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- Private funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon in the Albrecht funeral home for
- Ray George THORNGATE, 83, resident
of Milton for the past 25 years. He died at 11 a.m. Sunday
in the Clear lake home of his daughter, Mrs. R. H. MAXSON,
Milton.
- The son of George and Arloena CRANDALL
[THORNGATE], he was born Dec.
- 24, 1866, in Brookfield, Mo. He was
married Nov. 24, 1891, to Flora DAVID, who died in November,
1920. Mr. THORNGATE came to Milton in 1925 from North
Loup, Neb., where he had been a painting contractor. In later
years he was occupied with religious and political matters and
was the author of a decimal unit primary bill which was introduced
to the Wisconsin state legislature. He was a member of the
North Loup Seventh Day Baptist church.
- Surviving are three daughters, Alice
of Madison, Aletha of Rochester, N.Y., and Mrs.
- MAXSON;
two sons, Arthur of Long Beach, Calif., and Walter of North Loup;
a brother, the Rev. Charles THORNGATE of Iowa, 10 grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
- The Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph, pastor
of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church,
- officiated, and burial was in the Milton
cemetery. Pallbearers were Byron ROOD, Edward ROOD,
Martin NELSON, and D. N. INGLIS. [Thursday edition,
p. 3]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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