accessed 16 July 2017), Frances Holden in the household of John Paine, Township 3, Fresno, California, United States; citing ED 8, sheet 11B, line 100, family 415, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 96; FHL microfilm 1,820,096.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MGMP-86T : accessed 16 July 2017), Francis E Holden in the household of Frank M Holden, Belvidere, Monona, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 68, sheet 1A, family 2, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 414; FHL microfilm 1,374,427.

Frank M Holden, Head, M, 54, Wisconsin

Maggie M Holden, Wife, F, 31,Denmark

Sadie M Holden, Daughter, F, 11, South Dakota

Lillian G Holden, Daughter, F, 10, South Dakota

Francis E Holden, Daughter, F, 4, South Dakota

Anna M Holden, Daughter, F, 0, Iowa