1946 PAY SLIP

An Employee's Receipt issued by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation issued to James L. Fecht on the 14th of December 1946. The check was for $5.67 with ¢.70 withheld for social security and ¢ .70 withheld for California State unemployment insurance.
The document is noted as "retroactive 1946". Jobs in the film industry were hard to get in after World War II, but veterans were given priority where possible.
In pencil the address of Glen Barnes, Jimmie's father-in-law, and where Jim and his new wife Joye were living. 4548 Elmer Avenue, in North Hollywood, California. The house and whole neighborhood was demolished to make way for the Ventura Freeway (California 101).

MARGARET AND LORENZ FEGER

When it came time for the fatherless Fecht family to move west from Pennsylvania, they chose the village of Mexico, Missouri. Such a choice was not accidental. Lorenz and Margaret Feger had an established farm there, and help William Charles Fecht and his mother Margaret Bost Fecht acquire farmland adjacent to their own.
There is a record of a Marie Fecht marrying a Lorez Feger in Saint Louis. The name Mary was often connected as Margaret Mary. In the Feger will, Lorenz will his family in Illinois money, while Margaret wills all her assets to William Charles Fecht with token amounts to other Fechts in Mexico. The Fegers are buried in Saint Brendan cemetery very close to Margaret (Bost) Fecht and her children.
I believe Margaret (Mary) Feger was either a sister to William Charles Fecht or possible his aunt (sister to Jacob Fecht).

BILL FECHT AND FETTERHOFF BOYS

In 1945, Bill Fecht kept a "milk cow" in a pasture off of West Street in Mexico, Missouri. His two grandsons, Billy and Tommy lived on that street, and Bill often visited with them when he "went a-milking." William G. and Thomas W. Fetterhoff are the great great grandsons of Margaret (Bost) and Jacob Fecht.
Youngest child is Thomas.

FAMILY OF FRANK AND ALTHEA FECHT

Family of Frank and Althea Fecht
Snapshot of Francis and Althea Fecht, their son Larry and daughter JoAnn.

REUNION IN WASHINGTON STATE

The last reunion of Mildred Fecht with her five children.
L to R: Robert William, Gerald Richard, and James Louis Fecht
Dorothy Fecht, Mildred Fecht and Mary Genevieve Fecht
This photograph was taken in the front of Genevieve's home in Snohomish, Washington. Maiden names are excluded for identity security.

FECHT WOMEN IN EVERETT, WASHINGTON c 1946

This photograph was taken about 1946 in Everett, Washington.
Joye Fecht, Mary Genevieve Fecht, Mildred Fecht and baby Susan Lynn Fecht

Anna Jane and Donald Shire with daughters Jacqueline and Susan.
Don Shire is the great grandson of Margaret (Bost) and Jacob Fecht