Decendants of Adam Frantz - Clark County Pioneers Home Page

Carl August Franz Decendants
A deal has been closed by Edward Abeling wherein the Frank Saxton 400 acre
ranch in the Spring Creek section was sold to Haltenhof and Franz (Ted). The
purchasers are Montana cattlemen from near Miles City and have spent the past
eighteen months seeing a desireable location in various parts of Idaho, Oregon and
Washington.
The new owners took possession of the ranch last Satuday. They intend to stock it
with purebred cattle and sheep for which the farm is particularly well adapted. this
ranch is generally considered the best place in that locality. This is the biggest cash
deal made in the Klickitat Valley for some time.
Franz, a son-ion-law of Halltenhof has looked at farms all over Oregon and in
various parts of Wshington. He said: "After viewing all of the farm territory in
Oregon and Washingotn, I felt that Goldendale and Vicity held the greatest
opportunity for development."
The above was taken from a Washington paper. Theodroe Franze is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Franz of the West Side.
Theodore H. Franz Obituary (1974)
Greenwood - Services were held at 11 a.m. Monday (March 18) at the Fuiten
Mortuary Chapel in Hillsboro, Ore. for Theodore H. Franz, 68, of Aloha, Ore.
formerly of Greenwood, who died Thursday, Marcxh 14, at his home. Death was
attributed to a heart condition.
Officiating at the Monday service was the Rev. Eugene Sabin, Pastor of the Cedar
Hills Christian Church. Mr. Franz was a native of Greenwood, where he was born
June 12, 1905. He spent all of his early life and received his education at
Greenwood and as a young man went to Montana.
He was married to the former Jane Halstenhoff in Montana, and they later lived at
Goldendale, Wash., before moving to Oregon in 1933. They first lived at
McMinnville, Ore., for a number of years and then since 1953 at Aloha.
Mr. Franz was a retired farmer and nurseryman and had been working part time at
the Daybreak Nursery at Cornelius, Ore. Survivors include his wife; three brothers,
Oscar Franz, Land O'Lakes, Edwin Franz, North Dakota, and Leondo Franz,
Wisconsi Rapids; and five sisters, Mrs. Harvey (Martha) Schwarze, Mrs. Henry
(Minne) Laube and Mrs. Selma Churkey, all of Owen, and Mrs. Harold (Arvilla)
Horn and Mrs. Mike (Meta) Bolf, both of Greenwood.
Funeral Home is Bronleewe-Bass Funeral Home, P.O. Box 1396, Hillsboro,
41