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- DAVIS
- Mary Alice ROSS, daughter of Richard Alanson ROSS
and Caroline
- WILLETTS
ROSS, was born in South Bound Brook, N.J., June 27, 1880,
and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Burton B. CRANDALL,
Fayetteville, N.Y., May 24, 1961.
- On June 11, 1907, she was married to
H. Eugene DAVIS at Plainfield, N.J., who
- survives. To this union were born four
sons and two daughters: Richard Eugene, who died at birth; Edgar,
who died when eight months of age; Dr. Richard R. DAVIS,
New Richmond, Wis.; Winthrop E. DAVIS, Berkeley, Calif.;
Carol (Mrs. Burton B. CRANDALL), and Marcia (Mrs. Kenneth
KRIESLER), Penfield, N.Y. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren.
- She and her husband, the Rev. H. Eugene
DAVIS, served as Seventh-day Baptist
- missionaries in Shanghai, China for
over 37 years. Thet were repatriated to the United States from
a Japenese internment camp on the Gripsholm in 1943. They came
to Alfred to live until two years ago, when they went to Fayetteville
to be with their daughter Carol and family.
- Mrs. DAVIS united with the First
Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred by testimony
- on January 13, 1945, having previously
held her membership in the Shanghai church and elsewhere.
- Memorial services were conducted at
the Alfred church on May 28, with Dean
- Albert N. Rogers, School of Theology,
Alfred University, and the Rev. Hurley S. Warren, her pastor,
officiating. Interment was in Alfred Rural Cemetery. H. S. W.
[Vol. 170, No. 26, p. 16]
- BURDICK
- Mattie MENDENHALL, daughter of Ellis Abner and Artimesia
- BABCOCK
MENDENHALL, was born December 9, 1873, in Milton, Wis.,
and died at Riverside, Calif., April 3, 1961.
- Her early years were spent in Watertown,
Wis., where she was graduated from high
- school. She later attended Milton Academy
graduating with a degree to teach school. She was married to
Harold Martin BURDICK in 1909, who died April 16, 1960.
- She was an early member of the Seventh
Day Baptist Church in Milton Junction, Wis.
- She was also devoted to community functions,
and dedicated considerable time to the cause of temperance as
an active member of the W.C.T.U. for many years. The BURDICKs
established residence in California in 1937, where they were
faithful participants in the activities of the Riverside church
as long as their health permitted.
- She is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Lura SAYRE of Riverside and Mrs. Elmer
- (Dorothy) BINGHAM of San Diego,
Calif.; by nine grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
- Funeral services were conducted on
April 6 in the Riverside Seventh Day Baptist
- Church, by pastor Alton L. Wheeler,
with interment in the Olivewood Cemetery, in Riverside, Calif.
[Vol. 170, No. 26, p. 16]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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