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- Funeral services for Wade [John] LOOFBORO,
84, who died Saturday afternoon
- at the Beecher Convalescent home, Janesville,
were held Tuesday afternoon in the Milton Junction Seventh Day
Baptist church, Pastor Kenneth Smith officiating.
- He was born in Welton, Iowa, Sept.
15, 1868, the son of John and Susan
- LOOFBORO.
On March 22, 1893, he was married to Mary Eusebia COON,
Milton Junction. They lived in Milton Junction a few years,
then moved to Iowa, returning here in 1938. Mr. and Mrs. LOOFBORO
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on March 22, 1943.
Mrs. LOOFBORO died nine years ago. Mr. LOOFBORO
was a member of the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist church.
- He is survived by two sons, Howard,
Edgerton, and Wesley, Milton Junction; three
- brothers, Dr. Earl LOOFBORO,
Janesville, the Rev. Eli LOOFBORO, Westerly, R.I., and
Elmer LOOFBORO, Albion; one sister, Mrs. A. L. BURDICK,
Milton. There are five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
A brother, Bert, died in 1936.
- Burial was in Milton Junction cemetery.
[Thursday edition, p. 5]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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