Frances Elizabeth

HERMENET

The death of Miss Frances Hermenet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

 Adrian Hermenet of this village occurred at Raybrook Sanitarium,

 to which place she had gone for treatment about six years ago.

She had been ill for three or four months. Miss Hermenet was

twenty years old last May 19 and was born in this town.

The funeral services were held from the home at two o'clock Friday afternoon and burial was made in the family plot in the Brick church cemetery. Dr. Louis J. Bolt of Rochester, pastor of the

Presbyterian church officiating.

Besides her parents, Miss Hermenet is survived by four brothers,

Harry of Merlin, Oregon and Alfred, Frank and Raymond at home;

 and two sisters, Ila and Jane at home and her grandmother,

 Mrs. Frances Boise of East Williamson.

Miss Hermenet was a member of the Sodus Center Presbyterian church,

 its choir and Sunday School and was very active in all its societies.

 She will be remembered for her cheerful manner

 and exemplary Christian character.

"Near a shady wall a rose once grew

Budded and blossomed in God's free light.

Watered and fed by the morning dew

Shedding its fragrance day and night.

As it grew and blossomed fair and tall

Slowly rising to loftier height,

It came to a crevice in the wall

Through which there shown a gleam of light.

Onward it crept with added strength.

With never a thought of fear or pride,

And followed the light through the crevice at length,

And unfolded itself on the other side.

The light, the dew, the broadening view

Were found the same as they were before.

It lost itself in beauties new.

Breathing its fragrance more and more.

Shall thought of death cause us to grieve,

Or make our courage faint or fall?

Nay, let us hope and faith receive.

The Flower still grows beyond the wall.

Just as it did in days of yore,

Just as it did on this, our side,

Just as it will forever more." 

Sodus Record

Sodus, New York