Fred Friend was born on a homestead in Oklahoma Territory August 11,
     1892 son of Elmber and Barbara Friend. Mr. Friend (Elmer) died while Fred
     was still a small boy. A few years later, his mother, brothers and sisters
     moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
          Ola Friend was born May 24, 1893 on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas
     the daughter of Orsan and Carrie Larabee. When Ola was ten years old, the
     Larabee family moved to Isabel where her father and brothers founded the
     Larabee & Sons Hardware store.
          While attending high school in Medicine Lodge, Fred and Ola met and
     were married in 1917. They were working in Ogden, Kansas in 1918 when a 
     son was born (Harold). Shortly after the concludion of World War I, the
     Friend famly moved to a farm about three miles southwest of Isabel. September
     29, 1922 Eileen Friend was born.
          In 1925 the Friends left the farm and moved to Isabel where Fred
     worked at the Larabee Hardware Store until 1927, at which time they moved
     to Wichita, Kansas.
          Fred Friend died in September 1973. Ola Friend now resides at "Prairie
     Homestead:, a retirement home in Wichita.
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 76  
     
     Submitted by: Harold Friend