Milford chronicle., 1955-09-23


Services were conducted at 2 p.
m, Tuesday, from the Windsor and
Disharoon Funeral Home with the
Rev. Milton Taylor, pastor of the
Nazarene Church, officiating. Bur
iai in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
BAKER
Mrs. Fannie c. Baker, IA, OF
Laurel, RD2, died Friday, Septem-
Der 10th, in Nanticoke Memorial
Hospital, Seaford.
Survivors include her husband,
John W. Baker; a son, Norman OF
Wilmington; a granddaughter, JAG
queline Fooks of Seaford; and a
sister, Mrs. Gertrude Morris OF
Laurel.
Services were conducted at 2 p.
m. Monday from the Windsor ana
Disharoon Funeral Home, Laurel,
with the Rev. Clarence wilkins of
the Whitesville Methodist Circuit.
officiating. Burial Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
RECORDS
Mrs. Ezilda r. Records, So. died
at her home in Laurel, Friday,
September 18th.
Born in Maryland, she had re-
sided at Laurel for the past 81
years. She was a daughter of the
late Lander and Anna Wheatley.
Survivors include her husband,
George d. Records; three sons,
Ralph, George w. and Howard of
Laurel; three sisters, Mrs. Carrie
Bramble, Mrs. Katie Figgs and Mrs.
Sarah Lynch of Laurel; and a bro
ther, Elon Wheatley of Laurel.
Services were conducted at 1870
p. m, Sunday, from the Windsor
and Disharoon Funeral Home with
the Rev E. r. Clough, retired, and
the Rev. Lee Elliott, of the Laurel
Methodist Circuit, officiating. Buri-
al in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
COOPER
Mrs. Lille r. Cooper, 54, wife of
Earl Cooper, died at her home near
Ocean View, Thursday, September
18th.
She was a daughter of Lemuel
and Mamie Tyre.
In addition to her husband, she
is survived by six sons, James of
Philadelphia, Paul of Frankford,
Donald of near Ocean View, Ernest
of Millville, Elbridge at home, and
Fireman Apprentice Elwood Coop
er, aboard the u. S. Coral Sea; two
daughters, Mrs. Edna Franklin of
Millsboro, and Mrs. Margaret War
rington of SelbyYille; two sisters,
Mrs Ethel Mitchell of Frankford,
and Mrs. Mamie Hickman of Ocean
View; 18 grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
Services were conducted at 2 p.
M, Sunday, from the Ocean View
Church of Christ, the Rev. Raymond
Bennett, officiating. Burial in the
Ocean View Bethel Cemetery.
BURTON
William Frederick Fred) Burton,
81, retired businessman of Seaford,
died Thursday, September Is, 1855,
at his, residence on Spring Street,
Seaford, after a long illness.
He was the son of the late Will
liam S. and Elizabeth Ann Russell
Burton of the Seaford section. Be
fore his illness, he was active in
the local Kiwanis Club, the Ameri-
can Legion, past master of Hiram
Lodge No. 81, AT & AM, in which
he holds a 32nd degree, and was
a member of st. Johns Methodist
Church.
Mr.. Burton is a former city coun-
Gilman, director of the First Nat
ional Bank Of Seaford, and direc-
tor of the Kent County Mutual In
surance Company.
During World War il, he served
on the Seaford ration board. He is
a graduate of Seaford High School
in the class of 1913, and attended
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa,
where he was member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Mr.. Burton served in France dur
ing World War / with the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Air Force. He
studied at the Sorbonne University
in Paris, and returned to The States
and entered into commercial avia-
ton in the South. Later, he was
associated with a Philadelphia ar
chitectural firm in North Carolina
and Florida.
In 1925, he and his brother, c. r..
Burton, took over their fathers
hardware business and named 1t
the Burton Brothers Hardware
Company, now one of Seaford's s
leading businesses. The deceased
retired in 1853.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs.
Frances Richards Burton; a son,
w. Frederick Burton, .Jr., with the
U. S. Army in Alaska; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Warren A. Brown. Ber-
muda, and Mrs. B. F. Stotzfus, in
europe; two grandchildren; two
brothers, Charles r. and James T.
Burton, both OF Seaford, and two
sisters, Mrs. Lacy L. Hardesty, Sea
ford, and Mrs. E. NJ. R. Lamkey,
Bloomington, Ill.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at 2 p. M, at the Watson Fu-
neral Home, Seaford. The Rev. r.
Jervis Cooke, pastor of st. Johns
Methodist Church, Seaford, officia-
ting. Tnterment in Odd Fellows
Cemetery. Pallbearers were direc-