Dora W. (Mrs. Russell W.) Burdick, 84, died early Tuesday morning, Oct. 1, at Park Manor Nursing Home, Park Falls, Wis.
Dora Whitford was born November 9, 1900 at New Market, New Jersey, the daughter of Dr. Myron J. and Minnie Drake Whitford.
Her early schooling was in New Market, Dunellen and Plainfield, N. J.
She married Russell W. Burdick on August 3, 1921 at New Market.
They both attended Milton College for a year and a half and then spent the next few years in New Jersey, returning to Milton in 1927. They had been Milton residents since 1927, and moved to Park Falls in the fall of 1984 to be near their daughter, Beverly, and her husband, Dr. Stephen Thorngate, who is practicing surgery there.
She was an active member of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church, serving as Sabbath School teacher and librarian and held various offices in the Women's Circle. For many years she was active in the Women's Village Improvement Club. She later took library training and served as librarian at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing and later at Milton Public Library.
Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Beverly Thorngate of Park Falls, Marjorie Munns of Rochester, Minn. and Joan Case of Silver Springs, Nev.; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 4 p.m., in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church.
