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- R[ush] Leon BURDICK, 91, Milton
Junction, lifelong Rock County resident, died
- Saturday, Jan. 22, in Pinehurst Sanatorium,
Janesville, following a long illness.
- Funeral services were held at 11 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the Albrecht Funeral Home,
- Milton Junction, the Rev. Alvin Briggs,
Milton Junction Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in
the Milton Junction Cemetery.
- Pallbearers were Richard WEGNER,
Clarence CARROLL, Jim and Tom
- WEGNER,
Howard DRAKE and Ed TEGT.
- R. Leon BURDICK was born in
Lima Township Aug. 11, 1874, the only son of G.
- D. and Harriet BURDICK. He was
orphaned in 1888 and made his home with his grandparents, the
E. G. BURDICKs in Lima Township. In 1895 he worked during
the summer on a passenger steamer on Lake Michigan. On Oct. 4,
1898 he was married to Sarah BRYANT, and they farmed in
Lima Township for 15 years, after which he was employed for 19
years as handy man at the Rock County Farm and Home, Janesville,
maintaining the mechanical and electrical equipment. His lifelong
hobbies were music and painting.
- Surviving are his wife; three daughters,
Mrs. Ted (Mabel) ODENWALDER and
- Mrs. Victor (Nellie) LEE [should
read SCOVILLE], both of Milton Junction, and Mrs. Margaret
MUNSON, now of Denver, Colo.; three grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren. [Thursday edition, p. 5]
- John CRAIG, 86, Lima Center,
died at 3:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in the Edgerton
- Memorial Hospital, following a long
illness.
- Funeral services were held at 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the Albrecht Funeral Home,
- Milton Junction, the Rev. Alvin Briggs,
Milton Junction Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in
the Milton Cemetery.
- Pallbearers were Robert RICHARDSON,
Douglas CASHORE, Terry and Richard
- SPLITTER,
George WILKINS and Steve CRAIG.
- A lifelong Rock County resident, he
was born in Milton Township, Aug. 6, 1879, the
- son of Sanford and Kathryn WERFAL
CRAIG. He attended the North Milton School. He was
married to Gertrude Mae CLARKE Feb. 5, 1908 in Milton
Junction, The Rev. Andrew Porter officiating. They farmed in
the Lima Township area until retiring and moving to Lima Center
in 1941.
- Surviving are three sons, Loren at
home, Leroy of rural Whitewater, and Everard of
- Lima Center; three daughters, Mrs.
Bernice SPLITTER of Whitewater, Mrs. Harold RICHARDSON,
R. 1, Milton, and Mrs. Clarence MORRISSEY of Milton Junction;
16 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, and one brother,
Daniel, of Lima Center.
- He was preceded in death by his wife,
an infant daughter, Violet Mae, two sisters and
- one brother. [Thursday edition,
p. 6]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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