Frank died while cheering on Belle in a floor fight as she sought to maintain support for prohibition in the state House of Representatives in 1933.
[3] Frank met his future wife, then Anna Belle Culp, after her family moved when she was 17 to Geneseo, Kansas, where he was a local newspaper publisher; they married in 1888.
Frank and his brother Fred went into law practice together, while Belle left work to raise Zelma and began volunteering with numerous organizations,[3] including the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
[1] In 1922, after Reeves had retired and with their daughter Zelma grown, wife Belle won the House of Representatives seat in Washington's 12th legislative district that Frank had previously held.
Frank stood at the rear of the House chamber cheering, when he suddenly collapsed and was pronounced dead on the scene by a doctor serving in the Senate.