Frank J. Warrick (1862-1920)

WARRICK, LOCKRIDGE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Representative December 17, 1920 (page 2)

Frank Warrick Tribute

(By W. P. Payne)
"Friend after friend departs. Who hath not lost a friend?" Few there are, if indeed any, who can say "None." Surely, my answer to the old time hymn maker's querry is not "a few" but many, very many, and in the long, long list of friends garnered along the way from the rocky shores of New England to the fertile prairies of Iowa, this last but not least honored name to be added to my list of departed friends is the name of our friend, Frank J. Warrick, whose mortal form tenantless of the living spirit lies in the disturbless stillness of death in our presence. When in the autumn of 1875, our then young friend Frank was a lad of some fourteen years, and a student in the Nevada public school, of which I had the supervision and of the high school department thereof was then being organized and started on its successful career of forty-five years of educational service to the youth of the city and vicinity.

In this high school during the succeeding five years, our young friend and pupil obtained all his academic education, except what had been obtaing previously in the pioneer ungraded schools of the city. But he was the type of youngster who could learn things outside of school house as well as inside. He was a good mixer, a good observer, a good ball player and general athlete, a good natured, large hearted companion, and deservedly popular with his youthful associates. And in addition to these valuable qualities, he possessed excellent ability to classify and store away for future us the facts, knowledge and suggestions obtained in his rough and tumble everyday intercourse with the outside world.

At all events he got ahead, did some good climbing form one activity to another and soon after leaving Nevada became, at Yankton, S. D., a full fledged, admitted-to-the-bar lawyer. He practiced for a time in Yankton and subsequently in Kansas City, Mo., and Dallas, Tex.

He took an active interest in politics at times, and some four or five years ago, as one of the a bunch of Texas "live wire" politicians that included the somewhat famous Col. House, went to Washington, D. C., as assistant promotor of the interest of the Wilson administration. From that time as long as his health permitted, and until recently he held a lucrative government position.

The marriage of Mr. Warrick and Miss Jenny Lockridge took place at Christmas time in 1885 and was the culmination of an affection that manifestly began in their school days. The death of the wife Jenny, occurred in the autumn of 1903, and as their old teacher and friend I was solicited by the heavy hearted husband to assist in the funeral service, "as he wanted someone," he said, "who knew us both." This present service makes the fourth occasion on which I have been called to pay deserved tribute to some member of the Warrick household. The other occasions were those marking the passing of the father and mother of our friend who this day we give reverent sepulture in out attractive cemetery beside the grave of the unforgotten wife and sweetheart of his youth, and among the many mounds covering the mortal dust of the friends of other days. I have tears for this one departed, as I have had for all who have gone on before, and for all these friends of mine who still remain on the shores of time wherever they may now abide between our two oceans vast, I have enduring memories that greatly enrich the sunset days of a long, busy and wondrously interesting life.