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- Frances Elizabeth Hawkins Jobe
Frances was born August 9, 1899.
Frances E. Hawkins and John Wesley Jobe were married in Mebane, N.C.
Born to this union was a daughter born and died on October 14, 1920
A daughter Frances Elizabeth Jobe born June 27, 1922.
A daughter born and died on April 16, 1924.
A son Auman Wesley Jobe born on July 5, 1926.
Last daughter Florence Vaughn Jobe born August 21, 1932.
Her husband John Wesley Jobe was in the World War I conflict.
Frances and Wesley Jobe operated a grocery store in Greensboro, N.C.
Frances Hawkins Jobe was also a mother, wife and homemaker.
They had 5 grand-children.
Her husband Wesley Jobe lived to be 68 years old. He died December 6, 1962.
Then in the 1970's she remarried to Curtis Durant Jobe. (former Sister-in Law)
Curtis D. Jobe died on December 22, 1988 he was 86 years old.
Frances then moved into her daughter's house until she past away.
Frances had Alzheimers.
She was such a beautiful woman even at 104.
My sister Debbie Ann Hicks told me that she had a conversation with Grandma Frances and she told Debbie that one morning she was serving breakfast to her family and she had the radio on and heard them say breaking news about the Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton , England, to New York City, on 14 April and sank on 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
By: Amy Nicole Hicks Turner (Melba Ann Jobe Hiks daughter)
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