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- Memorial services for Dr. Alfred E[dward]
WHITFORD, 81, former Milton College
- president, who died Sunday in Florida,
will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Milton Seventh Day
Baptist Church. The Rev. Elmo Randolph will officiate. Burial
will be in Milton Cemetery.
- Dr. WHITFORD died in the choir
vestibule of a Fort Pierce, Fla., church where he
- was choir director, after donning his
robe for the processional march into the church sanctuary.
- Dr. WHITFORD was president of
Milton College from 1921 to 1930, and taught
- mathematics at the school for 30 years.
He was a prime mover in the organization of the Choral Union
in 1911 and was its first director. He also helped organize the
Milton College glee club and sang in it until he became college
president.
- Dr. WHITFORD was nominated in
1947 to be a "Pillar of Milton," the second
- alumnus to receive that award.
- He was born in Milton in 1875, the
son of Prof. and Mrs. Albert WHITFORD. His
- father taught at the college. He attended
local schools and received his degree from Milton College in
1896. He received his master's degree from the University of
Chicago.
- After his 30 years on the Milton Faculty,
he joined the faculty of the University of
- Wisconsin for two years. From the Madison
post, he went to Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y., where for
20 years he taught mathematics and was dean of the College of
Liberal Arts.
- He married his first wife, classmate
Mary WHITFORD, in 1900. She died in 1936.
- In 1938, he married Ruth ROGERS
of Alfred, N. Y., who survives him.
- Other survivors are a son, Albert E.
WHITFORD, director of Washburn
- Observatory, University of Wisconsin;
a daughter, Mrs. Nels LERDAHL, Madison; and seven grandchildren.
[Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Services for Luen C. LIPPINCOTT,
61, Milton, were held in the Milton Junction
- Seventh Day Baptist church, the Rev.
Kenneth E. Smith officiating. Kenneth A. BABCOCK sang
two numbers. Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers being
nephews - Theron and Kenneth OCHS, Loyal HESS,
Walden and Lawrence LIPPINCOTT and Carroll LOOFBORO.
- The youngest son of the Rev. Darwin
C. and Evaline LIPPINCOTT, Luen was born
- April 30, 1895, in Salem, W. Va. On
Dec. 30, 1915, he married Inez VAN HORN at Garwin, Iowa,
and they came to Milton in 1922, where she died in November,
1930. On Aug. 1, 1934, he married Adalyn PIERCE of Walworth.
He died in his home on Plumb street, Saturday morning, following
a long illness.
- A former brick mason and contractor
for several years, Mr. LIPPINCOTT's last
- place of employment was the Rock River
Woolen Mills, where he worked for seven years prior to his retirement.
- He is survived by his wife; four children,
three by his first wife, Warren, Salemville,
- Pa., Leslie, Norfolk, Va., and Darwin,
Dodge Center, Minn., and one by his second wife, Della Fern LIPPINCOTT,
Milton; two stepdaughters, Thelma PIERCE, Milton, and
Mrs. Wayne LIPPINCOTT, Milton Junction; a sister, Mrs.
Homer HESS, Milton; a brother, Ray, Milton, and nine grandchildren.
- A brother Sherman and two sisters,
Mrs. B. A. FREET and Mrs. A. H. OCHS
- preceded him in death. [Thursday
edtion, p. 5]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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