LOUISE FRANKE
February 22, 1912 Manning Monitor

Louise Rose Franke was born Chicago, Illinois, July 4, 1883, and died at Kennebec, South Dakota, at the home of her sister, Mrs. A.L. Freelove, February 15, 1912, aged 28 years, 7 month and 11 days. When a child of two years she came with her parents to Manning, Iowa. She attended the Manning Public Schools and was a member of the high school graduating class of 1903, and later was a teacher in the primary department of our Manning schools for two years. The deceased studied at the Iowa State Manual School at Cedar Falls, and at the normal school of Greeley, Colorado, from which she was a graduate. Miss Franke, or Louise, as she was familiarly known was an active member of the Presbyterian Church of Manning and her conscientious Christian life and work is a precious legacy to a large number of friends, schoolmates and in the schools and churches of Manning and other places where she has lived.

Our departed sister was for many years a great sufferer from a baffling disease. All possible was done that she might find relief. The Doctors of Mayo, of Rochester, Minnesota, were consulted, but to no avail. Physical pain was augmented by the loss of her father three years ago and by the sudden translation of a beloved mother a year ago. Suffering and sorrow were borne with a true Christian patience and resignation. The word of God was precious. The end came in peace; they what trust the Lord die well.

The mortal body was brought by loving sisters to the old home. Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church in Manning, Sunday conducted by Rev. E.B Scoggan of the M.E. Church, who chose as a text John 11:26, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." A double quartet consisting of friends furnished the music. Sympathizing friends, neighbors, schoolmates and pupils filled every available spot of the church. Floral wreaths and sprays spoke the love of bereaved relatives and friends. The body was laid to rest in the "acre of God" alongside the bodies of her father and mother.

Besides a multitude of friends, the departed leaves to mourn her, her five sisters, Mrs. A.L Freelove, Amanda, and Helen, of Kennebec, South Dakota; Mrs. J.W. Jensen, of Marathon, Iowa, and Dorothy, of Lakefield, Minnesota, and one brother, Lieutenant G.H. Franke, U.S.A. of Fortress, Monroe, Virginia, all of whom were present at the funeral except the brother.

"EASTER" By Pascal Hanower.
The faces of our dead ones lie below
The face of God;
Withdrawn from this world's weariness
Beyond its pain, beyond its bitter stress,
They are at peace.
The noises of this earth life may not break
That wondrous peace;
It lies deep folded in the eternal place.
Beyond the power of wrong, above the trace
Of doubt and fear.
They see the face of God, and know at last
The thing they sought;
But could not find, in this gray light of time,
They tread with holy feet that far off clime,
They live with God.
And we who follow them are not forgot
They know our life;
The memory of years once lived upon these lands,
Where we still toil with weary feet and hands.
Is sacred still.
It cannot ever be to them a dream all vague;
They are with Christ.
And Christ may not forget the earth
He saved,
The floods of that strange mortal life that loved,
His blessed feet.
They are with Christ, and still o'er us they bend
And watch with Him
O, not with fear they look, nor anguished face;
There is no fear in heaven, in that high place
Of peace and rest.
They hear our prayers, they watch our course
With sweet high look.
They gaze on us, and on that wondrous face,
Whose eyes are truth, whose fashioned grace.
Is like to God.
And we are found in Him and seen through him,
And all is well;
We may not faint, or fall, we catch their faith,
We knew they hear, for age, the woods. He saith.
Who leaveth them.
And evermore is solemn silent hours
We feel them near,
Our dead ones come again with healing hands.
And walk with us along these lower lands.
Gentle, serene.
Till all the trouble of this human life
Is drawn away;
And all our weakness seems to pass and die
In Him, whose life we live and they on high.
Whose life is peace.

CARD OF THANKS
To the many friends who opened up their homes to us, who were so kindly considerate and gave to us all that love and sympathy can give we wish to extend our thanks and our sincere appreciation of these tributes of true friendship.
Franke Sisters and Brother.


Louise Franke is buried in the Manning City Cemetery.
Section C Row #41 north - south.