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- George Wells COON, 84, retired special agent for the
Northwestern National Fire
- Insurance company, died Saturday night at his home in Milton
Jct. Although he had been in failing health several years, he
was confined to his bed just one week.
- Funeral services were held at 4 p. m. Monday in the Milton
Jct. S.D.B. church, Dr.
- Edwin SHAW, Milton, a distant cousin, officiating.
Burial was in Milton Jct. cemetery. Pallbearers were his five
sons, Ross C., Wallace W., Carroll, Clarance, and Lawrence and
his only surviving nephew, Prof. Fay. B. COON of Milton
and West Allis.
- Attending the funeral, those not previously mentioned include
Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
- WEBSTER and Paul, River Forest, Ill; Mr. and Mrs.
Merle DEARDORFF and two children, Brookfield, Ill.; Mrs.
W. W. COON and Beverly, Walworth; Mr. and Mrs. Loraine
COON, Monroe; Lois COON, Milwaukee; Mrs. Carroll
COON and daughter, Madison; Phillip COON and daughter,
Beaver Falls, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Chester MILLER, Evansville;
F. M. BRITT and family and Mrs. Walter HARTE, Janesville.
- George Wells COON was born July 27, 1854, at Ashaway,
Rhode Island. (His
- ancestor, Dr. John Mac COONE had come to Rhode Island
from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1660.) He was the youngest of
three children of Lafayette COON and Mary WELLS
COON. When he was six years old the family moved to Utica,
Wis., coming to Milton Junction later.
- Mr. COON was married to Adelle May WHITFORD
May 3, 1882. Five children
- were born to them: Ross C. COON; Lillian, now Mrs.
A. E. WEBSTER of River Forest, Ill.; Dr. W. W. COON
of Walworth; Nina, who became Mrs. Fred BURDICK and who
died Oct. 10, 1918; and Carroll L. COON of Madison. Mrs.
COON died June 14, 1897, when Carroll was a small child.
- On June 22, 1898, Mr. COON married Grace Amelia CLARK
who with [had] three
- children, Marion, now Mrs. Merle DEARDORFF of Brookfield,
Ill., Clarence COON of Milwaukee and Lawrence COON
of New Holstein, and fourteen grandchildren, survives.
- Mr. COON was an enterprising business man and citizen.
Aside from his work with
- the Northwestern National Fire Insurance company, with which
he was connected for 35 years, he was the first president of
the BURDICK Cabinet company, now the BURDICK corporation.
He was a director of the Milton and Milton Junction Telephone
company and he was a member and president of the Milton Junction
school board, from 1909-1915.
- He was affiliated with the Du Lac lodge, I.O.O.F. of Milton,
and was a charter
- member of the Milton Jct. camp of M.W.A. As a young man he
was a member of the Utica band.
- Throughout his life he was a loyal and consistent member
and supporter of the Seventh
- Day Baptist Church. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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