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- Funeral services for Louis A[rlington]
BABCOCK, Milton, who died in Mercy
- hospital, Janesville, May 12, following
an illness of several months, were held in Milton Seventh Day
Baptist church last Saturday at 3 p.m. the Rev. Elmo F. Randolph
conducting. A quartet, composed of Edward ROOD, Ivan
FITZ RANDOLPH, Paul GREEN, Jr., and Don V. GRAY,
sang two selections with Miss Elizabeth DALAND at the
organ. Burial was in Milton cemetery with pallbearers being
Ernest SHELLESTAD, P. L. HUDSON, Frank HOLMES,
D. N. INGLIS, Edwin MORSE and Leland HULETT.
- Mr. BABCOCK was born in Albion,
Wis., March 9, 1873, the son of Rev. Simeon
- and Elizabeth McCORMICK BABCOCK.
After graduating from the Walworth high school, he attended
Milton College.
- On August 13, 1896, he married Lettie
LANPHERE, of Hammond, La., who
- survives him. To them were born three
children: Laurence, now of Rockford, Ill.; Margaret, of Elgin,
Ill.; and Kenneth of Milton. There are seven grandchildren
and two great- grandchildren. Other survivors are a brother,
Milton, of Albion; a sister, Mrs. Abbie VAN HORN, of Dunellen,
N.J.; four nieces and nine nephews. Two sisters, Mrs. Emma
WHITFORD, Mrs. Stella BROWN, and a brother, Lester,
preceded him in death.
- A resident of Milton for 54 years,
Mr. BABCOCK was in the grocery business for
- twenty-three years and for twenty-one
years he was teller and then assistant cashier of the Bank of
Milton, from which work he retired in 1945.
- Always active in church and civic affairs,
he was a member of the Milton Seventh Day
- Baptist Church, for many years a trustee
of Milton College and until his death, a director of the Bank
of Milton and of the Milton Savings and Loan Association. Mr.
BABCOCK was a charter member of the Milton Civic club.
[Thursday edition, p. 7]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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