Newport — Franz Gerhard Franken, 76, former Town of Ohio peace justice and school trustee, died yesterday in the Griffiss Air Force Base Hospital, Rome.
He was a retired State Department of Public Works employee.
Mr. Franken was born in Germany, son of Franz and Maria Dehnen Franken. He married Edith Etherton, in 1910, in Buffalo. He had been a peace justice for 20 years, and was a trustee of the old Ohio School and was a member of Ohio Granges.
He leaves six sons, Gerhard Jr., Gray; Joseph, Texas; William David and his wife, Mae, Chicago; Ernest, Pasadena, Calif.; Bernard, Utica, and Arend, Littleton, Colo., three daughters, Mrs. Olive Strobel, Newport; Mrs. Alfred Moran, Ohio, and Mrs. Gordon Freund, Honolulu; two brothers, Joseph, Ohio, and Mathias, in Germany; and a sister, Miss Mathlide Franken, Ohio.
He was a retired State Department of Public Works employee.
Mr. Franken was born in Germany, son of Franz and Maria Dehnen Franken. He married Edith Etherton, in 1910, in Buffalo. He had been a peace justice for 20 years, and was a trustee of the old Ohio School and was a member of Ohio Granges.
He leaves six sons, Gerhard Jr., Gray; Joseph, Texas; William David and his wife, Mae, Chicago; Ernest, Pasadena, Calif.; Bernard, Utica, and Arend, Littleton, Colo., three daughters, Mrs. Olive Strobel, Newport; Mrs. Alfred Moran, Ohio, and Mrs. Gordon Freund, Honolulu; two brothers, Joseph, Ohio, and Mathias, in Germany; and a sister, Miss Mathlide Franken, Ohio.
Newport — Franz Gerhard Franken, 76, former Town of Ohio peace justice and school trustee, died yesterday in the Griffiss Air Force Base Hospital, Rome.
He was a retired State Department of Public Works employee.
Mr. Franken was born in Germany, son of Franz and Maria Dehnen Franken. He married Edith Etherton, in 1910, in Buffalo. He had been a peace justice for 20 years, and was a trustee of the old Ohio School and was a member of Ohio Granges.
He leaves six sons, Gerhard Jr., Gray; Joseph, Texas; William David and his wife, Mae, Chicago; Ernest, Pasadena, Calif.; Bernard, Utica, and Arend, Littleton, Colo., three daughters, Mrs. Olive Strobel, Newport; Mrs. Alfred Moran, Ohio, and Mrs. Gordon Freund, Honolulu; two brothers, Joseph, Ohio, and Mathias, in Germany; and a sister, Miss Mathlide Franken, Ohio.
He was a retired State Department of Public Works employee.
Mr. Franken was born in Germany, son of Franz and Maria Dehnen Franken. He married Edith Etherton, in 1910, in Buffalo. He had been a peace justice for 20 years, and was a trustee of the old Ohio School and was a member of Ohio Granges.
He leaves six sons, Gerhard Jr., Gray; Joseph, Texas; William David and his wife, Mae, Chicago; Ernest, Pasadena, Calif.; Bernard, Utica, and Arend, Littleton, Colo., three daughters, Mrs. Olive Strobel, Newport; Mrs. Alfred Moran, Ohio, and Mrs. Gordon Freund, Honolulu; two brothers, Joseph, Ohio, and Mathias, in Germany; and a sister, Miss Mathlide Franken, Ohio.
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