Frances Irene GASTON

1908 - 1987  (78 years)

• Name	Frances Irene GASTON
  Born	15 Sep 1908	Tallmansville, Upshur Co, WV   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	Mamou, Evangeline Parish, LA   [2]
  Residence	FORMERLY	California   [3]
  Died	Mar 1987  [2]
  Notes	In the fall of 1941, Frances Irene Gaston Fontenot traveled to San Diego, California to join her husband who was assigned to the USS Blue Destroyer, based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It was long believed that both of them died when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec 7 1941, as they were never found or heard from after that. The obituary of her father, Eli Clark Gaston, in Nov 1941, identified her among his surviving children as "Mrs. Irene Fontnot [sic] of California." The obituary of her half-sister, Bess Mae Gaston Adams, in 1981, listed among her survivors "a half sister, Irene, address unknown." But more recently, a listing of all Pearl Harbor casualties revealed no one named Fontenot or anything similar. More significantly, a listing was found in the Social Security Death Index for Frances Fontenot, born Sep 15 1908, died March 1987, last residence at Mamou, Evangeline County (Parish), Louisiana, Social Security card issued in California in 1952.
  Person ID	I265	Doddridge County Roots
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2006

  
  

  Father	Eli Clark GASTON,   b. 1 Feb 1858, Doddridge Co, (W)VA ,   d. 12 Nov 1941, Exchange, Braxton Co, WV  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Dora GRIMM,   b. 13 Feb 1873,   d. 19 Feb 1914, Upshur Co, WV  (Age 41 years)
  Family ID	F84	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	___ FONTENOT
  Family ID	F288	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

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• Sources

  [S47] Upshur County Birth Records, Buckhannon, WV, BR Bk 4, p. 61. [S15] Social Security Death Index. [S15] Social Security Death Index. Social Security card issued in California in 1952.