Frey, Armond Franklin (1925-1949)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1949 Sep 8 p. 3

Birth date: 1925 Dec 12

text of obituary:

ARMOND FRANKLIN FREY

Armond Franklin Frey was born Dec. 12, 1925, on a farm about two and one-half miles east of Dallas and passed away Sunday, July 10, 12:57 p. m. in the Salem Memorial hospital at the age of 23 years, six months and 28 days.

Armond received his elementary education in the Orchard View School not far from his birthplace. For his high school training he attended the Dallas high school, from which he graduated in June 1943. That fall he took further schooling until he entered the services of the Navy on Nov. 17, 1943, from which he received an honorable discharge on July 27, 1946.

While on active duty he spent six months in the hospital due to leg injury. Because of this trouble he had to make periodic reports to the Navy to recheck his disability. His last one was on the 5th of July, 1949.

Since his discharge he has been employed in different places. He attended Oregon College of Education during the school year of 1947-1948 and later took technical training at a refrigeration school in Colorado. He had lately been employed in Eastern Oregon as a truck driver.

On Friday, July 8, he left his home to find work. At 11:00 that night, on the highway five miles south of Salem, when his car was hit by another car in the attempt to avoid a stray animal on the road, his body was fatally crushed. Four others involved in the same accident are all on their way to recovery.

The family learned of the accident about 10:00 o’clock the next morning, when friends who saw a description of the accident in the papers informed them. Immediately we rushed to the hospital hoping to be able to speak to him. This, however, was not to be our privilege because about four hours after his admission he lapsed into apparent unconsciousness from which he never emerged.

On Oct. 6, 1940, Armond was baptized and taken into the fellowship of the Dallas Evangelical Mennonite Brethren church. He loved singing and the songs sung at the funeral by the quartet, pals and fellow servicemen, were his favorites. “In the twinkling of an eye,” a song he often sang with Harold Olfert, who paid the supreme sacrifice for his country, was also sung at Harold's funeral.

Left to mourn his much too early and sudden death are: His parents, John and Susie Frey, and sister Alvina of Dallas; sister Leona, Mrs. Charles Miles, 384 Evergreen Ave., Salem and sister Irene, Mrs. Arnold Claassen, 2740 Cherry Ave, Salem; two brothers-in-law; a nephew, and a host of relatives and friends.

“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.” — The Bereaved Family.