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- Miss Ada Elizabeth CRANDALL,
85, died unexpectedly Saturday, June 23, in
- Mercy Hospital where she had been a
patient a few days.
- She was born Feb. 17, 1888 at North
Loup, Nebraska, the second child of Calvin
- and Etta ROOD CRANDALL.
The family moved to the rural community of West Hallock, near
Edelstein, Ill. in 1891 where her father operated a farm for
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settled in 1909 on the present family homestead on Hwy 26 one
mile north of Milton. [The farm homesteaded by Gardner SAUNDERS
in the 1840's.]
- Miss CRANDALL graduated from
Milton College in 1912, serving part of her
- student days as secretary to President
William C. DALAND. She was on the Milton College Faculty
for several years, acting as preceptress at the women's dormitory.
She also taught at Salem College, Salem, West Virginia and
at Franklin College in Indiana. She completed studies for her
master's degree in romance languages at the University of Wisconsin
in 1921. In recent years she has lived with her sister Cecile,
on the family homestead.
- In Milton she acted at various times
as president, secretary and treasurer of the Milton
- Village Improvement Club, now the Milton
Women's Club. She was a
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also of the Milton Historical Society and served as secretary
and treasurer of First District Federation of Woman's Club.
She was a member of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church and
held offices in its Woman's Circle. The two sisters operated
the Poplar's Tea Room for many years.
- Survivors are two sisters, Miss Cecile
CRANDALL and Mrs. Esther BINGHAM,
- both of Milton; six nieces and one
nephew. A brother, Persons, died March 20, 1973.
- Funeral services were help at 2:30
p.m. Tuesday, June 26 from the Milton Seventh
- Day Baptist Church, Rev. Earl Cruzan
officiating. Burial was in Milton Cemetery with Roger BURDICK,
William ARTHUR and Leman ROOD, Kenneth OCHS,
Raymond SHOLTZ and Arthur DRAKE as pallbearers.
[Thursday edition, p. 4]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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