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- Funeral services were held at 2 p.
m. Tuesday in the Milton S.D.B. church for Mrs.
- J. H. BURDICK who died Sunday
in a convalescents home in Janesville. Rev. Carroll L. HILL
officiated and Kenneth BABCOCK sang two selections.
Burial was in Milton cemetery with Rev. W. D. BURDICK,
Prof. W. D. BURDICK, Prof. D. N. INGLIS, L. A.
BABCOCK, R. L. HULL and Elston SHAW acting
as pallbearers. Out of town relatives attending were Mr. and
Mrs. Percy BURDICK of Rockford and son S/Sgt. David BURDICK
of Spokane, Wash.
- Clara Lenore STILLMAN, daughter
of Jarius M. and Lenore LANGWORTHY
- STILLMAN,
was born Jan. 6, 1869, at Potters Hill, R. I., her mother dying
at her birth. She was taken into the home of her grandparents,
the William L. LANGWORTHYs, Watch Hill, R. I., where she
grew to womanhood. She attended the Boston Conservatory of
Music, Alfred University and Milton College, receiving special
musical training in all these schools. Her father, Dr. J. M.
STILLMAN, was director of vocal music in Milton College
for many years. She possessed a soprano voice of unusual quality,
in which her father took great pride.
- While attending Milton College, she
met Dr. Justin H. BURDICK, a practicing
- physician in Milton, to whom she was
married Sept. 2, 1898, at Watch Hill, R. I. Dr. BURDICK
brought his bride to his Milton home on High street. Both were
interested in church and civic affairs.
- Dr. BURDICK was killed in an
automobile accident April 3, 1939, in which Mrs.
- BURDICK
was critically injured. She had 13 bones fractured and she
never fully recovered. She was a patient in Mercy hospital,
Janesville, for a time prior to the last three weeks of her life
in the convalescent home where she died.
- Survivors are the three sons, William,
Robert and Roger, and two daughters, Ruth and
- Phyllis, and seven grandchildren. [Thursday,
p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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