"CHARLES E. FRANE. Funeral services will be held Friday for Charles A. Frane, 74, who died at 2 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Hospital after a short illness. He lived near Besancon and was a member of St. Louis' Catholic Church there. Surviving are two sons, Arthur and Leslie, Fort Wayne; four daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Trausch, Blakesley, O.; Mrs. Esther Castleman, Monroeville; Mrs. Lucille Messman, Antwerp, O., and Mrs. Edgress Sorg, Yoder; a sister, Mrs. Joseph Degitz, Fort Wayne; a brother, Lester, Monroeville; and 11 grandchildren. Services will be held at 8:3 a.m. at the Harper Funeral Home in New Haven and at 9 a.m. at St. Louis' Church, the Rev. Joseph Hession officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery."
[Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Thursday 17 July 1947, pg. 3]
