Fred Munier 10/02/1931 Graduated from Oakwood high school, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1949. In high school he played football and the drums in the band. In Fall 1949, he attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio for 2 years. In that time he and some friends drove to Marshall College to spend the day with cousin Carolyn.
In 1951 he joined the army and was assigned to an MP unit and went to Korea where he also played in the Army band there. After 2 years he came home and started dating Jeannie Meider. Fred married Jeannie Meider in a big wedding in the Summer of 1954. Ronald Glenn Brown was one of his groomsmen. They left for their honeymoon and the next day Fred called Gladys and said “Mom, this is the biggest mistake of my life. I can’t do this.” And she said “You’ve made your bed, now you have to lie in it.” Unfortunately, Gladys and Jeannie’s mother had really pushed the marriage from behind the scenes. Fred decided to stay with it until his last child reached the age of 18. He had 3 boys, Charles (Chuck), Dean, and “Little Freddie”. He was married to Jeannie for about 24 years.
Moving Around
He got a job with the Kresge Corporation as manager of a new store and became very good at opening and building business for a new store. They started out living in the Cleveland area and then opened stores in the Chicago and Southern Kansas Area (Witchita), Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Tulsa). Near the end, he left the Tulsa/Witchita area and went to a Chicago store and did not take Jeannie. He divorced Jeannie while in Chicago. During that time, in Chicago, he met Robin Wadley. Soon after his divorce Fred and Robin went to Las Vegas and got married in one of their wedding chapels and he started his second family. His first son, Joseph Wadley Munier and second child, a daughter, Suzanne Harriet Munier. Suzanne is named after her great great grandmother, Candis Brown’s mother, and her mother’s (Robin’s) sister, Suzanne Harriet. As KMart was then expanding, they moved to San Diego where Joe was born and then they came back to Chicago, and that’s where Suzanne was born. Then they went to the east coast, in Richmond Virgina where they bought a beautiful home in Midlothian, for the expansion of Builder’s Square. By this time Fred has been with the organization for 25 years or so. The expansion of Builder’s Square was in a predominantly black neighborhood. This store had the worst record of shoplifting of all of the stores in the nation and he couldn’t really handle that so they moved to Vegas around 1986-7 and they had stayed there until his death in 2015. Fred had finally settled down. They bought a house on Bryant Avenue.