"The Milton and Milton Junction Courier", Milton Wisconsin, Thursday, Sep. 14, 1950, p 3.
Private funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Albrecht funeral home for Ray George Thorngate, 83, resident of Milton for the past 25 years. He died at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Clear lake home of his daughter, Mrs. R. H. Maxson, Milton.
The son of George and Arloena Crandall, he was born Dec. 24, 1866, in Brookfield, Mo. He was married Nov. 24, 1891, to Flora David, who died in November, 1920. Mr. Thorngate came to Milton in 1925 from North Loup, Neb., where he had been a painting contractor. In later years he was occupied with religious and political matters and was the author of a decimal unit primary bill which was introduced to the Wisconsin state legislature. He was a member of the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist church.
Surviving are three daughters, Alice of Madison, Aletha of Rochester, N. Y., and Mrs. Maxson; two sons, Arthur of Long Beach, Calif., and Walter of North Loup; a brother, the Rev. Charles Thorngate of Iowa, 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph, pastor of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church, officiated, and burial was in the Milton cemetery. Pallbearers were Byron Rood, Edward Rood, Martin Nelson, and D. N. Inglis.
