Frank Coelho Vieira (1885-1940) first appears in the newspapers in 1926 as a “sewer and cement contractor,” at this address, where city directories show him living there, with his wife Ida (Fereira) and children, as early as 1912 and into the 1930s. They had at least three children. He was born in Portugal, like many Oakland Portuguese-Americans, but Ida was Hawaiian Portuguese, like many others. He’s buried in Hayward at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
His stamps are few. I’ve documented dates from 1935 to 1938.
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