He was born Aug. 18, 1895, at Dresden, Kan., and married Cora Porter Dec. 26, 1918, at Janesville.
He was a member of the Peace United Church of Christ, Masonic Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star and the Browntown Volunteer Fire Department. He was a Navy veteran of World War I and served as a Navy instructor at the University of Wisconsin during World War II.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Glen of Corona, Calif.; one grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Zella Gorsuch Colby, Kan.; Neil of Lebanon, Kan., and Floyd of Carrollton, Mo.; two half sisters, Mrs. Scott Leigh of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. Ivy Foster of Saratoga, Calif.
Service will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Peace UCC with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville. Masonic Rites will be at 8 o'clock tonight at Hanson Funeral Home. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois) Monday, February 13, 1961, Page 6
He was born Aug. 18, 1895, at Dresden, Kan., and married Cora Porter Dec. 26, 1918, at Janesville.
He was a member of the Peace United Church of Christ, Masonic Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star and the Browntown Volunteer Fire Department. He was a Navy veteran of World War I and served as a Navy instructor at the University of Wisconsin during World War II.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Glen of Corona, Calif.; one grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Zella Gorsuch Colby, Kan.; Neil of Lebanon, Kan., and Floyd of Carrollton, Mo.; two half sisters, Mrs. Scott Leigh of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. Ivy Foster of Saratoga, Calif.
Service will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Peace UCC with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville. Masonic Rites will be at 8 o'clock tonight at Hanson Funeral Home. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois) Monday, February 13, 1961, Page 6
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