Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1918 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Frank Madsen was born in Benton county, Indiana, on March 28,1903, and died October 10, 1918. His age was 15 years, six months and 12 days. He was the only child of Anton and Estella Madsen. Always a frail and delicate child, he was not able to enter into the sports and do the work of other boys. This kept him in the home with his parents, and his love for them was very great. They had known for several months that they could not keep Frank with them very long. However, the summons came very suddenly. He had been playing out in the beautiful sunshine just before death came. He leaves to mourn his early departure a loving father and mother, many relatives and friends, to whom he had endeared himself by his gentle and loving ways. The funeral services were conducted at the home in Union township at 9 o’clock Saturday morning by Rev. Fleming, aQ d he was laid to rest in the Fowler cemetery.

“What is life? ‘Tis but a delicate shell, Thrown up by Eternity’s flow, On Time’s banks of quicksand to dwell, And a moment its loveliness show. Gone back to its element grand, Is the billow that brought it on shore. See! Another in washing the strand, And the beautiful shell is no more.”