Bagpiper dies doing popular vacation attraction days before missing son’s remains found in backyard treehouse

An Atlanta bagpiper died portion participating successful a fashionable tourer attraction days earlier his son’s remains were recovered successful a Georgia treehouse, 4 years aft his disappearance, according to reports. 

Henry Frantz Jr., 74, was scuba diving successful Maui, Hawaii connected March 10 erstwhile helium died, according to an Instagram station from the Atlanta Pipe Band.

"A founding subordinate of APB successful 1970, past Pipe Major, and dedicated subordinate for 55 years, Henry’s interaction connected our set and the piping assemblage was immeasurable," the radical said. "Beyond music, Henry’s curiosity led him to question the world, research fossils, and prosecute scuba diving."

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Henry Frantz Jr. died successful a scuba diving incidental portion visiting Maui, Hawaii connected March 10, 2025.  (iStock)

The incidental reportedly remains nether investigation. 

The Maui Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

"It’s terrible," Leonard E. Wood, a person of the Frantz family, told WJCL. "[Henry] volition beryllium sadly missed by the piping community, and successful Atalanta and different places." 

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Aerial presumption of Kahului, Maui, Hawaii. (Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Six days later, household members recovered the skeletal remains of Frantz’s son, 28-year-old Henry Hank Frantz, successful a backyard treehouse located astatine the Georgia location his begetter antecedently lived in, USA Today reported. 

The DeKalb Medical Examiner’s Office believes the skeleton apt belongs to the younger Frantz, who went missing 4 years ago, according to WJCL. The origin and mode of decease stay nether investigation, but authorities reportedly bash not fishy foul play. 

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28-year-old Henry Hank Frantz's skeletal remains were recovered successful a backyard treehouse successful the Georgia location his begetter antecedently lived in.  (iStock)

The Atlanta Pipe Band did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

"Sometimes you tin conscionable just someone, and you conscionable cognize you’re going to similar that person," Wood told WJCL. "And I deliberation that’s the mode it was for Henry."