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- BURDICK,
Bertha LAWTON, daughter of Mary Ann WOOD and Charles
- Dennison LAWTON, was born at
Albion, Wis., July 22, 1877, and died in a Texarkana, Ark., hospital
Jan. 11, 1954.
- Bertha LAWTON was married to
Dr. G. Merton BURDICK in 1900 and to this
- union two children were born: Harold,
now of Kansas City, Mo., and Mary (Mrs. Trevah R. SUTTON),
now of Fouke, Ark. Dr. BURDICK preceded her in death in
1938.
- The life of Mrs. BURDICK was
actively Christian throughout her seventy-six years.
- She was baptized by Rev, George W.
Hills in 1893, and affiliated with the Milton Junction Seventh
Day Baptist Church. When she moved with her husband to North
Loup, Neb., they were both active in the life of that church.
Returning to Milton they joined the Milton Church where she kept
her membership until her death. In her church experience she
served in such capacities as church clerk, superintendent of
the primary department of the Sabbath school, president and treasurer
of the Ladies' Aid, and as a Sabbath school teacher.
- After failing health forced her to
give up her work as a seamstress at the Rock County
- Farm, Janesville, Wis., she lived with
her daughter and son-in-law, first at Jackson Center, Ohio, and
then at Fouke, Ark.
- Surviving her, in addition to her son
and daughter, are two sisters, Mrs. Jessie
- FREEBORN
and Mrs. George PALMER, both of Milton Junction; two granddaughters;
and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted,
first at Texarkana, Ark., and then in the Milton Church on Jan.
14, 1954. Pastor Elmo Fitz Randolph officiating. Interment was
in the Milton Cemetery. E. F. R. [Vol. 156, No. 9, p. 104]
- CROSLEY,
Fern Amelia, daughter of Nathan Wardner and Jennie BURDICK
- CROSLEY,
was born Dec. 19, 1884, in Farina, Ill. She passed away from
this life on Sept. 30, 1953, following a brief illness.
- Moving to Milton, Wis., with her parents
in 1898, Miss CROSLEY spent the greater
- part of her life in that community.
She was graduated from Milton College in 1906, after which time
she took advanced courses training in home economics preparatory
to high school teaching in Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas.
- After giving up teaching to care for
her invalid mother, Miss CROSLEY took training
- fitting her to become a medical, X-ray,
and physical therapy technician. The remaining years of her active
life she served as a practical nurse.
- Miss CROSLEY was a valued, and
until her health failed, active member of the
- Milton Seventh Day Baptist church.
- Of her immediate family, one brother,
Raymond of Chicago, survives her. Farewell
- services were conducted for her from
her church on Oct. 3, 1953, with her pastor, Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph,
in charge. Interment was in Farina, Ill., where a service was
also conducted by Pastor Addison Appel. E. F. R. [Vol. 156,
No. 9, p. 104]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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