Primary Name: Messerschmidt, Frances Helen Theresa

Filed as: Messerschmidt, Frances Helen Theresa

Also known as: Frances Helen Theresa Hermie; Frances Helen Theresa Weisberg; Frances Helen Theresa Niederhelman; Frances Helen Theresa Stephenson

Occupation / Association: Bookkeeper; Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Women's Igloo Auxiliary No. 6

Born: August 20, 1907, Juneau, Alaska

Died: December 1, 2002, Seal Beach, Orange County, California

Parents: Gustav Heinrich Hermie; Gertrude Rosina Hermie

Spouses: Robert Nathan Weisberg (m. January 15, 1926); Louis Carl Niederhelman (m. August 20, 1932); Harold Stephenson (m. 1943); Harold J. Messerschmidt

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Stockton, California; Seal Beach, Orange County, California

Keywords: Frances Helen Theresa Messerschmidt, Frances Hermie, Frances Weisberg, Frances Niederhelman, Frances Stephenson, Pioneers of Alaska Women's Igloo 6 Charter Member

Biography

Frances Helen Theresa Messerschmidt was a Charter Member of the Juneau Women's Igloo Auxiliary No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska.

She was born in Juneau, Alaska, on August 20, 1907, to Gustav Heinrich Hermie and Gertrude Rosina Hermie.

She married Robert Nathan Weisberg on January 15, 1926. Weisberg died July 29, 1931.

She remarried on August 20, 1932, to Louis Carl Niederhelman, who worked as a bartender. Frances worked as a bookkeeper. The 1940 census listed her as divorced.

In 1943, she married Harold Stephenson, who died June 24, 1971.

She later married Harold J. Messerschmidt and was living in Stockton, California in 1947.

Frances Helen Theresa Messerschmidt died December 1, 2002, in Seal Beach, Orange County, California.

Sources

1940 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; U.S. Social Security Death Index; Gastineau Channel Memories, Vol. 1, p. 333; Alaska Daily Empire, January 16, 1926