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Helen Agnes Rose

Daughter of Antone Rose · 1899–1995

Helen Agnes Rose

Confirmed

Daughter of Antone Rose · 1899–1995

Born
3 October 1899
Parents
Antone Rose & Louise Rose
Married
William Bernard Farrell
Sources
8
Images
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1899
Born 3 October 1899, Irvington, California, the youngest; Helen in the 1900 household S55
Death1960
🆕 Helen Agnes (Rose) Farrell Johnson Confirmed (family testimony + 1960 notice). Her sister Mildred’s death notice (Oakland Tribune, 9 October 1960, p. 40) names her as Mrs. Victor Johnson of San Leandro, and Mildred’s granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins confirmed on 1 October 2026 that “Uncle Victor Johnson” sounded right.
Cause1946
🆕 William B. O’Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 Confirmed (newspaper reports, read 2 October 2026). The Hayward Daily Review of 11 June 1946, page 1, names him as William B. O’Farrell of 1525 170th Avenue, Ashland, “husband of Mrs. Helen O’Farrell”, the same address Helen gave in 1942 S1178S627. Driving home from his job at the Pacific Ice Company at about 6:40 p.m., his car crossed the centre line and hit a 10-ton truck loaded with steel beams head-on, on San Leandro Boulevard at 92nd Avenue, Oakland. The trailer overturned and spilled the steel into the street; he was dead on arrival at Highland Hospital S1178S1180. The family remembered it as a steel-laden truck that dropped its load onto his car (Patricia (Proeger) Collins, 1 October 2026). The papers agree in substance; the difference is that his car struck the truck and the trailer then overturned. He was 46. ⚠️ His birth date is open: the Find a Grave index gives 16 June 1899, a user-made FamilySearch profile gives 16 January 1899 S1182; both fit age 46.
Death1995
🆕 Helen Agnes Rose died 20 November 1995, as Helen A. Johnson Confirmed: the Social Security Death Index entry for Helen A. Johnson gives 3 October 1899 – 20 November 1995, exactly the dates of Helen Agnes Rose’s Social Security record S1181S320.
Photograph1915
🆕 A studio portrait of two couples from Patricia Collins’s collection shows Helen with her sister Mildred and Mildred’s husband Frank Da Silva Jr; Patti names the fourth person as “her husband Victor”. ⚠️ The date and the names conflict, and this record does not settle it: the dress suggests about 1915–1920, Frank Jr died in December 1924, and Helen was still married to Farrell until his death in June 1946. So the man with Helen may be her first husband, William Farrell, named by the family after the husband they knew. In Photos below.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose
Marriage1918
Married William Bernard Farrell, 30 November 1918, San Francisco; died 20 November 1995
Marriage1918
🆕 First husband: William Bernard Farrell (O’Farrell), married 30 November 1918 in San Francisco; she was still “Mrs. Helen O’Farrell” of San Leandro in 1942.
Children1946
🆕 A daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson Probable confirm or correct →. The Daily Review funeral notice of 12 June 1946 lists his survivors as “Mrs. Helen O’Farrell, widow” and “one daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson” S1179. ⚠️ The notice makes her William’s daughter, not explicitly Helen’s; no birth record naming Helen as her mother has been found. She is not given a card until one is.
Marriage1960
🆕 Second husband: Victor Johnson Confirmed (family testimony; the surname comes from the 1960 notice). They married after June 1946, when her first husband was killed. No marriage record has been found, and which Victor Johnson he was is still open: two Alameda County couples in the 1950 census, Victor E. and Helen A. Johnson (Eden Township) and Victor B. and Helen R. Johnson (Murray Township), are leads only.

