Milford chronicle., 1942-07-17
Obituary
DowNEs

DOWNES
George A. Downes, age 40 years
a freight trainman with IS year
service with the railroad company
was instantly killed while workint
in the Jersey City yards. Missed b!
members of his crew, he was latel
located along the tracks, dead. Mr.
Downes was born in Delaware, the
son of George A. and Clementint
Green Downes of near Houston
Funeral services were held from
the Boyer Funeral Home in Har-
rington on Thursday morning al
10 o'clock. The Rev. Robert e
Green, pastor of Asbury Methodist
Church, had charge of the services
The deceased is survived by his
widow, Dorothy Salisbury Downes
and five children, also his parents
and five brothers and sisters as fol-
lows: Mrs. Albert Postles, Mrs.
James Holleger, Roy and Roland
Downes, all of Milford; Mrs. Hat
tie Burns and Mrs. Raymond Ken
ney of Baltimore. Interment was
made in Hollywood cemetery, Har-
rington
STUART
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart, widow of
John Collins Stuart and former
resident of Milford, died Tuesday,
July Is, at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Anna Stuart Bennethum,
in Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Stuart
was the daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander Jones and was
born in the vicinity of Greenwood
in 1856. After her marriage she
lived in Middletown and Dover for
number. of years and later, in
Philadelphia until the death of her
husband in 1917. From 1917 until
1885 she lived in Milford and since
that time had lived in Harrisburg.
Besides her daughter, she is sur
vived by two grandsons, William
H. Bennethum of Wilmington, and
John S.. Bennethum now in the U.
S. Navy, and by two great-grand-
children. Funeral services will be
held at the Hardesty funeral par
lors in Bridgeville at 200 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. Interment in
Bridgeville Cemetery.
DERRICKSON
Requiem mass for Mrs. Emma
T. Derrickson, 70, widow of Will
liam B. Derrickson of Dover, will
be said in Christ Our King r. G.
Church, Wilmington, Friday morn
ing at $3.50 o'clock. Interment will
be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Dover.
Mrs. Derrickson died on Tuesday,
July IA, at the home of her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
William E.. Derrickson, in Whining
ton. She is survived by three sons.
William and Russell Derrickson, of
Wilmington, and Joseph Derrick
son of Chester, Pa; two daughters,
Mrs. Wilbur Davis of Milford, :aHa
Mrs. Joseph Schmitt of Green Bay,
Wis, and two sisters, Mrs, P. e.
Trotter of Waldorf, Md, and Mrs.
R. E. Gibbons of Laurel, Md.
ROBINSON
Mrs. Thalia Frame Robinson,
widow of John Robinson. former |
Milton merchant, died Tuesday,
July Is, at the home of a daughter,
Mrs. George Hartman, in Lewes,
after an illness of several months. |
services will be held at the
Atkins funeral home Friday at 2
P. NJ, with burial in the Coolspring
church-yard. Mrs.
Robinson is survived by another
Mrs. George Hildebrant,
# Lewes beach; a son, William D.
Marsh, of Quakertown, Lewes; a
,rother, Lemuel Johnston, of Mil
on; two grandchildren and two
,reat-grandchildren.
BOWLES
Mrs. Keturah Beideman. Bowles,
10, widow of George Bowles, died
ruesday, July Is, in Philadelphia,
,he was born in Lincoln, the
laughter of the late William and
ulia Ash Beideman, but had lived
n Philadelphia for about so years.
The is survived by sister, Mrs.
ieorge Palmer, of .Georgetown. and
brother, Joseph Beideman, of
'rederica. The funeral will be
eld from Reynolds Methodist
,hurch, near Milton, Friday at 2 P.
T., i'm charge of the Rev. R. Ward
Iills, the pastor. Interment in the
djoining cemetery.
PURCELL 8
Mary Virginia Purcell, aged S6 '
ears, wife of Andrew j. Purcell,
assed away in the Milford Memo q
ial Hospital on Tuesday. July IA,
fter short illness: Funeral SER I
ices will be held at the Berry fu- y
eral home today friday at 200 /
). M. Rev. Thomas Phillips, pas
,r of the Pilgrim Holiness Church, t
darlington, will officiate. She is
lrvived by her parents, Mr.. and s
Irs. Charles p. Armour, of Hous- r
in, and several children. I
SHATH
Louis Shath, husband of Bessie o
hath, died at Prospect Park, Pa, b
4 Tuesday, July IA. Funeral ser u
ces were held Thursday evening
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