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- Ruth Adelle ROGERS, daughter
of Albertus C. and Alice ENNIS ROGERS, was
- born in Farina, Ill., July 16, 1886,and
died at a nursing home in Ft. Pierce, Fla., June 12, 1963.
- As a child, she was baptized and joined
the Farina, Ill., Seventh Day Baptist Church.
- She transferred by letter to the Alfred,
N.Y., church March 5, 1904, soon after coming with her family
to the village.
- She was graduated from Alfred University
in 1909, taught in the elementary school ten
- years, and later served as secretary
to President Boothe C. DAVIS of Alfred University and
as assistant to the treasurer for 14 years.
- On Dec. 27, 1938, she was united in
marriage with Dr. Alfred E. WHITFORD.
- Upon Dr. WHITFORD's retirement
from Alfred University in 1952, they went to Ft. Pierce to make
their home. He died there in 1957.
- Mrs. WHITFORD is survived by
two step-children, Dr. Albert E. WHITFORD of
- Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Calif.,
and Mrs. Dorothy WHITFORD LERDAHL of Madison, Wis.;
by seven step-grandchildren; and by a nephew, Robert B. ROGERS
of Phoenix, Ariz.
- Memorial services were held at the
Seventh Day Baptist Church in Milton, Wis.,
- June 21, 1963, with the Rev. Elmo F.
Randolph, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial was in
Milton. H. S. W. [Vol. 175, No. 21, p. 16]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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