VETERAN
Kenneth Ray Franklin
September 29, 1948 – January 12, 2019
Lived 70 years
Missouri Veterans Cemetery · Bloomfield, Missouri
I made it home…. I just wanted to let you know that I made it home, the journey wasn’t an easy one, but it didn’t take very long. Everything is so pretty here, so white, so fresh and new., I wish that you could close your eyes so you could see it too. Please try not to be sad for me and try to understand. God is taking care of me. I’m in the shelter of his hands.. here there is no sadness, no sorrow and no pain. Here there is no crying and I’ll never hurt again. Here it is so peaceful when all the angels sing., I really have to go for now I just got to try my wings.
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1948
Born September 29
1949
Kenneth was 1 when Gene Autry recorded "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
1957
Kenneth was 9 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1969
Kenneth was 21 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1971
Kenneth was 23 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1982
Kenneth was 34 when Michael Jackson released "Thriller"
1998
Kenneth was 50 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2005
Kenneth was 57 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2017
Kenneth was 69 when "Fortnite" became a video game phenomenon
2019
Passed away January 12, age 70
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