Wife of Capitalist James Leon de Fremery. Sterling citizen, society matron and philanthropist. Died while on a world tour at Interlaken, Switzerland, of complications from emergency surgery. She died after the operation for inflamation of the salivary gland at 10:45 P.M.at the district hospital with two of her sons at her bedside. Fortunately, two of her sons made it to her bedside before she died, Paul de Fremery and Leon de Fremery. At the time of her death she owned one of the largest art collections in the United States which had been inherited by her husband, James de Fremery, from his family. The paintings went to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in a special room for a few years. During the depression, the Walgreen Drugstore family owned most of them as her son Paul had borrowed money from Mr. Walgreen and used them as collateral for a loan.
Unfortunately, Paul shortly afterwards, got ill with pneumonia and died suddenly, in New York, after the loan was made, at age 35 years old. He had been in New York to try and regain the family wealth lost in the stock market crash of 1929. The Walgreen family eventually placed them up for auction in New York, much to the dismay of the entire de Fremery family.
Unfortunately, Paul shortly afterwards, got ill with pneumonia and died suddenly, in New York, after the loan was made, at age 35 years old. He had been in New York to try and regain the family wealth lost in the stock market crash of 1929. The Walgreen family eventually placed them up for auction in New York, much to the dismay of the entire de Fremery family.
Wife of Capitalist James Leon de Fremery. Sterling citizen, society matron and philanthropist. Died while on a world tour at Interlaken, Switzerland, of complications from emergency surgery. She died after the operation for inflamation of the salivary gland at 10:45 P.M.at the district hospital with two of her sons at her bedside. Fortunately, two of her sons made it to her bedside before she died, Paul de Fremery and Leon de Fremery. At the time of her death she owned one of the largest art collections in the United States which had been inherited by her husband, James de Fremery, from his family. The paintings went to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in a special room for a few years. During the depression, the Walgreen Drugstore family owned most of them as her son Paul had borrowed money from Mr. Walgreen and used them as collateral for a loan.
Unfortunately, Paul shortly afterwards, got ill with pneumonia and died suddenly, in New York, after the loan was made, at age 35 years old. He had been in New York to try and regain the family wealth lost in the stock market crash of 1929. The Walgreen family eventually placed them up for auction in New York, much to the dismay of the entire de Fremery family.
Unfortunately, Paul shortly afterwards, got ill with pneumonia and died suddenly, in New York, after the loan was made, at age 35 years old. He had been in New York to try and regain the family wealth lost in the stock market crash of 1929. The Walgreen family eventually placed them up for auction in New York, much to the dismay of the entire de Fremery family.
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