Cameron Dean Canova
							Philip J. Canova
					Francis Robert (James) Canova
							Frances Jeanette Brown
			Francis James Canova, Jr
			birt: 23 DEC 1956 plac: Wilmington, Delaware Eva Mae Huang marr: 25 MAY 1985 plac: St. Vincent Ferrer Church, Delray Beach, Florida birt: 12 FEB 1956 plac: Taipei, Taiwan
							Charles Edwin Fairbanks
					Antonica Usina Fairbanks
							Antonica Maria Usina

Notes:

Frank Canova is currently the VP, Product Engineering at PlasticLogic.

Prior to that, he was the VP, HW Engineering at LiveScribe, Inc., a groundbreaking 'smartpen' that helps you never miss a word as you take notes. He was also VP of Engineering & CTO at Reactrix Systems, Inc. as well as the Vice President of Engineering at Wheels of Zeus , a startup by Steve Wozniak. Previously he was also at Palm, Inc. where he has held a number of key positions, including Vice President of Worldwide Product Engineering. Frank joined Palm in January 19 97 where he led engineering for the PalmPilot, Palm III, V, and VII series handheld computers and their successors, managing product development of hardware and software products for consumer and enterprise.

With more than 20 years of mobile computing experience, Frank's work has led the mobile industry with a number of world firsts. While at IBM, he was the father of the first SmartPhone which won the Best of Comdex award and is a recognized pioneer of smart cell phones. He also managed various PDA and portable computer projects, and created the forerunner to the modern laptop while at IBM. Frank also directed the development of two-way pager products and technology as Technical Director at a division of Cirrus Logic.

Frank Canova is the author of over 40 issued patents, has filed for dozens of others, and holds the title "Most Prolific Palm Inventor".

In 1978 Frank received a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Frank also attended high school at Clay High School and graduated in 1974. He grew up in Green Cove Springs, Florida, the same city where his father was born and eventually retired to. He presently lives in Fremont, CA where he is an activite participant in the building of a new church at Mission San Jose.

Cameron Dean Canova
							Lisan Huang
					Philip Chingyuan Huang
							Wenying Chu
			Eva Mae Huang
			birt: 12 FEB 1956 plac: Taipei, Taiwan Francis James Canova, Jr marr: 25 MAY 1985 plac: St. Vincent Ferrer Church, Delray Beach, Florida birt: 23 DEC 1956 plac: Wilmington, Delaware
							Jin Fang Wang
					Suzchen Wang
							Xiabao Zhao

Notes:

< Jude Thaddeus Canova < Francis James Canova, Jr
							Raphael (Rafael) Bartolome Canova
					Philip J. Canova
							Germana Susana (Susan) Weedman
			Francis Robert (James) Canova
			birt: 27 JUN 1891 plac: Green Cove Springs, Florida deat: 24 SEP 1978 plac: Green Cove Springs, Florida Agnes Towson marr: 31 MAY 1926 birt: 4 APR 1903 deat: 27 OCT 1954 Antonica Usina Fairbanks marr: 19 NOV 1955 plac: Morton, PA birt: 22 MAR 1915 plac: W. Springfield, Mass
							John Christopher Brown
					Frances Jeanette Brown
							Matilda Adeline Haskins

Notes:

As a boy, Frank was immediately attracted to the printing industry. He helped set type by hand for the local newspaper in Green Cove Springs, Florida where he was born. The lye used to clean the type however started eating at his hands, so he asked for a raise which was refused. It was a moment which bootstrapped his career and he left Green Cove Springs to work elsewhere. He moved around the country, taking various printing and advertising jobs and boasted that he never wa s without work a day in his life. He reveled in the knowledge that this quest to stay employed, even during the great depression, allowed him to see all 50 states. He eventually settled in Wilmington, Delaware with his first wife Agnes and s on Jude. Here, he gathered a pashion for woodworking and passed this love to his sons. At the end of his printing career, Frank retired from Hercules Powder Company and returned to his roots in Green Cove Springs with his second wife Antonic a and new son Frank Jr.

Obituary on September 28, 1978 reads:

CANOVA: Frank J. Canova, passed away Sunday. A native of GCS he lived at 725 Myrtle Ave. and was 87 years of age. He was retired from the printing and advertising business of Hercules Inc. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Chu rch. A member of the first Clay County Public Library Board he was also a charter member of the Clay County Historical Society.

Survivors include his wife Antonica, his two sons, Jude of New York City, and Frank Jr. of Boca Raton, two sisters, Mrs Belle Lazette of GCS, Mrs. Sidney Anderson of Gainesville, Fla., two grandsons.

The Rosary was held in the Helm Funeral Home Chapel at 7:00 Monday and services were in Sacred Heart church at 10:00 am Tuesday with Fr. Luke McLaughlin officiating.

