The Nankin Township Historical Society

Plymouth Mail , November 3, 1899 If Schrader was the ambulatory mode of transport for the sick in the middle 20th century then the horse-driven hearse was the chariot that took one to the Great Beyond. This advert for Lewis & Lewis Funeral Directors of Plymouth almost makes one wish to time travel back for death. Their offices were above A. A. Tafft's Store in Plymouth.

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