Frank Rae WINDERS

1881 - 1939  (58 years)

• Name	Frank Rae WINDERS
  Birth	20 Jun 1881	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  Gender	Male
  Draft Registration	Sep 1918	, Ashland, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  	World War I
  Census	1920	Watertown, Dane, Wisconsin, USA
  	federal
  cemetery	Dec 1939	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  Death	17 Dec 1939	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  obituary	20 Dec 1939	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  	Sycamore True Republican
  	Sycamore True Republican, 20 Dec 1939 RAY WINDERS DIES AFTER AN ILLNESS Native of This Place, Graduate of Local High School and of The University of Illinois; Spent His Boyhood in Sycamore Ray Winders, 59 years old, son of Sam W. Winders and Mrs. Jennie Johnson Winders, former residents, died in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday [17 Dec 1939]. A Sycamore native, who long ago moved from here, he had been in ill health for several years. He was born in Sycamore and grew up here, being graduated from Sycamore High school in the class of 1901. From here, he went to the University of Illinois, being graduated from the engineering course. Ray Winders will be remembered by those of his generation as a happy, likeable boy. After he was graduated from the high school, he worked, during vacations, at his father's fruit store, he having been virtually raised in the business. After he became an elctrical engineer, he entered the employ of the Cleveland Electric Co., rising gradually to the office of vice-president. His last visit to Sycamore was five years ago, when the Winders family reunion was held in Sycamore. He was twice married, his first wife dying a number of years ago. He later remarried. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Connie Winders and two children, a son eight years old, and a daughter seven years old; his father, Sam W. Winders, now seriously ill in Santa Barbara, Calif., and a sister, Mrs. Bess Laskey. His uncle, Dan E. Winders. is a Sycamore resident. Funeral and burial services were to be held in Cleveland.
  Name	Ray WINDERS
  _UID	745653B43C5B4296A756DA66B964F09620BD
  Person ID	I25414	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	Samuel Wesley WINDERS,   b. 4 Feb 1854, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA d. 1 Jan 1940, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Jane Caroline JOHNSON,   b. 7 Aug 1850, Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA d. 21 Apr 1922, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	5 Dec 1878	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F8895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Constance D WITHYCOMBE,   b. 1899   d. 1992 (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F8897	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Maud E NACBEAU,   b. 1878, , , , Canada d. 18 Mar 1928 (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	4 Sep 1909
  Family ID	F8896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2013

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Jun 1881 - Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA obituary - Sycamore True Republican - 20 Dec 1939 - Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  According to John H Winder: «u»«b»Frank Rae Winders «/u»«/b» (1881-1939) was born 20 Jun 1881 in Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois and grew up there, attending Sycamore High School and going from there to the University of Illinois, where he received an electrical engineering degree in 1903. He worked as an electrical engineer and a structural engineer for various companies in Louisville, Chicago, and Madison, Wisconsin before becoming a senior electrical engineer and then vice president of the Cleveland Electrical Illuminating Company in the late 1920s. He married a Canadian girl named «u»Maud E. Nacbeagh «/u» (1878-1928) on 4 Sep 1909. Shortly after Maud died on 18 Mar 1928, Frank married another Canadian, «u»Constance D. Withycombe «/u» (1899-1992). Frank died in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, on 17 December 1939. [2] (Research):From John Winder 12/11/2013: You gotta love something like this. Ancestry.com has indexed the scans of this directory of Univ of Illinois graduates published in 1913, and one of the Ogle County emigrant descendants is in it (the only son of Samuel W. Winders, son of John and Lydia Shoop Winders) 2537. FRANK RAE WINDERS B.S. in E.E.; Elec. Engr.; b. June 20, 1882, Sycamore, Ill.; s. S.W. (b. Feb 4, 1853, Hagerstown, Md.) & Carrie J. (Johnson) Winders (b. Aug. 7, 1850, Sycamore, Ill.) Prepped at Sycamore H.S. E. E. Soc. Eta Kappa Nu; Seymour Guild; Y.M.C.A. Struct. Engr., The Arnold Co., 1905-1910; C.W. Humphrey, 1910-12. Married Maud E. Nacbeagh, Sept. 4, 1909, Sycamore, Ill. Address, 818 The Rookery Bldg., Chicago, Ill.

  
  

• Sources

  [S979] U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918, (\i U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918\i0 . ancestry.com.), (ancestry.com). (Reliability: 3). [S1017] Winder, John Hancestry.com, Winders from Washington County, Maryland Who Emigrated to Ogle County, Illinois, (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~annieron/Winder/Library/Ogle.htm), ) (Reliability: 3).