Obit: LaFavre, Frank #3 (1875 - 1946)

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Surnames: LaFavre, Braudt, Adams, Borah, Cole

----Source: Humbird Enterprise (Humbird, Clark Co., Wis.) 02/16/1946

LaFavre, Frank #3 (1 JUN 1875 - 24 JAN 1946)

More truly than the fictional soldiers of fortune reads the life record of Frank LaFavre, who died at his home in Hollywood, Fla., Jan. 24^th, 1946.  From the time he left Wisconsin in 1894 until 1903, he traveled the United States over, and parts of Mexico and Canada.  He was in a terrific storm at sea between San Francisco and Alaska, but managed to get to Seattle; he almost perished on a desert in Nevada, and was caught in a flood on the lower Mississippi River.  He was saved from a fire when fighting a big forest fire in Idaho, and a blizzard in northwestern Montana.  And in 1926, the year following his location in Florida, he escaped death in one of those terrible hurricanes that come up from the gulf.

Born in Centralia, Ill., June 1^st, 1875, the youngest child of Elias and Ellen (Adams) LaFavre, his mother died when he was six months old.  An aunt, Mrs. Annabelle Braudt took him to Indiana and in 1880 to Humbird (Clark Co., Wis.) to live.  He received his grammar school education here, and then, in 1887, the family moved to Mt. Ida, Grant County.  Without a home wanderlust overcame him in the death of his aunt in 1894, and his first stop was northern Idaho where his father and two brothers settled in 1883.  The father died in 1891.

In 1898, while living in Nelson, B.C., Canada, he joined the Odd Fellow Lodge, keeping in good standing until his death.

In Butte, Mont., on June 21, 1903, he married Miss Myrtle J. Borah of Mt. Ida, Wis.  Later they moved to his lake shore ranch on beautiful Twin Lakes in northern Idaho.  Here three of his four children were born.  In 1910, while touring the eastern states he found a place that took his eye.  This was Central Village, Conn., one of those cozy little New England villages, moving there in 1912.  During World War I, Mr. LaFavre held a position in the office of the Surgeon General at Washington.  After the war he was appointed postmaster of Central Village, which he resigned in 1925, and moved to Florida, owing to his wife’s ill health.  Mrs. LaFavre died a few years ago.

Mr. LaFavre re-entered the postal service in 1926, as a clerk in the Hollywood, Fla. post office, retiring six years later, owing to impaired health.  Since 1933 he has been an invalid, but found great enjoyment in writing his old schoolmates and friends.  He always retained a lively interest in Humbird and vicinity, where he has spent his early boyhood years.

He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hollywood, of which his son Charles E., is clerk and deacon.  His other son, John F., is in Chicago, and his two daughters, Mrs. Marion Cole and Miss Marjory, reside in Hollywood.