Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr., Eulogizes Rev. C.L. Franklin as "A Good Soldier!"

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CREDIT:

Eulogist: Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr.
Eulogized: Rev. C.L. Franklin
Date Of The Funeral: Saturday, August 11th, 1984
Venue: New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan

DESCRIPTION:

Shortly after midnight on Sunday, June 10th, 1979, Rev. C.L. Franklin was shot twice at point-blank range during an attempted robbery at his home on Detroit's West Side. He was taken to Henry Ford Hospital on the nearby West Grand Boulevard. He remained in a coma for the next five (5) years.

His children moved him back to his house six months after the shooting; he received twenty-four (24) hour nursing care and remained at home until the middle of 1984. He died on Friday, July 27, 1984, at the age of sixty-nine (69), in Detroit's New Light Nursing Home.

The Rev. C.L. Franklin was entombed in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery on North Woodward Avenue. Rev. C.L. Franklin's long time friend, the Rev. Jasper Williams Jr., of the Salem Bible Church of Atlanta, Georgia, gave the eulogy.

The Rev. C.L. Franklin was a good soldier.

For more information regarding the death of the Rev. C.L. Franklin, please click here: https://bit.ly/2LXbnET.

If you'd like to learn more about the ministry Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr. at: http://jasperwilliams.com. Once you're on the Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr.'s website, you can also purchase a copy of the Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr.'s eulogy of the Rev. C.L. Franklin (like I did) by using this link: https://bit.ly/2PB1ejq.

I want to thank the Rev. Jasper Williams, Jr. Pastor Emeritus of the Salem Baptist Church on Martin Street in Atlanta, Georgia, for a lifetime of strong bible-based preaching.