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- Funeral services for Howard C[lifford]
STEWART, 76, were held Monday afternoon
- in the Milton Seventh Say Baptist church,
the Rev. Elmo F. Randolph officiating. Burial was in Milton
cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. G. E. CROSLEY, D. N.
INGLIS, B. R. ROOD, C. A. NELSON, F. B.
COON and W. G. POLAN. Kenneth BABCOCK
sang two selections accompanied by Miss Betty DALAND.
Mmes. L. C. SHAW, E. E. SHAW and Arthur DRAKE
had charge of the flowers.
- Mr. STEWART, a teacher most
of his life, died Saturday in Edgerton Memorial
- hospital.
- He was born March 11, 1876, in Camden,
N.J., and moved to West Hallock, Ill.,
- with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
C. STEWART, in 1880. He was graduated from Milton College
in 1904. He taught in Illinois, was principal of the Plover,
Ia., high school for two years and also was principal at Clearwater
and Lakeville, Minn. In 1930 he took a sales position with
the Fond du Lac School Supply Co., retiring in July, 1950, and
moving to Milton. He was married Aug. 7, 1907, to Gertrude
CAMPBELL.
- Surviving are his wife; a son Hugh
of Racine; a daughter Lucille in Pekin, China; two
- grandchildren, Donald and Mary PU,
Pekin, China; a brother, Wilbur, Columbus, Ohio; and a sister,
Mrs. Clarence LAWTON, Albion.
- Among those from away who attended
the funeral were Prof. Wilbur STEWART,
- Columbus, O.; Eugene STEWART,
Chillicothe, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Clem CROWLEY and Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh STEWART, Racine; Mr. and Mrs. Ben WILLE,
Edgerton; Albert WILLE, Janesville; Mr. and Mrs. Zuriel
CAMPBELL, Kent, Wash.; Miss Margaret CAMPBELL,
Miss Verna LEIN, Waupaca; Victor CAMPBELL, Excelsior,
Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Howard GOULD, Glencoe, Minn.; and
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. RODENKIRCH, Fond du Lac. [Thursday
edition, p. 3]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Elizabeth Althea VAN HORN KNIGHT,
76 years of age, died at the home of her
- son, Wilferd KNIGHT, Milton,
Monday evening, July 28.
- Born June 7, 1876, at Welton, Iowa,
she was married to John W. KNIGHT in 1896.
- Soon after their marriage they homesteaded
in Oklahoma where they lived until Mr. KNIGHT's accidental
death in 1921.
- For the past 29 years Mrs. KNIGHT
was resided in Milton and in her later years has
- been in declining health. In her youth
she affiliated with the Seventh Day Baptist church at Welton,
Iowa, and since that time has had membership in the Garwin, Iowa,
Gentry, Ark, and Milton, Seventh Day Baptist churches.
- Surviving Mrs. KNIGHT are her
only son, Wilferd, of Milton, and two grandchildren,
- Mrs. Theodore SNYDER, of Janesville,
and John KNIGHT, Milton.
- Funeral services were conducted Thursday
afternoon in the Milton Seventh Day
- Baptist church, the Rev. Elmo Fitz
Randolph, minister, officiating. [Thursday edition, p. 3]
- Merritt Darwin VAN HORN was
born in Welton, Iowa October 2, 1899, the son of
- Leonard and Clara VAN HORN.
- On September 1, 1926 he was married
to Una Louise CLARKE at Milton. Nearly
- all of their married life was spent
in Southern Wisconsin, their home being in Whitewater.
- He was a member of the Milton Seventh
Day Baptist church and a former member of
- the Odd Fellows lodge. He attended
Milton college for one year.
- He had been in failing health for the
last six months, and on June 24 entered Wisconsin
- General hospital, where he passed away
on Thursday evening July 24.
- Surviving are his wife, Una; a son
Donald and a granddaughter Lynette of San Diego,
- Calif.; a sister, Reeva, Mrs. Ernest
SAUNDERS of Edgerton; and four brothers: Irel of Clinton,
Ia.; Loyal of Kent, Wash.; Kenneth of Lanark, Ill.; and Burleson
of Milton.
- He was preceded in death by his parents
and by two brothers, Floyd and Glenn.
- Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Carroll L. Hill on Monday, July 28 at
- Skindingsrude and Lein Funeral Home
in Whitewater.
- Pallbearers were: William FRIEDEL,
Willard THAYER, Eugene WAGIE, Lauren
- LAWTON,
Herbert ZABLE and Leonard HOLMAN.
- Burial was in Milton cemetery. [Thursday
edition, p. 3]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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