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Caddo County Oklahoma - WW I 
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Frank T. Phenicie
Aviation Signal Corps.
01 November 1898
18 February 1918


Frank T. Phenicie, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Phenicie, was 
born at Ft. Scott, Kans., November 1,  1898. He came to 
Oklahoma with his parents when he was a small boy and lived 
west of Hinton on the farm now occupied by Frank Eubank.

About five years ago the family moved to Seely, Tex., and 
last year Frank came here and made his home with his 
grandfather, H.C. Phenicie; and attended the Hinton High 
School and was a member of the graduating class there last 
year. He was a young man of exceptionally noble character 
and had a host of friends here.

This year Frank entered the Oklahoma A. & M. College at 
Stillwater. He visited here during the Thanksgiving and 
Christmas holidays. It was his intention not to enlist in 
the army until after the end of the school year, but as a 
large number from the College were enlisting, he, with a
large number of others, went to Tulsa where he enlisted in 
the Aviation Signal Corps. He was sent to Ft. Logan, Colo., 
but was immediately transferred to Ft. Handcock, Augusta, 
Ga., where a short time after he contracted the disease 
which caused his death.

Efforts are being made to have the body sent here for 
burial.
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Hinton Record
February 28, 1918

SOLDIER BOYS BODY
BURIED AT HINTON

The war reached Hinton Tuesday.

The body of Frank Phenicie, who died at Ft. Handcock, 
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 18, arrived here Tuesday morning.

Funeral services, attended by almost the entire town and 
countryside, were conducted at the Methodist church at 2:00 
by the pastor, Rev. Patterson. 

The stores closed and the flags flew at half-mast during 
the ceremony. The church was beautifully decorated with 
flags and flowers and heaps of flowers covered the casket, 
which was also draped in the flag of the nation for which 
Frank had enlisted to give his life if need be.

The music was furnished by quartettes from the High School 
of which the deceased was a graduate last year, and the 
pall bearers were also High School Students and members of 
last year's graduating class.

A scene like this brings the reality of the war to us and 
we set our faces onward with a more determined look to see 
this conflict out to the end, and to a righteous end; to an 
end that means the liberty of the world; an end that will 
mean that nations and peoples will have the right to live 
and follow their own pursuits and pleasures, be they 
Great or small.

It gives us a greater determination to give of our time and 
means to promote this cause, to arouse our people to the 
great needs of the hour, and a full understanding that this 
is a war of the people - our war - and not a war of the 
government. Let us arise to our full duty, and stand back 
of our President, our boys in the service and our nation. 
Let us remember that a blow at the government - a criticism 
from a selfish motive - is a blow and a criticism at the 
boys who are offering their lives for the liberty of the 
world.