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- Marilyn
Glenn Solem
- Marilyn Glenn SOLEM, nine-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold SOLEM,
- route 1, died unexpectedly in Mercy hospital at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday. She was a fifth grade pupil in Mt. Zion school, Harmony
township.
- Marilyn Glenn, daughter of Harold and Luella WILTSEY SOLEM,
was born in
- Janesville Jan. 26, 1941. Surviving are her parents and her
grandmother, Mrs. Eva STOLLER, Milton Junction.
- Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Reining funeral
home, the Rev. Reginald
- C. White, Rock Prairie United Presbyterian church, officiating.
Burial will be in Johnstown cemetery. Friends may call at the
funeral home Tuesday evening.
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- Courtesy of Dale
Wheelock
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- Mrs. Cora E. DICKINSON, 89, for many years a Janesville
resident, died Sunday
- morning at the home of her daughter, Miss Maude V. DICKINSON,
609 Sprague street, Madison, after a long illness. She was well-known
not only in Rock county but throughout the state in temperance,
patriotic, and fraternal circles. Broadminded, keen of intellect,
honest of purpose, and with a personality that radiated friendliness.
- Mrs. DICKINSON was a member of one of America's oldest
families. Cora Elida
- HALL was born in Lima township, Rock county, in 1860,
the eldest child of Gregory and Ann HALL, early pioneers.
When about five years of age, she moved with her parents to a
farm about one-half mile from Johnstown Center where her years
of young womanhood were spent. While living there she completed
the academic course then offered in the village school and later
attended Milton college. Though this marked the completion of
her formal education, Mrs. DICKINSON was a student throughout
her life. For five years she was a public school teacher. The
schools she taught were those which rated first in Rock county's
educational system, and many of her pupils, to this day, praise
her untiring efforts in their behalf. After her marriage to D.
A. DICKINSON and the role of housewife assumed, she still
found time to refresh her mind with the worth-while and the intellectual.
Her favorite society and the one which she joined in 1887 was
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. For several years she
was president of Harmony W.C.T.U, and while acting in that capacity
was elected president of the [Rock] county organization, which
office she held at intervals for nine years. She also held for
some time, the office of vice president-at-large. For four years
she was county secretary, one year county treasurer, and for
many years a county superintendent. She held the office of district
secretary three years. While working locally in the organization,
she was particularly interested and active in Demorest medal
contest work, having conducted about 20 contests in various sections
of Rock county. She was also a forceful local superintendent
of Flower Mission work. She passed through the chairs of the
Rebekah lodge and in 1897 attended the Rebekah Assembly, taking
the Assembly degree. In 1915 she was elected vice president of
the State Assembly; the following year she was chosen president.
In 1917 she presided over the state convention. She was a director
of the Odd Fellows home at Green Bay, 1916-1919. Through her
efforts the Rock County Past Noble Grands association was organized.
In 1919 Mrs. Dickinson became a member of W.H. Sargent, Post,
Woman's Relief Corps. She was president of the corps during the
years of 1920, '21 and '22. One year she was chaplain of the
state, and later was elected to the office of state patriotic
instructor. For many years Mrs. DICKINSON had been a member
of the Janesville chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was a direct descendant of one of the noted TYLER
families of New England, and a collateral descendant of ex-president
TYLER. Two ancestors were Revolutionary soldiers.
- Besides a daughter, Miss Maude DICKINSON, Mrs. DICKINSON
is survived by
- one sister, Mrs. Mary MORSE, Janesville, and one brother,
O. B. HALL, Milton. Funeral services will be held at 3
p.m. Tuesday in the Overton funeral home, the Rev. H.C. Kimmel,
First Congregational church, officiating. Burial will be in Milton
cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7:30 to 9.
p.m. Monday. The State Assembly of the Rebekah order will conduct
services at the funeral home.
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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