Martha Elizabeth Kissane (1922 - 1990)

Born 30 Jan 1922 in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Theodore Raymond Frye — married 28 Jun 1947 (to about 1977) in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 16 Jan 1990 at age 67 in Encinitas, San Diego, California, United States

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Biography

Martha Elizabeth Kissane was born 30 January 1922 to Hugh Hershey Kissane and Ruth Elizabeth (Forry) Kissane in Canton, Ohio.

She graduated with the Oberlin College class of '43 with a major in French. She taught at École Champlain in Vermont and returned to Oberlin for graduate school where she met Ted Frye, whom she had known in Junior High School. Ted had also been a student of Martha's father Hugh Kissane at West High School in Cleveland, Ohio.

Martha and Ted married on 28 June 1947 at the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, Ohio.^[1]

Ted was offered a job at the Library of Congress, so Martha and Ted moved to Washington, D.C. When they arrived, they found that the offered job had not been funded. Ted took the Foreign Service exam and worked as a Secretary until he was offered a job as an Analyst with the State Department. Their two older children Michael and Susan were born. Six months after Susan was born, they were posted to the embassy in New Delhi, India. Housing was so short in the brand new capital of India that they lived with another family until they could find their own apartment.

The family returned from India to the port of New York on 7 July 1953. The family, which now included Meggy, who was born in India, sailed on the SS United States from Southampton.^[2]

Martha lived in SE Washington and taught Junior High French at the Congressional School in Fairfax, Virginia. The family moved to a new development in Springfield, Virginia in 1956. Ted was posted to Israel in 1958. Martha and Ted helped to found the American International School in Herzliya. Martha also taught at the school and helped write a grant application that resulted in State Department funding for construction of a school.

When Martha returned to the United States she switched careers and became a computer programmer. Her youngest child Meggy passed away in an electrical accident in 1968. Martha and Ted adopted two children, Raymond Edward, age 7, and Dorothy Elizabeth, (age 8), in 1970. Seven years later, Martha and Ted divorced.

Martha retired as a Systems Analyst for IBM.

Martha passed away 16 January 1990 at her home in Encinitas, California.^[3][4]

Census

Cleveland, Ohio on April 9, 1930, age 8, with parents Hugh and Ruth Kissane in the Fifteenth Census of the United States.^[5]

Cleveland, Ohio on April 19, 1940 with parents Hugh and Ruth in the Sixteenth Census of the United States.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑

   Martha Ted Wedding Invitation

2. ↑ "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H7W-DWG : 2 October 2015), Martha E Frye, 1953; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://beta.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPZ5-ND2 : 26 November 2014), Martha Elizabeth Frye, 16 Jan 1990; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
4. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://beta.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1W6-NZF : 20 May 2014), Martha E Frye, 16 Jan 1990; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4SB-LPQ : accessed 30 June 2017), Martha E Kissane in household of Hugh H Kissane, Cleveland (Districts 719-840), Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 782, sheet 11B, line 56, family 66, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1762; FHL microfilm 2,341,496.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWP1-VTZ : accessed 30 June 2017), Martha in household of Hugh, Ward 2, Cleveland City, Cleveland City, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 92-42, sheet 13B, line 55, family 293, 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 3204.

See also:

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3ZP9-7QC : accessed 27 February 2018), entry for Martha Elizabeth /Kissane/, cites sources; "Wrinkle, Ammerman, Horning, Davenport, Robertson, Forry, Osborne and more...." file (2:2:2:MMDT-WHK), submitted 19 September 2016 by Christy Forry.

Acknowledgements

• Christy Forry imported the data for Martha Elizabeth Kissane from MY_Forry_Johnson_Zeyen Family Tree_.ged on 7 August 2011.