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- Celia Belle OVIATT THOMAS, daughter
of Dr. William H. and Theresa COLLINS
- OVIATT,
and wife of Professor Walter D. THOMAS, was born at Smethport,
Pa., January 11, 1864, and died in her home in Milton, Wis.,
after a lingering painful illness of several months, shortly
before midnight, Sabbath day, February 4, 1933, in the seventieth
year of her age.
- She was baptized in March, 1883, by
Rev. Elston M. DUNN, and became a member
- of the Milton seventh Day Baptist Church,
where her membership remained the rest of her life. She and
Professor THOMAS were married December 4, 1889, at her
home in Clintonville, Wis., by Rev. William C. WHITFORD,
President of Milton College, from which institution she was graduated
in the teachers' course with the class of 1885.
- Besides her husband, she is survived
by a son, adopted in babyhood, Clifford C.
- THOMAS,
his wife and four children of LaCrosse, Wis.; a sister, Mrs.
Frank GESSLER of Bangor, Wis.; and a brother, William
C. OVIATT of West Allis, Wis. There are four nephews
and nieces: Clifford G. GESSLER of Honolulu, H. I.; Miss
Gertrude E. GESSLER of Bangor, Wis.; and June and Billy
OVIATT of West Allis, Wis.
- Funeral services were held at the home
in Milton, Wis., February 7, 1933, in charge of
- Rev. Edwin Shaw and Rev. J. W. Crofoot,
and burial was made in the cemetery at Milton Junction, Wis.
E. S. H. S. W. [Vol. 114, No. 9, p. 214]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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