Pallbearers were Bob Kerr, John Piatek, Phil Puhl, Gerald Guswiler, Frank Szortyka, and John Halligan.

Interment was in Hickory Grove Cemetery. Those who wish may make contributions to the Memorial Fund of Clay Memorial Hospital or to Sacred Heart Church.

The family photo included here was taken apx 1957 is that of Frank Sr., Jude, Frank Jr., and Antonica.

< Francis James Canova, Jr
							Charles Franklin Fairbanks
					Charles Edwin Fairbanks
							Mary Priscilla Mead
			Antonica Usina Fairbanks
			birt: 22 MAR 1915 plac: W. Springfield, Mass Francis Robert (James) Canova marr: 19 NOV 1955 plac: Morton, PA birt: 27 JUN 1891 plac: Green Cove Springs, Florida deat: 24 SEP 1978 plac: Green Cove Springs, Florida
							Michael Philip Usina
					Antonica Maria Usina
							Camilla Luciana Neligan

Notes:

ANTONICA FAIRBANKS is a resident of Swarthmore, Pa., where she has been teaching piano since 1936. She is a graduatet of the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she held the 3-year Colston Piano Scholarship, majoring in Piano and Pedagog y with Eliza Woods and Harmony with Gustav Strube. Later she attended the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in (actually just studied) Composition under Harl MacDonald and was graduated from there with a Bachelor of Music degree. While co ntinuing her teaching she studied Piano with Gordon Stanley and Ernest Hutcheson at the Julliard Institute and at Chautauqua, N.Y. At present Miss Fairbanks is accompanist for the Delaware Saengerbund and the Arden singers.

**The following is the wedding announcement in the Delaware "Journal" Nov. 19, 1955.**

"Miss Antonica Fairbanks Bride of Frank J. Canova"

Well known musician and advertising man to live in Woodcrest after Virginia trip.

In our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Morton, Pa., at 9am today Miss Antonica Fairbanks, daughter of Mrs. A. U. Fairbanks of Swarthmore, Pa., became the bride of Mr. Frank J. Canova of Wilmington. The nuptial mass was celebrated by the Rev. Peter J. Cruise. Altar boys were Paul C. Tigue, Jr. of Wilmington and Michael Fairbanks of Swarthmore, a nephew of the bride.

Mrs. William H. King of Glenn Falls, N.Y. was matron of honor for her sister. Mr. Canova's son, Mr. Jude T. Canova was best man. Ushers were Mr. Anthony M. Fairbanks, brother of the bride, of Swarthmore, and Mr. James Durbrow of Wilmingt on.

Mr. Charles M. Fairbanks of Havertown, Pa., escorted his sister. She wore a street length dress of Dior blue satin with matching hat and carried a prayer book with white camelias and streamers.

Mrs. King was dressed in lavender taffeta with matching feathered hat and corsage of white camellias.

Solos were given by Mr. William Killhour of Devon, Pa.

A wedding breakfast for relatives and out-of-town guests followed at the Ingleneuk, Swarthmore. The couple will reside at 607 Curtis Avenue, Woodcrest, after a wedding trip to Virginia.

Mrs. Canova is well known in music circles both in this city and Swarthmore. She teaches piano at Delaware School of Music and conducts a studio in Swarthmore. Mr. Canova is the advertising department manager at Hercules Powder Company.

							Francis Robert (James) Canova
					Francis James Canova, Jr
							Antonica Usina Fairbanks
			Cameron Dean Canova
			birt: 30 MAY 1992 plac: Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boynton Beach, Florida
							Philip Chingyuan Huang
					Eva Mae Huang
							Suzchen Wang

< Ben Dean Huang < Eva Mae Huang
					Lisan Huang
			Philip Chingyuan Huang
			birt: 15 DEC 1922 plac: Shanghai, China Suzchen Wang marr: birt: 12 JUN 1927 plac: Shanghai, China
					Wenying Chu

Notes:

< Ben Dean Huang < Eva Mae Huang
					Jin Fang Wang
			Suzchen Wang
			birt: 12 JUN 1927 plac: Shanghai, China Philip Chingyuan Huang marr: birt: 15 DEC 1922 plac: Shanghai, China
					Xiabao Zhao

Notes:

Mary Susan Canova < Philip John Canova, Jr < Francis Robert (James) Canova < Laura Belle Canova < Sidney Josephene Canova
							Antonio Joseph Venancio Canova
					Raphael (Rafael) Bartolome Canova
							Margarita Francisca Juliana Ponz
			Philip J. Canova
			birt: 23 AUG 1854 plac: Saint Augustine, Florida deat: 6 NOV 1948 plac: Green Cove Springs, Florida Frances Jeanette Brown marr: 3 APR 1883 plac: Mandarin, Florida birt: 22 MAY 1860 deat: 14 AUG 1953
							Philip Weedman
					Germana Susana (Susan) Weedman
							Maria Barbara Antonia Hinsman

Notes:

His daughter Belle reflected, "Back then priests were not able to come down to sermon each day. So the community would ring my father's bell. He would read scriptures to the folks and report to the priest."

