Iowa Old Press
Boyden Reporter, Friday, Jan. 21, 1898
Johnnie, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frohwein, died last Saturday with inflammation of the bowels and was buried at Hospers last Tuesday according to the rites of the Catholic church. The estimable couple have the sympathy of all our people in their sad loss.
Alton Democrat, Jan 22, 1898: Hospers news.
A child of Frank Frohwein of near Boyden was buried in the Catholic cemetery here last Tuesday.
Boyden Reporter, Friday, Jan. 28, 1898
Lines in Memory of Little Johnnie Frohwein.
Only a tiny rosebud,
So pure and so white,
Budded in earthly soil
Blooming in heavenly light.
Placed in the sunniest window,
Tended with most loving care,
Drooped in its earthly beauty
Leaving the rosebush bare.
Our Johnnie was a rosebud,
He was with us not quite a year,
With his illness and patience
He became to us so dear.
He was a little flower,
Nestled to the parent’s breast,
Blossomed out in heaven
And Johnnie is at rest.
Oh! Crushed and lonely parents,
His life is just begun,
We must follow in his pathway
And meet our little son.
On January 15, occurred the death of Johnnie, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frohwein, living two and one-half miles southeast of town. The little child was born, March 23, 1897, and was nine months and twenty-two days old. He was sick but a few days. He was interred in the Hosper’s Cemetery, Tuesday, Jan. 18. ~KITTIE RYAN, Matlock, Ia.
[transcribed by L.Z., Jun 2020]