FAMILY  FOLIAGE.

Eldon Frank Harsen  (1906 ~ 1923)

 

8.1.1.2. Second child of Sarah J. Linton and Frank Harsen, Eldon Frank Harsen, was born July 9, 1906, in Mayfield Twp., Lapeer Co., Michigan.

 

  Eldon F. Harsen died December 23, 1923, aged 17 years in Arcadia Twp., Lapeer Co., Michigan, U.S. and is interred at Lum Cemetery.   

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Eldon F. Harsen

One of the saddest occurrence recorded in this county was the death of Eldon Harsen, 17 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harsen of Lum, on Sunday, December 23, 1923. The entire family had attended Sunday school at Lum, where Sunday school is held prior to the preaching service. Eldon and his small brother, Keith, had Christmas plans afoul and excused themselves from the church service to hurry home. In their youthful zeal they ran all the way home, Eldon keeping a little ahead of his brother. When Keith got into the home, he found Eldon lying on the floor in the archway with his head on his hands. Keith, thinking he was just resting, jumped over him and into a chair, saying that he was the first to be seated anyway. When his brother failed to answer, he looked more closely at him and seeing something was wrong, ran back to the church for his parents. The physician who was called said that he had gone before falling to the floor. It was thought that the heart had been affected by racing home so fast. When a small lad he had been troubled with a weak heart but it was considered to have been outgrown and he had apparently been in perfect health. It was just seven minutes from the time he left the church until his brother came back with the findings.

  Eldon was very well known in Lapeer, where he made his home during the week with his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Moore. He was a senior in Lapeer high school and was to graduate in June.  He had planned to take a trip next summer to Honolulu to visit Mr. Kendall, of whom he was especially fond. After school and Saturdays he clerked in the grocery department at Lockwood’s where he had worked since last summer.

  He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harsen, two sisters, Ruby, who teaches at Lum, and Zada, who, with the brother, Keith, are still in school there.

  Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Methodist church, Lum. Lapeer County Press, Dec. 26, 1923.