Ancestors of Brian L. Lightfoot

Birth Notes:
Birth Record Details:
Unnamed Male Lightfoot
09 September 1907
Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Reel: 0064; Record: 001031

NOTE - Franklin was not initially given a name by his parents. His birth certificate has only a blank line drawn through the space where his name would appear.
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Name: Lightfoot
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 09 Sep 1907
Birthplace: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Race: White
Father's Name: Lee L. Lightfoot
Father's Birthplace: Springdale, Iowa
Mother's Name: Mary McLaughlin
Mother's Birthplace: Emory, Iowa

Citing this Record
"Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRJ8-LGH : 11 February 2018), Lee L. Lightfoot in entry for Lightfoot, 09 Sep 1907; citing Eau Claire, Wisconsin, reference V4 P406 N1031; FHL microfilm 1,302,869.
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Death Notes:
Name: Frank Lee Lightfoot
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 12 Feb 1991
Event Place: Placer, California, United States
Birth Date: 09 Sep 1906
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Gender: Male
Mother's Name: McLaughlin

Citing this Record
"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGPL-SRD : 26 November 2014), Frank Lee Lightfoot, 12 Feb 1991; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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General Notes:
His first name was spelled either Franklin or Franklyn but according to a 1924 high school yearbook from Eau Claire, he apparently used "Franklin".

His birth certificate was issued without any given name and it is doubtful if the parents ever filed an amended certificate once they decided on a name. During his adult life he generally used the name of "Frank" or sometimes "Franklyn". Almost all of his Naval records from 1926-1929 show the name spelled as "Franklyn". There are copies of hand-written letters from his parents showing the name spelled as "Franklyn".
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Franklin was his parents' first son born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1907 during a time in which the lumbering and saw mill operations were the only sustainable industry in town. There have been many family stories about his wild youthful years but little faith can be put into most of them because of the nature in which Frank often embellished many stories. One family story says that he left school sometime in the 9th or 10th grade but this is proved false because of the 1924 Eau Claire High School yearbook showing him still enrolled in high school at the age of 16 or 17 probably his Junior year or 11th grade.

Another story that apparently has some basis in fact is that he apparently enlisted in the army when he was only 14 or 15 years old. There is a photograph of him taken in an Army uniform presumably from Fort Snelling, Minnesota where he first enlisted and completed his Army basic training. This would have been taken in 1922 or 1923.

While stationed at Fort Snelling, he and another friend supposedly left their guard duty posts and went AWOL, and hopped a freight train heading west. They both were caught by the Railroad Police in Salt Lake City and supposedly sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The Fort Leavenworth part of the story was a stretch of the truth because Army records show that he was confined to Fort Douglas, Utah and not Fort Leavenworth. Fort Douglas was a very small Army garrison stationed about 3 miles east of Salt Lake City.

When the Army found out that he was only 15 years old and under their minimum required age, they discharged him and sent him back home. There are some stories that Frank told the Army officers that they couldn't hold him because he was only 15 years old and under the minimum age. This was true and Frank was given an Honorable Discharge from the US Army "by reason of minority" on 15 Oct 1923. The discharge papers were signed by the Prison Officer, Major L. B. Bennett. Upon his return home from the army, he was back in high school where he appears in a 1924 class picture.

There is little else known about his early years after high school but he apparently ran away from or left home at an early age where he spent most of the time in the Chicago area. It is known that he spent a lot of time returning to Eau Claire and Cornell, Wisconsin to visit his favorite grandfather, William Lightfoot, until he died in 1930. For a number of years prior to around 1925, William Lightfoot lived separately from his wife, Loretta Lightfoot, also in Eau Claire, due to William's excessive abuse of alcohol. Frank's uncle Harry Lightfoot was living in Chicago and it is thought that Franklyn may have also spent a lot of time there but not wanting his parents to know of his whereabouts.

