50th Yahrzeit Anniversary : Death of Arthur J Freer, of blessed memory: AJF Letters; more photos of family

AJF & HLF SENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF BIRTH OF STEVE...ENVELOPE TO GRANDMA ANNA FEIER IN ROCHESTER, NY GRANDSON JONATHAN HOLDS A SNAKE AT THE FCCC; RPR IN 1958' R, D, AND SANTA CLAUS. GRANDSON DAVID HOLDS KEY-ROOKSTER AND ROBERTA.

DAD SURPRISED US BY BUYING A 12 CYLINDER DARK BLUE LINCOLN, WITH PUSH BUTTON WINDOWS, NO LESS.

LETTER TO DAD FROM DAVID (1956). DAD'S SAD LETTER THAT GRANDMA ANNA WAS NEAR THE END OF HER DAYS.


top: UNCLE SAM FEIER (AJF'S younger brother) & AUNT EULAH (of ROCHESTER NY);

SELMA LICHTEN & MILTON LICHTEN (AKRON, OHIO

third row: COUSIN HAROLD "RED" LICHTEN, COUSIN SANDRA "SIS" LICHTEN, SANDY EMERMAN, MORTON JAY EMERSON (son of Phyllis Lichten Emerman);

(NOW ONE CAN SEE HOW GRANDMA ANNA DECIDED ON NAMING HER YOUNGEST SON MILTON AND HER DAUGHTER PHYLLIS!)

second row: MARK AND BETTY FEIER (AJF'S sister) HOCHHAUSER

front row: Phyllis Lichten Emerson (next two are relatives of Selma peerhaps)

AJF's daughter in law Roberta's mother Helene, in Chicago (1929)


STEPHEN ARTHUR FREER DAVID ALAN FREER RICHARD HARRIS FREER

RICHARD HARRIS FREER, CEO & PRES., SMMS AND THE LOVELY ROBERTA ANN FREER (1976)


STEPHEN ARTHUR FREER, aka Mordecai, is proud to grow his black hair long. Here he meditates, reads, and contemplates eternal verities in the park in WI. AJF newly arrived in Chicago opens a chain of BLUEBIRD STORES in the Rogers Park area. Marcia Hochhauser in Rochester, NY Richard snaps a photo of wife Roberta trying to get Jonathan to go to school, as David watches. (1990... Kendall, FL)

David ... 1982 Miami, FL (prior to heart valve replacement surgery)

Mpls., MN 1955
Steve Freer
Harriette Lenore Freer
Dorothy Rekow
David Freer
Aunt Vera Rekow
Bob Jackson
Dr. Esther Jackson

Richard snaps photo with new Kodak Brownie camera of brothers David Alan and Stephen Arthur, proud of their achievement at 1701 Albion Av, Chicago IL

Richard's wife and her family in Miami
David
HARRIETTE AT HER LAKEFRONT HOUSE IN MIAMI
ROBERTA AND JONATHAN
DAVID
DAD AND DAVE (building the FREERCROSSINGS COMMERCENTER 1983)
DAD, JON, & DAVID

ARTHUR & HARRIETTE WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT - KENNEDY MN STAR; RICHARD & COUSIN SHEILA SUSSMAN; MOM COOKS UP A CULINARY TREAT AT THE GREENLEAF AV HOME OVERLOOKING LAKE MICHIGAN; TYPICAL GRACIOUS LETTER BY HARRIETTE.

AJF'S first born Richard toasts birth of his second son, Jonathan, with wife Roberta, at the hospital's festive dinner.

RICHARD AND FIANCE TOAST THEIR ENGAGEMENT AT A SALMON, OLIVE, ETC. DINNER BY CANDELIGHT. JUNE, 1973.

ARTHUR'S YOUNGER BROTHER SAM POSES PROUDLY WITH HIS LOVELY WIFE EULAH, AND DAUGHTER LIZ AND HARRIETTE FEIER.

AJF AND MOTHER MAILED HIS MOM, ANNA FEIER A CUTE ANNOUNCEMENT
OF THE BIRTH OF THIRD SON STEVE.
LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, THE STATE OF ISRAEL WOULD BE REBORN.


RICHARD HARRIS FREER STEPHEN ARTHUR FREER DAVID ALAN FREER

ROUGH 'N READY AT OAK STREET BEACH, CHICAGO, IL


DAD WROTE: "THERE IS NOTHING FURTHER I CAN WRITE ABOUT MOTHER (Grandma Anna). THE SITUATION IS TOUCH AND GO...50-50 ... AND IT SEEMS WE ARE HELPLESS. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I'LL BE HERE. NOBODY TELLS US HOW LONG A CONDITION LIKE MOTHER'S CAN GO ON IN ITS PRESENT CRITICAL STATUS). WELL, WE'LL ALL FEEEL RELIEVED WHEN THE CRISIS PASSES. I'LL CALL YOU AT THAT POINT. LOVE, ART HELLO, BOYS! LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR MOTHER TELLS YOU TO DO AND BE GOOD! YOUR DAD. LETTER FROM MOM IN CHICAGO TO RICHARD IN MIAMI LETTER FROM DAVID IN CHICAGO TO DAD IN ROCHESTER, NY