Person:Frances Johanson (1)

Showed her family how to make oragami animals and did sketches of scenes around her to give away to friends and family. slw

Dedication in the front of "Insights: Original Poems by Allen A. Fain", 1985

In memory of my mother, Spicie Newton Fain, who taught me Christian principles; and to my good friend and mentor, the late R. M. Good, president of the School of the Ozarks during the time I attended high school there.

Dedicated to my dear wife, Frances Johanson Fain, who encouraged me in compiling this booklet, who designed it, and has hand-lettered it throughout.

Thank you to Gwen Simmons of the College of the Ozarks Library for her help researching Frances Johanson Fain.

Miss Frances Johanson appears in the 1937 and 1938 School of the Ozarks yearbooks as a teacher of English and French.

Information from: "Flight of the Phoenix: A Biography of the School of the Ozarks -- A Unique American College: the First 75 Years" by Helen Godsey and Townsend Godsey. Point Lookout, MO: School of the Ozarks. 1984

page 284 (regarding a house constructed for the school's president) "Frances Johanson - Mrs. Allan Fain - a former teacher at the School, remembers that this hous was mainly financed by Sunday School children. She related that small coin boxes in the shape of a cottage were distributed to the Missouri Synod Churches and that children used them as penny banks. The combined collection made up the major part of what it cost to build the house".

page 321 - "In 1937, another flu epidemic ravaged campus. Frances Johanson, who was teaching Bible, English and French, remembers this, '...everyone got the flu - first the students and then the faculty. The little hospital was full and many were cared for in dormitory rooms."

page 358 - (quoting Carmel Leonard, who graduated in 1938) "Mr. Good and several of the teachers had a great influence on my life - especially Stanley Wilson who taught Latin and Bible, and Mrs. Bell who taught Bible, and Miss Frances Johanson, who taught English."

page 591 - "Frances Johanson was 13 when she attended a church conference at S of O. She later attended the Presbyterian Assembly's Training School and became a missionary at the Presbyterian School for Mexican children in Texas. She taught at the School for two years in the 1930's. She said she taught Bible and French and was director of Christian Education, and wrote news releases and articles for "Our Visitor". In 1978 she married alumnus Allen Fain. Living in retirement in St. Louis the Fains gave volunteer service to the Way makers, a mission church for physically handicapped persons, established by Rosa McFarland (Williams) '69 and her husband."

From WorldCat:

ILLUSTRATOR:

Remembering the St. Louis World's Fair. Margaret Johanson Witherspoon; Frances Johanson Krebs Fain; Elinor Martineau Coyle

1973 English Book 95 pages illustrations 28 cm St. Louis, Folkestone Press Title: Remembering the St. Louis World's Fair. Author(s): Witherspoon, Margaret Johanson. Fain, Frances Johanson Krebs, ; illustrator. Coyle, Elinor Martineau, ; photographer. Standard No: LCCN: 73-83070 SUBJECT(S) Named Conf: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Class Descriptors: LC: T860.B1; Dewey: 917.78/66/034 Responsibility: Text: Margaret Johanson Witherspoon. Pen and ink drawings: Frances Johanson Krebs. Photography: Elinor Martineau Coyle. Material Type: Conference publication (cnp) Document Type: Book Entry: 19731002 Update: 20140705 Accession No: OCLC: 724622

Also reprinted in 1977 and 2004

1. ↑ Godsey, Helen; Townsend Godsey. Flight of the Phoenix. (Point Lookout, Missouri: School of the Ozarks, 1984).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} SIN 494-36-5753, in SSDI.
3.   FAIN, FRANCES M. St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1995 Article 1/17.
4. ↑ United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T627).

   Name: Frances Johanson
   Age: 31
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1909
   Gender: Female
   Race: White
   Birthplace: Arkansas
   Marital Status: Single
   Relation to Head of House: Daughter
   Home in 1940: St Louis, St Louis City, Missouri
   Map of Home in 1940: View Map
   Street: Rosebury
   Inferred Residence in 1935: St Louis, St Louis City, Missouri
   Residence in 1935: Same Place
   Resident on farm in 1935: No
   Sheet Number: 9A
   Occupation: Bible Teacher
   Industry: Church Federation
   Attended School or College: No
   Highest Grade Completed: College, 4th year
   Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 3
   Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
   Weeks Worked in 1939: 26
   Income: 15
   Income Other Sources: No
   Neighbors: View others on page
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Joseph Johanson 61
   Jane Johanson 65
   Frances Johanson 31

