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Wrather Papers, Series 7, 8

 

THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION

JACK AND BONITA GRANVILLE WRATHER PAPERS
(CSLA-23)


Series 7: Jack and Bonita Granville Wrather Funeral Materials

BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1

Correspondence re in memoriam donations for Bonita Granville Wrather to St. John's Hospital and Health Center

1988

1

2-4

Bonita Granville Wrather perpetual mass announcements; sympathy cards with notices of commemorative masses

1988

1

5

Correspondence, donations to American Film Institute in memoriam for Bonita Granville Wrather

1988

1

6

Sympathy cards with notices of donations in memoriam for Bonita Granville Wrather

1988

1

7-8

Letters, cards, and telegrams of sympathy re death of Bonita Granville Wrather; Bonita Granville Wrather eulogy by George Stevens, Jr.

1988

1

9

Incoming correspondence to Bonita Granville Wrather from Harry S. DeCamp; book by same

1988

2

1-2

Sympathy cards for Wrather family

1988

2

3-6

Get well cards sent to Bonita Granville Grather during convalescence in St. John's Hospital

1988

3

1-5

Sympathy cards re death of Jack Wrather

1984

4

1-2, 8

Sympathy cards re death of Jack Wrather

1984

4

3

Funeral flower cards sent to Jack Wrather church service

1984

4

4

Funeral flower cards from arrangements to Wrather home

1984

4

5

Telegrams of sympathy re death of Jack Wrather

1984

4

6-7

Perpetual mass announcements and sympathy cards with notices of commemorative masses for Jack Wrather

1984

4

8-9

Sympathy correspondence re death of Jack Wrather

1984

5

1

Get well cards for Jack Wrather

1984

5

2

Sympathy cards and correspondence with notices of donations in memoriam for Jack Wrather

1984

5

3

Bonita Granville Wrather checklist re her responses to sympathy cards, correspondence, and in memoriam donations for Jack Wrather

1985

5

4-5

Condolence lists: by subject, eg, cards, miscellaneous donations

1984

5

6

Jack Wrather funeral register

1984

5

7

Governmental tributes and in memoriam resolutions re death of Jack Wrather

1984

5

8-10

Incoming sympathy correspondence files re death of Jack Wrather, A-C

1984-1985

6

1-12

Incoming sympathy correspondence files re death of Jack Wrather, D-Q

1984-1985

7

1-6

Incoming sympathy correspondence files re death of Jack Wrather, R-Z

1984

7

7

Bonita Granville Wrather funeral flower cards

1988

7

8

Bonita Granville Wrather funeral register

1988

7

9

City of Los Angeles in memoriam tribute for Bonita Granville Wrather

1988

8

--

St. John's Hospital acknowledgement cards re in memoriam gifts for Jack Wrather; funeral service cards

1984

8

--

Audiocassette number 1: Christopher Wrather and Norman Vincent Peale eulogies for Jack Wrather (Side A only)
Audiocassette number 2: Recording of Jack Wrather funeral

1984

9

1

Lassie publicity b/w and color photographs (nineteen 8x10; one 5x7); press releases,

1988-1989

9

2

Magazine articles re Bonita Granville Wrather. Cf. Box 6ov, Folder 1

1985

9

3

Notebook with newspaper and magazine articles re Jack and Bonita Granville Wrather (1 of 2)

1977-1987

9

4

Notebook with newspaper and magazine articles re Jack and Bonita Granville Wrather (2 of 2)

1977-1987

9

5

Newspaper articles re Wrather Corporation

1985

9

6

Newspaper and magazine articles re Christopher Wrather and Wrather Corporation

1984

9

7

Newspaper articles, list of stocks held, incoming correspondence, faxes re Industrial Equity acquisition of Wrather Corporation

1987

9

8

Jack Wrather biographical sketch (photocopy)

1977, 1984

9

9

Incoming and outgoing correspondence re care of Holy Cross gravesites

1988

9

10

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, brochure re portrait of Jack Wrather

1980-1981

9

11

Memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, receipts for film conversion and storage, film lists re Jack Wrather film library

1977-1987 (dates broken)

10

1

Newspaper articles, photograph (b/w, 8x10), incoming and outgoing personal correspondence, retained for public relations

1960-1989 (dates broken)

10

2

Jack Wrather and Bonita Granville Wrather biographical sketches

1968, 1971, 1972, post- 1984

10

3

Jack Wrather biographical sketches, including official Wrather Corporation biography

1955(?), 1977, 1982, 1984

10

4

Recording, incoming and outgoing correspondence re Bonita Granville Wrather power of attorney

