The Nankin Township Historical Society

Okay, you can all stop clamoring for another ex-libris bookplate. As if. This one is nice and dates to 1968 from the D. Leonard Corgan Library at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I thought that the college was a lot older than it is but since it was founded in 1946 this actually turns out to be an earlier bookplate in its history. The book is Types of Jewish-Palestinian Piety from 70 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.: The Ancient Pious Men which is beyond my comprehension since I know nothing of the subject.

As I've stated in other groups dealing with the dead, ghosts & other subjects of the macabre, the easiest funerary pieces to procure are remembrance cards. I likely found this in a book at the Farmington estate sale and tossed it into my pile of papers but don't remember. It's for Edward Franczek who died January 3, 1968. He was 40 years old, having been born on December 6, 1927, and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. I found an obituary in the Freep that states he lived in De troit at 4125 Lawndale and lists family members but no cause of death. His funeral was handled by the Edmund S. Lesney Funeral Home at 13201 W. Warren Avenue in Dearborn. The phone number was LU 1-0200. Detroit Free Press , January 5, 1968