Fanny Dunn Hook Dawes
I'm trying to track down Fanny Dunn Hook Dawes who was my grandmother's half sister. They shared the same mother. Fanny was born to George and Fanny Wilbur Dunn in Missouri. Her mother died when she was three weeks old and she was adopted (apparently unofficially) by the Hook family. She married a Frank Dawes and they lived in St. Louis. She died in May of 1975 (according to the SS death index)in Phoenix, AZ. I have been unable to find any obit notice for her in Phoenix papers and cannot get a death certificate for her from Arizona without definitive proof of my connection to her. Unfortunately, we have no date of death or place of death for her mother so I'm unable to make a firm connection (at least enough for the state of Arizona!). If anyone can help me with this I'd appreciate it. I was hoping that through her, I'd be able to find out about her mother.