Funeral services for Mrs. C. S. Sayre, 81, who died in Edgerton Memorial Hospital last Thursday morning, were held at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church. The Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph officiated. Edward Rood was organist and two selections were sung by the quartet composed of Don V. Gray, Herbert Crouch, Kenneth Babcock and Robert W. Burdick. Burial was in Milton Cemetery, pallbearers being D. N. Inglis, B. R. Rood, Charles Nelson, Justin Camenga, Russell Burdick and Lawrence Lippincott.
Mabel, daughter of the Rev. Herman D. and Anna Jennings Clarke, was born July 23, 1876, at Unadilla Forks, N. Y. As a minister's daughter, she lived in Leonardsville, Churchville, and Independence, N. Y., and in Dodge Center, Minn., where the family moved in 1893. On Dec. 29, 1900, her father performed the ceremony which united her in marriage with the Rev. Charles S. Sayre, then pastor of Churches at Berlin, Coloma and Marquette, Wis.
In 1906 they returned to Dodge Center, where the Rev. Mr. Sayre became the pastor. The family moved to Albion in 1912, assuming the pastorate there. While in Albion they became well known locally for their duet singing. In 1940 they moved to Milton, where the Rev. Mr. Sayre died in 1946.
She is survived by two sons, Maurice C., of Tucson, Ariz., and Walter R., of Milton, and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Sayre had been a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church since 1887 when she was baptized by her father.
She was active in church and community life. She had been president of the Woman's circle of the Milton Church and had served as assistant superintendent of the Sabbath school. She was past president of the Woman's Village Improvement Club, was active in the Nature Study group and Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