Philip purchased the Clay County Crescent newspaper, and his two sons Phil and Frank helped their father.

At one point, his sons ran the Canova Printing Company in Green Cove Springs, Florida. Francis J. Canova was the manager, and operated it with his brother Philip J. Canova, Jr. They did business through mail orders, and did engraving and binding as well as printing.

							Raphael (Rafael) Bartolome Canova
					Philip J. Canova
							Germana Susana (Susan) Weedman
			Laura Belle Canova
			birt: 14 MAY 1895 plac: At 9:55 AM deat: 5 MAR 1995 plac: Green Cove Springs, Florida Clarence Lazette marr: John A Davis, Jr. marr: 8 FEB 1921 deat: 31 OCT 1922
							John Christopher Brown
					Frances Jeanette Brown
							Matilda Adeline Haskins

Notes:

Born at 9:55am in the Morning.

[An account of her life written by Anne Patrice Clarke, Staff Writer, Clay Today Newspaper on Friday May 12, 1989 reads:]

"Green Cove matriarch saw city grow"

GREEN COVE SPRINGS - In the grand tradition of Mother's Day, Green Cove Springs might well recognize its own mother - Belle Lazette - whos birthday falls on Mother's Day this year.

Mrs. Lazette, referred to by most as Aunt Mommie, has no children of her own but could just as well be called mother of Green Cove Springs with the history that 94 years have brought.

"I was chosen by God to bury my whole family." Mrs. Lazette said. "God has chosen me to outlive them and I go to his house each day to thank him."

Mrs. Lazette is reminiscent of the original mother of Mother's Day, Anna Reeves Jarvis, who also prayed endlessly, according to a West Virginia visitors guide, in a church. In fact the church in which Jarvis devoted much of her life, And rews Methodist Church, is the home of the International Mother's Day Shrine.

Belle Canova Lazette's father, Philip Canova, a general merchantile store owner, funded the building of the first Catholic Church in Green Cove Springs - Sacred Heart, which today stands much larger than the original yet serves the same purpose for Mrs. Lazette - home to her music and her prayer.

Each morning Mrs. Lazette attends church and each Sunday morning she plays the organ for mass.

The piano, Mrs. Lazette said, kept her away from high school and later put her back into school.

When Mrs. Lazette was about 13, she studied music under her Aunt Nina, a professional music teacher in Jacksonville. Today, the trip to Jacksonville would take about 45 minutes but when she was a child, the two-way trip took an entire da y - four hours to get across the river by boat and on the horse and buggy to her aunt's home and the same for the trip back.

Mrs. Lazette made the trip once a week for four years. Before Mrs. Lazette could reach the pedals of the organ, she played for services at the Catholic Church.

"Can you imagine a child making that trip now." Mrs. Lazette says. "They would never spend an entire Saturday taking one music lesson."

The lessons paid off, at 15, she was offered her first job as a pianist. Mrs. Lazette would play piano, lunch and dinner music, for two years at the Qui Si Sana Hotel, now known as Carey's Antiques in Green Cove Springs. ince been torn down due to high levels of aspestos used to build it, and a city center is planned in this area as of September 2002}

The highlight of her career with the three-piece orchestra was when a well-known singer in those years, a Mr. Williams, asked Mrs. Lazette to acompany him on the piano at the hotel.

In her late teens, Mrs. Lazette began teaching music in her home studio, charging her first pupil 25 cents for lessons.

With the war playing havoc on her lovelife, she decided to dedicate much of her life to music. She moved to Cross City teaching in the high school while she obtained her diploma which would have enabled her to attend the Jacksonville Sch ool of Music. But her parents in Green Cove Springs were begiming old, Mrs. Lazette moved back home to tend to them.

Her father closed the merchant store located on Palmetto and Spring Streets and let Mrs. Lazette turn it into a music studio. With two grand pianos and an organ, Mrs. Lazette began to study and teach music again. During this time, Mrs. L azette organized and established the only Federated Music Club in Green Cove Springs.

During the "Great Depression", Mrs. Lazette worked as a surpervisor of a nursery school for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at Doctor's Inlet in the old store building at the Crossroads.

Mrs Lazette's sister Frances was the school nurse and together they provided lavish meals for the children. So much food in fact, that Mrs. Lazette says they began "food fights".

Mrs. Lazette's brothers worked with their father who had purchased the Clay County Crescent newspaper.

"It wasn't easy to go to college back then," Mrs. Lazette contends. "There was no transportation and no colleges to go to so my father taught them the printing business."

Her brothers went on to work for newspapers in the New York area, only returning to Green Cove Springs in their retirement.

