Milton - Funeral services of Mrs. Lillian Bond, 87, who died in Moberly, Mo., Friday morning, were held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the Gray and Albrecht funeral home, Milton Junction, the Rev. William S. Carr officiating. Burial was in the Milton cemetery where her husband, James G. Bond, is buried. Pallbearers were Bert Risdon, Walter Rogers, Elam Coon and William Thorp.
Lillian Frances Browning, daughter of George W. and Nancy Mattingly Browning, was born at Mayville, Ky., Aug. 31, 1857, and died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Hattie Moody, Moberly, Mo., Friday. She was united in marriage to James Guthrie Bond in Kansas City, Mo., May 31, 1881. To this union one son, Eugene Ernest Bond, was born. Mr. Bond, a railroad conductor, died Oct. 18, 1917.
Mrs. Bond was one of a family of 10 children. Her girlhood home was a Methodist parsonage, as her father was a Methodist minister through his adult years. One brother was also a preacher. She carried the spirit of the parsonage of her girlhood into all her active life in all the years that followed.
Mr. and Mrs. Bond owned a home on Madison avenue, Milton, where after his death, she spent the summer and fall months, then going to Missouri to the home of her sister during the cold weather each year. During her last stay in her Milton home, she fell, breaking her hip and was a patient for months in Mercy hospital, Janesville, before being taken to Moberly where she has since been an invalid.
Her son and one grandson, James T. Bond, Detroit, Mich., beside the sister and nieces in Missouri survive.
Those from out of town attending the funeral were her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bond, Milwaukee, Mrs. Paul Taylor, Mrs. F. C. Binneweis and Mrs. Carol Mead, Janesville, and four men who are employed with Mr. Bond in the offices of the Pere Marquette Railway Co. in Milwaukee.
