S. BATTLES, FOUNDER OF MIDWEST CO., DIES
GALESBURG - Stewart S. Battles, 85, founder of Midwest Manufacturing Co., the forerunner of the Admiral Division of Magic Chef, Inc., died Friday at 3:05 p.m. at his home at 249 Fair Acres Drive.
He was born in Rock Island March 24, 1899. He was educated in schools in that community.
He first married Dorothy Hess. He later married Sally O'Neill, who died in 1968. He then married Ann Marsters, a well-known newspaper columnist, on Oct. 25, 1969, at Peoria.
She survives with a son, Jim Battles of Chadlerville; two daughters, Joan Wright of Lancaster, Ohio, and Sandra Lee Johns of Connecticut; two grand-children; and eight great-grandchildren.
Chief engineer at Ingersoll Steel Co., a division of Borg-Warner from 1930 to 1934, Battles left that position to start Midwest Manufacturing Co. here. He served as president and general manager of the company from 1934 to 1950. During World War II, he built within 90 days and operated a plant capable of producing 300,000 pyrotechnic bombing flares a year. That work earned his a personal citation from the U.S. War Department.
Battles sold Midwest to Admiral Corp. in 1950, but he stayed with the company as vice president and general manager until 1953. During that time, he converted the plant and established an operation that could produce 1,500 refrigerators a day.
From 1953 to 1955, he was vice president in charge of manufacturing at five plants in Michigan and Illinois for the Norge Division of Borg-Warner, and from 1955 to 1958, he was general manager of the Wedgewood Division of Rheem Manufacturing Co., and Newark, CA. He worked as a business and industrial consultant after leaving that position.
He was listed in both the U.S. and International versions of "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry."
Funeral will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Chapel, the Rev. Ordell Peterson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel today from 7 to 8 p.m.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: APRIL 30, 1984
Requiem High Mass for Mrs. S.S. Battles, 55, of 249 Fair Acres Dr. was celebrated at 9:30 a.m. today at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church by Rev. John Lohan, pastor. Mrs. Battles, a former film and stage star, died Tuesday.
Pallbearers were Tom Anderson, Lt. John Durant, Dr. S.M. Hanauer, Harold B. Inman, Dave G. Swanson, F.C. Webster, Jr., David Vaughan and John Mellican.
Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: JUNE 22, 1968
GALESBURG - Stewart S. Battles, 85, founder of Midwest Manufacturing Co., the forerunner of the Admiral Division of Magic Chef, Inc., died Friday at 3:05 p.m. at his home at 249 Fair Acres Drive.
He was born in Rock Island March 24, 1899. He was educated in schools in that community.
He first married Dorothy Hess. He later married Sally O'Neill, who died in 1968. He then married Ann Marsters, a well-known newspaper columnist, on Oct. 25, 1969, at Peoria.
She survives with a son, Jim Battles of Chadlerville; two daughters, Joan Wright of Lancaster, Ohio, and Sandra Lee Johns of Connecticut; two grand-children; and eight great-grandchildren.
Chief engineer at Ingersoll Steel Co., a division of Borg-Warner from 1930 to 1934, Battles left that position to start Midwest Manufacturing Co. here. He served as president and general manager of the company from 1934 to 1950. During World War II, he built within 90 days and operated a plant capable of producing 300,000 pyrotechnic bombing flares a year. That work earned his a personal citation from the U.S. War Department.
Battles sold Midwest to Admiral Corp. in 1950, but he stayed with the company as vice president and general manager until 1953. During that time, he converted the plant and established an operation that could produce 1,500 refrigerators a day.
From 1953 to 1955, he was vice president in charge of manufacturing at five plants in Michigan and Illinois for the Norge Division of Borg-Warner, and from 1955 to 1958, he was general manager of the Wedgewood Division of Rheem Manufacturing Co., and Newark, CA. He worked as a business and industrial consultant after leaving that position.
He was listed in both the U.S. and International versions of "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry."
Funeral will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Chapel, the Rev. Ordell Peterson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel today from 7 to 8 p.m.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: APRIL 30, 1984
Requiem High Mass for Mrs. S.S. Battles, 55, of 249 Fair Acres Dr. was celebrated at 9:30 a.m. today at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church by Rev. John Lohan, pastor. Mrs. Battles, a former film and stage star, died Tuesday.
Pallbearers were Tom Anderson, Lt. John Durant, Dr. S.M. Hanauer, Harold B. Inman, Dave G. Swanson, F.C. Webster, Jr., David Vaughan and John Mellican.
Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: JUNE 22, 1968
S. BATTLES, FOUNDER OF MIDWEST CO., DIES
GALESBURG - Stewart S. Battles, 85, founder of Midwest Manufacturing Co., the forerunner of the Admiral Division of Magic Chef, Inc., died Friday at 3:05 p.m. at his home at 249 Fair Acres Drive.
He was born in Rock Island March 24, 1899. He was educated in schools in that community.
He first married Dorothy Hess. He later married Sally O'Neill, who died in 1968. He then married Ann Marsters, a well-known newspaper columnist, on Oct. 25, 1969, at Peoria.
She survives with a son, Jim Battles of Chadlerville; two daughters, Joan Wright of Lancaster, Ohio, and Sandra Lee Johns of Connecticut; two grand-children; and eight great-grandchildren.
Chief engineer at Ingersoll Steel Co., a division of Borg-Warner from 1930 to 1934, Battles left that position to start Midwest Manufacturing Co. here. He served as president and general manager of the company from 1934 to 1950. During World War II, he built within 90 days and operated a plant capable of producing 300,000 pyrotechnic bombing flares a year. That work earned his a personal citation from the U.S. War Department.
Battles sold Midwest to Admiral Corp. in 1950, but he stayed with the company as vice president and general manager until 1953. During that time, he converted the plant and established an operation that could produce 1,500 refrigerators a day.
From 1953 to 1955, he was vice president in charge of manufacturing at five plants in Michigan and Illinois for the Norge Division of Borg-Warner, and from 1955 to 1958, he was general manager of the Wedgewood Division of Rheem Manufacturing Co., and Newark, CA. He worked as a business and industrial consultant after leaving that position.
He was listed in both the U.S. and International versions of "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry."
Funeral will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Chapel, the Rev. Ordell Peterson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel today from 7 to 8 p.m.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: APRIL 30, 1984
Requiem High Mass for Mrs. S.S. Battles, 55, of 249 Fair Acres Dr. was celebrated at 9:30 a.m. today at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church by Rev. John Lohan, pastor. Mrs. Battles, a former film and stage star, died Tuesday.
Pallbearers were Tom Anderson, Lt. John Durant, Dr. S.M. Hanauer, Harold B. Inman, Dave G. Swanson, F.C. Webster, Jr., David Vaughan and John Mellican.
Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: JUNE 22, 1968
GALESBURG - Stewart S. Battles, 85, founder of Midwest Manufacturing Co., the forerunner of the Admiral Division of Magic Chef, Inc., died Friday at 3:05 p.m. at his home at 249 Fair Acres Drive.
He was born in Rock Island March 24, 1899. He was educated in schools in that community.
He first married Dorothy Hess. He later married Sally O'Neill, who died in 1968. He then married Ann Marsters, a well-known newspaper columnist, on Oct. 25, 1969, at Peoria.
She survives with a son, Jim Battles of Chadlerville; two daughters, Joan Wright of Lancaster, Ohio, and Sandra Lee Johns of Connecticut; two grand-children; and eight great-grandchildren.
Chief engineer at Ingersoll Steel Co., a division of Borg-Warner from 1930 to 1934, Battles left that position to start Midwest Manufacturing Co. here. He served as president and general manager of the company from 1934 to 1950. During World War II, he built within 90 days and operated a plant capable of producing 300,000 pyrotechnic bombing flares a year. That work earned his a personal citation from the U.S. War Department.
Battles sold Midwest to Admiral Corp. in 1950, but he stayed with the company as vice president and general manager until 1953. During that time, he converted the plant and established an operation that could produce 1,500 refrigerators a day.
From 1953 to 1955, he was vice president in charge of manufacturing at five plants in Michigan and Illinois for the Norge Division of Borg-Warner, and from 1955 to 1958, he was general manager of the Wedgewood Division of Rheem Manufacturing Co., and Newark, CA. He worked as a business and industrial consultant after leaving that position.
He was listed in both the U.S. and International versions of "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry."
Funeral will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Hinchliff-Pearson-West Chapel, the Rev. Ordell Peterson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel today from 7 to 8 p.m.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: APRIL 30, 1984
Requiem High Mass for Mrs. S.S. Battles, 55, of 249 Fair Acres Dr. was celebrated at 9:30 a.m. today at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church by Rev. John Lohan, pastor. Mrs. Battles, a former film and stage star, died Tuesday.
Pallbearers were Tom Anderson, Lt. John Durant, Dr. S.M. Hanauer, Harold B. Inman, Dave G. Swanson, F.C. Webster, Jr., David Vaughan and John Mellican.
Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery.
GALESBURG REGISTER-MAIL: JUNE 22, 1968
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