John Joseph "Jay" Frawley

In his younger years, Jay worked as a clerk for his father's insurance agency in Burlington, Iowa.

In April 1942, he was living at 5402 Russell Avenue in Los Angeles, California and was working for the Hollywood Baseball Association at 7700 Beverly Boulevard. He was married; his wife was listed on his WWII draft registration card solely as "Mrs. John J. Frawley." He was 5 feet, 7 1/2 inches tall and weighed 136 pounds, with grey eyes and black hair.

A 1955 article with the Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette about his sister's visit back home said that Jay was living in Los Angeles, and that he previously "was a Lions club organizer and worked for Radio Corporation of America before his retirement."

Like his younger brother Paul, Jay dealt with severe alcoholism throughout his adult life. Brother William, who achieved wild popularity as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy (and was also likely dealing with alcoholism, albeit on a more functional level), paid for Jay and Paul's expenses, including their long-term care at St. John of God Hospital, a facility specifically for people with alcoholism.

Sources

• Ancestry.com. California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
  • Place: Los Angeles; Date: 10 May 1968; Social Security: 563014791.
    • Name: John J Frawley; Social Security #: 563014791; Gender: Male; Birth Date: 1 Jul 1884; Death Date: 10 May 1968; Death Place: Los Angeles; Mother's Maiden Name: Brady.
• Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  • The National Archives At St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War Ii Draft Cards (4th Registration) For the State of California; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147.
    • Name: John Joseph Frawley; Gender: Male; Birth Date: 1 Jul 1883; Residence Place: Los Angeles, California, USA; Military Draft Date: 1942; Next of Kin: Mrs John J. Frawley.
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• Edelman, Rob and Audrey Kupferberg. Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other Couple, pp. 26-30, 229-230. New York: St. Martin's, 2013.
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  • Name: John Frawley; Birth: July 1 1883; Death: May 1968; Last residence: Los Angeles, California 90018, USA; SSN issuing state: California.
• "Mary Frawley Here For Visit After 20 Years." The Burlington Hawk-Eye Gazette via NewspaperArchive, published 10 October 1955, p. 5. < link > Accessed 28 December 2021.
• "M.A. Frawley." Burlington Evening Gazette via WikiTree, published 26 Jun 1907, p. 15. < link > Accessed 28 December 2021.