Surprisingly his parents allowed him to enlist in the Navy where he served for a period of just over 2 years from November of 1926 to January of 1929 when he was dishonorably discharged, supposedly for being intoxicated and physically assaulting a superior officer. This puts his age between 19 and 22 at the time of that event which suggest that not long after falsely enlisting in the army, he enlisted in the Navy but this time he apparently was over the legitimate age of 18. The Navy records are not detailed enough to indicate the reason for his discharge other than the notation "Bad Conduct Discharge". But there are multiple records of Frank's being declared a "straggler" after missing the boat when it would leave dock.

His youngest sister, Jean, remembers him returning home in Eau Claire in 1929 when she was only 4 years old and it was the first time she had ever seen her brother when he knocked on their front door. Apparently the parents also had not heard from him for a number of years so they were overwhelmed to see him return home at that time.

After his time in the Navy, Frank's dad, Lee Lightfoot, attempted to put Frank to work in the saw mills in Eau Claire but apparently Frank did not like that life style and after a bitter argument, he soon left home bound once again for the streets of Chicago.

Not much else is known of his activities in the years between 1929 and 1939. There are some unsubstantiated family rumors that during those years, he may have been involved in a number of petty crimes in and around Chicago including one rumor that he was arrested by the FBI and charged with running a "white slavery" racket. Other rumors include counterfeiting operations, and passing off zircons as diamonds to unsuspecting jewelers. All charges of which were eventually quelled due to the influence of some federal judges to which his parents had made some substantial financial gifts and the FBI prosecutions were eventually dismissed.

It is believed that during the period of 1929 to 1939, Frank was first married to a woman believed to be named Connie Sonsalla, a family name that was quite extensive known around the Trempealeau, Wisconsin area. Her actual surname may have be Consalla or Sonsalla and it is not known for sure if she was from the Trempealeau, Wisconsin and Winona, Minnesota areas, the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area, or from the Chicago, Illinois area. It is not known just how long this first marriage lasted but they eventually divorced and Frank then married another woman that we know only as "Ada". Frank often jokingly referred to her as "Ada Potato". Their divorce became final in 1939 just soon after he met Margaret Drugan in Winona, Minnesota in late 1939. Margaret Drugan left the Winona area and had gone to Chicago to be with Frank. The story goes that when Ada received the news of her final decree of divorce, she literally "danced in the street". It is believed that no children resulted from the marriage with either Ada or Connie Sonsalla.

During the years from 1940s to the 1970s, he spent lengthy times traveling the roadways as part of his home insulation and stained glass window repair business and he made frequent stops back in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to meet his parents and visit his grandmother, Loretta Lightfoot, who was living in a Veteran's care facility in King, Wisconsin until she died in 1946. Another favorite stopping off point for him was Baldy's Bar in Eau Claire where he met many of his younger friends. After his parents retired and moved to Davenport, Iowa, Frank continued to make repeated visits to them at that location, something that was surprising given his earlier years of strained relationships with his parents.

He was divorced from Margaret Drugan in 1962 after he met Ann Scarf in Wheeling, West Virginia and began a tumultuous affair with her. At the time of the divorce from Margaret, Frank and Ann were living in Ormond Beach, Florida while Margaret and the children had just relocated from Baltimore, Maryland to Chicago, Illinois and then with her sister Ruth Gilpin in Springfield, Illinois. Frank and Ann continued to run his stained-glass window repair business out of Evansville, Indiana until they eventually divorced. Frank then was remarried to another Ann, known only as "Little Ann" and they also were divorced.

