Phillips, Frank Mortimer

PHILLIPS

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Date: 10/2/2007 at 18:19:56

Maquoketa Record
December 10, 1907

PHILLIPS.

Frank Mortimer Phillips, born in Andrew, Iowa, November 28, 1882, to Capt. And Mrs. A. M. Phillips, died Wednesday, December 4, 1907, in Maquoketa, Iowa.

This simple announcement, fraught with so much meaning, sorrow and deep distress to those to whom the deceased was near and dear, is passed by as other deaths by the great world into which man is born, wherein he hopes, fears, struggles, hates, loves and dies. And yet a death, from the standpoint of the home, is one of life’s most tremendous tragedies, and when a worthy young man goes hence, on whom the love of mother, the hopes of father, the admiration of sisters and brothers are centered, the loss is overwhelming and irreparable.

Frank M. Phillips was a boy of brilliant intellect. His strength of mind was equaled by that of character and the way seemed bright before him. At the early age of seventeen he completed a business education and accepted a responsible position with the Marquette Savings Bank at Des Moines. Later he became a trusted employee of the International Harvester Company with headquarters at Detroit, Michigan, where he remained until failing health warned him that his connection with commercial life for a time must cease. He spent some time in the forests of Minnesota, and later went to Roswell, New Mexico, but the climate changes and best of medical attention failed to arrest the progress of the disease to which he at last succumbed – consumption. At Detroit he became a Master Mason and ever wore the emblem of innocence and distinguished badge of a Mason with credit to himself and honor to the fraternity, and now that his column is broken his brethren mourn with his kinsmen, his untimely death. He possessed the manly virtues – integrity, honestly, promptness, sincerity and morality – in an unusual degree and a life of great promise is cut short.

The funeral occurred Friday last at 2 p.m. from the home of his parents under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity, Rev. D. E. Boomershine conducting the services, interment at Mt. Hope. The floral offering which came from friends at the state house in Des Moines, others at Davenport, his Masonic brethren of Detroit and admiring friends and relatives at home were many and most beautiful, a fitting tribute of the love and ester in for him entertained by those who knew him well.