Miss Lelia Stillman, 74, who had resided with her cousin, Mrs. Robert Greene, Milton Junction, the past few years, died Monday, Aug. 25, in Community Hospital, Edgerton, where she had been a patient a short time.
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Seventh Day Baptist church, Milton, the Rev. Elmo F. Randolph officiating. Kenneth A. Babcock gave the song service and Miss Betty Daland presided at the organ. Burial was in Milton Cemetery, pallbearers being, Howard Drake, Ivan FitzRandolph, Leland C. Shaw, Forrest M. Branch, J. Leland Skaggs and L. Milton Van Horn.
Lelia Clarine, daughter of Rev. M. G. and Marcella Crandall Stillman, was born April 26, 1884 at Walworth where she obtained her education through high school. At Milton College she received a music certificate and she attended three summer sessions at Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. For 16 years she served as high school music supervisor part of the time at Antigo, Wis., and at Morgantown, W. Va.
At the age of 42, she decided to become a nurse and entered the School of Nursing at mercy Hospital, Janesville. Twenty of her 22 years as a graduate nurse, she served as nurse and social worker at Pinehurst Sanatorium, Janesville, and Forest Lawn San. at Jefferson. She was a member of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church and had served on the Milton College board of trustees.
Among the survivors are a niece, Mrs. Jack McKelvy, Denver, Colo.; and two Nephews, Harold Stillman, Jr., of Denver and Brig. Gen. Robert M. Stillman of Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
