Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Caswell, Frank 1913
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Unidentified Publication, 1913

Ionia’s Grocery Clerk Oldest in Service, Joins the Innumerable Hosts.

Frank Caswell - faithful Frank Caswell, passed to his eternal rest at 11:30
o’clock this morning.  Though continuously on duty, he had been growing
noticeably more feeble for a year, and during the three weeks last past, his
condition has been precarious, and while the end was thought to be near, since
last Sunday, it came so unexpectedly sudden that it was a shock to the many who
had been so solicitous about his condition since he was forced to take to his
bed about a month ago.

Frank Caswell was aged 48 years, and continuously since a boy in knee pants 35
years ago, he has been a clerk in the employ of H.A. Rich - the first four years
in meat market, and the remainder of that long period as a grocery salesman. 
There are few, if any, on Main street, with contemporaneous clerical career. 
His acquaintance throughout the country surrounding Ionia was wide, and the
numerous inquiries daily, over telephones from city and country, was marked.

Frank leaves no blood relatives save the aged and feeble mother, Mrs. William
Knowles, and he is the fifth and last of her children to depart this life.  The
sympathy of many is with her in her great grief.

In the death of Frank Caswell the Recording Angel dips her quill into the
life-blood of a popular social favorite.  Kindness of mannerism, strict
integrity, and close attention to business were his chief characteristics, and
so, better than property or riches, he grew in the esteem of all who knew him at
all intimately.  Happily, he died as he had lived, calmly and serenely - “Like a
shadow thrown Softly and sweetly from a passing cloud, Death fell upon him.”

The funeral will be under the auspices of Ionia lodge of the Elks.


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