An update on information I've received. Ernest Frederick Apfel went by the name Fred, and I am no longer certain of when and where he passed away. I do know that he and my grandmother, Clara Evelyn Myron Apfel, were located in Texas through some of the 1930s. My email is its-me-sue@comcast.net.
If there are filters to edit out email addresses, its-me-sue at comcast dot net.