Showing posts with label Jack Givens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Givens. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Ralph Phelps & Grandson Jack Givens

The following snip is from Lilly Hoover's address book which had addresses as well as notes about family. here is the entry for the birth of Jack Givens, the grandson of Ralph Phelps. Years ago I unfortunately found out, online that jack died in an auto accident. He was survived by his wife and one son, Robert Ronzio Givens

Here is the newspaper clipping obituary for Ralph Phelps



Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Lillian Eunice (Phelps) Wilson Scrapbook Page 26

Top left is Lillian. The middle picture is Herma Phelps and her daughter Patty Phelps. Patty was a first cousin of my father and is the mother of my late cousin Jack Givens. The bottom left is Herma and Lillian. Ralph and Herma moved to Oklahoma City, but I think these pictures were taken in Indianapolis.

Lillian Eunice (Phelps) Wilson Scrapbook Page 23

Photo on the bottom left is Lillian and her brother Ralph Phelps. I am uncertain of the rest. I really only remember meeting my Great Uncle Ralph Phelps once in Oklahoma City OK in 1977. My dad, me and Uncle Ralph went to dinner at a local mall. I remember him as a very nice and interesting man. I wish I had written down notes after our meeting, or made a recording of him talking as was my habit back then. Every Christmas since I was a teenager he sent me $100 as a present. Back in the 60's and 70's to a kid that was a fortune. It is still a pretty good amount. I always wrote him a thank you note with an update on what I and my family were doing. He is survived by a great grandson who is the only other surviving family member I know of. His grandson Jack Givens unfortunately was killed in a car accident back in the 1990's. We used to correspond once in a while. He was a bank President in St. Louis with Mark Twain Bank as I recall.

I just remembered the young woman in the top middle picture is Herma Phelps, the wife of Ralph Phelps. I do not know her maiden name. So it is likely the unknowns in this picture are related to her side of the family.