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- Newton Elston LOOFBORO, age 93, a resident of Cedar
Crest Health Center, died
- there Mon., Feb. 21, 2000. Elston was born June 26, 1906,
in Welton, IA, the son of Horace and Hattie (MUDGE) LOOFBORO.
He graduated from Milton College, Milton, WI in 1930, and received
a Master of Philosophy from UW-Madison in 1941. He taught science
in Elkhorn, WI from 1931 to 1935 and in Janesville from 1935
to 1943. Mary GORDON, an English teacher in Janesville,
and Elston were married on July 14, 1938. He worked for Gilman
Engineering from 1943 to 1958 in Personnel. In 1958 he joined
Parker Pen, where he was the general office personnel manager
until his retirement in 1971. Some of his associations through
the years were with the Lions Club, Golden K and Blackhawk Amateur
Radio. He was a member of the First Congregational Church and
from 1953 to 1968 a board member of the Janesville-Beloit Vocational,
Technical and Adult School. As a teenager he received his first
amateur radio operator's license. His call letters fir this lifelong
hobby were W9IQB.
- Elston is survived by his daughter and her husband, Jean
and Robert GURITZ of
- Evanston, IL, his son, James of Tolono, IL. Surviving in-laws
are Helen BECHTEL of Grants, NM, Celeste GORDON
of Waynesboro, VA, and Dr. Julian P. TATUM of Colorado
Springs, CO. He is fondly remembered by Donald GURITZ
of Janesville, Matthew, Rita, Michael, and Zachary GURITZ
of Park Forest, IL, and David, Kimberly, Rachel, and Joe GURITZ
of Park Forest, IL. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary,
in 1997.
- Friends are invited to a Memorial Service at 2:00 p.m. on
Sat., Feb. 26, 2000, at the
- chapel at Cedar Crest, 1702 S. River Rd., Janesville. In
lieu of other expressions of sympathy, those wishing to make
memorials could make a donation to the Hedberg Public Library,
316 S. Main St., Janesville, WI 53545. [Thursday edition,
p. 2B]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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