Oklahoman Newspaper Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 30, 1939
 Sapulpa, April 29 - Frances Hutt, Sapulpa's girl with the wonder
voice of 1922; Eileen Hoyt, the glamorous prima donna of the
George White scandals of 1924 and Mrs. Thomas Edmond Dewey, now
the wife of famed racket-busting district attorney of New
York City are all one and the same person. And they make up a
singular and intensely Interesting personality.
The formative years of this busy career were spent in Sapulpa.
The charming and talented matron who now commutes from her
Manhattan home to Bermuda, who basks in the reflected glory of
the most talked of D. A. in the county, who conceivably may be
the next chatelaine of the White House was once one of
Oklahoma's most able mezzo-sopranos.
Frances Hutt Dewey, whose address is now 1148 Fifth Avenue.
New York, claims Sherman. Texas as her home. But probably is because she
has polished
off so many questionnaires in the course
of her career and travels in which "place
of birth'' has always been the question paramount. Born in Sherman where most of her relatives still reside she says that
is home. And that is a sore spot to some
of Sapulpa's old timers who were interested and helped mould her career as a
girl here.
But 11 years in Texas and 11 in Oklahoma makes the choice of home
a toss up. Only her parents still live here at 1018 East Line avenue.
Frances Hutt has become something
of a legend in Sapulpa.
It started even when she moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
O. T. Hutt, when she was in the fifth grade to a modest little
cottage here in 1914. That little house seem enchanted
then and it still seems so.
Facial photo is just before her senior year in Sapulpa high school.
Dewey Starts Running For President
Nothing could be done about the sweltering, 90° heat.
But the little town of Sapulpa, Okla. (pop. 12,000) had
done everything else it could to prepare for the arrival
of a home-town girl—Frances Hutt Dewey. The rickety old
St. James Hotel was freshly scrubbed. Waitresses and
porters sweated in new uniforms; the best suite had been
completely done over by a local furniture store. At the
Frisco station a crowd gathered to cheer Frances and her
husband. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
Tom Dewey was entranced by Sapulpa's welcome to his
wife. He was even more entranced by his...
image from Life Mag Jul 28, 1947, pg 27
Vol. 23, No. 4
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
Following source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey
Frances Dewey died in the summer of 1970 after battling
cancer for six years.[24]
Later in 1970 Dewey began to date actress
Kitty Carlisle, and there was talk of marriage between
them. However, he died suddenly of a massive
heart attack on March 16, 1971, eight days before his
69th birthday, while vacationing with friend
Dwayne Andreas in
Miami, Florida, following a round of golf with
Boston Red Sox player
Carl Yastrzemski. He was 68 years old.[25]
Both he and his wife are buried in the town cemetery of
Pawling, New York; after his death his farm of
Dapplemere was sold and renamed "Dewey Lane Farm" in his
honor.[26]
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