FitzSimons family portraits and clippings — Gaillard B., Frank Lockwood, Katherine, Ellen Milliken

The mounted photographs and clippings are captioned in blue ink:

Ellen 4 yrs. Gaillie 3 (carte-de-visite of two small children, ca. 1866)

Gaillard B. Fitz Simons (small carte-de-visite of a child)

Gaillard B. Fitz Simons (larger oval portrait of a boy)

G.S.F.S. Sissy. Gail-Frank (snapshot of Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons holding a child, with two others beside him)

Frank Lockwood Fitz Simons WORLD WAR I

Katherine Fitz Simons

After Glow (small photo of a single-story frame house)

Frank L. Fitz Simons Sr.

Ellen Milliken Fitz Simons. (Sax)

Newspaper clipping (upper right) — partial:

SET HOSPITAL FETE MONDAY

Anniversary Dinner At Skyland To Feature FitzSimons Talk

The 40th anniversary of the dedication and laying of the corner stone of Patton Memorial Hospital will be observed Monday at a dinner meeting at the Skyland Hotel at 7 o’clock.

All board members and former board members of the hospital will be honor guests at the dinner. Also attending will be members of the board of the new Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital, which is soon to replace Patton Memorial. Mayor A. V. Edwards and Chairman E. E. McBride of the County Commissioners will also attend.

Frank L. Fitzsimons, vice-president of the State Trust Co., will be the principal speaker.

The first division of Patton Memorial was dedicated and the cor— (Continued on page four)

Pull-out caption beside the speaker’s portrait: SPEAKER — Frank L. FitzSimons, vice-president of the State Trust Co., will be the principal speaker at a dinner meeting Monday night, observing the 40th anniversary of the dedication of Patton Memorial hospital.

Newspaper clipping (lower center), dated Thursday, January 22, 1959:

FRANK FITZSIMONS RELATES MUCH INTERESTING HISTORY ON RADIO

By Mrs. L. L. Mabry

Many citizens of Hendersonville perhaps miss a great deal of interesting information furnished by Frank L. FitzSimons, Sr., who broadcasts for five minutes on Radio Station WHKP at 6:05 each night.

Mr. FitzSimons is highly respected as a local historian, and a hard-working research scholar on things and events in Henderson County and he has a charming talent for connecting his reminiscences to present-day conditions.

Many people who have retired to Hendersonville from far flung places because of their liking for this community and its gracious climate can learn many interesting things about their new home place by listening to “Frank FitzSimons Speaks” every night on the radio.

Mr. FitzSimons is a long-time friend of the writer because his heart is in caring for the wild birds that winter in our midst. Many times he has broadcast in behalf of the birds that form an important factor in the over-all picture which attracts so many new people to this community to reside and enjoy life.

Lower left clipping (partly trimmed and illegible):

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Pole Cancels [partial] Scheduled In [partial] Hendersonville

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