1986, 1990

10

5

Booklet re registry of Wrather family

1986

10

6

Wrather property insurance policies and appraisal

1984

10

7

L'Horizon Hotel title insurance policies, grant deeds

1952

10

8

List of Life Tenant stock shares

1984

10

9

Malibu residence grant deed, title insurance policy

1988

10

10

Quitclaim deeds re Palm Springs property

1988

10

11

Jack Wrather and Bonita Granville Wrather wills and codicils

1977, 1982-1984

10

12

Jack Wrather newspaper obituaries

1984

10

13

Bereavement cards, mass cards, bills and receipts, guest list for funeral luncheon, pallbearers list, incoming and outgoing correspondence re death of Jack Wrather

1984

10

14

Incoming correspondence to Christopher Wrather re death of Jack Wrather

1984

11

1

Pallbearers list, list of persons attending funeral of or acknowledging death of Bonita Granville Wrather

1988(?)-1989

11

2

Bereavement cards, incoming correspondence, death certificate, funeral service schedules, receipts, guest list for funeral luncheon, faxes (including press release from President Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Nancy Reagan), biographical sketch re Bonita Granville Wrather

1988

11

3

Index to films and of retired business and personal files, Jack and Bonita Granville Wrather, and films

1983

11

4

Index of retired business files, Wrather Corporation

1970-1981 (dates broken)

6ov

1

Articles re Bonita Granville Wrather

1985

6ov

2-3

Newspaper and trade magazine obituaries re Bonita Granville Wrather

1988

6ov

4-5

Jack Wrather obituary notices

1984

6ov

6

In memoriam resolution re death of Jack Wrather; scrolls re perpetual mass for Jack and Bonita Granville Wrather

1984, 1988


Series 8: Granville/Wrather Family History
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BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1

Mazie Cogdell Wrather biographical information sheets, biographies, Cogdell/Gathings family genealogies, incoming and outgoing correspondence, 3 b/w portraits photographs for Who's Who publications

1962, 1964, 1966

1

2

Jack Wrather biographical information sheets, biographies, 13 b/w photographs, incoming and outgoing correspondence for Who's Who publications. Cf. Box 10ov, Folder 3, this series

1957-1959

1

3

Bank statements, cancelled checks, receipts for crop purchases re Cogdell estate. Cf. Box 10ov, Folder 4, this series

1949-1964, 1968

1

4

Miscellaneous receipts, blank checks re transactions of Cogdell estate

1957-1964 (dates broken)

1

5

Deeds re Cogdell family property purchases

1901, 1910, 1928, 1932

1

6

Eulogy with order of funeral service for R. R. Cogdell

1946

1

7

Incoming correspondence to Mazzie Wrather, handwritten and typed notes and genealogical lists re Wrather/Cogdell/Covington family genealogy; Mazzie Wrather membership certificate, Daughters of the American Revolution; Daughters of the American Revolution working application sheet and ancestral chart. Cf. Box 10ov, Folder 1, this subseries

1936-1937, 1939-1940,
1964

1

8

Paper on family surname "Wall," by the Media Research Bureau

N.D.

2

1

Promissory notes owed by A. B. and Carrie (Caroline?) Cogdell

1912

2

2

Typewritten and handwritten notes re Cogdell/Covington family history

N.D.

2

3

Mimeographed memoranda re division of income from Cogdell estate; state and county tax receipts re Cogdell estate (photostatic copies)

1961

2

4

Title abstract to Hill County, Texas property

1890

2

5

Receipts, cancelled checks, correspondence re Cogdell payment of county taxes

1893-1936
(dates broken)

2

6

Receipts, incoming correspondence re Cogdell insurance premiums; miscellaneous correspondence

1902-1927 (dates broken)

2

7

Incoming correspondence to Mazzie Wrather, handwritten and typed notes and genealogical lists re Wrather/Cogdell/Covington family genealogy; Children of the American Revolution application form (blank); Daughters of the American Revolution application form (completed)

1936-1956 (dates broken)

2

8

J. D. Wrather, Sr., and Caroline Cogdell eulogies; Jack Wrather juvenile correspondence and poetry; newspaper clippings

1941, 1944

2

9

Miscellaneous legal documents

N.D.

2

10

Teaching certificate for Mazzie Cogdell (Wrather); wedding invitation, Mazzie Cogdill/John Wrather wedding

1910, 1912

2

11

Photocopies of newspaper articles re Cogdell family history in Texas

N.D.

2

12

Funeral card, John Wrather (Jack Wrather's grandfather)

1909

2

13

Newspaper obituaries re Mazzie Wrather

N.D.

2

14

Book with blank pages; inscribed on front "Carolina V. Cogdell 1855-1941"

N.D.

