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- Funeral services were held at 2:30
p.m. Tuesday, April 2, for Rev. H. Eugene
- DAVIS,
83, at the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church, the Rev. Elmo Randolph
officiating. Services also were held at the Alfred Seventh Day
Baptist Church, Alfred, N.Y. at 1:30 p.m. Thursday (today), April
4, with burial in the Alfred Rural Cemetery.
- Rev. DAVIS, formerly of Alfred,
N.Y., passed away Sunday, March 31, at the home
- of his daughter, Mrs. Burton CRANDALL,
Milton, where he had lived for the past nine months.
- The son of Harrison and Eliza BOYD
DAVIS, he was born in North Loup, Neb.,
- Aug. 1, 1879. He was graduated from
Alfred University in 1904 and from the Alfred School of Theology
in 1907. He was married to Mary ROSS in 1907. He was a
missionary in Shanghai, China, for the seventh Day Baptist Church
for 37 years, returning to the United States on the Wartime Mercy
Ship "Gripsholm" in 1943. He was a resident of Alfred,
N.Y. and Fayetteville, N.Y., until he came to Milton last year.
- Surviving are two sons, Dr. Richard
R. DAVIS, New Richmond, Wis., Winthrop E.
- DAVIS
of Berkley, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Burton CRANDALL,
Milton, and Mrs. Kenneth KREISER, Penfield, N.Y.; two
brothers, George E. of Brookfield, N. Y. and Orsen E., Denver,
Colo., and 10 grandchildren.
- He was preceded in death by his wife,
three brothers, one sister and one grandson.
- [Thursday edition, p. 6]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Mrs. Edna [Bernice] WHITFORD THOMAS
died in Mercy Hospital April 15,
- 1963, after a short illness. She
was born in Orleans, Neb., Oct. 18, 1874, where her parents were
homesteading. They returned to the family home in Albion, Wis.,
when she was a small child. She was the oldest of eight children
born to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. WHITFORD.
- She attended Albion Graded School and
Albion Academy. She was married to
- Harry E. THOMAS in Albion in
1895. To them were born two daughters, Eloise of Milton, and
Eunice (Mrs. Franklin WALSH) of Zenda, Wis. The family
lived at Albion until they moved to Milton in 1920. In Albion
she was a member of and active in church affairs of the Albion
Seventh Day Baptist Church and in music of the community, interests
which she continued in Milton and the Milton Seventh Day Baptist
Church. She was an honorary deaconess of her church, a member
of the Women's Circle, of the Lend-a-Hand Class of the Sabbath
School and of the W.V.I. Club and its Nature Study Group.
- Her husband preceded her in death in
1943; also brothers, Kenneth, Harold and
- Wardie of the Albion-Edgerton vicinity,
Hugh of Milton Junction, and one sister, Mrs. Floyd VINCENT
of Milton.
- She is survived by her daughters and
son-in-law; brothers Elmer of Lincoln, Calif.,
- and Beryl of Berrien Springs, Mich.,
and many nephews and nieces.
- Funeral services were held at 3 p.m.
Wednesday, April 17, at the Milton Seventh Day
- Baptist Church, Rev. Elmo F. Randolph
officiating. Burial was in Milton Cemetery. [Thursday edition,
p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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