One of the saddest and most unexpected blows dealt this community for some time came last Saturday morning when the news spread that Mrs. John Frahm had died the night before. While intimate friends had known for several days that her condition was critical they firmly believed that medical science and youthful strength would win. Wednesday evening she became suddenly ill and from then until her death, forty-eight hours later, she was conscious only at short intervals. Home doctors and specialists were in constant attendance but the hand of the Almighty ruled that she be taken from this earth where sorrow and suffering dulled the bloom of youth.

Marie Andresen, third child of Mr. and Mrs. Nicolai and Catharina (Thomsen) Andresen, was born northwest of Manning, February 8, 1896, and died in the same vicinity February 16, 1917, at the age of 21 years, 1 week, and 1 day. Early in the past summer she was united in wedlock to Mr. John Frahm, son of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. Dethlef Frahm, who with a four week old daughter, Helen Marie, survives. It was a quiet wedding and as those present gathered around the festive board they little thought that ere one brief year had passed they would be called upon to lay low the one who that day entered upon her new life full of hope and happiness. The little daughter is too young to realize her loss; sisters and brothers will find other interests to fill their thoughts, but it is to the sorrowing husband that all hearts turn in sympathy. His heart has been torn to shreds and time, the Great Healer, will find it a slow duty to minister to the wound so sadly inflicted.

Tuesday afternoon a large gathering of intimate friends and relatives gathered at the house and after Rev. Krumm had spoken a few words accompanied the body to the M.E. Church where services were held. Then after taking a last look at the face so dead to all, the body was taken to the Manning Cemetery and after Rev. Krumm spoke the last words kind hands lowered it to its last resting place.

She leaves to mourn her early departure besides her husband and daughter, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholos Andresen, and brothers, John and Albert, five sisters, Martha, now Mrs. Otto Hansen, Katie, Hertha, Anna, and Elsa, her father and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dethlef Frahm, five brothers and sisters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frahm, Mr. and Mrs. George Frahm, Mr. and Mrs. John (Katherine) Ohrt, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Hagge and Herman and Harry Frahm.

It was a sad, sad blow for all and as the sun was setting and the shadows of evening had lengthened, the last of the sorrowing friends and relatives departed from that silent hill, for the home which they knew would long be desolate without the loved one, whom they had left behind, in the cool, moist earth, peacefully slumbering on into the lands of Eternal Rest.

CARD OF THANKS
To the friends who kindly assisted at the house during the few sad days, to those who gave the beautiful floral tributes, to Rev. Krumm for the kind words so thoughtfully spoken and to each and every one who by expressions of sympathy lightened our sorrow, we offer our most heartfelt thanks.
Mr. John Frahm
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholos Andresen and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Dethlef Frahm and family.