During Frank's later years from the 1980s-1990s, he was pretty much retired and spent much time traveling to Florida for several months followed by a "resting and recuperation period" at the home of his son, Lee Lightfoot, in Rocklin, California. He died in 1991 in nearby Roseville, California and was cremated with his ashes being spread over the Pacific Ocean as per his wishes.
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MILITARY RECORDS:
11 May 26...Enlisted: USN, NRS, Minneapolis, Minnesota
11 May 26...Transferred: NTS, Great Lakes, Illinois
11 Sep 26...Change of Rating: F3
16 Oct 27...Change of Rating: EM3
28 Nov 28...Change of Rating: S1
12 Jan 29...Discharged - Bad Conduct, USS Lexington

Records show you served on board the following vessels:
USS Shirk......23 Aug 1927 - 11 Oct 1927
USS Altair.....12 Oct 1927 - 28 Oct 1927
USS Sirius.....29 Oct 1927 - 21 Nov 1927
USS Lexington..10 Nov 1928 - 09 Dec 1928
USS Lexington..15 Dec 1928 - 12 Jan 1929
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Acquaintance who started the "stained glass repair business": Henry "Hank" A. Czapiewski: 1901-1988 (Buried: Saint Mary's Cemetery, Winona, Minnesota)
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Frank was married 5 times and divorced 5 times.
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Frank had other aliases that he used at various times, usually to avoid bill collectors. He confused most of them by switching his name from Frank, Franklin, Franklyn, and Lee. He also used the name Frank LaMont.
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Frank had a habit of buying automobiles but never paying for them. This was before the day of computers and a nationwide credit system so most automobile dealers tended to carry their own credit accounts or would sell the transaction to a local finance company that would charge a very high rate of interest. None of that bothered Frank because he would walk into a dealership waving five hundred dollars or so in cash. Any dealer was glad to sell him a new car with that large of a cash down payment and they would finance the rest through the local loan company, sometimes conveniently owned by their brother or cousin. Unfortunately that would be the last of any money that they would ever see from Frank as he was handed the keys and the finance papers and drove off. His business of doing stained glass repairs all over the country would mean that the bank or loan company could never find the car. He would literally drive the wheels off of the car and eventually leave it on the side of the road for the repossesors to eventually find it. He would then walk back into another dealership and start the same process all over again.
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Frank was never enumerated in the 1930 or 1940 census. He supposedly was living with or married to Margaret Drugan in 1940 in Chicago but only her name appears in the census and she was listed as "single". And since she was unemployed at the time according to the census and 4 months pregnant with Frank Jr., I wonder how she supported herself and paid the rent where she was living. I suspect that Frank was indeed living there with her but just avoided the census as a matter of personal preference.
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Frank was married to Anne Scharf on 30 Mar 1962 in Putnam County, Florida. Unfortunately, he was not divorced from Margaret Drugan until April 1962 in Flagler County, Florida.
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1. 1910 US Census: 19 April 1910, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. ⁵ 1910 US Census
Sheet 10A, District 55, Family 221
Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Franklin Lightfoot..Son..3..WI

(Living with parents.)
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2. 1920 US Census: 10 January 1920, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. ⁶ 1920 US Census
Sheet 3A, District 127, Family 48
Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Frank L. Lightfoot..Son..13..WI

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 9 Sep 1907, then his age should have been 12 instead of 13.
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3. Photo: Franklin Lee Lightfoot, 1923, Fort Snelling, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. ³ Appears to be taken at an Army Infirmary building. Note the bandage on the left middle finger. He was in the Army from 1 Jun 1923 to 15 Oct 1923 but this exact location not known; possibly Fort Snelling, Minnesota.

4. Military: US Army, Between 1 June 1923 and 15 October 1923. ³ There is a long story to be told about Frank's adventures in the army. He apparently lied about his age when he enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. He was actually 14 at the time of enlistment and later turned 15 while being held in the brig in Utah.

The family story goes that he was on guard duty one night when he and another soldier decided they had enough of army life and they both went AWOL. He hopped a freight train and headed west until he was eventually nabbed by the railroad police in Salt Lake City where he was turned over to army authorities.

Frank was held in the brig at Fort Douglas, Utah when he told the superior officers that they had no right to hold him because he was a minor and that his enlistment contract was invalid. The army contacted his parents back in Eau Claire, Wisconsin who supplied a birth certificate to the Department of the Army. He was given a Honorable Discharge "by reason of minority" at Fort Douglas, Utah and the document was signed by the "Prison Officer".