5.   United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625).

   Name: Frances M Johanson
   Age: 11
   Birth Year: abt 1909
   Birthplace: Arkansas
   Home in 1920: St Louis Ward 28, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
   Street: Clara Ave
   Race: White
   Gender: Female
   Relation to Head of House: Daughter
   Marital Status: Single
   Father's Name: Joseph E Johanson
   Father's Birthplace: Kansas
   Mother's name: Jane M Johanson
   Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi
   Attended School: Yes
   Able to Read: Yes
   Able to Write: Yes
   Neighbors: View others on page
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Joseph E Johanson 41
   Jane M Johanson 45
   Eugene Johanson 13
   Frances M Johanson 11
   Margaret T Johanson 9
   Orilla E Parks 24

6.   U.S. City Directories, 1821-1995: [database on-line]. (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

   Name: Frances M Johanson
   Residence Year: 1929
   Street address: 221 Northwood av
   Residence Place: St Louis, Missouri, USA
   Occupation: Student Rti
   Publication Title: St Louis, Missouri, City Directory, 1929
   
   Name: Frances M Johanson
   Residence Year: 1931
   Street address: G221 Northwood av
   Residence Place: St Louis, Missouri, USA
   Occupation: Student
   Publication Title: St Louis, Missouri, City Directory, 1931
   
   Name: Frances M Johanson
   Residence Year: 1944
   Street address: 6208 Rosebury av apt 603
   Residence Place: St Louis, Missouri, USA
   Publication Title: St Louis, Missouri, City Directory, 1944

7.   United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T624).

   Name: Frances Johanson
   [Trances Johanson]
   Age in 1910: 1
   [1 6/12]
   Birth Year: abt 1909
   [abt 1908]
   Birthplace: Arkansas
   Home in 1910: Little Rock Ward 1, Pulaski, Arkansas
   Race: White
   Gender: Female
   Relation to Head of House: Daughter
   Marital Status: Single
   Father's Name: Joseph E Johanson
   Father's Birthplace: Kansas
   Mother's name: Jane M Johanson
   Mother's Birthplace: Mississippi
   Neighbors: View others on page
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Joseph E Johanson 30
   [35]
   Jane M Johanson 36
   Eugene Johanson 4
   Frances Johanson 1
   [1 6/12]
   Mittie Garner 22

8.   .

   College of the Ozarks
   Ozarkiana Collection
   T5053
   audiocassette
   Mrs. Frances Johanes Krebs Fain
   Teacher School of the Ozarks ca. 1936-1938
   See the library for details or a copy of this audio cassette tape

9.   .

   Untitled by Frances Johanson Fain
   
   Someday I want a little house upon
   A busy lane, where children passing by
   May see me there, and come to me with song
   Upon their lips, a dancing laughter there
   Within their eyes, and tousled heads all bright
   With thoughts of play instead of school. I want
   Them free, to see the beauty I can’t see;
   To show me life again through eyes unmarred
   By visions of decay; to sing me songs
   Through lips untainted by the scorn of time;
   To teach me strength through their own wholesome play.
   When morning dawns anew, I want them near
   Like great bright rays that strike through looming clouds,
   Lest grief which daily takes its toll
   In tears will mar the sunshine I would give.
   
   I want my little house to hold a love
   For all mankind, to share a strength I found
   In trusting God, in having faith in men.
   And when a friendless one walks down my lane,
   Oh let him see the beck’ning open door
   And step within awhile to chat, to speak
   Of books we both have known, of worlds we might
   Have seen, of china there upon the rail,
   Of olden trees about the place, of light
   And how all shadows flee from it, of life
   And all its beauty, joy and love. He sees,
   And taking to himself the rose I give,
   Claims life is new again, and friends are gold
   Not to be bartered in the marketplace of time.
   
   I want my little house to glow with light
   For those whose darkened eyes may ne’er again
   Find sunshine in the daffodils, burnt gold
   Within the poppies by the road. And may
   It be a haven rest, and wayside shrine
   Where crippled limbs and shattered minds may seek
   The balm of health, implore the joy of peace.
   
