Bishop: It is time to begin our services and open with prayer by William A. Newsome, after which Ray Hutchings will sing a solo, Going Home.

William A. Newsome: Our Heavenly and Eternal Father, we a few of thy people have assembled this afternoon to show our deepest respect one of thy sons who has left this life. We pray that while we are convened together Thy holy presence will be here with us to bless those who may be called upon to speak, that they may speak of righteousness pertaining to life and salvation. We pray at this time you will bless those been called to mourn Brother Kranendonk that they will be comforted and blessed that they will continue to exercise faith of life and salvation which they so dearly loved. We thank thee, our Heavenly Father, that we have been able to mingle with one of thy sons who has been sent here, of meeting with him and being associated with him - the work he has done here in the world - his missionary work and all the fine work this brother has done. We continue to love his memory and ask you to bless his son who is in the mission field in a foreign country that he will continue to do great work along the lines his father so much loved, and help him stay steadfast to the principles of life and salvation as certain as this, our brother has done. All these blessings pray for in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Song: Going Home

Bishop: The first speaker will be John Feller who has been associated with Brother Kranendonk at the Cudahy Packing Company where he worked as his foreman for some time in the past, and the second speaker will be Fred Sanford, who is a member in the 28t' Ward where Brother Kranendonk lived before he moved here.

John Feller: My brothers and sisters, I feel weak in trying to say a few words today but it is my desire. I ask hat the Lord will bless Brother Kranendonk's wife and family. We have worked together for 17 years. I have been his foreman for 10 years and I can say that I have never worked with a finer fellow and he won love and respect of all the boys at Cudahy's. He was a man of great faith. Four years ago when he was in the hospital seriously ill, I happened to be in the hospital at the same time, and I knew it was through the faith and prayer of Brother Kranendonk and his family that his life was spared.

I think I can explain the life of Brother Kranendonk better through a poem by Edgar A. Guest entitled My Religion:

My religion's lovin' God, who made us one and all,
Who marks, no matter where we be, the humble sparrows fall;
An' my religion's servin' Him the very best I can
By not despisin' anything He made, especially Man:

It's lovin' sky an' earth an' sun an' birds an' flowers an' trees,
But lovin' human beings more than any one of these.
I ain't no hand at preachin' an' I can't expound the creed;
I fancy every fellow's faith must satisfy his needs

Or he would hunt for something else. an' I can't tell the why.
An' wherefore of the doctrines deep - and what's more I don't try.
I recon when this life is done and we can know his plan,
God won't be hard on anyone who's tried to be his man.

My religion doesn't hinge on some one rite or word;
I hold that any honest prayer a mortal makes it heard;
To love a church is well enough, but some get cold with pride
An' quite forget their fellowmen for whom the Savior died;
I fancy he best worships God, when a11 is said and done,
Who tries to be from day to day, a friend to everyone.

If God can mark the sparrow's fall, I don't believe he'll fail
To notice us an' how we act when doubt an' fears assail;
I think He'll hold what's in our hearts above what's in our creed,
An' judge all our religi0on here by our recorded deeds;
An' since man is God's greatest work since life on Earth began,
He'll get to Heaven, I believe, who helps his fellowman.

And I ask the Lord to bless Brother Kranendonk's wife and his family. I have been to his home many times and I don't think I have ever been in a home where there was so much love and peace in a family as in brother Kranendonk's. I ask the Lord to bless him and the boy on a mission. It will be hard for that boy to understand that his father should be taken. I ask Thy blessings in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Fred Sanford: I come to bear a tribute of love from a neighboring ward where we had Brother Kranendonk with us for quite a number of years before he moved into this ward. It is a splendid tribute that has been paid him by a fellow worker. It is one that I, representing quite a number of the priesthood who have worked with him in the priesthood organizations, block teaching, missionary work, particularly in our cottage meetings for the last 15 years should like to pay. He has been just as faithful in the service of God as he has been in the service of those who furnished his employment during his daily work. A Latter Day saint as faithful as Brother Kranendonk was, couldn't help but be faithful in his work. Here is a man who has come to us who has never been asked to do anything that he didn't willingly do.

