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They were both independent and working for an insurance company. Desdie was a PBX operator, and Frank was a rising claims manager. Both came from large farm families. Frank was the oldest of ten children born in what is now Withrow Springs State Park in Arkansas. Desdie was among the younger daughters of a father who had ten children. Her birth mother had died two children after Desdie was born in Oklahoma.

Frank Sr. and Desdie (click to zoom in)

His stepbrother, Fred, had dropped Frank as an infant on a farm implement. At the time the wound had been treated, but his knee healed in a frozen 90-degree bend position. Frank and Desdie had been seeing one another for some time when Desdie took Frank to meet her father, Jack Thomas. Jack seemed to like Frank, but later talked to Desdie. He questioned whether they were developing a serious relationship and warned her about marrying a disabled person. Desdie responded by saying he was one of the most interesting men she had ever met. She thanked her father for his advice and went on to marry Frank in 1923. Frank’s mother died in 1925, and Desdie and Frank brought the three youngest girls and two youngest boys to Dallas to live with them. His father was unhappy since he used the children to pick cotton, but Frank had promised his mother on her deathbed to care for the younger children. ” ( Wikipedia ).

Nanette Fabray

While she was a great talent, one of her directors noticed that even though she sang well on key she often missed cues. A hearing test revealed that she had a conductive hearing loss. She had a fenestration operation, and it improved her hearing. She went on to become an early television star and has remained active in stage, film and television, She married and had one son.

She was nominated by President Johnson to be the chair of the President’s Committee for the Deaf. She carried out her duties with a high degree of professionalism and was a good spokesperson for the deaf community. Just prior to leaving office, President Johnson filled all committee vacancies. Nanette had fulfilled only one year of a three-year appointment. President Nixon tried to replace the Johnson appointments with his own committee members. Eventually the courts ruled that one president couldn’t dismiss another’s appointees. If you are appointed for three years, you serve three years. In response, the Nixon administration abolished many committees, but Congress did not approve of the abolishment of the handicapped and deaf committees. The final result of these actions was the Advisory Committee Act of 1972 , which stated that members served for the number of years they were appointed. The law required that all committee members’ names must be published and that all advisory committee meetings must be open to the public. Nanette was not happy with these actions taken by the Nixon administration and took it up with the President.

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