   And when that wanderer---like Cain of old---
   Comes into sight down at the bend of road,
   I’ll fly into the pantry wide, and place
   A new-baked pie within the window there
   And hope a breath of wind may waft its scent
   Unto his hungry self. Then I might say
   When he comes knocking at my door, "I baked
   It from the oven fresh and brown, the knave
   Of hearts would travel soon this way. But first
   There must be tales of far away, of where
   You slept last night, of when you worked one time,
   Of why you ran away and when you last
   Your mother saw. Tell me these things. I too
   Have run away." And there he rests, his back
   A-leaning ‘gainst the door, and I upon
   A clump of grass within the garden there,
   My ears all tense to catch each word, my heart
   All tears for her who’s lost this lad. His eyes
   Gleam bright a space and then the story’s done;
   And coffee brews upon the grate, and pie
   Is munched in quiet zeal, as if the rite
   Deserves the sacrifice of speech, the death
   Of all that links him with the other world
   Whene’er he talks and finds a list’ning ear.
   And would he stay? Then here’s the garden wall
   That needs a chink or two, and there’s the work
   Of all that field yet lying free. He looks
   Out on the world and sighs, then gathers up
   His bundle and moves on. The road is bright
   With sunlight checked with shade from panelled fence,
   And his own shadow follows down the way.
   
   This is not much to want, and it may someday be,
   But there’s a greater want that rushed forth
   And makes my heart cry out lest it’s denied.
   
   Someday I want my little house to gleam
   With sunshine all my own, the merry hearts
   Within to be the souls of children I have borne,
   Their laughter fresh each early morn, their eyes
   All bright to beauty I can’t see but feel
   Must be. I want to walk with them each day
   Through deep green grass o’er meadow fair, down lanes
   Where cows trudge lazily, by talking brooks,
   O’er rocky ledge where glints the silver path
   Of snail and flashes bright the writhing length
   Of golden snake. I want them all to know
   And love the creeping things, the living things
   God made for them. And under skies that bless
   With pelting rain, or sun’s enchanting gold
   I want them free to see that all is fair,
   And learn with bowed heads to thank their God
   That this His world is theirs to have or mar.
   And let them early seek to learn from Him
   How they may keep it clean and beautiful,
   So that at night when I have tucked them safe
   Within my little house that sleeps upon
   The busy lane, let me find peace beneath
   The golden stars, let dreams be sweet within
   Their gentle minds, let God keep us in love.
   
   Someday when they have grown and gone away
   To make or mar the world they found so sweet
   In childhood’s play, they’ll travel ways that trail
   Where sunshine does not glow in daffodils,
   Where songs are not upon the lips of brooks,
   Where golden lizards change to darkling beasts,
   And love is cold because there’s none to care.
   Then let their thoughts turn back to olden days
   When life was fresh, when God was near to soothe
   The trouble all away, and I was there
   To tuck them safe away within our home.
   And I will garnish all afresh the house,
   Dust all the books, put roses in the vase,
   Arrange the china, clean, upon the rail,
   And bake afresh all things my children liked,
   And with my trowel mend the garden wall,
   And hoe the field that lies out in the sun,
   And then sit down to wait my own’s return.
   
   And if someday this last cannot be true,
   Then let the first be wholly mine…the house
   Shall come to be a haven for myself;
   The laughing children in the place of those
   Who might have been my own; the friendless one
   A little lad I once had cherished long before,
   Who found his brother’s love turned ‘gainst his love,
   Who’d lost his way because of some bold thing.
   The maimed and blind perhaps were those dear ones
   I’d taught to mind the broken things of life,
   And now they know, bowed down with life’s own weights,
   And though the sunshine’s gone and deep is grief,
   They’ve learned the two-fold nature of this world.
   And when that wanderer…the one to whom
   I spoke of distant lands, in whom I placed
   The confidence my own had lacked in me,
   The one whose blood like mine will tingle still
   When foreign ways and ports are breathed to me…
   When he returns he cannot stay to mend
   The wall or plow the field. He’ll take my pie
   And then move on, down ways of life, on paths
   I have not trod, ‘cross seas, through jungle depths,
   O’er mountain heights, down endless trailing ways.
   
   I wonder now which were the better want:
   To bring my own unto these things, or treat
   Those knocking now upon the gate that waits
   Upon my little house beside the lane,---
   The world’s own children always seeking love,
   The same my own would seek were they alive.
   
   FRANCES WAS AN ENGLISH TEACHER AT THE SCHOOL OF THE OZARKS. SHE LOVED NATURE, AND WOULD OFTEN LEAD STUDENTS ON NATURE HIKES. THIS POEM WAS WRITTEN BY HER FOR ALFRED FAIN (her future brother-in-law) IN 1940, POINT LOOKOUT, MISSOURI.

10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Frances M (Johanson) (Krebs) Fain, in United States. Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015).

    born 29 Sep 1908 in Little Rock, Arkansas
    died 15 Jan 1995
    name in Jul 1972: Frances J Krebs