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- Funeral services for Byron E[dgar]
COON, 79, were held at 2 p. m. Sunday, Nov 7,
- in the Phelps funeral home with burial
in Milton cemetery. The Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph officiated assisted
by Dr. Edwin Ben Shaw.
- Mr. COON died at 9:30 p. m.
Friday in the Edgerton Memorial hospital where he
- had been a patient for 11 days.
- The son of James and Jeanette CRANDALL
COON, he was born Nov. 12, 1869,
- in Utica, Wis., and was educated in
the Albion academy and Milton college. He came to Milton at the
age of 22 and was married Sept. 29, 1903, to Nellie Viola COON
in New Auburn, Minn.
- They purchased a farm south of Milton,
living there until their retirement from farming
- in 1927. Since that time, they have
lived in a home they bought on Rogers street. He was active in
work of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church and its Sabbath
school and the I.O.O.F.
- Survivors are his wife; a son, B. Elwin
COON, Beloit, an adopted daughter, Mrs.
- Retta SPAULDING, Clintonville;
three granddaughters, and two grandsons and a sister, Mrs. J.
Fred WHITFORD, Milton. [Thursday edition, pp. 2 &
7]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Margaret
SEVERANCE, who had been confined to
- her bed for the past 11 months, were
held Friday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. from the Phelps funeral home
and at 2:30 p.m. from the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church with
burial in Milton Lawns Memorial Park cemetery, Janesville.
- The Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph officiated.
- Mrs. Anna OSBORN SEVERANCE,
71, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
- Stanley FOX, Milton, at 10:40
a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, after an illness of 2 1/2 years.
- Anna OSBORN, the daughter of
Irving and Augusta OSBORN, was born Jan. 29,
- 1877, in Dodge Center, Minn., and married
Burton T. SEVERANCE Feb. 12, 1896. Her husband passed
away July 5, 1946.
- She was a member of the Milton Seventh
Day Baptist church, the Women's Christian
- Temperance Union, and the King's Daughters.
- Two daughters and a son, died in infancy,
and one son, died at the age of 11 in 1921.
- She is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Lorna HOWE and Mrs. Belva FOX, both of Milton;
four sons, Lyal, Janesville, Howard, Elkhorn, Irving and Graydon,
both of Milton; 12 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a
sister, Mrs. Ella PARKER, Siren, Wis., and two brothers,
George OSBORN, Dodge Center, Minn., and Josh OSBORN,
Van Nuys, Calif. [Thursday edition, p. 2]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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