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- Cora May BALCH was born at Rock River, Wis., October
8, 1867, and died at
- Milton Junction, February 17, 1910. She was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles BALCH, and her girlhood was a
happy one spent at the old home where her parents still live.
Her school life as a pupil ended with her graduation from the
public school. She began teaching a few months before she was
seventeen years old at Lima, and taught three years in the public
schools.
- On September 21, 1887, she was married to Frank MILES.
With the exception of
- three years when they lived at Albion they have always made
their home in this community, and it was a happy home, for where
her gentle spirit reigned there could enter nothing coarse or
unkind.
- At about the age of twenty she was baptized by Elder James
C. ROGERS in Clear
- Lake, and united with the Rock River Seventh-day Baptist
church. She retained her membership with this church to the
end, but during these later years she has been a faithful attendant
upon the services of the local church of her faith.
- Besides the sorrowing husband she leaves to share his loneliness
in the home two
- daughters, Bernice, who is a student in the local high school,
and Blanche, a girl of twelve, also in school. There are still
living, also, her parents, and two brothers and one sister.
The latter are Homer, whose home is in Virginia, William of
Rock River, and Mrs. Lona GREEN of Rock River.
- The husband has lost a faithful companion, the daughters
a true mother, and the whole
- community feels the shock of her untimely going away. However,
she leaves behind her the record of a wholesome Christian life
and she still lives in the memory of those who knew and loved
her, because of her deeds and words and smiles which have impressed
themselves upon so many lives. Because she lived with Christ
here she still lives with him, free from sickness, pain and death.
"Because I live, ye shall live, also."
- Funeral services were held Sabbath afternoon at the S.D.B.
church, conducted by
- pastor A. J. C. Bond, assisted by Rev. O. S. Mills. The
large congregation present which filled the audience room of
the church and overflowed into the gallery, and the many beautiful
floral offerings attested to the esteem in which she was held,
as well as the sympathy of the community for those who have lost
a beloved one. Appropriate music was furnished by the choir.
Interment was made in the Milton Junction cemetery. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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