Biography

There were three other children. Frances was educated in Launceston and became a teacher's assistant at a small private school and from about 1910 she became her mother's assistant at 'The Towers' boarding house; in later years she was employed in the retail trade.

In 1915 she married Jack Stanley Dean, son of William Boswell and Helen Dean. The marriage is said to have taken place on Melbourne Cup Day. Frances and Jack had five children, one of whom was Joan Walsh.

With her family Frances attended St. John's Church and resided at Trevallyn. She was a willing worker on the ladies' committees at St. John's and Broadland House School, and during World War I worked for the Red Cross Society.

Frances died in February 1945, and in her memory her family gave an opus sectile mosaic plaque and a vesica window featuring' John the Apostle'. The inscription on the plaque reads:
A.M.D.G.
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF FRANCES JEAN DEAN DIED 8TH FEBRUARY 1945.
THE WINDOW ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CHANCEL
WAS ERECTED BY HER FAMILY

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