The Honorable Discharge references dates from June 30, 1921 to October 1, 1923 but I think that the year of 1921 should be 1923. That would make Frank almost 16 when he joined the Army instead of almost 14 which doesn't sound believable. In fact, the one picture of him in an Army uniform looks as if he is around 16 years old instead of 14 years old.
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5. Education: Eau Claire High School, 1924, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. ³ This group picture of the Junior Class of Eau Claire High School shows Frank standing in the back row. He must have finished his adventures with the US Army in the summer and fall of 1923 and returned to High School in 1924. It is not known if he ever finished high school and I believed that he dropped out either later this year (1924) or during his senior year (1925).
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6. Military: US Navy, Between 11 May 1926 and 12 January 1929. ³ Enlisted at the Navy Recruiting Station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Trained at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois. Was stationed at the US Navy Training Station at San Diego. Served aboard the USS Lexington and was given a dishonorable discharge in San Pedro, California.

His navy history is about as colorful as his army history. After completing his basic seaman training, Frank was sent to electrician's school where he earned good grades and seemed content with his newfound naval career. Unfortunately, he was assigned to the newly outfitted USS Lexington, the navy's first attempt at an aircraft carrier, which had an old-time, by-the-book Captain commanding. Frank was once written up for "being out of uniform" while mopping up a deck.

After several minor disciplinary actions against him, Frank secured an agreement with another seaman to be transferred to a different ship but his Captain rejected the transfer. That was probably the last straw as Frank was concerned. For the next several times in port, Frank returned to the ship late (and probably either hung-over or still drunk). Once he was several days late and the ship sailed without him which resulted in him being declared a "straggler" with a reward being put on his neck. Ultimately, he received a summary court martial, was reduced in rank and given a dishonorable discharge. He was given a set of civilian clothes and bus fare back home in Wisconsin from San Diego.

I often wonder if Frank's request for a transfer were approved if he would have completed a satisfactory tour of duty with the navy. I believe that deep in his heart he had a great deal of patriotic pride because years later when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, he wrote a letter to the Department of the Naval requesting permission to re-enlist at the age of 34. Surprisingly the navy granted his request and even gave him some of his rank back. This was at a time when Frank was married to Margaret and Frank Jr. was only 1 or 2 years old. Frank changed his mind and never followed through with his re-enlistment.
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7. Military: Straggler Declaration, 12 December 1928, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States. ³ Frank had gone AWOL and the ship's commander issued this Straggler's Declaration" to locate him and return him to the ship. This was the downfall of Frank's Navy career and he was eventually court-martialed and given a bad-conduct discharge.

8. Occupations - Prev.: Owner, Home Insulation Sales and Installation, 1930 to 1940. ³

9. United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942: 16 October 1940, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. ⁴² Name: Frank Lee Lightfoot
Address (orig): 4604 Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Address (revised): 253 Olmsteade Street, Winona, Minnesota
Place of Birth: Eau Claire, Wisconsin]
Date of Birth: Sep 9, 1906 (should have been 1907)

This registration card is somewhat unique because it gives 2 different home address, the first in Chicago which was later revised to an address in Winona, MN. Next it gives his date of birth in 1906 yet verified birth certificates show that it was in 1907. And lastly, the form was signed by Isabelle C. Johnson who was indicated as the registrar for the 3rd ward of what appears to be the city of Oelwein, Iowa a small town which is about 60 miles north of Cedar Rapids and 100 miles east of Fort Dodge which is where his 2nd son, Lee, was born in 1944.

I have no idea why the registrar was in Oelwein, Iowa yet the card is stamped by the Selective Service System in Chicago. I'm suspecting that maybe the registration process allowed the young men to register for the draft at whatever local Selective Service office was convenient for them and from there, the registration card was sent to the office based on the given home address, in this case, Chicago. If this were true, then this is the only time I know of for Frank Lightfoot to be in Oelwein, Iowa. Was he temporarily living there and what reason compelled him to register there instead of back in Chicago?

