On 1 April 1930 Frank C. De Mers was 27, single, and worked as a clerk in a retail food company. He lived at 1073 Blair Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota with his sister Julia E., 32, and her husband Walter Olzenak, 27, and their three children, Mary E., 7, Adeline J., 5, and Thomas W., 2 years and 7 months. Frank’s father was born in Illinois and his mother in Ohio. 1514