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- Charles S[alathial], youngest son of
Louis and Margaret BABCOCK SAYRE, was
- born February 14, 1868, in Welton,
Iowa, and died in a hospital in Rochester, Minn., March 19, 1946.
- Charles SAYRE was a member of
the class of 1899 of Milton College and was the
- tenor member of the first evangelistic
quartet sent out by that school. His interest in singing has
been a source of pleasure to him and his friends throughout his
life. On December 29, 1900, he was married to Mabel A. CLARKE
at Dodge Center, Minn., and a few days later was ordained to
the gospel ministry. In his years as a Seventh Day Baptist
minister he serves as pastor of churches in Berlin, Coloma, and
Marquette, Wis.; Hammond, La.; Alfred Station, N. Y.; Dodge Center,
Minn.; and Albion, Wis. Following his retirement from the ministry
in 1921 he owned and operated a garage in Albion until 1940 when
he moved to Milton with his wife and worked as watch repairman
until his death.
- Close survivors are his wife; two sons,
Maurice of Tucson, Ariz., and Walter of Milton,
- Wis.; three grandchildren; and a sister,
Mrs. E. E. LOOFBORO of Albion, Wis.
- Farewell services were conducted in
the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church by Rev.
- Elmo F. Randolph, assisted by Dr. Edwin
B. Shaw. Burial was in the Milton Cemetery. E. F.
R. [Vol. 141, No. 4, p. 70]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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