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10. Military: Re-instatement in US Navy, 10 March 1942, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. ³ Frank wrote a letter to the US Navy about 3 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan and requested that he re-enlist. After FBI clearances, his request was granted but Frank never followed through and remained a civilian.

What is interesting is that at the time of this letter, Frank had a wife and a son aged 1-1/2 years yet Frank was sitting in a hotel room in Chicago. So where was his wife, Margaret, and their son? She was probably back in Winona, MN at her mother's house where she frequently when they were split-up for a short time. Apparently they got back together and Frank never went back in the Navy.
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11. Residence: 501-½ West Fifth Street, February 1944 to March 1944, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States. ³

12. 1950 US Census: 17 April 1950, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. ² 1950 US Census
Sheet 16, District 66-2293, Family 231
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
8719 Belford Avenue
Franklin Lightfoot..Head..43..Wisconsin..Art Glass Artist

(Living with wife and 3 sons.)
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13. Residence: 1960 to 1961, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States. ³ Following the last go-round with Margaret Lightfoot, Frank abandoned the family and took his then girl-friend, Ann Scharf, and moved to the Jacksonville, Florida area where he eventually moved down his elderly, retired parents.
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14. Residence: East Grand Boulevard, 1962 to 1964, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. ³ This was a large apartment building complex. I can't recall for sure exactly what it looked like because I stayed with Dad and Ann only for a few months in 1963 or 1964. I believe it probably was another upstairs apartment in what I think was a 4 or 5 story building.
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15. Residence: 400 Belview Avenue, 30 March 1962, Daytona Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States.

16. Occupation - Last: Owner, Stained Glass Window Repair Company, 1965 to 1980, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States. ³

17. Residence: June 1965, Decatur, DeKalb, Georgia, United States. ³ Frank rented the upstairs apartment over this large mansion-like house which was converted to a monthly meeting place for the Decatur Woman's Club.
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19. Residence: 1967, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States. ³ Frank and Ann moved here in Evansville and established an actual office for his stained glass repair business in downtown Evansville.
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20. Occupation: Stained Glass Repair, 1970, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States. ³

21. Residence: 111 South Atlantic Avenue, December 1975, Ormond Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States. ³

22. Alt. Burial: 15 February 1991, Pacific Ocean. ⁴³ After cremation, his ashes were spread by plane over the Pacific ocean near San Francisco, CA.

23. Obituary: Roseville Press-Tribune, 15 February 1991, Roseville, Placer, California, United States.
Franklin Lee Lightfoot, September 6, 1906 (sic)- February 12, 1991

Franklin Lee Lightfoot died Tuesday at Roseville Hospital. He was 84. A native of Wisconsin, he had lived in Rocklin for five years. He was self-employed as a stained glass maker for 55 years. Mr. Lightfoot belonged to the Ormond Beach Masonic Lodge 326 and to the Temple Shrine Bahi, both in Jacksonville, Florida. He is survived by his sons, Franklin L. Lightfoot, Jr. of Onalaska, Wisconsin, Lee Lightfoot of Rocklin, and Brian L. Lightfoot of Ceres, a sister, Jean Stedman of Pekin, Illinois and nine grandchildren. At his request, there will be no services.

(Source: Roseville Press-Tribune, Roseville, CA, 15 Feb 1991)

NOTE: The birth date given was incorrect; it should have been 9 Sep 1907.
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Franklin married Ada. Ada was born about 1910 and died on an unknown date. Another name for Ada was "Ada Potato."

Franklin next married Connie Sonsalla. Connie was born about 1910 and died on an unknown date.

