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- Funeral services were held this afternoon
for Robert E. GREENE, 60, widely known
- Grange leader who died Monday night
at Mercy hospital, Janesville, after being ill for two years.
The Rev. Kenneth E. Van Horn conducted the services in the
Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist church and burial was in
the Milton Junction cemetery.
- Members of the Masonic order, the Eastern
Star, and the Milton Grange attended the
- services in groups.
- Fifteen years ago Mr. GREENE,
his wife and daughter moved from a farm near
- Milton Junction and made their home
at 501 E. Madison ave., Milton Junction.
- Former lecturer of the Wisconsin State
Grange, Mr. GREENE also served as master
- of the Rock-Walworth Pomona Grange
for four years. He served on the Milton-Milton Junction high
school board and was a deacon of the Seventh Day Baptist church.
He was a past patron of the O.E.S.
- A graduate of the school of agriculture
at Alfred university, Alfred, N.Y., Mr.
- GREENE
taught in Interlaken, N.Y., and later attended the University
of Wisconsin. He returned to the school in Interlaken to serve
as principal, a position he held for five years before returning
to Wisconsin. While in New York he served as an agriculture
assistant in hiring farm workers during World War I.
- In 1944, Mr. GREENE was named
emergency farm labor assistant for Rock county,
- working from the county extension office
in Janesville.
- Mr. GREENE was born Dec. 29,
1889, in New York. On Sep. 9 [1914], he was
- married to Jennie CRANDALL.
In recent years he had been employed by the Burdick Corp.
- Surviving are his wife; a daughter,
Mrs. R. E. BOWERS; three grandchildren, Bruce,
- Brent and Bobbie BOWERS; a brother,
William, of New York; and a half brother, Elwood GREENE
of New York. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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