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- Alberta [Louise] (HUME) OCHS,
77, of Milton, died June 30, 2001, at Deerview
- Meadows Home, Janesville, following
a long illness.
- She was born May 5, 1924, in Janesville,
the daughter of Myron and Louise
- (MULLER) GRIFFEY. She
lived her entire life in the Milton/Janesville area. She married
Ray HUME on July 13, 1946; he died Feb. 7, 1983. She
married Kenneth OCHS on April 4, 1990.
- Alberta graduated from Milton College
and was listed in Who's Who in American
- Colleges and Universities. She was
a music teacher in the Milton School District for 30 years.
She also taught in the Edgerton School District and at Milton
College. She was the choir director at Central Lutheran Church,
Edgerton for 35 years. Alberta was president of the Milton
Junior Womens' Club and the director of the women's chorus.
She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma and the American Association
of University Women. In 1988 she was named Milton Kiwanis Citizen
of the Year.
- She is survived by her husband, Ken;
Joseph and Marcia (HUME) GREEN, Col.
- Stephen and Phyllis (HUME) WILSON,
Richard and Lynn HUME, Ronald and Kim HUME; grandchildren:
Bill and Jamian (GREEN) KROHE, Courtney GREEN,
Sarah and Michael WILSON, Josh and Jesse ERICKSON,
Mitchel, Spencer and Cameron HUME and two great-grandchildren.
- She is also survived by Jerry and Donna
(OCHS) VAN HORN; Ronald and Renee
- OCHS;
grandchildren: Brad and Michelle (VAN HORN) BJORKGREN
and Chris and Sarah (VAN HORN) SHIRES, Chad and
Ke?? OCHS; Dan and Jacquie OCHS and Craig OCHS
and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by
her parents, a sister and a brother.
- Funeral services were held Tuesday,
July 3, 2001, at the Milton Seventh Day Baptist
- Church. Burial was in the Milton
Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dick HUME, Mitchel HUME,
Gary HUME, Stephen HUME, Ron OCHS, Michael
WILSON and Tom LIEDER. Honorary pallbearers were
Louis SUNBY, Walden LIPPINCOTT, Ken DeVOE,
Bruce CURLER and Chick GINGHAM.
- Memorials may be made to the Milton
School Music Department or the music ministry
- at the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church.
[Thursday edition, p. 4]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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