He was so full of the spirit when I first met him before I moved into the 28^th ward that I immediately became attached to him and a friendship sprang up between us that has been well enjoyed, I know, by myself. I am satisfied that Brother Kranendonk and I have had many happy hours working in the work of the Lord. He was full of the spirit of God. He always had pleasant words and a smile for you when you met. He was always anxious to be doing something good. I remember in our missionary work in the 28`i' ward and also in the quorum work, I used to admire his tenacity. He had a wonderful knowledge of the philosophy of Mormonism and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the song said "Going Home", he had implicit faith that he was going back home to his Heavenly Father - the father of his spirit, and he knew there would be a welcome for him.

I used to think when I first got acquainted with Brother Kranendonk he was so well blessed with the ability to study and to fathom the things pertaining to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a blessing on his part that other men had. I have seen him stand on his feet so filled with the spirit that he couldn't find words to express himself Moses, apparently, was a man of this kind. When sent to preach or to take the children of Israel out of the hands of Pharaoh, requested that someone be sent with him as spokesman because he has a hesitant talk.

Brother Kranendonk was always full of questions and always a student of theology. He had at his fingers ends some of the deepest principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and how he enjoyed preaching them. I have never, since I have left the mission field, enjoyed such a spirit - the spirit which comes to us in the mission field where we associate so closely with one another. A spirit that was sop full of love and feeling that came from the body and soul of Brother Kranendonk. It was nice to be in meetings with him. Whenever you met him in Sunday school or church work he always carried that fine spirit with him. His greatest desire was to accumulate a knowledge of the Gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It has been a pleasure for me as well as for many of his other companions to help him continue in the study of Mormonism. He died with a knowledge of the Gospel that surpassed at least his ability to give to the people. His knowledge was far ahead of most of us men who associated with him in quorum and priesthood work. He had a splendid spirit whenever he had a meeting to attend. His heart and mind was continually on that particular thing and he has made a record in the ward - a record that is unsurpassed.

I pay a tribute from the 28th ward that he was one of the finest men we ever had with us in the quorum work of the 28^th ward.

A short time ago I was unable to do very much and he heard that I was sick and of course he and his wife were among the first to come and see me. I can never forget the feeling I get from the pressure of his hand because I know he was giving me the best wishes he could.

Life has it's sorrows but I don't feel that Brother Kranendonk is to be mourned. I think his life has been a wonderful example. I think during the last ten years we have had some member of his family call at our house every day. Working for the Tribune these boys have been as faithful as their father in working for Cudahy's and the church. These boys have already assumed the burden that their father left them and it is a real burden. This fine family of boys and girls, we certainly admire them, with Sister Kranendonk's love to guide them. She has these boys and girls to be a companion to her as long as she has lost the companion of her life.

I am glad to see he has come home in the sense that he has earned a great reward. He had no desire in this life except to see that his family were well grounded in the principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

I was thinking of some 40 years ago when I first came to this country. Five or six of us in the family transplanted from one of the older countries and I think sometimes like 60 of us have grown up, all in the church and all active members in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I think Brother Kranendonk was thrilled at his boy being called on a mission. It is a constant conversation with him. His desire was to see some of his boys, maybe all of them, proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. How happy he was that one of his boys was going on a mission and would be able to carry the Gospel to other people like the gospel was given to his ancestors. I am thankful that this boy has gone. I know these other boys will see that he stays there until his mission is finished and will sustain him in these trying times when he gets word that his father has passed on.

Two or three weeks before my mission was finished I received a cablegram to come back immediately. My father was ill and they didn't know how long he would linger on I sent a cablegram home saying that if I could see my father alive I would come right home, but otherwise, I would stay and finish my mission. The answer was uncertain. I finished my mission and when I reached home my father was still alive. My presence, after returning home, gave my father so much joy that he lived for several days longer.

