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- Mrs. Walter F. NEILS, 68, longtime
Milton resident, died unexpectedly Wednesday,
- July 5 in her home at 720 Parkview
Dr. She had been in ill health for the past two years.
- Funeral services were held at 2:30
p.m. Saturday, July 8, from the Milton Seventh
- Day Baptist Church, with Rev. Earl
Cruzan officiating. Burial was in the Milton Cemetery with
Aaron BREITKREUTZ, Edward HOLMES, Clifford JANKE,
Russell MAXSON, Ralph SCHULTZ and Steven SUMMERS
as pallbearers.
- The former Dorothy [Z.] BENNETT
was born June 6, 1904 in Lima Township, the
- eighth of nine children born to Dollie
BROWN and James B. BENNETT. A Milton Union high
school graduate, class of 1925, she was also a graduate of Rock
County Rural Normal School and taught for nine years in Lima
Township Schools. She was married July 2, 1937 to Walter F.
NEILS, in Milwaukee, and the couple resided there for
seven years before moving to Milton. She was a member of the
Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church.
- Surviving are her husband; one daughter,
Miss Mary C. NEILS, Hales Corners; two
- sons, Walter Jr. of Janesville, and
Frank J. and his wife, the former Sandra RUNGE, who reside
in Milwaukee; one granddaughter, Dawn Marie; four sisters, Mrs.
J. Fred WHITFORD and Miss Ardis BENNETT, both of
Milton; Mrs. Harold BURDICK, Kansas City, Mo. and Mrs.
Charles F. SUTTON, Springfield, Ill.
- Preceding her in death besides her
parents were two sisters, Zela and Mrs. Harry
- (Geneva) TALBOT and two brothers,
Leslie and Harold.
- Memorials were made to the church.
[Thursday edition, p. 13]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Sidney GREEN, 95, longtime Milton
area resident and retired farmer, died Tuesday,
- July 25 at Colonial Manor, Janesville,
where he had resided since Feb. 1972 due to ill health.
- The son of Lyman and Melissa GOODRICH
GREEN was born in Jefferson county.
- He was married to Eva CRANDALL
Feb. 26, 1919 in Janesville and the couple farmed on Rt. 1, Milton
Junction until retiring in 1951 and moving to Milton Junction.
He was a member of the Faith United Methodist Church.
- Surviving are his wife who lives at
the Sherman Home in Janesville; a daughter, Mrs.
- Warren (Dorothy) HINTON, Janesville;
one son Paul, Fort Dodge, Iowa; 5 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren
and a sister, Miss Minnie GREEN, Janesville.
- Preceding him in death was a daughter
Ruth in 1946 and a brother and two sisters.
- Funeral services were to be held today,
Thursday, July 27 at 1:30 p.m. from the
- Albrecht Funeral Home with Rev. William
Riggs, pastor of First United Methodist Church officiating. Burial
was to be in the Milton Junction Cemetery. [Thursday
edition, p. 4]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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