During World War II, Mrs. Lazette volunteered to help the United Serviceman's Organization (USO) located across the street from her studio on Palmetto Street.

The USO canteens were set up to furnish recreation for servicemen stationed in nearby military instalations. Mrs. Lazette entertained the serviceman daily with her music. And it was here that 51-year-old Mrs. Lazette meet her second husb and, 62-year-old Clarence Lazette, the director of the USO.

The Lazettes built a home next to Mrs. Lazette's old studio. The couple spent 30 years of marriage in the home, equpiped with an office and livingroom music studio.

Today, Mrs. Lazette lives in the same home and her grandneice's family lives in Mrs. Lazette's old music studio next door.

"I am satisfied with my little humble living. I don't crave fancy things, for me this type of living is more than I ever dreamed for," Mrs. Lazette says.

"I remember when the house was wired (for electricity) by Mr. Ed Wiggins, the man who was interested in the Rural Electric Company in Keystone Heights," Mrs. Lazette explained.

Mrs. Lazette has seen Green Cove Springs grow and flourish into the city it is today. Mrs. Lazette says she is proud to watch the developments in the area like any mother would be.

At 94, Mrs. Lazette is in good health. She drives to the store, takes care of bills, tends to back yard plants, and has time to entertain friends and attend church regularily.

In the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, there is a stained glass window in rememberance of her father's effort with the church.

"Back then priests were not able to come down to sermon each day. So the community would ring my father's bell He would read scriptures to the folks and report to the priest," she said.

Mrs. Lazette herself can be remembered for her efforts in establishing the only federated music club ever in Green Cove Springs.

[An account of her life written by Elaine Williamson for the local paper when Belle died reads:]

"Belle Canova Lazette: A Century of Living"

She missed her 100th birthday by only two months and when Belle Canova Lazette died on March 5, 1995 her life was already the kind of which legends are made. She will always be a part of the history and folklore of Green Cove Springs.

Laura Belle and her twin sister, Sydney, were born in Green Cove Springs on May 14, 1895 to Phillip John Canova, Sr. and his wife, Frances. They also were parents of two boys, Phillip, Jr. and Frank.

Their father had a store on the corner of Spring St. and Palmetto Ave. The building still stands and was home to her late Uncle Phil and his wife. Living in this same house at the present time are Belle's niece, Betty Miller, and Betty's daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Bob Drake. Belle loved music and the piano in particular for which she had a great talent. When she was just 12 years old she would take the river steamer to Jacksonville every Saturday where she would tak e piano lessons, returning by boat late the same day. She did this for many years and became an accomplished piano teacher in her own home town with primising students in the area.

As a young girl she played piano in the elegant hotels in Green Cove Springs during the tourist era. She loved the grand ballrooms of that time with the dancing of happy people and admired the finery of the northern visitors who came to town for the winter season.

Belle attended school at Central School on Pine St. where Charlie Merrill had also received his early education.

Belle was organist at Sacred Heart Catholic Church as well as choir director for years. Even after giving up choir directing, she continued to play the organ until recent years. A devout Catholic, she attended Mass every day. She always walked to the church, which was less than two blocks away, until traffic increased so much on Ferris St. she could not get across on foot. So she drive her car. Her driving was another of her true life adventures in Green Cove Springs and wh en she was 98 years old she passed her driver's license examination with flying colors

As she left that day, she told the examiners, "See you in six years

"

Belle was in good health and took good care of herself. She outlived her twin sister by many years. Two cataract operations gave her 20/20 vision. In fact, she had driven her car ot the store to get groceries that February day just last year when she fell and broke her hip while trying to close the garage door. She had broken a hip several years earlier which healed perfectly. This time it was not so easy and she was confined to a nursing home.

As a very young woman Belle had married Jack Davis who was killed in an accident. As well as teaching piano, she worked with the U.S.O. and was a kindergarten teacher. Later in life she married Clarence Lazette and they had a home and of fice on Spring St. behind the family store/home.

Belle worked with her husband in his real estate business, still playing the organ and active in her church and community. She had no children of her own, but adored her nieces and nephews and doted on each new generation of babies.

In the evening in later years, Belle would turn on the TV at exactly 7 p.m. and watch her favorite shows, "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy". It kept her mind as sharp as a tack. Belle had a great wit and liked to play little pranks. She enjoyed life and passed that trait on to her relatives.

Survivors include nieces and nephews: Betty Canova Miller, Jude Canova, Frank Canova, Jr., the Rev. Canon Betty Drake, Canova Anderson Blake, Daniel Canova, Jude T. Canova, Jr., Edwin Morris Kendall, Sue Ann Kendall-Murtagh, and Cameron Canova.

A Funeral Mass was held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Green Cove Springs, at 11a.m. Wednesday, March 8. Interment was in Hickory Grove Cemetery.