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Milton Courier

January 1973

Milton, Milton Twp., Rock County, Wisconsin

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Funeral services for Guy W[ellington] HOLLIDAY, 97, longtime Milton resident,
were held Monday afternoon, Jan. 8 in First United Methodist Church, Milton, with Rev. William Riggs officiating.
Burial was in Milton cemetery with grandsons, Howard TIFFANY, Robert
MANSUR, and Rollin HOLLIDAY, all of Janesville, Raymond SAUNDERS, Minneapolis, Minn., Clifford TIFFANY, Watertown, and Ernest HOLLIDAY, Appleton, as pallbearers.
Mr. HOLLIDAY died Jan. 11 [Jan. 4] in Continental Manor, Evansville, where he
had been a patient for several weeks following a long illness. He had been afflicted with blindness for the past ten years and bedridden since fracturing a hip four years ago.
He was born April 9, 1875 in Caledonia, Ill. and was first married to Eva HANDY in
1893. She died in 1921. He then married Mary BLISS on Jan 20, 1927.
He was a moulder by trade, employed by Fairbanks & Morse Co. at Beloit for several
years before starting to farm near Roscoe, Ill. in 1907. He operated farms near Black River Falls and Afton before coming to the Will Waterman farm in Milton in 1912. In 1916 he bought the Vincent farm and began a dairy and home deliveries in the Milton area. He spent several winters in Florida following his retirement in 1945. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Rev. Ralph HOLLIDAY, Waupaca, and Rev.
Walter HOLLIDAY, Janesville, former Edgerton and Janesville pastor, five daughters, Mrs. Ruth MANSUR, Mrs. Esther RASMUSSEN and Mrs. Evalyn MILLARD, all of Janesville, Mrs. Helen MINKS, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Gladys TIFFANY, Edgerton; a step-daughter, Mrs. Irene KORDATZKY, Milton; 24 grandchildren; one step- granddaughter, Mrs. Marianne MARTY, Milton; 77 great-grandchildren; and 17 great- great-grandchildren. A son, Howard, died in 1938.
Albrecht Funeral Home completed arrangements. [Thursday edition]
 
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