Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
Frank Cashel,
His parents
were from Alaska but they moved to Seattle for a time.
1959 profile
describes him as "originally of Seattle".
His parents came back to Alaska.
1959 profile
says he grew up in Douglas, Alaska.
He was educ Douglas High School.
He was educ at
University of Alaska.
At that time there was only one University of Alaska campus, in
Fairbanks.
The campus location was and is called
College, Alaska.
See 1938 letter
addressed to "Frank E. Cashel, College, Alaska"
from "Margaret Lindsay"
of Juneau
(his
half-sister).
Letter now in Juneau-Douglas City Museum.
Catalog Number 2005.06.189.
He worked in engineering and construction.
He was a carpenter.
He served in US Army in WW2.
See draft card
p.1 and
p.2.
From here.
Registration date 22 Sept 1941.
He is 5 ft 11 in. Brown hair. Blue eyes.
Draft card
says he is then working at Siems Drake Puget Sound Co., Sitka.
His permanent
address is given as same address as
his father, P.O. Box 1195, Douglas. Telephone Douglas 142.
Other sources say he enlisted in US Army on June 22, 1944, as a Private.
Profile
says he served as "US Navy, Base Inspector".
Myrtle is "Mrs. Frank Cashel" at wedding of William James Hollywood in Nov 1944.
See item in
Daily Sitka Sentinel, 6 Nov 1944.
Frank is listed as a Corporal in
item
in
Daily Sitka Sentinel, June 4, 1945, p.3.
After the war he worked in fishing and construction.
They lived Sitka.
Profile
says he was
"Commercial Fisherman, Sitka; Construction Worker, Sitka; Proprietor, Plumbing Business, Sitka".
President/Member, Alaska Council of Carpenters.
Frank sat again for Sitka in the 3rd Alaska State Legislature 1963-1964. See members.
Director, Employment Security Division, Alaska Department of Labor, Juneau.
Held this position in
1965 and
1966 and
1972.
Building Official, City & Borough of Juneau.
Frank and Betty divorced 1979.
He later lived in Seattle, WA.
Frank E. Cashel is
listed
in 1985 at
317 Marion St # 435,
Seattle.
Went into a care home in Seattle.
Social security record
says at death he was living in zip code 98003,
Federal Way, Seattle.
Frank dies, 1991:
Social security record
says he died Apr 1991.
Death index
says he
died 2 May 1991 in Federal Way, age 72 yrs.
His burial was organised
by the King County coroner.
Family not involved.
He had no biological children.
He was the last of the Cashels.
He was the last person to have the Cashel Y chromosome, that could say who
George Cashel's
father was.
But he died before genealogy DNA testing.
From
Fairbanks Daily News Miner,
Feb 4, 1959, p.2.
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