To Sister Kranendonk, God bless you sister Kranendonk, the boys will take care of you, the girls will help. Brother Kranendonk has gone to a reward he well understood. We sing the song Sometime You'll Understand - Brother Kranendonk understood all the principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Sometimes we get the impression that our Heavenly Father is not kind and merciful to us in the way he should be and we do not understand the reason for things like these. He should have 20 or 25 more years of life, but he has gone to the other side to do his missionary work. He would have given his life if necessary for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I am satisfied when I look at this family that God will be good to them and has been good to them even in his hour of trial. Earth was lots of sorrows but no sorrows that heaven can't heal. God bless the family and grant that the spirit of peace may continue o rest with them. God comfort the heart of this boy in the mission field that he may be strengthened in this hour I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Bishop: Next will be a trio of Ray Davenport, Grace Yeates, and Ruth Johnson. The next speaker will be Brother Cornelius Zappey, followed by Brother Hyrum W. Valentine.

Trio: Ray Davenport, violin: Grace Yeates, piano: Ruth Johnson, organ.

Cornelius Zappey: I could not help but think and draw a comparison from Sister Kranendonk and her children, and Brother Kranendonk's sisters and brothers that stood behind the coffin coming in. There is no more beautiful sight in all God's services than a mother and her children. There is no more beautiful theme to think about or talk about than mother and her children.

Just a day or so ago walking in town I saw a young girl dressed in black. You and I have all seen them dressed in black - some white girls who have renounced the world and gone into retreat and spent their lives in prayer and solemn thought, so no doubt only coming out of that retreat to administer to the sick, to the poor, teaching the youth of their church, and to other terrible duties, no doubt. By renouncing the world, yes, even renouncing the sacred gift of motherhood and spend their lives in lonesomeness. No doubt noble girls, noble women, and I couldn't help but draw the comparison. It struck me as from heaven itself. And see his woman, a Mormon girl, and following after her young and old whom she gave birth to because she knew as a girl in the church of God and she married her man. That was the most solemn duty of God and man to bring forth offspring. I think this is one of the most beautiful examples that I have ever seen in all of my life.

Yet we bury today a man of 45 years old, a man in his youth, if you please, leaving a wife and 9 or 10 children if I remember right. A woman that knows the most sacred duty of womankind is to bring blessings unto God, that which a woman can do alone. He says this is to bring to pass the immortality to man and eternal life. We labor and all our days and He gives us blessings for that which we do. He says this is my glory to bring to pass the eternal life of man. They who are mothers and fathers in Israel can bring forth children and teach them in the ways of God and that is my glory to pass the eternal life and the salvation of man, and that is where Sister Kranendonk has helped him, to bring glory unto his name. All these things take self-sacrifice - sacrificing oneself. You know that Mormonism doesn't teach that marriage is contracted for pleasure - for gaining worldly wealth - it is taught for sacred things.

She is sitting with the immortal remains of her husband in front of her. She knows that there is everlasting power of the priesthood, that the man that died before her will be here in all eternity. That is the most comforting thought in death to me. As a brother from England said, we as converts have felt the power of the Priesthood and come from another land, as his old mother behind his wife sitting there did. As a son of Brother and Sister Kranendonk, also a son of God, also ready to live in foreign lands because that is the ideal of Mormonism. Mothers and fathers should teach their sons to fear God Almighty. They should teach that life does not end when their bodies are put forth in the grave, for soon you and I will be laying the same way.

Mormonism has taught you and me that after all we belong to one great family and we are sisters and brothers going back to one father of us all - that you are my sister, as I am your brother, that we belong to the same household, to the same family, and that father of mine, that father of yours, that father of Sister Kranendonk's will comfort, and that boy whom she gave life through his Holy spirit who is over there spending his time in service. Isn't this a fine thing to bury a man whose son is working for the father who called him. Wouldn't it be a terrible thing that the oldest boy or the oldest child were serving time over there, Sugarhouse or any other place - serving time. It is true, but he is serving time for love.

