Obituary
(We are indebted to the kindness of a friend for the following brief obituary of Mrs Teresa Frakes, whose death occurred at Varner last week. Deceased was among the oldest residents living in this county; one of those good old-fashioned mothers who regard the up-building of a home as their highest duty toward the world , and whose presence among us alone is like a benediction.)
Teresa Frakes was born at Livona, Ind, August 17 1823, and died at the home of her son. W.F.Frakes of Varner, December 30, 1904, in her eighty-second year. She united with the M.E. church at Livona at the age of twenty-tree and was married to Carrol Frakes, October 27, 1850. She was the mother of five children, four whom survive her - W. F. Frakes and Mrs. I.R. Wingate of Varner. Mrs. A Brown of this city and Mrs. H. Couklin of Bedford Ind. She followed her children to this county in 1881 coming in time to have part in the trials and difficulties of pioneer days. Forty-five years of her long life was spent in widowhood, her husband having gone before, leaving her and the little family to struggle with the world. She lived to lived to see them grow up and establish homes of their own, into which they took as a sacred heritage, the lessons she had endeavored all her life to inculcate, homes in which the beauty of her own; life will make a generation of men and women better. It is well that she could spend the evening of her days in pleasant surroundings, enjoying the rest she so nobly earned.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Beitel of Pretty Prairie, at the home of her son, and interment made at Lebanon Cemetery.
(We are indebted to the kindness of a friend for the following brief obituary of Mrs Teresa Frakes, whose death occurred at Varner last week. Deceased was among the oldest residents living in this county; one of those good old-fashioned mothers who regard the up-building of a home as their highest duty toward the world , and whose presence among us alone is like a benediction.)
Teresa Frakes was born at Livona, Ind, August 17 1823, and died at the home of her son. W.F.Frakes of Varner, December 30, 1904, in her eighty-second year. She united with the M.E. church at Livona at the age of twenty-tree and was married to Carrol Frakes, October 27, 1850. She was the mother of five children, four whom survive her - W. F. Frakes and Mrs. I.R. Wingate of Varner. Mrs. A Brown of this city and Mrs. H. Couklin of Bedford Ind. She followed her children to this county in 1881 coming in time to have part in the trials and difficulties of pioneer days. Forty-five years of her long life was spent in widowhood, her husband having gone before, leaving her and the little family to struggle with the world. She lived to lived to see them grow up and establish homes of their own, into which they took as a sacred heritage, the lessons she had endeavored all her life to inculcate, homes in which the beauty of her own; life will make a generation of men and women better. It is well that she could spend the evening of her days in pleasant surroundings, enjoying the rest she so nobly earned.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Beitel of Pretty Prairie, at the home of her son, and interment made at Lebanon Cemetery.
Obituary
(We are indebted to the kindness of a friend for the following brief obituary of Mrs Teresa Frakes, whose death occurred at Varner last week. Deceased was among the oldest residents living in this county; one of those good old-fashioned mothers who regard the up-building of a home as their highest duty toward the world , and whose presence among us alone is like a benediction.)
Teresa Frakes was born at Livona, Ind, August 17 1823, and died at the home of her son. W.F.Frakes of Varner, December 30, 1904, in her eighty-second year. She united with the M.E. church at Livona at the age of twenty-tree and was married to Carrol Frakes, October 27, 1850. She was the mother of five children, four whom survive her - W. F. Frakes and Mrs. I.R. Wingate of Varner. Mrs. A Brown of this city and Mrs. H. Couklin of Bedford Ind. She followed her children to this county in 1881 coming in time to have part in the trials and difficulties of pioneer days. Forty-five years of her long life was spent in widowhood, her husband having gone before, leaving her and the little family to struggle with the world. She lived to lived to see them grow up and establish homes of their own, into which they took as a sacred heritage, the lessons she had endeavored all her life to inculcate, homes in which the beauty of her own; life will make a generation of men and women better. It is well that she could spend the evening of her days in pleasant surroundings, enjoying the rest she so nobly earned.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Beitel of Pretty Prairie, at the home of her son, and interment made at Lebanon Cemetery.
(We are indebted to the kindness of a friend for the following brief obituary of Mrs Teresa Frakes, whose death occurred at Varner last week. Deceased was among the oldest residents living in this county; one of those good old-fashioned mothers who regard the up-building of a home as their highest duty toward the world , and whose presence among us alone is like a benediction.)
Teresa Frakes was born at Livona, Ind, August 17 1823, and died at the home of her son. W.F.Frakes of Varner, December 30, 1904, in her eighty-second year. She united with the M.E. church at Livona at the age of twenty-tree and was married to Carrol Frakes, October 27, 1850. She was the mother of five children, four whom survive her - W. F. Frakes and Mrs. I.R. Wingate of Varner. Mrs. A Brown of this city and Mrs. H. Couklin of Bedford Ind. She followed her children to this county in 1881 coming in time to have part in the trials and difficulties of pioneer days. Forty-five years of her long life was spent in widowhood, her husband having gone before, leaving her and the little family to struggle with the world. She lived to lived to see them grow up and establish homes of their own, into which they took as a sacred heritage, the lessons she had endeavored all her life to inculcate, homes in which the beauty of her own; life will make a generation of men and women better. It is well that she could spend the evening of her days in pleasant surroundings, enjoying the rest she so nobly earned.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Beitel of Pretty Prairie, at the home of her son, and interment made at Lebanon Cemetery.
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