Frank Lee WINDERS

1887 - 1977  (89 years)

• Name	Frank Lee WINDERS  [1]
  Birth	4 Aug 1887	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1910	Freeport, Stephenson, llinois, USA
  	federal
  	Boarder in household of Oscar Schwartz. Single
  article	10 Aug 1918	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  	Sycamore True Republican
  	Frank Winders Wounded Frank L. Winders has written to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Dan Winders of this city a letter received on Thursday in which the young soldier says that he has been wounded in France. In the letter which was dated July 2, he says he was knocked out and slightly wounded, but was being well taken care of and expected to soon be back on the line. This well known Sycamore boy went with about 100 other DeKalb County men, 13 of whom were from Sycamore, to Camp Grant [Rockford, Illinois] on September 20 last [1917]. After training there he was assigned to Camp Greene, South Carolina, with Charles Blagden and John Quinn of Sycamore. There he was separated from the other Sycamore boys and assigned to Co. A, 59th Infantry, and May 3 last sailed for France, where he has been doing gallant service for his country.
  article	30 Nov 1918	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  	Sycamore True Republican
  	Mr. and Mrs. Dan Winders received yesterday a letter from their son Frank L. Winders, in which he said that he was sailing Nov. 11, the day the armistice was signed, from a port in France, invalided home. He was shot in the hip. He was apparently badly injured, for he has been in a hospital for three months. This week also the parents received a letter which had been delayed in which the old story, since often refuted, was repeated in a notation on the envelope that Frank L. Winders had been killed in action in France. The parents had even received from the War Department insurance papers to fill out on the supposition that the young man had been killed. He is expected to be in a hospital in this country for some time before he returns home.
  Census	1930	Freeport, Stephenson, llinois, USA
  	federal
  	Roomer in household of Mary Meile
  Census	1940	Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
  	federal
  	Hotel guest.
  Residence	1940	Layfayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, USA
  	per 1940 census
  cemetery	Jul 1977	Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA   [3]
  	Pines Cemetery
  cemetery	Jul 1977	Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA
  	The Pines Cemetery
  _UID	9452AB7B33FC4FBEB3DF13C75200C7FBC87A
  Death	12 Jul 1977	Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Y  [1]
  Person ID	I25441	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	Daniel E WINDERS,   b. 28 Aug 1860, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA d. 1 Apr 1948, Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Amy Eleanor CULVER,   b. 23 Oct 1863, , Toronto, Ontario, Canada d. 3 Jan 1960, Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	26 May 1886	Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F8906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Gertrude B,   b. 1896, , , , Canada d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1921
  Children	1. John WINDERS,   b. 1922, , , Oklahoma, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F8915	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Anne BAKER   d. 8 Jul 1969
  Family ID	F7515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2014

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 Aug 1887 - Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA article - Sycamore True Republican - 10 Aug 1918 - Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA article - Sycamore True Republican - 30 Nov 1918 - Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, USA Census - federal - 1940 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  According to John H Winder: «u»«b»Frank Lee Winders «/u»«/b» (1887-1977) was born on 4 August 1887 and raised in Sycamore, Illinois, served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I-reports of his death were much exaggerated, and his family received three letters from him in France dated after the War Department's notification to his parents that he had been killed, according to reporting in the «i»Sycamore True Republic«/i» newspaper. He came home to Sycamore and became a poultry and egg buyer and about 1921, married his wife «u»Gertrude «/u», a Canadian who emigrated to the U.S. about 1913. In 1921, he and Gertrude were living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma according to the City Directory of that year. By the 1930 census, Frank and Gertrude, and their son «u»John «/u» were boarding in a house on Chestnut Avenue in Freeport, Illinois. Frank was still in the poultry business, Gertrude was working as a sales lady in a department store, and John was in school. The 1940 census caught Frank staying at a hotel in Lafayette, Indiana, presumably on a poultry buying business trip (but Gertrude and John don't seem to show up any where in 1940.) His 1942 World War II draft registration card placed him in Rogers Park, the most northerly Chicago neighborhood, working as a buyer for Getz Poultry and Eggs in Chicago. Some time between WW II and 1977, he moved to the west coast, and according to an obituary published in a Spokane newspaper, his (second) wife «u»Anne Baker «/u» Winders, died on 8 July 1969. Frank himself died on 11 July 1977 and is buried in The Pines Cemetery, Spokane, as is Anne. [1, 4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S632] Spokane Newspapers. [S93] Social Security Death Index. [S134] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi, Find A Grave. [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).