Milton Frenzel married Virginia Louise Price on November 25, 1937. He was the youngest of three children born on July 19, 1913, to Albert Max (1881-1971) and Mathilda Frenzel (1885-1972). Albert Frenzel was born in Annenberg, Germany, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1893. Milton’s two older siblings were Charles Otto (1909-1976) and Elva Hagemann (1911-1988). The family attended Trinity Lutheran Church at 812 Soulard Street. Milton was called “Bud” by his friends and family.

Milton attended Washington University of Fine Arts for two years and after their marriage, he and Virginia traveled in Europe from July to October 1938, enabling him to study art. As a young man, Milton worked in a hinge factory in his Kosciusko neighborhood. Early in their marriage, Milton was a factory worker during the day and an artist by evening. He worked for many years as a stained glass window designer with Emil Frei & Associates in St. Louis and with Minnesota firms. His designs are in churches of various denominations throughout the U.S. and Canada.

The St. Louis Art Museum included some of Milton’s works in its local artist exhibitions. In 1940, the Union Avenue Christian Church invited him to display four paintings. In 1942, Milton showed paintings at the St. Louis Public Library’s Central Branch and at The Bethany Book Store (2722 Pine Blvd.). The Christian Evangelist (July 25, 1940) included two of Milton’s paintings in an article entitled, “Pictures in Religious Education.” His works were published and exhibited numerous times in subsequent years, including a posthumous exhibition at the Ozark Regional Library in 1986, coordinated by his friend, Michael Chomyk.

In 1942, Milton and Virginia Frenzel moved from 900 Utah Street in St. Louis to Ironton, Missouri, renovating a barn into a home. At age 59, Milton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and taught art in the Arcadia Valley Elementary School from 1974 to 1984. Milton died of a heart attack on June 27, 1986 at age 72. After his death, the Frenzels’ daughter, Mary Frenzel-Berra (1954- ), arranged to have forty-four of his paintings distributed among Lutheran churches and hospitals in the New York City area.

Virginia (Price) Frenzel was born on July 24, 1913, the only child of Edna Isabell Nagel (1887-1996) and Andrew Jackson Price (1885-1950). Andrew and Edna grew up in Lexington, Missouri, where they married on January 1, 1912. Andrew, a distant relative of General Sterling Price, was the son of John Marshall Price (1854-1917) and Virginia (Groom) Price (1865-?). Edna was the youngest child of Louise (Scheiber) Nagel (1845-1914). She had two sisters, Minnie Nagel and Carrie Nagel; and three brothers, Otto J. Nagel (of Montana), Ernest A. Nagel (of Texas), and Rudie H. Nagel (of Texas).

Virginia graduated from Maplewood High School in 1931 and entered Washington University in the fall of 1932, after visiting relatives in Lexington, Missouri. She and Milton married on November 25, 1937, and they had one daughter, Mary Price Frenzel, born in 1954. In Ironton, Virginia became an active member of the community. She and Milton started a Great Books group in 1948 and volunteered with the Ozark Regional Library. Virginia served on the Arcadia Valley Park Board and the Advisory Board of the Arcadia Valley Hospital and also acted an election judge for Iron County. She died on November 12, 2005, in Brooklyn, New York.