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The Capital Times from Madison, Wisconsin • 16

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The Capital Timesi
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12 THE CAPITAL TIMES, July 30, 1963 Wilfred Rankin, 25, Janesville, Is Electrocuted JANESVILLE A Janesville man Obituaries Other Deaths SPARTA Harold Foster, 30, Spring Valley, died Monday at Camp McCoy. BARABOO Mrs. Phillipena Gall, 92, died Monday. Scheible funeral home, Baraboo. DODGEVILLE Miss Anna Gibbon, 77, died Monday.

Roach-Mindermann funeral home, Dodge-ville. BEAVER DAM Milton G. Zarwell, 59, died Sunday at Hori- was electrocuted Sunday night while helping a neighbor hook up an outside antenna for a short wave radio, police announced Mondav. On Floating Ice Station Jerome Hirschman, U.W. Researcher, Dies In Arctic Wilfred D.

Rankin, 25. was killed while helping his neighbor, Kenneth D. Scott. Jerome A. Hirschman, 39, research assistant for the University of Wisconsin geophysical and polar research center, who was Scott was on the roof of his home to fasten two guy wires which were anchored in the an Mrs.

Raymond Schlicht Funeral services for Mrs. tenna pole, towering six feet above Ray- taken ill while working on an ice the root. Two other guy wires island in the Arctic Ocean, died'mond Schlicht, 67, of 1910 North- the University has! Saturday, were hanging loose, and wind whipped these wires toward sev eral power lines near the house learned. Mr. Hirschman lived in Madison at 121 N.

Hancock st. Ned A. Ostenso. senior scien con. Briese funeral home, Beaver Dam.

RICHLAND CENTER Mrs. Annie McMillin, 90, died Monday. Pratt funeral home, Rich land Center. PLATTE VILLE Mrs. Julia E.

Folts, 89, Milwaukee, formerly of Platteville, died Monday at Milwaukee. Willey funeral home, Platteville. BELOIT Roy S. Smith, 67, died Saturday at Monroe. Schoen-feld funeral home, Beloit.

ik MUSCODA Loraine Weich- The power lines and loose guy wires struck an arc, the electricity traveling down the anten tist at the center in charge of na post to where Mr. Rankin held it. western former 1 ime ook at Maple Bluff ry Club, who died Monday in a hospital here, will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Larson funeral home, 2114 X. Sherman ave.

The Rev. Kenneth Hoffman of Lakeview Ameri- William Register, i sin Power and Light Co. employe, said the power lines carry a load of 69,000 volts. Richard McCaul and John Gran-ke, of the Rock county coroner's office, said death was caused by brod, 17-year-old daughter of Paul Weichbrod, rural Muscoda, died Sunday at Richland Center. Goda-ger funeral home, Muscoda.

ORFORDVILLE Tim Ward, 83, Mrs. Schlicbt can an Wisconsin research in the Arctic, said notification of Mr. Hirsch-man's death on Arlis II, a floating ice station only 200 miles south of the North Pole, came as a great shock. He was first reported ill on July 9, during the summer thaw when it is impossible to land a plane on the flooded ice. A radio call to the nearest land site, Point Barrow, Alaska, 1,100 miles away, brought a plane which dropped medical supplies and a doctor, who through radio communication, diagnosed the case as pneumonia.

When he recommended removal to a hospital if possible, a plane especially equipped for making an Church will officiate, and burial will be in Roselawn cemetery. Spring Valley, died Monday at electrocution. Born in Ontario, Mr. Rankin was a graduate of Ontario High School. He was an employe of the Church of Christ in Ontario.

He Friends may call at the funeral Janesville. Silverthorn-Newcomer home from 7 tonight until time of funeral home, Orfordville. services. IRONTON Clark Ray, 81, died had been employed at Chevrolet Mrs. Schlicht, a native of Nor for the past seven years and was way, was a daughter of Mr.

and a member of United Auto Work Mrs. John C. Dahl, Deerfield. Her ers Local 121. He was also a member of the Janesville bowling husband, three daughters, two brothers, five sisters, and a num- league.

dchildren and great. the wav. But then word came that! r. Sr. Monday.

Gant funeral home, Reedsburg. CASHTON-Mrs. Tisha Parker. 80, died Sunday at Viroqua. Tork-elson funeral home, Cashton.

JANESVILLE Mrs. Agnes Per Maath, 76, died Monday in Madison. Albrecht funeral home, Milton Junction. JANESVILLE-Joseph T. Moo-ney, 58, died Sunday.