Photos & documents 2 photos · 0 documents

Photos (2)
Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection
Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1915-1920 Confirmed Download · → card
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1915-1920 AI-assisted enhancement of the original photo Download · Original photo · → card

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Helen Agnes Rose · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

8 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S55US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 405, Alameda County; household 24, sheet 1B line 93. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:M9PW-6X9. Antone Rose, Head, born February 1840, Portugal, arrival 1870, married 21 years, his own parents both Portugal-born; Louise Rose, Wife, age 44, Portugal (her birth-year column reads 1865, contradicting her own age); Mildred Rose, Daughter, born July 1898, California. The same township as the Silvas, one enumeration district over. ⚠️ These records say "Portugal," not "Azores," and this page does not upgrade them to match the Silvas. "Rose" is the standard Anglicisation of Portuguese Rosa / Roza. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the same page re-served (rid 36140745) and read at full resolution. The children are named: Rose (Nov 1879, already married), Louise (June 1885), Antone (June 1887), Joseph (Oct 1888), Frank (May 1891), Edward and Mildred (July 1898), bracketed as twins, and Helen (Oct 1899). ⚠ The mother's age column (44) and birth-year column disagree; the age governs, agreeing with S201, so she was born c.1855–56.
  2. S320U.S., Social Security NUMIDENT — Helen Rose. FamilySearch 6K4H-S77C, read 23 September 2026. Born 3 October 1899, Irvington, California; died 20 November 1995; father Anthony Rose, mother Louisa Mendonca.
  3. S627U.S. World War II draft registration, 1942, serial U 83 — Frank James Rose, Hayward, California. Ancestry record 8453599. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Frank James Rose, 1647 D Street, Hayward, Alameda County; age 50; born 6 May 1891 at “Iverton” [Irvington], Alameda County; self-employed contractor and builder; the person who will always know his address, Mrs. Helen O'Farrell, 1525 170th Avenue, San Leandro. Signed Frank James Rose.
  4. S1178Hayward Daily Review, Tuesday 11 June 1946, page 1 — accident report, William B. O’Farrell. Newspapers.com image 73836237. Page read (OCR) 2 October 2026. Confirmed “William B. O’Farrell, 4[6], 1525 170th avenue, Ashland, was killed last night when the automobile he was driving crashed head-on into a 10-ton truck loaded with steel beams on San Leandro boulevard in Oakland. O’Farrell, husband of Mrs. Helen O’Farrell, was driving home from Oakland where he is employed at the Pacific Ice company …” At 92nd Avenue; the trailer overturned; the truck driver was unhurt. Funeral pending at Pratt-Flierl mortuary. The OCR reads his age as “40”; every other paper says 46.
  5. S1179Hayward Daily Review, Wednesday 12 June 1946, page 1 — funeral notice, William B. O’Farrell. Newspapers.com image 73836245. Page read (OCR) 2 October 2026. Confirmed Rosary Thursday at Pratt-Flierl; funeral Friday; requiem at St. John’s church, San Lorenzo. “Survivors include Mrs. Helen O’Farrell, widow of the deceased, residing at 1525-170th avenue, Ashland, and one daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson.” The daughter is named as his; that she is also Helen’s is Probable only.
  6. S1180Oakland Tribune, 11 June 1946, page 9 — accident report, William B. O’Farrell. Newspapers.com image 205416628. Page read (OCR) 2 October 2026. Confirmed William B. O’Farrell, 46, of 1525 170th Avenue; his car veered into a truck and trailer loaded with steel; “The trailer overturned, spilling several tons of steel into the street.” Dead on arrival at Highland Hospital; a sneeze was considered a possible cause. The San Francisco Chronicle of the same day, page 9 (image 1238236396), carries a shorter report: his coupe hit a 10-ton truck of steel beams head-on on San Leandro Boulevard.
  7. S1181U.S. Social Security Death Index — Helen A. Johnson. Ancestry index, searched 2 October 2026. Confirmed Born 3 October 1899, died 20 November 1995, last residence California. An index entry. The dates match Helen Agnes Rose’s NUMIDENT exactly (S320), which is the link; no death certificate has been read.
  8. S1182Find a Grave index and Newspapers.com Obituary Index — William B. O’Farrell. Ancestry indexes, searched 2 October 2026. Find a Grave: born 16 June 1899, died 10 June 1946. Obituary Index: died 10 June 1946, residence Oakland, Alameda County; child Lorraine (Peterson). ⚠ Indexes, not records. A user-made FamilySearch Family Tree profile (GMD8-8PF) gives his birth as 16 January 1899; the conflict is not resolved.

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