LAKE GENEVA - George Mathison, 88, Rte. 3, Lake Geneva, died last night In his farm home after a long illness. A lifelong area resident, he was a charter member of First Presbyterian Church, joining in 1907.
Born Nov. 6, 1877 in Peotone, III., the son of William and Jane Taylor Mathison, he was a graduate of Peotone High School and attended Illinois State Normal College, Bloomlngton, Ill. He married May Nichols Stewart Sept. 18, 1907 In Hebron, III. She died Jan. 4, 1947.
Mr. Mathison was a member of the Lake Geneva Pure Milk Association, Modern Woodmen of America and Linn Farmers Club having served as president of the latter and as a member of the Nichols district school board in Linn Township.
Surviving are three daughters, Mmes. Elizabeth Duncan, Wausau, Alice Johnson, Sycamore, Ill., and Dorothy Hoyt, Fontana; a son, Stewart, rural Lake Geneva; eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday In the Derrick-Haase Funeral Home, the Rev. Frederick Hockemeyer officiating, with burial in Linn-Hebron Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, 15 Dec 1965, Wed, Page 2
Contributor: Joan Stewart Smith (48837098)
Born Nov. 6, 1877 in Peotone, III., the son of William and Jane Taylor Mathison, he was a graduate of Peotone High School and attended Illinois State Normal College, Bloomlngton, Ill. He married May Nichols Stewart Sept. 18, 1907 In Hebron, III. She died Jan. 4, 1947.
Mr. Mathison was a member of the Lake Geneva Pure Milk Association, Modern Woodmen of America and Linn Farmers Club having served as president of the latter and as a member of the Nichols district school board in Linn Township.
Surviving are three daughters, Mmes. Elizabeth Duncan, Wausau, Alice Johnson, Sycamore, Ill., and Dorothy Hoyt, Fontana; a son, Stewart, rural Lake Geneva; eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday In the Derrick-Haase Funeral Home, the Rev. Frederick Hockemeyer officiating, with burial in Linn-Hebron Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, 15 Dec 1965, Wed, Page 2
Contributor: Joan Stewart Smith (48837098)
LAKE GENEVA - George Mathison, 88, Rte. 3, Lake Geneva, died last night In his farm home after a long illness. A lifelong area resident, he was a charter member of First Presbyterian Church, joining in 1907.
Born Nov. 6, 1877 in Peotone, III., the son of William and Jane Taylor Mathison, he was a graduate of Peotone High School and attended Illinois State Normal College, Bloomlngton, Ill. He married May Nichols Stewart Sept. 18, 1907 In Hebron, III. She died Jan. 4, 1947.
Mr. Mathison was a member of the Lake Geneva Pure Milk Association, Modern Woodmen of America and Linn Farmers Club having served as president of the latter and as a member of the Nichols district school board in Linn Township.
Surviving are three daughters, Mmes. Elizabeth Duncan, Wausau, Alice Johnson, Sycamore, Ill., and Dorothy Hoyt, Fontana; a son, Stewart, rural Lake Geneva; eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday In the Derrick-Haase Funeral Home, the Rev. Frederick Hockemeyer officiating, with burial in Linn-Hebron Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, 15 Dec 1965, Wed, Page 2
Contributor: Joan Stewart Smith (48837098)
Born Nov. 6, 1877 in Peotone, III., the son of William and Jane Taylor Mathison, he was a graduate of Peotone High School and attended Illinois State Normal College, Bloomlngton, Ill. He married May Nichols Stewart Sept. 18, 1907 In Hebron, III. She died Jan. 4, 1947.
Mr. Mathison was a member of the Lake Geneva Pure Milk Association, Modern Woodmen of America and Linn Farmers Club having served as president of the latter and as a member of the Nichols district school board in Linn Township.
Surviving are three daughters, Mmes. Elizabeth Duncan, Wausau, Alice Johnson, Sycamore, Ill., and Dorothy Hoyt, Fontana; a son, Stewart, rural Lake Geneva; eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday In the Derrick-Haase Funeral Home, the Rev. Frederick Hockemeyer officiating, with burial in Linn-Hebron Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, 15 Dec 1965, Wed, Page 2
Contributor: Joan Stewart Smith (48837098)
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