Nelson- In 1957 Mr. Rankin married grandchildren also survive. Joyce Kutz in Rockford, 111. He is survived by his wife, and two daughters, Teresa and Tam my, all at home; his mother, Mrs. Frank Rankin, Viroqua, five Schneider funeral home, Janes brothers, Keith, Hebron, Der- ville.

rold, Ontario; Darius, Moijticello; Garland, Albany, and Hurless Mr. Hirschman was much improved, and it was i to abandon the hazardous lift, Ostenso said. Until his sudden relapse last Friday, Mr. Hirschman had recovered enough to be out of bed, the University was informed. Mr.

Hirschman, a native of New York City, was a former employe of the University photographic laboratory. Before joining the lab in 1960, he had been a technician for commercial radio stations. The. University has kept a man Mrs. August Ganser Janesville, and a sister, Mrs.

Bed- nadine Bell, Janesville. William Griffith Dies In East William D. Griffith, 35, Somer-ville, near Boston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Griffith, 6401 Winnequah here, died Sunday in an automobile accident in Boston vicinity.

He was born in Madison and was a graduate of East High School. He was a foreman with the Bradford Novelty Co. of Boston. Surviving are his parents; two FT. ATKINSON Mrs.

August Ganser, 73, Ft. Atkinson, died Sunday in a local hospital. Mrs. Weber Dies Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St.

Joseph's Madison Native on the island since the base was Mrs. George Weber, 30, Mil started in June, 1961. Mr. Hirsch Catholic Church here. The rosary-will be recited at 7:30 tonight at the Dunlap funeral home here waukee, an ative and former man was flown to the island June to replace Jan Black in the sisters, Mrs.

Kenneth Taubert, resident of Madison, who formerly was a stenographer at the University here for several years, died where friends may call after p.m. 407 LaBelle lane, and Mrs. Tom Johnson, Blue Island 111., and a Monday in a Milwaukee hospital Mrs. Ganser was a member of brother, Robert, Palermo, Sicily She was the former Donna Jean The Gunderson funeral home 5203 Monona is in charge of Kelly, a daughter of Horace Kel ly, 10 E. Gorham St.

here. work of seismic gravity and magnetic observation. Before he left, he had been given a physical examination and was pronounced in good health. He is survived by his wife, Wil-ma, Streator, three children; his mother, and a brother, Richard, in Brooklyn, N.Y. the church.

Surviving in Madison is a sister Mrs. Anna Bade, 206 North st. Other survivors include her hus band; two sons, Robert, Sun Prai arrangements. Mrs. Weber was a graduate of Central High School here.

rie; and William, West Bend; two Surviving, besides her father, Robert Gaukel Funeral services for Robert daughters, Mrs. Helen Wilson are her husband and a son, Ron aid, at home in Milwaukee; a Milwaukee; and Mrs. Ralph Schultz, Ft. Atkinson; a sister, Gaukel, 47, Verona, formerly of brother, James W. Kelly, 1124 Madison, who died Sunday night in a hospital here, will be held Mrs.

Frank Silberhorn, Jefferson and 12 grandchildren. QUICKEST MOS7 ECONOMICAL Way To Buy and Thursday at 8:30 a. m. in the Spaight and three sisters, Mrs. Vernon Woodward, 4004 Mineral Point Mrs.

Martin Wein-acker, Truax Park, and Mrs. Ike Spike, Edgerton. Ryan funeral home, 235 King and at 9 in Holy Redeemer Catho lic Church. Friends may call Wednesday night at the Borgwardt funeral Farm Business Meet Draws Two Two Madison men will take Msgr. Joseph H.

Gabriels will home, 1603 S. 81st West Allis. officiate, and burial will be in Resurrection cemetery. Leo Nelson Dies of Heart Attack Leo R. Nelson, 45.

of 4202 Bar-nett an employe of Oscar Mayer and died unexpectedly Monday night after an apparent heart attack. He was ruled dead on arrival at a Madison hospital after being stricken while working at the plant, police reported. Funeral arrangements were to be made at the Larson funeral home, 2114 N. Sherman ave. Funeral rites will be held Thurs Friends may call at the funeral day at 1:30 p.m.

in Mt. Hope Lutheran Church, West Allis. home from 3 p. m. Wednesday until time of services.

The ro part next week in the 35th annual summer conference on farm business of the American Institute of Cooperation at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. sary will be recited there Wednesday night at 8:15. Mrs. Olav Bollingberg Funeral rites for Mrs. Olav Bol They are R.

