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Beloit Daily News

July 1955

Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

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Frank A. OLIVER
Janesville - Frank A. OLIVER, 71, Janesville, died Sunday morning in Mercy Hospital.
Born April 21, 1874 in Nebraska, he had resided here since 1912. He was employed
by the Milwaukee railroad for 43 years before retiring due to ill health. He was a member of the First Congregational church and of Masonic lodge No. 14.
Surviving are his wife, the former Margaret WOODARD whom he married Dec. 20,
1910; a brother and two sisters.
Services will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the Overton funeral home. Burial will be in
Omaha.
 
Janet Marie RIPPIE
Janet Marie, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold RIPPIE, 449 Oak Grove ave.,
died soon after birth at Beloit hospital early today.
Survivors are her parents; a brother, Gary, 5, and her grandmother, Mrs. Mabel
GOLDSWORTHY, South Beloit.
Graveside services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. today at Eastlawn cemetery.
 
Mrs. Frank BREWSTER
Mrs. Frank BREWSTER, 1537-1/2 Shirland ave., died Sunday night at Beloit hospital.
Mrs. BREWSTER was born Feb. 24, 1882 in Beloit. Before her marriage to Mr.
BREWSTER in Rockton, July 5, 1902, she was Miss Nellie HARMON.
Survivors are her husband and six children, Frankie, Rte. 3, Rockton; James and A. D.
BREWSTER, Beloit; Ray, Stevens Point; Mrs. Leo DUNAWAY, Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Wilburt KNANEL, South Beloit; 27 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ed HARMON, Beloit, and Glen and George HARMON of Oakland, Calif., and a sister, Mrs. Alice SNODGRASS of Walla Walla, Wash.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Rosman-Uehling-Kinzer
chapel. Burial will be in the Roscoe cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 Tuesday night.
 
[Transcriber's note: The following obit is of one of my grandmother's sisters]
 
Miss Henrietta E. LANPHEAR
Miss Henrietta Elizabeth LANPHEAR, 225 North ave., a school teacher in the Beloit
rural area for 29 years, died Saturday evening at Mercy hospital, Janesville, after a lingering illness.
Miss Lanphear was born Dec. 2, 1882, in Sidney, Neb., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry LANPHEAR. She came to Beloit soon after the turn of the century. Before retiring as a teacher, she taught for seven years in Avalon, and prior to that in Newark. She was a member of the Eastern Star and White Shrine.
Survivors are three brothers, Frank and Jess, in Beloit, and Carl in Chicago, and two
sisters, Mrs. Grace GATES, Racine, and Mrs. Jennie BAILEY of Wisconsin Dells.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Rosman-Uehling-Kinzer
chapel. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 tonight at the mortuary.
Courtesy of Carol

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