His wife said yesterday a release came to the home, a release given by Brother Valentine sitting behind me. Died in the service, it said in it, died in the service a 70. We remember what the Lord said to the 70's in his day. They had a mission to perform - two things. In this world he must serve God as a special missionary in the calling of 70.

I have seen Brother Kranendonk in the presence of his family. I have visited him when the most holy spirit was present in the home. I have visited him in time of depression. Not a word of complaint because of his faith in the Lord, but the satisfaction from within - never a word of complaint. In earthly distress - in distress of mind and body and soul, no complaint. It takes a testimony of the divinity of this work to feel comfort in the spirit of God. I don't see how people can leave this church after receiving inspiration from the Lord. He was just a young man when it came to him.

That little girl 8 or 9 will be without a father, but as that woman taught her children faith in God, no better teachings can be given them than that God lives. I could just love the mothers and fathers in Israel that teach their young ones that he lives. The fact remains that he is our Heavenly Father, that he knows our ills and weaknesses, but that responsibility is placed upon his shoulders to bring your children back to the presence of God, and that is his glory. That is the only glory that I can find in the scriptures that you can do for God. She has done that for God - to bring to pass the immortal life for his children. You know as well as I know standing before you here. I believe hat Brother Kranendonk is here. He sees those children, some of them very young. They will have to go through life without a father, but satisfaction must be theirs that he has given them hope of immortal life through baptism in this church. This little girl and this little boy and the bigger ones will have the thought that He lives, and He lived and died fore us. Oh, let us pray daily for them and for all of those who live without mothers and without fathers. Once we buried a mother. When the lid was closed, her small daughter tried to look at her. Her earthly mother had been taken away and someone else must take care of her. The God of Israel will take care of her. As truly as there is a God in Israel, the God of Isaac and Abraham and of this Brother, he will take care of them. They know his existence. They know He lives, and as truly as He died - as truly as He lives - it will be terrible to think for one split second that Brother Kranendonk will be lowered in the grave in a few seconds and dirty dirt put upon him. That isn't true. He lives as much as you do. They will unite his body and his spirit, and his body immortal will live forever with her to whom he is married by the power of the most holy priesthood.

And let me remind you, you saints of all the European countries, when you partook of the covenant of God through baptism, it was your solemn duty to God to keep his commandments and that you would live according to the regulations given by the boy prophet. Let us be united in that, you saints, remember that these are the last days. He has spoken from the heavens. How much he has given us by which we may return to his presence. These boys and girls are looking forward to the time when they will be united to their father and Heavenly Father, if you please - longing for the time when you come back to his presence. You are his, and his alone. The race is not to the swift not the battle to the strong, but those that will keep on to the end. And the Lord will bless her and her little ones.

If it is old fashioned or not, one woman who bore those children - again I see the difference between those girls old and young and dressed in black and don't understand the purpose of God Almighty to bring forth children and bring them back in God's glory. The Lord might inspire her as he has done in the past in Brother Kranendonk's life. He will bless and comfort her and also his aged mother sitting here also that she will get the strength that only comes through God. It will come by earnest prayer I will testify to you in he name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Hyrum W. Valentine: I am delighted, my brethren and sisters and associates, and missionary companions for this very glowing farewell of Brother Kranendonk. He died in the service. I have been associated with him in the Salt Lake Stake mission for nearly 7 years, and brethren have born testimony to his faithfulness and integrity and his energy long before that. No better missionary has been enlisted in the Salt Lake Stake mission in the past 7 years than Brother Gerrit Kranendonk.

I have been in his home and, brethren and sisters, I am willing to take the home and family circle of Brother Kranendonk and set it up as ideal and exemplary family in the Church and Kingdom of God here and hereafter. I rejoiced in the testimony of his foreman from Cudahy Packing Company and praise the action of the Company who, when Brother Kranendonk was stricken and could no longer fill his place, the position was opened to his son, a young man of rather tender years but of untiring devotion and integrity as his father before him, and he has already filled the position and place of his father in that institution with the same service and that same devotion that has characterized his father in that position.

