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- Elvin F. ARRINGTON, who died
Jan. 29 in Reno, Nev., was born Nov. 24, 1875,
- at Farina, Ill. On Christmas eve, 1895,
he married Miss Lulu WILLIAMS of Milton and they resided
in Milwaukee while he was a street car conductor. Then he was
a locomotive engineer in Iowa for the Milwaukee Road before coming
to Milton and going into the livery business with the late James
ANDERSON. For twenty years he farmed in this locality
and in the summer of 1939 he and Mrs. ARRINGTON went to
live with their son, Clyde E., at Reno, Nev., where she died
on Sept. 1, 1941.
- Survivors are the son, Clyde E., Reno,
Nev.; a brother, Clyde B., Oak Park, Ill.; and
- a sister, Mrs. Wilferd KNIGHT,
Milton. A brother and sister preceded him in death.
- A service was held in Reno on Jan.
30 and the son accompanied the body to Milton
- where services were held in the Congregational
church last Friday afternoon. Rev. R. W. Newell officiated, Pres.
Carroll L. HILL sang and members of the local Masonic
lodge, of which Mr. ARRINGTON was a member, conducted
their ritual. Burial was in Milton cemetery. Pallbearers were
Curtis AUSTIN, Roy CARY, Elam COON, Harry
GREEN, Arthur HOLMES and Herbert RISDON.
- Among the relatives attending were
Clyde B. ARRINGTON, Oak Park; Mr. and
- Mrs. E. L. CARLSON and Mr. and
Mrs. Roy JOHNSON, Rockford; and Mrs. E. E. LOOFBORO,
Albion. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
- Don A[lbert] BORDEN, who had
been a patient in the Veterans hospital at Wood
- several weeks, died there Feb. 1st.
Funeral services were held in the Milton Congregational church
Saturday afternoon, Rev. R. W. Newell officiating and Kenneth
BABCOCK singing. Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers
being Chas. H. ANDERSON, Wm. D. BURDICK, A. G.
HOLMES, S. C. HULL, Wm. LAUER and F. E.
WENDT, all legionnaires.
- Among the relatives and friends attending
were: Don A. BORDEN, Boca Raton,
- Fla.; Mary Ann BORDEN, Wm. BORDEN
and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. FARNSWORTH, Mrs. Frank
WOODBURY, Mrs. Paul LEMMEL and daughter, Miss Alice
THORNGATE, Robert GRAY and Joan GRAY, all
of Madison; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. BORDEN and daughter, Mr.and
Mrs. Robt. LAMB, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. CLELAND and
John HOLMES, all of Milwaukee; and Mr. and Mrs. Albert
WALKER, Pewaukee.
- Don A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred BORDEN,
was born Nov. 3, 1892, in Milton.
- He was a graduate of the old Milton
high school and of Beloit college and served with the army in
France in World War I. On Oct. 9, 1924, he married Bessie CRANDALL,
who died in 1940.
- He was chief of the Milton fire department
for several years. He had been a tobacco
- buyer, later clerk in the Milton post
office, and more recently had taught radio at Truax field, Madison,
and Chanute Field, Ill.
- Survivors are a son, Don, Jr., in the
army air force, training at Boca Raton, Fla.; a
- daughter, Mary Ann, who is attending
school in Madison; two sisters, Mrs. Alice UPHOFF, Los
Angeles, and Mrs. Robert LAMB, Milwaukee, and a brother
Clarke, Milwaukee. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Harvey L[aGrange] BURDICK, who
had been ill since Nov. 18, 1944, died early
- Saturday morning in his home in Milton.
- He was born in Utica, Jan 1, 1879,
the son of George W. and Mary BURDICK.
- On Dec. 3, 1900, he married Beulah
BURDICK in the home of her uncle, C. C. CLARKE,
in Milton Junction. He was principal of high schools in Iowa
where they resided 13 years, and for the past 22 years had been
employed by the BURDICK corporation, Milton.
- He was a member of the S.D.B. church
at Welton, Iowa, and had been a mason for
- many years.
- Survivors are his wife; a daughter,
Mrs. Leroy RASMUSSEN, Milton; three sons,
- George E. of Rochester, N.Y., Lt. H.
Lawrence, Camp Bowie, Tex., and Ralph W. of Edgerton; a sister,
Mrs. Archie HURLEY, Milton, and four grandchildren. A
brother, Dr. G. Merton BURDICK, preceded him in death.
- Funeral services were held at 2 p.m.
Monday in the Gray and Albrecht funeral home
- (former C. C. CLARKE residence),
Milton Junction, Rev. Willard D. BURDICK officiating and
being assisted by Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph. A group of Masons
attended and their ritual was given, and Kenneth R. BABCOCK
sang two selections. Pallbearers, Masons, were Elam COON,
Roy CARY, Harry GREEN, P. J. BAUER, Arthur
HOLMES and Herbert RISDON. Burial was in Milton
cemetery.
- Out of town relatives and friends attending
included: Geo. E. BURDICK, Rochester,
- N.Y.; Lt. and Mrs. Lawrence BURDICK,
Camp Bowie, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph BURDICK, Edgerton;
Mrs. H. M. JOHNSON, Chicago; Mrs. and Mrs. Oscar WATSON,
Mr. and Mrs. Claude WATSON, Edgerton; Mrs. Agnes WATSON,
Stoughton; Mrs. Charles HUNT, Lima; Mrs. G. Merton BURDICK,
Janesville; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph FORREST, Clinton. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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