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- Funeral services were held here Monday
for Mrs. Floyd VINCENT, 73, Milton,
- lifelong area resident who died Friday
morning at Edgerton Community Hospital following a brief illness.
- Rev. John Randolph officiated at the
services held Monday afternoon from the Milton
- Junction Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Milton Cemetery.
- The former Mignon[ette C.] WHITFORD
was born Jan. 4, 1887, at Albion, the
- daughter of Algernon and Bernette WOOLWORTH
WHITFORD. She was married to Floyd VINCENT Nov.
29, 1905. They lived on a farm on Rock River Road until 1948
when they moved to Milton.
- The VINCENTs celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary in 1955.
- Mrs. VINCENT was a member of
the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist Church
- for 50 years. She was also active
in the Milton Grange, Royal Neighbors and Rock River Women's
Club.
- She is survived by her husband; two
daughters, Mrs. Paul KAASE, Milton, and Mrs.
- Harold BAKER, Lansing, Mich.;
three grandsons; six great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Edna
THOMAS, Milton; two brothers, Elmer WHITFORD, Lincoln,
Calif., and Beryl WHITFORD, Berrien Springs, Mich. Five
brothers preceded her in death. [Thursday, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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