Funeral services for Louis A. Babcock, Milton, who died in Mercy hospital, Janesville, May 12, following an illness of several months, were held in Milton Seventh Day Baptist church last Saturday at 3 p.m. the Rev. Elmo F. Randolph conducting. A quartet, composed of Edward Rood, Ivan Fitz Randolph, Paul Green, jr., and Don V. Gray, sang two selections with Miss Elizabeth Daland at the organ. Burial was in Milton cemetery with pallbearers being Ernest Shellestad, P. L. Hudson, Frank Holmes, D. N. Inglis, Edwin Morse and Leland Hulett.
Mr. Babcock was born in Albion, Wis., March 9, 1873, the son of Rev. Simeon and Elizabeth McCormick Babcock. After graduating from the Walworth high school, he attended Milton College.
On August 13, 1896, he married Lettie Lanphere, of Hammond, La., who survives him. To them were born three children: Laurence, now of Rockford, Ill.; Margaret, of Elgin, Ill.; and Kenneth of Milton. There are seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Other survivors are a brother, Milton, of Albion; a sister, Mrs. Abbie Van Horn, of Dunellen, N. J.; four nieces and nine nephews. Two sisters, Mrs. Emma Whitford, Mrs. Stella Brown, and a brother, Lester, preceded him in death.
A resident of Milton for 54 years, Mr. Babcock was in the grocery business for twenty-three years and for twenty-one years he was teller and then assistant cashier of the Bank of Milton, from which work he retired in 1945.
Always active in church and civic affairs, he was a member of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church, for many years a trustee of Milton College and until his death, a director of the Bank of Milton and of the Milton Savings and Loan Association. Mr. Babcock was a charter member of the Milton Civic club.
