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the Galloway Breeders Association, covering a period of years, was a great benefit to that association, and made that breed of cattle known everywhere. The Examiner feels a personal bereavement; he was associated with it as a stockholder for five years. ‘While not actively engaged in the business he always held its success in his thoughts. Mr, Hearne was a man whose education and talents promised many things, and his death at the early age of thirty-three ended a career from which much was to have been expected.

From the Independence Sentinel:

Frank B. Hearne was connected with the SENTINEL office for four years. There was never a better man with us. All who knew genial whole souled Prank Hearne were his friends, and he had fine talent as a journalist. It was a beautiful ceremony and a sympathetic assemblage that paid their last tribute of respect to the late Frank B. Hearne at the service at the Baptist Church. Miss Kate Patteson played the Schreyer funeral march as the flower laden casket was brought into the church. The choir sang "Asleep in Jesus," after which Rev. McGinley of the Presbyterian church offered prayer. Rev. Milford Riggs (Baptist), of Lexington, a life-long friend, read the Scripture lesson, "For now we know in part but then we shall know as we are known," the last chapter the departed had read. Rev. Riggs then said, "Some people appear only on the horizon of our lives, but others enter into it and Frank Hearne entered into my life as a friend; there is no more precious word than friendship. He came into my life as a blessing. He had faults and I knew them, but was drawn all the closer to him for them. I never knew him to utter an impure word or suggest an impure deed. I cannot retrace our living interest in each other. when I might have been more faithful to him but, remembering I can be more faithful to the friends that remain." Rev. W. T. Campbell, his pastor, then outlined the life of the deceased and said: "I wish you to take with you four Bible pictures of death. First, the Lord Jesus says "he is asleep," second, "‘it is an exodus, calling up the picture of the Children of Israel moving into the promised land; then Paul says, "loosed from its moorings," and in the 14th chapter of John, it calls death "the homegoing." Mrs. Berry and Mr. Jones sang "Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break." Mr. Riggs offered the last prayer and Mr. Llewellyn Jones sang:

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