OBITUARY
(Gettysburg Herald--December 7, 1893 )
Died--At his home in Cunningham township, Nov.29, 1893, of the general infirmities of age aggravated by a slight, cold, Heman P. Lake, aged 71 years 9 months and 6 days.
Deceased was born Feb. 22, 1822, in St. Lawerence county N. Y.; moved to Michigan in early youth, where his father was a government surveyor; was a pioneer in Illinois, Iowa and,
South Dakota; came to Moody county S.D., in 1882 and to Potter county in 1884. In his prime, Mr. Lake was a man of more than ordinary physical and mental energy, becoming quite prominent in local affairs in several localities, holding county offices, etc. He leaves a wife and five children, three sons and, two daughters. The funeral services occurred Saturday from the Cong’l hall in Gettysburg under the ministration of Rev. Fish.
A peculiarity in Mr. Lake’s physical condition was the fact that of his having gained his second eyesight after using glasses for twenty years, during the last two years of his life he was able to read independently of them and had discarded their use.
Livingston, Mont.- Mildred Marian Lay, 91, of Livingston and formerly of Aberdeen, died Sunday, Oct. 29, 1995, at Livingston Health and Rehab Center.
Her memorial service will be at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday at Franzen-Davis-Bebee Chapel in Livingston. The Rev. Roger Churness of the American Lutheran Church will officiate.
Burial of cremains will take place in Minneapolis.
Mildred Marian Duncan was born April 28, 1904, to Robert and Alice (Crowley) Duncan, at Odebolt, Iowa. The family moved to Gettysburg, where she graduated from high school in the early 1920's. She worked in a bank.
She married Leonard L. Lay on Oct. 28, 1934. they lived in Mobridge, then moved to Minneapolis, where she worked for the U.S. Department of Fish and Game. In the early 1960's, they moved to Aberdeen, then to Helena, Mont. In the early 1980's. He died in 1990. After a brief period again in Minneapolis, she moved to Livingston in 1994.
She enjoyed playing cards and loved to travel.
Survivors include one son, James O. Lay of Helena; one Daughter, Mary Ann Nord of Arizona; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Inez Lillibridge, 108, died Monday, May 22 at the home of her daughter in Minneapolis, MN. Mrs. Lillibridge was a longtime resident of Potter County and Gettysburg.
Her funeral will be held Friday, May 26, at 2:00 p.m. at Luce Funeral Home in Gettysburg. Burial will be in Gettysburg Cemetery. Rev. Bert Van Essen will officiate.
INEZ LILLIBRIDGE
Inez Lillibridge, age 108, of Minneapolis, MN., formerly of Gettysburg, passed away Monday, May 22, 1995, at her home with the support of hospice. Her funeral was held Friday, May 26, at Luce Funeral Home in Gettysburg with Rev. Bert Van Essen officiating. Burial was in Gettysburg Cemetery under the direction of Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg.
Inez Duncan was born Apr. 7, 1887, at Odebolt, Ia., to Robert and Alice (Crowley) Duncan. As a small girl she moved to Idaho and four years later returned to Iowa. On July 16, 1917, she married William Lillibridge at Minneapolis and they made their home on a farm in Spink Co. SD. In the spring of 1920 they and their infant son moved to a newly purchased farm in Potter County, South Dakota. Sad times came in the 1930's when Bill and Inez lost the family farm in Potter County. After Bill's death in 1948, Inez lived in a mobile home in the rear of her son, Wayne's home where she lived until after her 100th birthday at which time she moved to live daughter Alice in Minneapolis. Over the years she made many trips to visit the children in Minnesota and New York.
As a young girl she was baptized into the Presbyterian Church. She delighted in telling stories about her delightfully mischievous side as a young girl floating on a plank down the river, paddling boats along river steamers and adventuring out into the marshes. Several years ago she took her first ride in a speed boat and she stated, "I enjoyed it a lot and I think that I would enjoy water skiing; I was just born too soon!"
Inez is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Lyle and Donna Lillibridge of Charlotte, NC; daughter, Alice Heller of Minneapolis and daughter-in-law, Edna Lillibridge, Gettysburg. She has 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren and one sister, Mildred Lay of Livingston, MT.
She was precede in death by her parents, husband on Nov. 27, 1948; two sons, one daughter, one great-granddaughter, Melissa Simon, two brothers and three sisters.
Pallbearers were Randy Lillibridge, Larry Lillibridge, Nick Simon, Chris Simon, Rick Kohout and Michael Kohout.
OBITUARY
(Gettysburg Herald--March 29, 1894 )
Charles Wesley Loveless died at the Dakota House, the residence of his son F. A. Loveless, March 22, 1894, of kidney affection, being 65 years of age since the 10th, of Nov. last.
Deceased was born and raised in Saratigam N.Y.; was married at 2l and at the age of 26 moved to Ioga county Pa., where he resided until coming Potter county in March, 1884, following which date he lived for a year-and-a-half on land in Owatonna township we believe, returning to Pennsylvania at the end of that period where he remained until November last when he and wife again returned here, but with the intention of remaining only about a year visiting their sons and meantime proving up on timber claim held here. His family comprised five children, two sons and three daughters; both of the former, W.W. and F. A. Loveless, being residents of this locality. The remains were shipped east last Monday for burial, accompanied by F. A. Loveless and the widow of the deceased.
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