"The Milton Courier", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Jan. 11, 1973.
Funeral services for Guy W. Holliday, 97, longtime Milton resident, were held Monday afternoon, Jan. 8 in First United Methodist Church, Milton, with Rev. William Riggs officiating.
Burial was in Milton cemetery with grandsons, Howard Tiffany, Robert Mansur, and Rollin Holliday, all of Janesville, Raymond Saunders, Minneapolis, Minn., Clifford Tiffany, Watertown, and Ernest Holliday, Appleton, as pallbearers.
Mr. Holliday died Jan. 11 in Continental Manor, Evansville, where he had been a patient for several weeks following a long illness. He had been afflicted with blindness for the past ten years and bedridden since fracturing a hip four years ago.
He was born April 9, 1875 in Caledonia, Ill. and was first married to Eva Handy in 1893. She died in 1921. He then married Mary Bliss on Jan 20, 1927.
He was a moulder by trade, employed by Fairbanks & Morse Co. at Beloit for several years before starting to farm near Roscoe, Ill. in 1907. He operated farms near Black River Falls and Afton before coming to the Will Waterman farm in Milton in 1912. In 1916 he bought the Vincent farm and began a dairy and home deliveries in the Milton area. He spent several winters in Florida following his retirement in 1945. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Rev. Ralph Holliday, Waupaca, and Rev. Walter Holliday, Janesville, former Edgerton and Janesville pastor, five daughters, Mrs. Ruth Mansur, Mrs. Esther Rasmussen and Mrs. Evalyn Millard, all of Janesville, Mrs. Helen Minks, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Gladys Tiffany, Edgerton; a step-daughter, Mrs. Irene Kordatzky, Milton; 24 grandchildren; one step-granddaughter, Mrs. Marianne Marty, Milton; 77 great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren. A son, Howard, died in 1938.
Albrecht Funeral Home completed arrangements.
Note: the above obituary has his death date wrong. He actually died a week earlier on 4 Jan 1973. Guy is buried with his first wife Eva in Milton cemetery. His second wife Mary is buried with her parents and son in Milton Junction cemetery. The dairy operation was called Cedar Lawn Dairy. A 1928 map of Milton Township shows the G. W. Holliday farm of 140 acres along the west side of section 35.
Funeral services for Guy W. Holliday, 97, longtime Milton resident, were held Monday afternoon, Jan. 8 in First United Methodist Church, Milton, with Rev. William Riggs officiating.
Burial was in Milton cemetery with grandsons, Howard Tiffany, Robert Mansur, and Rollin Holliday, all of Janesville, Raymond Saunders, Minneapolis, Minn., Clifford Tiffany, Watertown, and Ernest Holliday, Appleton, as pallbearers.
Mr. Holliday died Jan. 11 in Continental Manor, Evansville, where he had been a patient for several weeks following a long illness. He had been afflicted with blindness for the past ten years and bedridden since fracturing a hip four years ago.
He was born April 9, 1875 in Caledonia, Ill. and was first married to Eva Handy in 1893. She died in 1921. He then married Mary Bliss on Jan 20, 1927.
He was a moulder by trade, employed by Fairbanks & Morse Co. at Beloit for several years before starting to farm near Roscoe, Ill. in 1907. He operated farms near Black River Falls and Afton before coming to the Will Waterman farm in Milton in 1912. In 1916 he bought the Vincent farm and began a dairy and home deliveries in the Milton area. He spent several winters in Florida following his retirement in 1945. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Rev. Ralph Holliday, Waupaca, and Rev. Walter Holliday, Janesville, former Edgerton and Janesville pastor, five daughters, Mrs. Ruth Mansur, Mrs. Esther Rasmussen and Mrs. Evalyn Millard, all of Janesville, Mrs. Helen Minks, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Gladys Tiffany, Edgerton; a step-daughter, Mrs. Irene Kordatzky, Milton; 24 grandchildren; one step-granddaughter, Mrs. Marianne Marty, Milton; 77 great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren. A son, Howard, died in 1938.
Albrecht Funeral Home completed arrangements.
Note: the above obituary has his death date wrong. He actually died a week earlier on 4 Jan 1973. Guy is buried with his first wife Eva in Milton cemetery. His second wife Mary is buried with her parents and son in Milton Junction cemetery. The dairy operation was called Cedar Lawn Dairy. A 1928 map of Milton Township shows the G. W. Holliday farm of 140 acres along the west side of section 35.
"The Milton Courier", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Jan. 11, 1973.
Funeral services for Guy W. Holliday, 97, longtime Milton resident, were held Monday afternoon, Jan. 8 in First United Methodist Church, Milton, with Rev. William Riggs officiating.