1 iii. Brian Lynn Lightfoot (born on 4 May 1947 in Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States). Brian married Carol Cecelia Renton, daughter of Roger Floyd Renton ¹⁶ ¹⁷ ¹⁸ ¹⁹ ²⁰ and Mary Doris Holmes,.¹⁶ ²¹ ²² ²³ ²⁴ Carol was born on 12 March 1947 in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.^³

Franklin next married Anne Robinson Scharf, daughter of Scharf and Henrietta. Anne was born on 27 January 1938 in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, United States and died on 23 February 2018 in Daytona Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States, at age 80. Another name for Anne was "Big Ann".³

Birth Notes:
Name: Margaret Elizabeth Drugan
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 12 Jun 1916
Birthplace: Winona Co., Minn.
Name Note: second child of mother
Race: White
Father's Name: David G. Drugan
Father's Birthplace: Fr...
Father's Age: 27y
Mother's Name: Lona L. Hanson
Mother's Birthplace: Fr...
Mother's Age: 22y

Citing this Record:
"Minnesota, Births and Christenings, 1840-1980," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDQT-D96 : accessed 16 Sep 2014), Margaret Elizabeth Drugan, 12 Jun 1916; citing Winona Co., Minn., reference 1900-1920; FHL microfilm 1377832.
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Death Notes:
Name: Margaret Mitchell
Given Name: Margaret
Surname: Mitchell
Event Type: Death
Event Date: Sep 1975
Event Place: Adams, Illinois
Event Place (Original): Adams, Illinois
Age: 59
Birth Date: 12 Jun 1916

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYTJ-DJ4 : 4 December 2020), Margaret Mitchell, Sep 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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Burial Notes:
Plot: Block 6 lot 214

Find A Grave Memorial #89490059

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89490059/margaret_elizabeth-mitchell accessed March 24, 2025), memorial page for Margaret Elizabeth Drugan Mitchell (12 Jun 1916\'9626 Sep 1975), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89490059, citing Greenmount Cemetery, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Brian Lightfoot (contributor 47796377).
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General Notes:
This story was told to me in June of 2001 by Margaret's brother, David Drugan when I visited him in Winona, Minnesota. It was well known that Margaret never learned to drive a car through her entire life but there was one time in the 1930's when she was around 19 years old and all the kids were all just hanging around the front porch on one summer evening. One of Margaret's boyfriends by the name of Bucky Bones came by to show off his car. Somehow Margaret convinced him to let her drive his car for a short test drive around the neighborhood and they both took off saying that they'd be right back. None of her brother or sisters believed that she'd ever be able to drive but a few minutes later they all couldn't believe it when the car came flying down the residential street at a very high rate of speed with Margaret behind the wheel.
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Margaret Drugan grew up in Winona, Minnesota and had a boyfriend with the name of Bucky Bones. Around 1939 she met Franklin Lightfoot. The rumor is that Franklin was still married at the time but Margaret moved to Chicago with him while his divorce became final. Margaret apparently met the first wife and when the divorce became official, the first wife literally danced in the street.

There is no definitive evidence but it is believed that Margaret and Franklin were married in Chicago in late 1939 or early 1940. Around 1958 or 1959, they separated and Margaret moved to Springfield along with Brian. Franklin, Jr. was attending Winona State College in Winona, Minnesota and Lee was in California working with his uncle, Robert Westphal.

At first, Margaret and Brian lived with her sister, Ruth Drugan Gilpin, for several months in a mobile home on their property. When Margaret was financially enough capable, she rented a 3rd floor apartment at 427 West Jefferson Street in Springfield, Illinois owned by "Mr. Rockwell". Margaret worked in the hosiery department of Myers Brothers department store in downtown Springfield.

Around 1960, Margaret had applied for and received a job with the State of Illinois, Department of Unemployment Compensation in Rockford, Illinois. Margaret, Brian and Lee who had returned from California, moved to Rockford with Lee driving a 1957 Plymouth. At first they lived in a second floor "studio" apartment, 105 Forest Avenue, along West State Street near the Martin Oil gas station. By this time, Lee was drafted into the Army. Margaret met William E. Mitchell who also worked at the State Unemployment Office and they married August 13, 1962.

