From the Lodi News-Sentinel, 30 Apr 1955, Page 1:
Mrs. Frances May West, 78, former Lodi resident for several years, passed away Thursday in Berkeley.
Mrs. West, who was born in El Dorado county, was the widow of the late Trafton West, to whom she was married in July 22, 1924 and who passed away in 1948.
The couple made their home in the Elliott district before moving to Stockton, and later to Lodi, where they resided for eight years. Mrs. West had made her home for the past several years with a daughter, Mrs. Thelma West Garben, in Visalia.
Besides Mrs. Garben, the deceased is survived by a son, Kenneth Raymond West of Lake Bluff, and a grandson, Kenneth West, Jr., of the U.S. Naval Air Corps.
Mrs. West was the daughter of the late John and Mary Rice.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.. Monday from the chapel of the Hale and Bawden Funeral Home.
Interment will follow in Lodi Memorial Cemetery.