2

15

Daughters of the American Revolution certificate, Mazie Cogdell Wrather

1937

2

16

Funeral register, Mazie Wrather

N.D.

3

1

Pages, disassembled with original order preserved, from photograph album/scrapbook re Cogdell family history

N.D.

3

2

Mazie Wrather financial records

1930, 1959-1967 (dates broken)

4

1

Business correspondence and bank statements of Rosina Granville

1955-1969 (dates broken)

4

2

Correspondence, alien registration booklet, Army discharge papers of Bernard Granville, telegrams re bookings of same; Sacred Heart of Jesus prayer for Bernard Granville. Cf. Box 10ov, Folder 12

1920-1921, 1937

4

3-4

Business papers and correspondence re oil interests of Rosina Granville. Cf. Box 10ov, Folder 12, this series

1954-1961 (dates broken)

4

5

"Motion Picture Mothers, Inc.," booklet and correspondence (Rosina Granville)

1962, 1972

4

6

Wrather family miscellany: Molly Wrather report card; Bonita Granville, Jack Wrather report cards; Westlake Lower School Christmas Carol program, loose clippings

1933-1935, 1949, 1951

4

7

Funeral register (for Rosina Granville?)

N.D.

4

8

Jack Wrather childhood diaries

1939

5

1

Texas Edition. Men of Achievement. With entry for Jack Wrather, p. 166

1958

10ov

1

Daughters of the American Revolution application form (completed). Photostatic copy. Originally with Box 1, Folder 7, this series

1937(?)

10ov

2

Mazzie Wrather membership certificate, United Daughters of the Confederacy

1926

10ov

3

Galley proofs, Jack Wrather biographies for Who's Who publications. Cf. Box 1, Folder 2, this series

N.D.

10ov

4

Application to Federal soil bank conservation program, tax receipts, Farmer Home Administration standard lease re Cogdell/Wrather farming interests. Originally with materials in Box 1, Folder 3, this series

1933, 1935, 1957-1959, 1961

10ov

5

Marriage certificate, Jack Wrather and Mollie O'Daniel

1941

10ov

6

4 photographic copies of State of Texas land grant to J. J. Gathings, great-grandfather of Jack Wrather

N.D.

10ov

7

J. D. Wrather, Sr., membership card and certificates re Masonic organizations

1933-1934, 1940

10ov

8

Newspaper advertisement re Wrather family business interests

N.D.

10ov

9

J. D. Wrather, Sr., life insurance policies; tax forms

1923, 1928

10ov

10

Obituary in Itasca Item re death of Virginia Carolina Cogdell, grandmother of Jack Wrather

1941

10ov

11

Mazie Cogdell (Wrather) college diploma

1908

10ov

12

Bernard Granville passport; Chicago Sun-Times article re Rollo Timponi (photocopy). Originally with materials in Box 4, Folder 4, this series

1921, 1937

10ov

13

Royal Refining Company report to the stockholders

1921

10ov

14

4 photostatic copies of State of Texas land grant to J. J. Gathings

1860 (original date)


Series 8. Subseries A: J. D. Wrather, Sr., Oil and Business Interests   back to top

BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1-8

J. D. Wrather, Sr., business and legal papers re California construction and oil interests

1920-1925

2

1

Papers re oil interests in Amarillo, Texas

1924

2

2

Legal documents re settlement between J. D. Wrather, Sr., and John Wrather

1931-1941
(dates broken)

2

3

Documents re dissolution of Kilgore Refining Company. Cf. Box 2, Folder 4, this series

1931-1941
(dates broken)

2

4

Documents re settlement of suit between Amarillo Producing and Refining Company and George Walters. Cf. Box 2, Folder 3, this series

1926-1942 (dates broken)

2

5

Telegrams, incoming correspondence re Seven States Oil Company (originals replaced by photocopies)

1919

2

6

J. D. Wrather, Sr., incoming correspondence with Caddo Burk Oil Company and Texas Leasing and Development Corporation

1919

2

7

Assignments of oil and gas leases; deeds

1919-1941 (dates broken)

2

8

Miscellaneous business correspondence and tax receipts

1912-1943

2

9

Bank notes and cancelled checks

1923-1950 (dates broken)

2

10

"Commercial Protest" legal document re Seven States Oil Company

1919

2

11

Cross section book

N.D.

2

12

J. D. Wrather, Sr., business and legal papers re California construction and oil interests

1924

3

1

Turner Petroleum Company financial statement; blank checks and oil lease; incoming and outgoing correspondence

1921-1922, 1924

3

2

Telegrams, incoming correspondence re Seven States Oil Company and Caddo Burk Oil Company (some originals replaced by photocopies)

1919

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