Albert F. Franz

Albert F. Franz died at the age of 95 on Monday, March 11, at his home on Fir Island, Mount Vernon, Wash.

He was born Aug. 30, 1917, at the family homestead in Schrag, Wash. He was the fourth of six children born to Peter and Agnetha (Ewert) Franz.

The Franz’s were German immigrants from the Crimea area in Russia, where they had emigrated on agreement they would teach farming practices in exchange for relief from conscription (military draft). The family first settled in South Dakota, then subsequently settled northeast of Warden.

He was raised on the homestead farm near Schrag, and graduated...