Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-23
GUARD BANDMASTER FOR
TWENTY-ONE YEARS

Last Sunday afternoon at five
o'clock, Sept. 21st, 1919. Lieut.. Frank
G.. Dana passed away at his home,
81 Fulton street. Mr.. Dana had been
i'll with heart trouble for the past six
months and for few weeks had been
confined to his home, growing steadily
worse until the end came. The i'm
mediate cause of his death was dropsy.
His condition was known to be very
serious but all hoped that there might
be a change for the better.
Lieut. Dana had spent the best part
of his life in Wausau, and had more
than a state wide reputation. This he
had gained by his long military car
eer and his great ability as a must
clan and a leader.
Enthusiastic in his life's work in
which he had become so proficient, he
devoted every spare moment, not for
pecuninary gain, but because he loved
music; it was his pleasure and every
success in that line added to his hap
piness. He was the most punctual of
men in these matters and kept an
appointment or engagement to the
minute, even TO the detriment of his
business and at times being away from
his family and friends for long periods.
He had the rare gift of selecting men
who had the genius to fill certain po
sitions and in this way he gathered
about him an organization of men
fired with the same enthusiasm as
their leader. He gained and held the
love and esteem of his cQ-workers and
they were ready at all times to work
with him to gain the highest results;
to follow him wherever he might go,
in private or army life, where good
music was so essential to the welfare
and spirits of the soldier. Modest, en-
thuiastic and capable, with DISPOSE
with whom he came in contact made
him the very life and spirit of the
musical organizations of which he
was leader, as we'll as in all walks of
life. Many of those who have been as
sociated with him in the past are now
following other lines of business, scat
tered in this and other states, still
they assured him that their services
were at his command, whenever want
ed to assist on special occasions. Many
of these men made long pilgrimages
to Wausau to see their beloved leader
during his last illness. This devotion
was not confined to those who had
been the co-workers of Lieut.. Dana,
but was shared by every man, woman,
and child, who knew him, and to these,
his death comes as keen blow-as
a great personal loss. AS leader in
high class music he had few equals.
Wausau was his home, practically,
from the time he came here in 1879.
Though he went elsewhere, for a time,
his heart was with Wausau and its
people; il is here that he gathered
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izstions and especially those of this
generation Will long remember this
genial and popular man of the people,
who has contributed so much to their
pleasure That his death has caused
vacancy which can never be filed,
as he filled it, goes without the saying.
Lieut. Frank G. Dana first saw the
light of day in Berlin, Wis, on the
18th day of April, 1858. He was edu-
Gated in the schools of that city,
learned the trade of jeweler, and later
went with, his parents to waupaca to
reside. He came to Wausau in 1879,
and took position in the jewelry
store of c. F. Dunbar Later, he was
associated with Frank Kelly in the