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- Funeral services for Mrs. Stella BROWN,
82, were held Sunday at the Milton
- Seventh Day Baptist church, the Rev.
Elmo F. Randolph officiating.
- Mrs. BROWN died Thursday at
the Beecher Convalescent home, Janesville.
- Mrs. [Orissa Estella] BROWN
was born July 25, 1870, in Jackson Center, O., the
- daughter of the Rev. Simeon and Mrs.
BABCOCK. She was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist church
in Milton.
- Survivors include a son, Cecil, Milwaukee;
a daughter, Mrs. Ila THOMPSON,
- Henry, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Herbert
VAN HORN, New Jersey; two brothers, Milton J. BABCOCK,
Edgerton, and Louis K. BABCOCK, Milton; a grandchild;
two great- grandchildren; and 15 nieces and nephews.
- Kenneth BABCOCK sang two selections
at the services, accompanied by Miss
- Betty DALAND.
- The pallbearers were Leland WHITFORD,
Claude WHITFORD, Willard
- BABCOCK,
Lawrence BABCOCK, Robert BABCOCK and George SNYDER.
Burial was in Evergreen cemetery, Fort Atkinson. [Thursday
edition, p. 3]
- Funeral services were held Monday for
Mrs. Annabel CARR HINMAN, 87,
- prominent music instructor in Milton
for many years. She died quietly Friday in her home at 412 Madison
ave. She had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage July 13.
- The daughter of Joseph Goodrich and
Phoebe MAXSON CARR, she was born
- April 7, 1866, on a farm near Milton
Junction. She was the second eldest of five children, all of
whom preceded her in death.
- She studied at Milton Academy and the
Chicago Musical college and later at the old
- Albion academy, where she taught voice,
piano and elementary singing courses. She also studied and taught
at Milton college and while there was married to Prof. Ludwig
KUMLIEN, teacher of Zoology and biology, Dec. 21, 1892.
Prof. KUMLIEN was the son of the well known Wisconsin
naturalist, Thure KUMLIEN.
- Prof. KUMLIEN died Dec. 4, 1902.
In 1905 she was married to John R.
- HINMAN.
They spent five years in Northern Illinois before returning to
Milton in 1919. He died in 1934.
- Mrs. HINMAN was a charter member
and past president of the Milton Women's
- Improvement club.
- Surviving are two sons, L. Carr KUMLIEN,
Milton Junction, and Lawrence L.
- KUMLIEN,
Janesville; two daughters, Mrs. Lenore RAUKUCE, Milton,
and Mrs. Phoebe WATERMAN, Milton Junction; 12 grandchildren;
28 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
- The funeral was held at 2 p.m. in the
Milton Seventh Day Baptist church, of which she
- was a member, the Rev. Elmo F. Randolph
officiating. The body was removed to the Greenwood crematory,
Rockford, for cremation. [Thursday edition, p. 3]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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