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- John E[rving] McWILLIAM, 83,
Rte. 1, Milton, retired farmer, died Friday, Dec.
- 25 in Caravilla Nursing Home, where
he had been a patient for the past year.
- Funeral services were held Monday,
Dec. 28 at 2 p.m. from the Milton Junction
- Seventh Day Baptist Church, with Rev.
Addison Appel officiating. Burial was in Milton Lawns Memorial
Park with Larry and Norman McWILLIAM, Edward and Raymond
BURTNESS, Dale HARRIS and James W. CRAW,
all grandsons, as pallbearers.
- He was born in Iowa June 29, 1887,
the son of D. P. and Josephine DAVIS
- McWILLIAM,
and came to Milton as a youth. He was married to Myrtle GRAY
March 14, 1910, at Rockford, and the couple farmed for 55 years
near Milton until retiring and moving to Milton five years ago.
- Surviving are his wife, at Caravilla;
four daughters, Mrs. James (Elmina) CRAW,
- Beloit; Mrs. Vincent (Jean) BURTNESS,
Orfordville, Mrs. Roy (Betty) HARRIS, Euless, Texas, and
Mrs. George (Joyce) STILLMAN, Houston, Texas; a son, Clarence
of Milton; 18 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; three sisters,
Mrs. B. H. BREITKREUTZ and Mrs. Ray DUNWELL, both
of Evansville, and Mrs. Maxwell TIFFT of Lakewood, N.J.;
and a brother, Arthur of Bend, Oregon.
- One brother and three sisters preceded
him in death. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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