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- Cecile Irma CRANDALL, 92, of
Hwy 26, north, died Friday, Dec. 22, at Mercy
- hospital from injuries sustained in
a fall at her home four days earlier.
- She was born April 17, 1886, in North
Loup, Neb., the daughter of Calvin and Esther
- ROOD
CRANDALL. In 1891 the family moved to a farm near Edelstein,
Ill., and in 1905 they moved to Milton, occupying the present
farm home one mile north of Milton since 1909.
- Miss CRANDALL graduated from
Milton College in 1913, started her teaching
- career in Palmyra, Watertown, and Colfax,
Wash. high schools, and obtained her master's degree from the
University of Wisconsin. She then served as head of the English
department at Wartburg College, Iowa and in Spokane, Wash.
- She returned to the family home in
the 1930's, where she established a luncheon
- service called The Poplars, with her
sister, catering to area clubs, parties and tourists. She was
active in the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Women's Village Improvement
Club and Milton Historical Society.
- Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Esther
BINGHAM, Milton; a brother, George
- CRANDALL,
of Madison; six nieces and one nephew.
- Funeral services were held at 2 p.m.,
Sunday, Dec. 24, at the Seventh Day Baptist
- Church, Milton, with Rev. Earl Cruzan
officiating. Burial was held at Milton Cemetery. Albrecht
Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. [Thursday
edition, p. 7]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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