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- Miss Mabel MAXSON, who had been
ill for the past seven months died at 3:30 a.m.
- Tuesday, Nov. 4, in her home at 10
E. Madison Avenue, Milton Junction.
- The daughter of the late Dr. Albert
S. MAXSON, Mabel was born March 25, 1886,
- in Milton Junction. There - and in
Milton - she spent her life.
- She graduated from the old Milton Academy
and received her B.A. degree from
- Milton College, and her M.A. degree
from the University of Wisconsin. Later she pursued graduate
work in the Art Institute of Chicago, in the University of Chicago,
and in the Library School of the University of Iowa.
- For 43 years "Miss Mabel",
as she was affectionately called by her many students,
- was librarian of Milton College. Of
this position she was especially proud, for her great- grandfather,
Daniel C. BABCOCK, Sr., was the founder of the Milton
College library. She was also a professor of English literature
in the college.
- Upon her retirement on June 4, 1955,
she received the honored award of "Pillar of
- Milton." The citation reads:
-
- "The Milton College Alumni
Association takes pride in honoring with
- this citation, Mabel MAXSON,
on the forty-fourth anniversary of her graduation, as one who
has made an outstanding contribution to her Alma Mater. For many
years an inspiring teacher of English literature, unique interpreter
of Milton, Browning, and Tennyson; sympathetic friend to students;
for forty-three years librarian of Milton College; to many the
revealer of the beauty and significance of Italian and Germanic
art; and, above all, supremely great as a teacher of Shakespeare,
inspiring numbers of students with love for the greatest of English
poets. In token of our regard, we hereby declare Mabel MAXSON
to be a Pillar of Milton."
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- She was a member of the Seventh-day
Baptist Church of Milton Junction. She was
- also a member of the State Historical
Society and the History Club of Janesville.
- She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Chester
D. NEWMAN, of Milwaukee; a nephew,
- James E. NEWMAN of Washington,
D. C.; and four cousins: Dr. Frank S. MAXSON, and Mrs.
L. P. KILBOURNE, of Milwaukee; Clifford GESSLER,
of Berkley, Calif.; and Gertrude GESSLER, of Bismarck,
N. Dak.
- Most apropos of her life and faith
is the thought expressed she loved so well:
-
- " . . . . . . . . What envious
streaks
- Do lace the severing clouds in yonder
East;
- Night's candles are burnt out, and
jocund day
- Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain
tops.
- I must be gone and live".
-
- Funeral services will be held at 2
p.m. this Thursday in the Milton Seventh Day
- Baptist church, the Rev. Victor W.
Skaggs officiating. [Thursday edition, p. 5]
- Mrs. Irving CRANDALL, former
Milton Junction resident, died Tuesday night in the
- home of her sister, Mrs. Arthur ZIEMER,
Milwaukee, with whom she lived. The former Nellie B. WALWRATH
[WALRATH] would have been 67 on Nov. 8.
- Surviving are a son, James who lives
in Janesville; two grandchildren; and five sisters,
- Mmes. Frances HANSON, Inez SMITH,
Margaret JOHNSON MOTZ, Ruth ZIEMER and Gertrude
MOORE, all of Milwaukee.
- Funeral services will be held at 10:30
a.m. in St. Mary Catholic church, Milton. Burial
- will be in Edgerton. Friends may
call at the Albrecht Funeral Home between 7 and 9 p.m. tonight
(Thursday). [Thursday edition, p. 5]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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