Margaret and Bill met in the Unemployment Compensation office in Rockford where they both worked. Both were very poor and Brian was still living with his mother, Margaret, and attending school in Rockford, They eventually married, probably to pool their resources and save on rent expenses. Their first home was on West State Street in Rockford about the "Honey Boy Pizza Bakery" believed to be about the 1500 block. That entire area was torn down in the 1990s. They later moved farther out on West State Street to about the 2100 block in the second floor of a larger house. Later, Margaret quit her work probably due to the oncoming illness of amyloidosis. Bill was promoted to Deputy Claims Examiner of the Freeport Unemployment office and he commuted the 30 miles every day. They later moved to a second floor apartment at 1331 Evelyn Street just off Auburn Street in Rockford. By that time, Brian was out of school and married a few years later. Bill was given a promotion to the Office Manager of the Quincy Illinois Unemployment Office and they moved there and bought a house.

Margaret was continuing with her illness and eventually diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester as amyloidosis. She took some experimental medicine for a number of years with the side effect that she swelled up and looked all bloated. It also gave her breath an extreme garlic smell. After Margaret died in 1971, Bill continued to work at the Quincy office until his retirement. His eyesight declined over the years and he was nearly blind when he died. He loved to drink beer and watch the Saint Louis Cardinals baseball team.
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1. 1920 US Census: 28 January 1920, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States. ¹¹ 1920 US Census
Sheet 4B, District 207, Family 80, Roll 865
Winona, Winona, Minnesota
467 East Fourth Street; house rented
Marguerite Drugan..Daughter..3y 6m..MN

(Living with parents.)
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2. 1930 US Census: 14 April 1930, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States. ¹² 1930 US Census
Sheet 15A, District 29, Family 355, Roll 1135
Winona, Winona, Minnesota
552 West 4th Street; Rent $25
Margaret Drugan..Daughter..13..MN

(Living with parents.)
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3. Residence: 552 West Fourth Street, 14 April 1930, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States. Address given on the 1930 US Census. As of 2026, the house no longer exists and the lot was taken over by what used to be called the Fiberite corporation. It was then acquired by Solvay in 2015. In late 2023, Solvay created a new subsidiary called Syensqo. The facility in Winona produces thermoset and theroplastic composite materials, carbon fiber reinforcements, structural adhesives, and surfacing films used in the aerospace, automotice, oil & gas, and industrial markets.
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4. 1940 US Census: 12 April 1940, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. ¹³ 1940 US Census
Sheet 9B, District 103-3088, Family 402, Roll 1018
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
941 West Agatite Avenue; Rent $35
Residence in 1935: Winona, Winona County, Minnesota
Margaret Drugan..Head..Single..23..MN..11th grade..Waitress in Restaurant

NOTE - This census record is unique because it shows that Margaret was still single and confirms that Margaret and Frank were never officially until 1941.

The census record shows multiple other married couples living at the same address and Margaret is the only one that is supposedly living alone. I suspect that Frank Lightfoot was also living there. How else could you explain that Margaret gave birth to Frank Jr. five months after this census. In his usual fashion, Frank did not want his name given out especially for any governmental reasons.

Closely examining the employment information on this record, it becomes clear than Margaret earned $585 for 32 weeks of work in 1939 probably at the Hotel Williams in Winona. She probably left Winona to be with Frank in Chicago around September of 1939 which would account for the 32 weeks of work.

The census record then shows that she had been unemployed for 13 weeks which probably means she was looking for work in Chicago from September until November of 1939 when she finally got her waitressing job in Chicago.
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5. 1950 US Census: 17 April 1950, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. ² 1950 US Census
Sheet 16, District 66-2293, Family 231
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
8719 Belford Avenue
Margaret Lightfoot..Wife..33..Minnesota

(Living with husband and 3 sons.)
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6. Occupation: Unemployment Compensation Claims Examiner, 1960-1962, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States. ³

7. Residence: 427 West Jefferson Street, Between October 1960 and August 1961, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. ³ This is where Mom moved with Lee and Brian following her final breakup with Dad after another drunken brawl in the Lincoln Hotel in Chicago where he insisted she come to for another attempt at a reconciliation. He apparently forgot to mention that he had Ann Scharf stashed away in another room in the hotel.

