Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Darnell, Frank A. January 7, 1919
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Lake Odessa Wave-Times - Fri. Feb. 7, 1919


BRIGHT YOUNG MAN LEAVES INFLUENCE

One of the Communities Best Young Men Victim of Pneumonia. 

Greatly Missed by Friends.



Frank Darnell was the only one  of the family who succumbed to the effects of 
influenza a few weeks ago. At the time of his death several in the home were 
down with the disease and the body of Frank was placed in the vault at Lakeside.

Last week the body was buried, the family having recovered sufficiently for 
funeral services.

The family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends, especially the many 
young people who knew him so well. His schoolmates and classmates all speak of 
him in the highest terms of praise.



OBIITURAY:

Frank A. Darnell, oldest son of Henry and Ella Darnell was born in Berlin 
township, Ionia county, Sept. 7th, 1897, and died Jan. 7th, 1919, being 21 
years and four months old.

He was a graduate of Lake Odessa High School, and a great reader and lover of 
good books and had read the Bible through two or three times. He was a young 
man of promise, possessed of rare virtues, very kind and affectionate to all in 
the home and a peacemaker. His future prospects were exceptionally bright. He 
was the mainstay of his father and a great comfort and help to his mother, and 
the family have the deepest sympathy of the public in their bereavement, who 
would console them in that their loss is a gain, his work here has been 
finished and He who doeth all things well will reward him abundantly. He had 
accepted Jesus in a revival a few years ago.

He would have been a recruit for the next call had not the war closed, he 
having been called for examination and was excepted. 

He leaves to mourn his seemingly untimely death, his father and mother, three 
brothers, two sisters and a host of friends.



Our beloved Frank has gone before,

His departure we deeply deplore.

the things he loved are here still,

He left them, it was God's will. 



How we miss thee none may know, 

But God hath called thee to go

To His abode, through his open door,

There to be with Him forevermore.

Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cemetery # 8-974

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