Burial was in Milton cemetery with grandsons, Howard Tiffany, Robert Mansur, and Rollin Holliday, all of Janesville, Raymond Saunders, Minneapolis, Minn., Clifford Tiffany, Watertown, and Ernest Holliday, Appleton, as pallbearers.
Mr. Holliday died Jan. 11 in Continental Manor, Evansville, where he had been a patient for several weeks following a long illness. He had been afflicted with blindness for the past ten years and bedridden since fracturing a hip four years ago.
He was born April 9, 1875 in Caledonia, Ill. and was first married to Eva Handy in 1893. She died in 1921. He then married Mary Bliss on Jan 20, 1927.
He was a moulder by trade, employed by Fairbanks & Morse Co. at Beloit for several years before starting to farm near Roscoe, Ill. in 1907. He operated farms near Black River Falls and Afton before coming to the Will Waterman farm in Milton in 1912. In 1916 he bought the Vincent farm and began a dairy and home deliveries in the Milton area. He spent several winters in Florida following his retirement in 1945. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Rev. Ralph Holliday, Waupaca, and Rev. Walter Holliday, Janesville, former Edgerton and Janesville pastor, five daughters, Mrs. Ruth Mansur, Mrs. Esther Rasmussen and Mrs. Evalyn Millard, all of Janesville, Mrs. Helen Minks, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Gladys Tiffany, Edgerton; a step-daughter, Mrs. Irene Kordatzky, Milton; 24 grandchildren; one step-granddaughter, Mrs. Marianne Marty, Milton; 77 great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren. A son, Howard, died in 1938.
Albrecht Funeral Home completed arrangements.
Note: the above obituary has his death date wrong. He actually died a week earlier on 4 Jan 1973. Guy is buried with his first wife Eva in Milton cemetery. His second wife Mary is buried with her parents and son in Milton Junction cemetery. The dairy operation was called Cedar Lawn Dairy. A 1928 map of Milton Township shows the G. W. Holliday farm of 140 acres along the west side of section 35.
Funeral services for Guy W. Holliday, 97, longtime Milton resident, were held Monday afternoon, Jan. 8 in First United Methodist Church, Milton, with Rev. William Riggs officiating.
Burial was in Milton cemetery with grandsons, Howard Tiffany, Robert Mansur, and Rollin Holliday, all of Janesville, Raymond Saunders, Minneapolis, Minn., Clifford Tiffany, Watertown, and Ernest Holliday, Appleton, as pallbearers.
Mr. Holliday died Jan. 11 in Continental Manor, Evansville, where he had been a patient for several weeks following a long illness. He had been afflicted with blindness for the past ten years and bedridden since fracturing a hip four years ago.
He was born April 9, 1875 in Caledonia, Ill. and was first married to Eva Handy in 1893. She died in 1921. He then married Mary Bliss on Jan 20, 1927.
He was a moulder by trade, employed by Fairbanks & Morse Co. at Beloit for several years before starting to farm near Roscoe, Ill. in 1907. He operated farms near Black River Falls and Afton before coming to the Will Waterman farm in Milton in 1912. In 1916 he bought the Vincent farm and began a dairy and home deliveries in the Milton area. He spent several winters in Florida following his retirement in 1945. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Rev. Ralph Holliday, Waupaca, and Rev. Walter Holliday, Janesville, former Edgerton and Janesville pastor, five daughters, Mrs. Ruth Mansur, Mrs. Esther Rasmussen and Mrs. Evalyn Millard, all of Janesville, Mrs. Helen Minks, Milaca, Minn., and Mrs. Gladys Tiffany, Edgerton; a step-daughter, Mrs. Irene Kordatzky, Milton; 24 grandchildren; one step-granddaughter, Mrs. Marianne Marty, Milton; 77 great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren. A son, Howard, died in 1938.
Albrecht Funeral Home completed arrangements.
Note: the above obituary has his death date wrong. He actually died a week earlier on 4 Jan 1973. Guy is buried with his first wife Eva in Milton cemetery. His second wife Mary is buried with her parents and son in Milton Junction cemetery. The dairy operation was called Cedar Lawn Dairy. A 1928 map of Milton Township shows the G. W. Holliday farm of 140 acres along the west side of section 35.
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Rev Ralph Raymond Holliday
1894–1990
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Helen Mildred Holliday Saunders
1895–1992
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Rev Walter Wellington Holliday
1896–1988
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Howard John Holliday
1898–1939
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Gladys Viola Holliday Tiffany
1901–1989
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Ruth Elizabeth Holliday Mansur
1906–2002
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Esther Adelaide Holliday Rasmussen
1907–2006
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Evalyn Grace Holliday Millard
1910–2006
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