This apartment near downtown Springfield was nothing more than a 3rd floor attic loft with very cheap rent as it was all that Mom could afford on her salary from Myers Brothers Department store in Springfield as a hosiery saleslady. We took many pictures from the small rooftop balcony with the Illinois state capitol buildings in the background. This entire residential neighborhood has since been demolished for redevelopment as state office buildings.
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8. Obituary: Quincy Herald, After 26 September 1975, Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States.
Mrs. Margaret E. Mitchell, Age 59, 1501 Jackson Street, Quincy, Illinois passed away Friday evening, September 26, 1975, 7:20 PM, Blessing Hospital, Quincy, Illinois where she had been a patient since September 24, 1975.

She was born June 12, 1916, Winona, Minnesota, a daughter of David Drugan and Lena Hanson Drugan. Her marriage on August 13, 1962, Rockford, Illinois to William E. Mitchell, he survives. (Mr. Mitchell manager of Unemployment Compensation Division, Quincy Office at 615 Vermont). Resident of Quincy past 5 years. Previous 11 years a resident of Rockford, Illinois (1333 Evelyn Street). Mrs. Margaret Mitchell was employed as a Claims Examiner for the Division of Unemployment Compensation.

Survivors: Husband, her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Rice, Cochrane, Wisconsin; 3 sons: Franklin L. Lightfoot, Onalaska, Wisconsin; Lee L. Lightfoot, Fremont, California; Brian L. Lightfoot, Rockford, Illinois; and 8 Grandchildren; 3 Sisters, Mrs. William (Bernice) Petrasek, Highlands, New Jersey; Mrs. David (Ruth) Gilpin, Springfield, Illinois; Mrs. Robert (Martha) Westphal, Pleasanton, California; 3 Brothers, David G. Drugan, Winona, Minnesota; John L. Drugan, Warren, Michigan; Col. Wm. P. Drugan, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Nieces and Nephews. Preceded in death by her father.

Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret E. Mitchell will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 PM in Hansen-Spear. In charge Rev. John Bertman.

(Source: Quincy Herald, Quincy, IL, Sep 1975)
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9. Obituary: Winona Daily News, 28 September 1975, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States.
Mrs. Margaret E. Mitchell, 59, Quincy, Ill, a former Winona resident, died Friday evening at 7:20 at Blessing Hospital, Quincy.

The former Margaret Drugan, she was born June 12, 1916 in Winona to David and Lena Hanson Drugan and was graduated from Winona Senior High School. She married William Mitchell Aug 13, 1962. At the time of her death she was a claims examiner for the Division of Unemployment Compensation in Quincy. She had lived in Quincy for the past five years and prior to that in Rockford, Ill.

Survivors are: her husband, three sons, Franklin Lightfoot, Onalaska, Wis.; Lee Lightfoot, Fremont, Calif., and Brian Lightfoot, Rockford, Ill.; eight grandchildren; her stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Rice, Cochrane, Wis.; three brothers, David G. Drugan, Winona; John Drugan, Warren Mich.; and Col. William P. Drugan, Colorado Springs, CO.; and three sisters, Mrs. William (Bernice) Petrasek, Highlands, NJ; Mrs. David (Ruth) Gilpin, Springfield, Ill.; and Mrs. Robert (Martha) Westphal, Pleasanton, Calif. Her father has died.

Funeral services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Hanson-Spear Funeral Home, Quincy.

Friends may call at the funeral home this evening from 6 to 8 and Monday until time of services.

(Source: Winona Daily News, Winona, MN, 28 Sep 1975)
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Margaret next married William Eugene Mitchell, son of Richard Mitchell and Bessie M. Parker. William was born on 19 September 1915 in Sandusky, Alexander, Illinois, United States^⁶³ and died on 7 July 1994 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States,^⁶³ at age 78. The cause of his death was Failing eyesight, High Blood Pressure, Heart disease.³ They had no children. ³

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