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This is a picture of Frederick Newton Price at age six.
Fred was the husband of Vivian Edgar and the father of Cary James Price and John Thomas Price.
Fred always had a navy blue sailor suit to dress up in. His grandmother
made his sailor suits from his grandfather's old uniforms. Granddad was a conductor for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
He encouraged Fred to seek employment at the SP Railroad which he did. Fred then worked for the Southern Pacific for
43 years as a Dispatcher, Brakeman and as a Conductor.
This is a picture of Frederick N. Price with his mother, Edith Claire Gray Price. Fred
was three years old when this picture was taken.
This is Frederick with his father, Sterling Edmonton Price. Fred's parents were divorced when
he was two years old but he was permitted to spend time with his father and his paternal relatives.
This is a picture of Frederick with his mother, Edie (Edith) and his Grandmother Diamond.
Freddy always called his mother 'Edie' and he called his Grandmother Diamond 'Mother.' After his parents were divorced,
he and his mother lived with his grandparents a great deal of the time. I suppose that because his mother called his
grandmother 'Mother' , he thought that was her name, so he called his grandmother 'Mother'. He also called his
father 'Sterling' and he called his grandfather 'Dad'.
This is a picture of Frederick in his high school graduation gown. Fred graduated from High
School in 1934. He should have graduated in 1933 but he was out of school for one year with an 'athletic' heart. He
was an excellent swimmer and taught swimming in the summer at the YMCA. He also was asked to do exhibitions
around the state. In the summer of 1932 he overexerted and developed a dangerously enlarged heart and was confined to
homebound/bed study. As a result, he was not well enough to graduate with his 1933 class.
After he graduated from High School Fred attended Phoenix Community College which was
a two year college. This picture is a page from his Phoenix College Album. His team was called the Glory Team as they
were all time winners.
Many of the players went on to the Universitiy of Arizona but Fred went to work for
a School Sporting Goods Company. He worked his way up from a stock boy to assistant manager of the store. Before
he became assistant manager, at the advice of his grandfather, he applied for employment at the Southern
Pacific Railroad. He was hired. As mentioned before he worked for the SP for 43 years. He then retired and
enjoyed his pension and his retirement for almost twenty years.
The Price Family is a pioneer family in Arizona having been one of the first families to settle
in the Phoenix Valley. In fact, Fred's father was born at Fort McDowell on July 3, 1886. His family had lived in
Arizona several years prior to that date.
In 2003 The Phoenix Museum of History honored the Price Family for their contributions to Phoenix
and Arizona through the years. This is a copy of the program for the gala honoring
three Arizona families. The Price Family was one of the three families so honored. The picture shows the grandfather,
grandmother, and two genertions of offsprings. Fred is the boy in front with his cousin, Thelma. He and Thelma
are also shown in the lower right corner as adults.
This is a picture of the five foot by eight foot collage that the Phoenix Museum prepared for the
Gala honoring The Price Family. Fred's picture is in the upper left-hand corner. He is also in several other pictures
as well as in two of our family pictures, which are the third pictures down on the outside edges of the collage.
All of the pictures in this collage are of the Price Family.
This is a picture of Edie, Fred's mother, and his stepfather, John Sorenson. Fred's mother
was married four times. The first time to Fred's father, Sterling Price. The second marriage was to a Mr. Bill
Chalmers. That marriage did not last very long. Her third marriage was to Maurice Nichols. He was called
'Nick'. That marriage was a disaster due to the fact that Nick was a bad check writer. He just couldn't keep
track of his money. He wrote checks whether he had money in the bank or not.
Her fourth marriage was probably her happiest. The sad part is that Edith contracted cancer
and died on April 19th, 1953.
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