The benediction of the family and the benediction of the home when they became conscious of the fact the struggle was over, this saintly woman, my brethren and sisters, who has been made saintly by their service to God, which is most explicit and pronounced in our service to man, when the full realization was upon her and her children, said only, "Thank God his suffering is ended". She didn't be-moan the responsibility that was thrust upon her. She didn't go into hysterics because she was left to carry on in his footsteps, but honestly and faithfully in the spirit of the home, "Thank God his suffering is ended". And how wonderful it is.

The man who wants a garden fair
Or small or very big
With flowers growing here and there
Must bend his back and dig.

The things are might few on Earth
That wishes can obtain.
What e'er we want of any worth
We've got to work to gain.

It matters not what goal we seek
Its secret here reposes
You've got to dig from week to week,
To gain results and roses.

It has been beautifully elaborated and illustrated, but once again let me repeat: Gerrit Kranendonk and his faithful, devoted wife have been in quest not of earthly riches and treasures, but of the treasures of the Celestial Kingdom of God, and thus far they have been most abundantly and dutifully blessed, and these are the jewels. These are the unperishable, imperishable diamonds that set in their garland of motherhood and fatherhood and parenthood forever and forever. One of these diamonds has already passed into the Celestial Kingdom of God and Brother Gerrit Kranendonk in whose honor we are meeting here, has now entered it in fullness upon that inheritance for which he has struggled faithfully and diligently and honestly.

Brethren and Sisters, we are blind until we see that in this human plan, nothing is worth the making if it doesn't make the man. How beautifully the example has been given, not alone in the life of Brother Kranendonk, not alone in the life of his wife and children, nor in the life of his mother who sits here and his brothers and sisters who have been engaged in that very thing that makes the man. Makes the man in the image of God who created him, male and female created he them and has to go the whole panorama in which we now find ourselves, and follow the sacred commandments to multiply and replenish and subdue the earth and have dominion over it. Why build these cities glorious? WE build the world in vain unless the builder also grows. The Doctrine and Covenants, speaking of the priesthood, says: Whosoever is faithful in receiving these priesthoods and magnifying their calling shall be sanctified by the spirit unto the renewing of their bodies testifies that Brother Kranendonk has been most faithful, that he has been most energetic, that he has received these priesthoods, that he magnified every calling in every office in the priesthood that he ever held.

My testimony is that in his home in the solemn hour of preparation and departure, not in the spirit of death or gloom but in the spirit of life. The spirit of eternity, the spirit of resurrection has been and is there with his wife and children and his son who is abroad, and his mother and brothers and sisters. That is the benediction that God has promised you. Brethren and sisters, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true and no matter what sacrifice we may make for the advancement of this work, when the mists are cleared away and we are permitted to see the vision and the grandeur and the course of this work, we shall have a sad regret that we haven't taken it more seriously and let it become the absorbing, moving thing in our lives as it is so beautifully characterizes the life of Brother Kranendonk and his family.

Farewell Gerrit. You have been an inspiration to me, and on to eternity to continue in a higher sphere because of your faithfulness to Jesus Christ, and this is my benediction to you and your loved ones here in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Quartet: Jesus, Lover of My Soul.

Bishop George D. Jorgensen: I believe it is very difficult for many of us, mortals as we are, to realize and to understand how it is that a man like Brother Kranendonk in his early life is called away from the family the size that he has. I believe that if it were not for the spirit of the Gospel, for the understanding that we have of the plan of life and salvation, that indeed it would be a sad thing in the life of many of us. We live by faith and we walk by faith, and through the inspiration of God we understand some of the seeming mysteries. Some 4 or 5 years ago I realized that Brother Kranendonk was very sick. In going to the clinic the have the examination b the doctor to study his ailment, they decided an operation was necessary inn order to restore him to health and strength. Dr. Snow called me at my work and said it was necessary for Brother Kranendonk to have an operation that his life might be spared. His life was spared to continue on. Now 4 or 5 years later it is taken away, with a family of 10 children and very little ones among them. It is hard for some of us to understand, isn't it, and yet there isn't any question in my mind but that there is a greater mission for Gerrit to perform than if he had been left here.