V. Hulder, manag Mrs. Oliver Donkle Funeral rites for Mrs. Oliver H. er ot trattic and transportation for the Wisconsin Farmco Serv lingberg, 71, of 1718 Melrose a Madison resident for the past 45 years, who died Monday in a Madison hospital, will be 1 Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.

in the Gunderson funeral home, 5203 Mo ice Co-operative, and Morris H. Pendleton, director of finance for the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Fed Donkle, 52, of 44 Burrows Maple Bluff, wife of a Madison dentist, who died Sunday night in eration. a hospital here, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Schroeder nona dr. The Rev.

Richard Larson of funeral hcue, 3325 E. Washington Want Ads get fast results because buyers are looking for the seller's merchandise or service (that's why they are reading the classified section) Sellers save money because Want Ad rates are so low; buyers save because they find such big bargains through the Want Ads. Read them! Use them! ave. The Rev. A.

L. Braunschweig of St. James Lutheran Bethel Lutheran Church will officiate, and burial will be in Rose-lawn cemetery. New Glarus Boy Hurt In Mishap NEW GLARUS Gary Figy, Church, Verona, will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral Friends may call at the funeral home until time of services.

home here until time of services. The former Anna Birkrem was 19, is being treated at St. Clare Hospital, Monroe, for injuries re The family said friends may, if they wish, give memorials in ceived in a one-car accident at memory of Mrs. Donkle. a.m.

today five miles west of born in Egersund, Norway. Her husband died in 1961. The couple owned and operated the Bollingberg grocery store, 2121 N. Sherman until 1949. She was a here on Highway 39.

His car was demolished when Herbert Grimm Funeral services for Herbert J. it left the highway and over member of Bethel Lutheran Church and the Sons of Norway. Mrs. John Brady Dies at Age 84 Mrs. John F.

Brady, 84, of 2002 Yahara formerly of 2239 E. Washington died Monday in a Madison hospital. The former Margaret Clomes was born in Dane. She was married on Aug. 18, 1909 in Highland Park, 111.

Her husband, a North Western Road engineer for many yearsi died In 1944. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, and Qa Catholic Order of Foresters for more than 50 years. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Joe Harmon, Durant, Mrs.

William Farrell, of 2002 Yahara and Mrs. Kenneth Meehtn, Middleton; 12 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 9 a. m. in the Frautschi funeral home, 3610 Speedway and at 9:30 in St.

Patrick's Church. The Rev. Francis E. Doherty will officiate, and burial will be in Resurrection cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 p.

m. today until time of services. The rosary will be recited there tonight at 8:30. turned. Grimm, 70, of 2018 E.

Main a retired North Western Road mail handler, who died Saturday in a hospital, will be held Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in St. Bernard's Catholic Church. Msgr. T.

F. Thome, P.A., will officiate, and burial will be in Resurrection cemetery. Friends may call at the Gunder TO PLACE YOUR WANT AD: Call AL 6-5511 son funeral home, 1936 Winnebago until time of services. The rosary will be recited there to night at 8. fUNDERSON MONONA GROVE EASIS'51 mm 5203 MONONA DRIVE 1936 WINNEBAGO STREW MADISON The EXCEPTIONAL beauty of our service is enhanced by floral offerings, each carefully and artistically arranged.

Flowers are given very special attention and care here, as is every phase of every service we conduct. Trujillo Kin's Home Searched MIAMI, Fla. Wi Three armed latins forced their way into the home of Luis Trujillo, brother of the former dictator of the Dominican Republic, and made a futile search for some documents Mon day, the family told police. Paul Johnson EDGERTON Funeral services for Paul Johnson, 65, Route 3, Edgerton, a retired steel plant employe who died Sunday, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Edgar funeral home, Chicago.

The body was taken today to Chicago from the Jones-Spear funeral home here. He moved to Edgerton in June, 1962, after retiring from his job in Chicago. He married Dorothy Osteriiolm in 1925. She died in 1938. He then married Helen Anderson Rowan in 1948.

He was a 1 I I I Call Collect, Toll Free Within 85 Mile Radius Call AL 5-4507 Madison Newspapers, Inc. DOUBLE THREE STAR STAMPS member of the Masonic Lodge WED! On all purchases and the Trinity Lutheran Church. Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Gloria Coch, Chicago; a son, Kenneth, Oaklawn, a sister, Mrs. Signe Burg-lund, Chicago; a brother, Holger, Elmhurst, 111., and six except minimum mark up or fair trade items.

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