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Obit of Mary Ann Franklin Osborne - Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sandi Carter   SandKatC@aol.com  9 Apr 2000
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The Verden News
December 7, 1923



Death, as night, comes when it will,
Fades the lisit and all is still.

Mary Ann Franklin was born July 15, 1904, in Grady Co., Tuttle, Okla. 
She was converted and joined the Presbyterian church at the age of 
eleven years of which she was a member at her death.

She was married to Randolph Osborne November 15, 1920. To this union was 
born one child.

Mary Ann departed this life December 2, being 19 years, 4 months and 17 
days old. She leaves a husband, daughter, father, mother, three sisters, 
three brothers, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her 
departure. Her sister, Mrs. E. L. Platz of Shoshone, Idaho, was unable 
to attend the funeral.

The services were conducted at the Methodist church Tuesday morning at 
11 o'clock. The burial was made at the Verden cemetery, sorrounded by 
relatives and friends and was a fitting end to her "Perfect Day." The 
many beautiful floral offerings fulfilled the purpose for which they 
were sent.

Among us she ranked as a woman of culture, refinement and sympathy. She 
was a loving daughter, a faithful wife, a devoted mother and a true 
friend. By her departure we have all lost - but baby Yvonne has lost 
that which can never by regained, "the fairest of jewels, her mother."

Strange we never miss the music until the sweet voiced bird has flown, 
strange we never prize the violet until its lovely flower is gone. 
Strange that summer sun and sunshine never seem one half so fair as when 
winter's snowy pinion scatters white down on the air.

And now may "He who tempers the wind for the shorn land watch, comfort 
and guide them till they too, shall pass from the known to the unknown 
and join her in that 'house not made with hands' where sorrow and death 
shall not enter, but forever and ever shall be a home of happiness and 
pleasure untold and life everlasting."

A Friend



Submitted by Sandi Carter
Niece of Mary Ann Franklin Osborne