We may wonder, and we do, why a mother or father taken away from their little ones, his life having been preserved until this time when there is 10 living and one dead, taken out of this life.

It has been an inspiration to us, he bishopric, to go to the home of Brother Kranendonk and see the devotion of his wife and children in doing their very best in making his life comfortable - to make him as comfortable as it was possible to do under the circumstances. I know that they have fear in God. I know that they have hope in immortality and that they realize that their husband and their father's life and their son's mission is completed here.

We administered to Brother Kranendonk on many occasions, we had prayer with the family, and I am sure that not only I but those that were present on the occasion felt the spirit of the Lord. Time and again when blessing him we asked God top do his will. We felt that the family understood that God wanted his work and his things accomplished, and that they were anxious to turn the way of the Lord. I am sure, my brothers and sisters, that in this change which has come about in the family hat God has a purpose. I am sure that the responsibility that will be placed upon sister Kranendonk and partly upon her children now will be something that perhaps we, at present, can't foresee. That it will be the means of developing faith and greater responsibility and of developing these children of Brother Kranendonk's who now have the responsibility which he has left to their hand.

God is good. God knows best, I am sure, and knows His purposes. It is a peculiar thing, isn't it, that only a couple of months ago his son was sent into the mission field. It is peculiar to know and realize that there are men and women and employers and institutions who are interested in the happiness and welfare of God's children. To know that because of Brother Kranendonk's illness and his recovery seeming to be remote and his son to be called into the mission field and concerning themselves to the point of giving his son Frank his job and letting him carry on. It is nice to realize that among the selfishness we find among the earth that there are some that interest themselves in carrying out the purposes of their fellow men.

I do pray God to bless Sister Kranendonk, the wife of Gerrit, and his children, their children, Gerrit's mother, his brothers and sisters, and all who are interested - all who are related to this wonderful group. The things that have been said about this family both by the employer and by neighbors of former days of his group, and of Brother Zappey and Brother Valentine who is the mission president here in the3 Salt Lake Stake. These things are thought here in the ward. I am sure there hasn't been and family that has been more faithful.

I was very much impressed by the prayer in the home before we came to the chapel, how all of the family, not one has strayed. It is remarkable. Ten out of ten - one hundred percent are faithful in all the duties of the family in living up to the principles of the Gospel.

I pray God o bless this family that God's purpose may be accomplished, that they may see and realize he is near to them. I pray these blessings in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

On behalf of Sister Kranendonk and her family, I wish to thank he many of you who have been so kind to them in the hour of trial and illness. Brother Frank Kranendonk and all the arrangements of the services here today and I know that he and the members of the family are grateful for your presence here today, for the beautiful music that has been rendered, for the kind words that have been spoken, and all of your associations, you friends and neighbors.

The quartet will sing God Moves in Mysterious Way His Wonders to Perform. The benediction will be offered by Charles W. Thorpe. The grave in the City Cemetery will be dedicated by Arthur M. Spencer.

Quartet: God Moves in Mysterious Way His Wonders to Perform.

Charles W. Thorpe: Our Heavenly Father, we present ourselves before thee this afternoon at the close of these services of Brother Kranendonk. We are grateful for the words that have been spoken this afternoon, for this friendly instruction that we have received, that we may carry that they may be a benefit to us in our daily life. We are thankful for the music and singing and for those flowers that have been presented as a token of love and respect to Brother Kranendonk and his family. Heavenly Father, we are grateful to thee for Brother Kranendonk's life and his example. He has shown to those he has come in contact with from time to time that his name and memory may linger with us throughout our lives. We ask, Heavenly Father, that Thy spirit may go with us to the cemetery, that no accident may follow, and we may turn to their home and get peace and happiness. This we ask in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, Amen.

Funeral Transcript made by Edna Pugsley