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- Mrs. Floyd T. COON, daughter of Henry F. and Lucinda
COTTRELL
- CRANDALL, was born in Denison, Iowa, September 26,
1879, and died at her home in Riverside, Calif., May 11, 1927,
aged 47 years, 7 months and 15 days.
- At the age of three years, she moved with her parents to
North Loup, Neb., which
- place was her home for 9 years. It was while living here
that she was baptized and joined the Seventh Day Baptist church.
- In the fall of 1891, the family moved to Beauregard, Miss.,
where they remained until
- March of the next year when they moved to Farina, Ill. She
attended the public schools at this place and graduated from
high school in 1897.
- In the fall of 1899, she came to Milton and entered college
her parents moving there
- the following spring.
- On Nov 1, 1900, she was married to Floyd T. COON of
Milton. To this union were
- born two children, both of who have preceded her in death.
- She and her husband made their home in Milton until August
1923, when they moved
- to Riverside, Calif., which place was her home at the time
of her death.
- Since the death of her sister, Mrs. Louis HURLEY,
in 1922, she has had Roberta
- HURLEY, youngest daughter, in her home and has given
her the care and devotion of a real mother.
- She was a faithful attendant at church and Sabbath school
and while living in Milton
- she was a member of Circle No. 3, the W.V.I. club and the
King's Daughters, where she was an efficient worker and endeared
herself to the members of each by her kind and unselfish ways.
- Besides her husband she is survived by three brothers, Wilmer
H., Fred A. and Harry
- B., all of whom live in Milton.
- A farewell service, conducted by Pastor G. D. Hargis, was
held at Riverside on Friday
- afternoon, May 13. Mr. COON and Roberta came with
the body to Milton, arriving on Tuesday, May 17. A farewell service
was held from the Milton church on Wednesday afternoon, conducted
by Pastor James L. Skaggs and Rev. Edwin Shaw. The organist -
and male quartet furnished appropriate music. The body was laid
to rest in the Milton cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
-
- [Note: Mrs. COON's birth name was Nellie Bird CRANDALL.]
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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