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- Warrent Officer Alban F[rancis] SAUNDERS, director
of Minnesota's 151st Field
- Artillery band, died August 24th at Camp Claiborne, La.,
where he had been stationed with his famed band for several months.
- Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. SAUNDERS,
he was born March 26, 1898,
- in Milton where he attended school. He was soloist with
the local band and later travelled through the United States
before and after the World War with concert bands. During the
war he directed bands at Camp Grant, Ill.
- He married Helen HOLLIDAY of Milton 21 years ago and
they moved to
- Minneapolis. Survivors are his wife; five children, Donald,
Dorothy, and Jeannine SAUNDERS and Mrs. Louise FLANNELLE,
all of Minneapolis, and Raymond SAUNDERS, Plainview, Minn.;
and his step-mother, Mrs. R. H. SAUNDERS of Milton.
- Mrs. R. H. SAUNDERS, G. W. HOLLIDAY, Mrs. James
TIFFINAY
- [TIFFANY] and Mrs. Howard HOLLIDAY attended
the funeral which was held in Minneapolis last Friday, six members
of his band also being in attendance. Simultaneously with the
Minneapolis service, a military service was held at Camp Claiborne.
The body was brought here and a brief service was held at the
Gray and Albrecht funeral home Saturday afternoon, the Rev. E.
G. Holborow, of Rock Prairie Presbyterian church, officiating.
Burial was in Milton cemetery, pallbearers being James FLANNELLE
and Neil ARMSTRONG of Minneapolis, Ross MANSUR
of Emerald Grove and James TIFFIANY [TIFFANY] ,
Milton. [Thursday edition]
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- [This article is from a Milton newspaper.]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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