Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 27 at Aloysius Church on Ohio 274 at U.S. 127 in Carthagena, with Father Tom Hemm officiating. Burial will follow in St. Aloysius Cemetery.
According to Mercer County Chief Deputy Sheriff Gery Thobe, Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey’s office was investigating the accident Friday.
The accident occurred at 5:54 p.m. Thursday on the family farm of Doug and Sarah Franck and their nine children. Nicholas Franck died at the hospital after being pulled down into the corn on a farm wagon unloading corn at 5750 Carthagena Road. He was pulled into the grain as the wagon was being unloaded, Thobe said in a media report. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Mercer County Community Hospital in Coldwater, according to The Daily Standard, a newspaper serving the Grand Lake area, who said the boy was not breathing when paramedics arrived.
According to the obituary notice posted on the Hogenkamp Funeral Home web site, Nicholas Franck was born in Coldwater, Ohio, Sept. 7, 2000. He is survived by his parents and his eight brothers and sisters, all at home: Bradley, Janel, Natalie, Alex, Ben, Adam, Kaylee and Daniel, as well as by his grandparents JoAnn Kunkler of St. Henry, and William and Jean Franck of Portland, Ind., and his great-grandparents Velma Berman of Maria Stein, and Margaret Munhenk of Dayton.
He was a mass server and member of St. Aloysius Catholic Church and a fourth grader at St. Henry Elementary School. He was a member of the Lassies and Lads 4-H in St. Henry and liked to play football. Condolences may be left at the Hogenkamp Funeral Home web site: hogenkampfh.com.
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