Fay Frahske Burns Collection
Scope and Contents
Items in the Fay Frahske Burns Collection includes items from Fay's life. This collection contains scrapbooks of photographs, manuscripts and other documents related to Lund, Utah. Additional items relate to her personal interests and family. Such as correspondence, news clippings, research manuscripts and notes, and a map of Lund, Utah.
Dates
- Creation: 1890-1978
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and freely available to researchers during Special Collections hours.
Conditions Governing Use
The Fay Frahske Burns Collection is the physical property of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the library for information regarding specific use of this collection.
Biographical / Historical
Fay Frahske Burns was born November 14, 1924 in Milford, Utah. The second child of German immigrants, Oscar E. Frahske and Alma Hunt Frahske, she lived on the Escalante Desert and in nearby Lund, Utah. She graduated from the new Cedar High School in 1942, attended the Branch Agricultural College 1947-1949, and received her B.S. from College of St. Mary's of the Wasatch in 1954. She received her M.S.N. from the University of California at San Francisco and was an assistant professor of nursing at Southern Utah State College from 1974-1979. She married Merle E. Burns of Beryl, Utah, in October 1979. She passed away in 2010.
Full Extent
1 Linear Feet : 3 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Fay Frahske Burns Collection is divided into two main series. Series I. Scrapbooks, Series II Personal Life.
Series II was originally arranged by type and purpose. That arrangement was kept when the collection was reprocessed, however, those sub-series were not assigned for easier use.
Topical
- Boghossian, Aram; 1880? -1970
- Burns, Fay Frahske, 1924-
- Couch, Alice Fourman, 1912-
- Couch, Elmer Verle, 1917-
- Escalante Valley -- Utah -- history
- Fourman, Arlie, 1889-19
- Frahske, Alma Hunt, 1890-1978
- Frahske, Edward C., 1918-1989
- Frahske, Oscar E., 1887-1969
- Hunt, Hugo, 18 -1955
- Lund -- Utah -- history
- Richard Johnston Family
- Stafford, Corda E., 1890-1976
- Walker, Doris Couch, 1933-19
- Wright, Calvin E., 1909-1988
- Author
- Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2026
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives Repository