Frances Ruth Williams

Circa 1904 photograph of a beautiful little girl. Frances Ruth Williams was the daughter of Sarah William and John Palmer. Born in Junction City, Kansas on September 8, 1898. She lived with her grandmother, Mrs. Clara Williams. She graduated from Junction City High School in 1917 and worked in the Fort Riley area as a stenographer. She and her grandmother moved West to Oakland, California. In 1921 she married a building contractor named Clarence A. Wilkes, the couple had a daughter named Rita Jane. Frances Ruth passed away in San Francisco on February 2, 1984. Pennell Photography Collection/Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas